The Kursaal Flyers: Sarfend, Sarfend, It's A Hell Of A Town…
Chris Salewicz, NME, 4 December 1976
The smell of coins and oil and penny arcades; of fish 'n' chips; of salt and wave against pebble and promenade; of wide boys and petty criminals. Where men gather to pull birds in red Cortinas with racing stripes on the side and nodding dogs on the back ledge. Oh, the glory that is Sarfend on Sea...
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