Vic Godard: Young Existentialist
Mick Middles, Sounds, 5 July 1980
VIC GODARD makes Feargal Sharkey look like Gene Simmons. His normality is outrageous. When Vic Godard sits in his bedroom listening to Peter Skellern on his battered bone-armed record player, one could be forgiven for assuming that a deep brooding intensity lies behind that plainly casual expression. What's more, one could be right.
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