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Screaming Blue Messiahs: Gun-Shy

Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 10 May 1986

THE COVER of The Screaming Blue Messiahs' first mini-album/EP Good And Gone captures their music perfectly: a posse of WW2 Grumman fighters cruising above the clouds, sleek, swift beasts on the warpath, looking to swoop down out of the sky and devastate.

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