The Members: At The Chelsea Nightclub
Alex Ogg, Captain Oi Records, December 2005
THE MEMBERS were punk's misfits, a little too lacking in personality disorders and raw ego to sit comfortably with the punk firestarters, a little too musically and lyrically literate for the lumpen prole ethic that overtook the movement.
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