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Picture, if you will, a leading Christchurch rock band in a second-hand clothes shop trying on jackets for size. The five-member group rush home with the jackets they have bought and proceed to slice up the sleeves and lapels with a razor to give that authentic new wave look. However, the band is then given a residency in one of the top hotels for rock bands in Christchurch.
Suddenly they rush out and buy natty new matching black and white jackets. The five-member band then rush home and don’t proceed to rip them up with razor blades. They hang them up. Spotted wearing them for the first time last Sunday evening at the Dragon
concert in the Christchurch Town Hall auditorium, Splash Alley have gone all mod. What is worse, the lead vocalist, Dick Driver, no longer has the characteristic torn shoulder on. his jacket. Also, after two weeks playing with Bon Marche at the Aranui Motor Hotel, he seems to have picked up the stage mannerisms of Simon Darke, the lead vocalist for the aforementioned band.
The problem is what to do with the jackets that have been torn up with a razor blade.
Why, you give them to other bands, of course. And now Chris Knox, the lead vocalist of the Auck-land-based new wave band Toy Love, on tour in the South Island, has an authentic punk rock jacket. The kids are all right.
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Press, 12 October 1979, Page 15
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