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NEARING the end of their world tour, which included their first US gigs in a decade, Essex boys Nitzer Ebb are living the dream as they return to perform on home soil in this appropriately Berlin bunker-esque venue.
Their raw sound, thankfully ungarnished by the overproduction that has sullied the sound of more recent industrial bands, has a straight-up post-punk ethos that was very much a part of the 1980s zeitgeist inspired by the anti-Thatcher protest movement.
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