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Ghetto Blasters: So Solid Crew

Andrew Smith, Observer Music Monthly, 25 November 2001

SHOTS RANG OUT and a man collapsed in a heap near the dance floor. Another lay slumped, bleeding profusely, in a doorway near the toilet. It was 3am at the Astoria theatre in Charing Cross Road, central London, and another garage music club night had ended prematurely in violence.

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