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Einstürzende Neubauten: Heaven, London

Chris Roberts, Sounds, 14 September 1985

"LET ME through. I'm a pregnant fireman!" It worked wonders. Jumping the queue we alighted beyond the pearly gates and entered a Christopher Isherwood novel which Bob made a Fosse about. "Gimme the drills," I hollered. "Lock the doors and punish us with noise." But this is '85 and Blixa and the Bad Time Boogie Band are civilised constructivists now, who call a stage a stage and don't smash it up. Safe as houses.

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