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Jane's Addiction: ICA Rock Week, ICA London

Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 28 January 1989

ABSENCE DULLS the memory of just how wrong the ICA is as a rock venue. It's not a matter of artsiness — give me designer chic over rock 'n' roll sleaze anyday — the performance space is just London's most clinically sterile deathbed of atmosphere.

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