INDUSTRY

Rip It Up, Issue 33, 1 April 1980, Page 3

INDUSTRY

Murray Cammick

Stunn’s Got The Cure! Stunn is the name of a new record label set up by enzeder Terry Condon, primarily to market UK acts in Australia and New Zealand. The label, distributed by Seven Records in Oz and CBS in NZ, features the Cure and the Passions (both Fiction acts in UK), the Fbjrple Hearts, the Push and the Associates. Also on Stunn now in NZ, is the Kevin Borich Band. First release, on April 8, is a 45 featuring three Cure A sides not on the Polygram distributed first album. Top side is new single “Boys Don’t Cry”. Flip is “Killing An Arab” (first Cure single, appeared on Rough Trade in UK) and Nov ’79 single, “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”. Out in May is Cure’s new album Seventeen Seconds and in August the band will tour Australia and New Zealand. Terry Condon is working in with Frontier Touring Co to see that Stunn acts are able to tour to promote their recordings. Before founding Stunn, Terry Condon worked for Polydor in NZ, Germany (1972) and England (1973 to 1977). He left his position as A&R Manager to direct Ringo Starr’s label, publishing and studio. “After a fascinating two years with Ringo,” Condon left in Feb 1979. The label will not only feature acts out of the category known as ‘new wave’, so don’t be surprised if young UK heavy metalers, with genuine shoulder length hair, appear on the Stunn label.