Swaying with the Cure
Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 16 May 1981
READING ON a rainy Sunday afternoon is about as cold and empty as an English town can get. There's no one on the street and the wind blows listlessly down into the town's new shopping centre, next to the Reading Hexagon. This is not a monument to Druid forms of worship but a spanking modern theatre with brightly-coloured plastic seats, excellent acoustics and no graffiti.
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