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Rip It Up, Issue 58, 1 May 1982, Page 22

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Christchurch At the Christchurch Town Hall on Monday • May .10 are D.D. Smash, Hip Singles, Screaming Meemees and Dance Exponents. The show is to be videoed for Sliazan i.and RWP clips - ... D.D Smash's Hillsborough week wasthe highest gross by any band there, ever, nearly two years to the day after Dave Dobbyn was last there with Th' Dudes. Bill Direen and associates yet again try something new. This time it's Soluble Fish - a theatre-film-poetry-music-soup featuring» local actors and musicians. They will appear early week at Star and Garter and at the Elmwood theatre before taking the review to the coast. Expect ,to see Janis Gray and Helen Mulholland working with Louie & the Hotsticks soon. The band will record a 45 with a view to Radio Avon’s playlist ... Dick Driver is not yet married, he is however to enter hospital soon for; an operation. The Hip Singles play Auckland dates early July . ... Dance Exponents have a new soundman (Roland Killeen) and a\ new van (ex Clean Bedford). Ikista is Jos Hodzelman s latest exploit. Jos hangs himself nightly ... also new are Hot Goblins and Aryan Army ... Leon Kerns has left Nude Wrestling and has been replaced by Alan Johnson of Zero Bars ... Cowboys are renegotiating with the Carlton lor residency. Some long awaited releases are finally available. These include a Pin Group 12-inch EP/.'a Ballon D'Essai three track EP and the Builders new 7-inch EL’ ... Roger Shepherd will book the Star and Garter from late'May ... Desperate Measures will venture to Dunedin tor Queens Birthday weekend. Their single sleeve will feature a sneak photo of them at a prison gig. Those who need work are: Luke Neary, soundman PA fixer (Yo Yo, Thumbs ol Brass) ph 89471°. Linda Stuart lighting lady (Hip Singles - own dimmer pack etc) ph 68107, artist Paul Smith (designed new Hip Singles and Dance Exponents . posters) ph 488579, for S.l. transport a truck is available from Brent Delaney (ph 890138) and tor printing. Ronnie Harris (793428). Expect to see his band soon: Mainly Spaniards will support Meemees Arunui (May 14, 15) before going to Star and Garter (21, 22) ... Rex Visible’s band is We Too ... Head Injuries have split. Jim Wilson & Peter Waller Auckland The D.D. Smash debut, Cool Bananas topped the sales charts first week out! After their tour the band will only play two or three Auckland gigs before leaving for Australia in June. The. Three Piece Pack EP on Furtive is out at the end of May. Tracks are: 'Nervous Tension' (Bongos), 'Circles' (Prime Movers), 'Remember When' (Dabs) and 'Last Orders' from Palmerston North four piece the Skeptics ... the single off Blams' Luxury Length album is 'Call for Help'. Don McGlashan has produced a four track Propeller EP for Green Eggs and Ham. New Clean 12" EP out soon is titled Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So So Sounds So So, Bad Sounds Bad, and Rotten Sounds Rotten. Tracks are: 'Fish', 'Flowers',; 'Slug Song', 'Side On', 'Beatnik', .'End of My Dream', 'On Again-Off Again. If This Is Paradise I'll Take The Bag from the Screaming Meemees is due out late May. Tracks are: 'Your Accent', 'Days Of Heaven', 'Day Goes By', 'Hardly Moved By It', 'What Do Eyes See', 'Sunday Boys', 'F Is For Fear', 'Coloured Day', 'Orson Welles', Dali's Moustache', 'Miro Miro'. The Rockin in the Street LP, on One, with four tracks each from

Rank and File, Wild Matadors, Blue Flames and Shakin' Jimmys, has to be pressed again because the Blue Flames' tracks went on at the wrong speed. James Pinker and Karl (ex Fea r tures,' ex Fetus Productions) were in town over Easter en route to the US, and UK with artful Sydney band SPK ... new venue is the Tavern Lounge, DB Hotel, Wellesley Street. Open Thurs to Sat, with DAF, Pigbag, Simple Minds, Human League, etc, played over top sound system, plus local material, and maybe some video. Sl at the door.

Remember Andy Anderson of Radio Waves? He's just won top Oz TV award for his part in the new Sullivans' series ... Tom Sharplin has a single on RCA called 'Endless Sleep' a UK hit in 1958 for Marty Wilde and the Wildcats. The Coalition are ex Herco Pilots Chris Williams and Hugh Turcel plus Chris Todd, and Peter Williams. Expect to see them playing around the streets of Wellington May 12-1 7 ... So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n Roll Star! Dudes 12" compilation mini album out soon on Stebbing's Key label. Tracks are: Be Mine Tonight', 'That Look In Your Eyes', Right First Time', 'Walking in Light', 'Bliss', plus previously unreleased 'Song of Hope' ... Hello Sailor 12" compilation mini album also due out on Key. Titled Last Chance to Dance, tracks are: 'Blue Lady', 'Latin Lover', 'Gutter Black', Tears of Blood', .'l’m a Texan', and maybe previously unreleased 'Here Comes Johnny' ... Danse Macabre will be incognito for three weeks, finishing material for their album. They'll record at Mandrill, May/ June.

Hits & Myths Vol. 2 out by June. Includes tracks from Toy Love, Split Enz, D.D. Smash, Meemees, Blams, Spaces, Newmatics Graeme Gash etc ...

Alastair Riddell has completed a new album at Mandrill ... Dave McLean's band is Dave McLean's Little Criminals with McLean on vocals/guitar, Steve Hubbard guitar/vocals (ex Hotshots), Greg Denime, bass/vocals, Rob Peters, drums/vocals (ex Furys). The Corporation Australia Birthday Party bassist, Tracy

Pew will rejoin the band soon as he's able. He's been sentenced to four months for drunken driving and petty theft. Barry Adamson (Magazine) has taken his place meantime/ - and plays on; two tracks on new album Junkyard ... the Go Betweens (Missing Link) have signed with Rough Trade for UK and US. The Corporation Industry Kiwis Graeme, Regan, and Christopher Read (ex Chelsea Records Wellington) have teamed with Martin Jennings and established independent distribution network through NSW called Hot Record Distributors first releases include the Clean's Boodle Boodle Boodle on Flying Nun; Hot Records will also be distributing Sydney indie label, Prince Melon. . CBS PR person Sara Robinson has left the company to rep for Bascands Ltd, a Christchurch based publishing company. She'll continue in PR on' a freelance basis ... EMl’s new national promotions manager is Sandy Hodge ' (ex operations manager Radio Windy).

The Pigbag UK Top 10 album Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag (Y label) will be distributed locally on Powderworks (via RCA). The Corporation