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Sex Gang Children, November 1982

Sex Gang Children, November 1982

"A variety of bizarre hairstyles and an assortment of black leather."

Penny Kiley
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Sex Gang Children, November 1982
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I saw the Sex Gang Children a few weeks after Futurama, this time in Liverpool (but without the skeleton). I got a bit bored – they weren’t as dark and dangerous as they liked to think – so I amused myself by taking the piss out of their mustard and cress haircuts. There was a letter of complaint in the Melody Maker after my review was published, but it…

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