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Monday 27 August 1979 concert review |
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Magazine: Melody Maker
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Publication date: Saturday 8 September 1979 |
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Reviewer: Jon Savage |
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LEIGH VALLEY FESTIVAL |
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ZOO met Factory half-way (between Liverpool and Manchester) and very few came
Blame it on the site – hastily prepared fields a mile outside Leigh, surrounded by an East Lancs landscape of collieries, slag-heaps, bare hills sloping into dull 1930's estates and the inevitable Victorian mill. Inaccessibility and uncertain weather, plus inadequate promotion/media coverage, resulted in a turn-out (200) a tenth of the original estimate |