The Band Of Holy Joy: Joy Of Man’s Desiring
Biba Kopf, NME, 12 July 1986
SOME DAY, absolutely nobody in Absolute Beginners said, there will rise up in Soho a band who will be coarse yet clear-sighted, hard but infinitely funny and tender, talking the way people talk and so steeped in peoples lives theyll loudly and lustily voice, in swinging urging dinging songs, what it is they would express.
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