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

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.