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Top of the Antipops: New Model Army

Barney Hoskyns, New Statesman, 1984

PUNK IS DEAD in letter but not in spirit. That is the message from a new school of groups who do not make videos and whose motif is righteous political anger. The fact that everyone and his cousin is poncing around in silly haircuts is, they argue, no excuse for not being visibly in revolt at all times.

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