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Red Crayola, Cabaret Voltaire, Scritti Politti, pragVEC: Acklam Hall, London

Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978

IN THE collapse of trends, movements — individuals: when they combine, all the stronger. Tonight four bands moving forward, confidently or haltingly, but all with a spark... all ripe to be scooped up, then pigeonholed in a new "trend", the very last thing any of them want.

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