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Talking Heads: Talking Heads '77; Richard Hell & The Voidoids: Blank Generation

Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977

LAST MONTH the more alert London habituee got the chance to compare England's new wave inner-workings with those of its fore-runner over in New York when two intimate film documentaries were screened – first Don Letts' rough-and-ready work on London punk at the I.C.A., followed up by a special presentation of Amos Poe's Blank Generation shown at the Other Cinema just over two weeks ago.

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