Melody Maker, March 25, 1978: Difference between revisions
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This year's model and the Attractions were brought last Friday into the, ahem, strife-torn territories of Belfast from Dublin courtesy of Irish hi-speed rail. Da Blighty Hacks and their escorts, meanwhile, flew in from London on a wing and an atheist's mumbled asides. I had no immediate impression of the hostilities. | |||
I had thought at least to cop a view of Strummer and Mick Jones and 4 few of their cronies in paramilitary drag throwing a moody shape or two against the barricades while the troops looked on superciliously. | |||
But the lads from Clash were nowhere to he found, and the war's presence at Aldergrove airport was relegated to a number of desultory wiremesh fences, tank-traps, and a roadblock manned by a contingent of soldiers who at first glance looked too young to be taken seriously; then you clocked the artillery they were wielding and forgot all about the ruddy, boyish complexions and kept your bead down and the gabble clamped. | |||
Da Blighty Hacks, on their first tour of duty here, were only mildly alarmed when their driver announced that he carried a revolver and accepted with commendable nonchalance the information that the hotel at which we were billeted was not so long ago redesigned by something explosive lobbed through the restaurant window. "I wasn't hungry, anyway." reflected Elvis' PR. Glen Colson (and didn't you just know ''he'd'' make an appearance somewhere along the front line!) | |||
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