The Heart and Soul of Cabaret Voltaire
Paul Morley, NME, 29 November 1980
CATCH A TRAIN into the dark depths of the North again. Flee the wonderland. A million miles away from London town, the conditioning centre where all is lost, into the hills and the drizzle and the places where 'rock'n'roll' doesn't have quite such a death grip.
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