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Heaven 17: Penthouse and Pavement Revisited

Stephen Dalton, The Times, November 2010

"SHEFFIELD HAS ALWAYS had a bit of a maverick attitude," says Martyn Ware of evergreen electro-pop veterans Heaven 17. "It's the natural bolshiness of the People's Republic of South Yorkshire. It's a place where people do stuff rather than consume stuff. There's still an enormous scene up there, and it mostly still doesn't sound like anywhere else."

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