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Requiem For A Scream: Suicide's 'Punk Mass'

John Calvert, The Quietus, 16 July 2015

IN HIS PRE-SHOW ADDRESS, frothy punk minotaur Henry Rollins is telling a story, which of course he's pretty good at. A formidable, not to mention unnervingly intense orator, the man's a bay-shelling battleship that looks like a man but talks about music with the glee of a 12-year-old who woke up and realised he could fly. Assuredly, never was there a purer punk soul than old Henry.

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