RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 53, 1 December 1981, Page 2

RUMOURS

UK & USA Just as they released their album, I Didn't See It Coming, the Professionals were involved in a Los Angeles head-on highway smash. Paul Cook has a dislocated neck, bassist Paul Myers a broken leg, and guitarist Ray McVeigh a fractured arm ... Talking Heads are mixing a live album, featuring the Remain In Light extended line-up, prior to commencing a new studio LP in January. Meanwhile for Xmas, David Byrne's Songs From The Catherine Wheel, features 11 tracks written for Twyla Dance Foundation's New York performances. Musos include Eno, Belew, Harrison, Worrell, etc ... it's rumoured that Mick Taylor wants his playing credited on Tattoo You. It seems those songs weren't quite so new. Taylor left the Rolling Stones in 1974 ... though the I new, Skids LP, Joy features only the face of Richard Jobson alone, the lad will play 14 parts in the stage play, Dog Beneath The Skin ... Teardrop Explodes have a new album (Wilder) and Julian has a new name Kevin Stapleton. He couldn't cope. He told ***, "Julian just sounded too wimpy, Kevin is more down to earth." Still a dreamer, Kevin's band is resident at a club that tours Britain, Club Zoo. Then it goes to Europe what colour will his hair be then? ... in the wake of Ant mania, the Fall are now six with Karl Burns back as drummer two. He is also seen on guitar and piano ... God has spoken and George Clinton has been seen in the company of Sly Stone and Bobby Womack, A 12 inch 'Hydraulic Funk' may materialise ... keyboards/tapes man, Chris Watson has left Cabaret Voltaire' ... new Pete Shelley 45 from Homosapien is 'I Don't Know,What It Is'... Poly Styrene has found God and has a daughter ... Graham Parker is thought to be making an R&B album in New York ... unlike Poly, Robert Smith and band, came to the conclusion while in New Zealand (they told ***) that, "Hedonism is the only way." ... ex Rockpile man, Billy Bremner has a Stiff 45 entitled 'Loud Music In Cars' ... other UK 455: 'Been-Teen' by Dolly

Mixture, 'Hit It' by the Beat, 'Fast Boyfriends' by Girls At Our Best, 'My Own Way' by Duran Duran^HH^HHkpklß New on vinyl and tapes in foreign places: Depeche Mode 'Speak' Spell, Japan Tin Drum, D.A.F. Cold Unde Liebe, Afraid Of Mice Afraid Of Mice, Aswad New Chapter (CBS), Gillan Double Trouble, Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman, Marc Bolan You Scare Me To Death (Cherry Red), HawkwirTd Sonic Attack, David Thomas & the Pedestrians The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian, Georgie Fame In Hoagland, Siouxsie & Banshees 'Singfes'Album, Linx Go Ahead, The Jacksons Live (with 'Don't Stop Til You Get Enough'), Eddy Grant Live at Netting Hill (double), Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel, Soft Cell Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, ‘ Stranglers La Folie, New Order Movement. Slade Till Deaf Do Us Part. Japan Tin Drum. Australia Andrew Snoid has moved from NZ Pop to the Swingers.

As lead singer, he will also dabble on keyboards, as in WhizzKids' days. Vocal chores on the NZ Pop LP are undertaken by electric bassist, Paul Scott. NZP will tour . Enzed after Sweetwaters. New is Angels' live EP Never So Live (four previously unreleased tracks .one is from forthcoming LP Night Attack), Tactics' album Glebe, self-titled debut from Enzeders the Tigers and Midnight Oil LP, Place Without A Postcard. .SHfH Though ex Marching Girls, Ron and Des, are thought to be Dead Can Dance, supporting old mates, the Models in Melby are Dead Travel Fast ... Buster Stiggs having quit Models, intends to 'pursue managerial avenues' ... Fetus Productions (Features offshoot) return to Enzed for Xmas to distribute a Sydney-recorded album and their very own magazine. The Oz tour Enzed missed in November was Icehouse with Simple Minds - in the UK, Icehouse supported Simple Minds. The Corporation