JOE FLAWS DASENT!

Rip It Up, Issue 61, 1 August 1982, Page 4

JOE FLAWS DASENT!

Ann Louise Martin

'The Way You Get Your Way' by master musician Fane Flaws was actually recorded in 1980. The delay is a long story, but to spare you of the boring details it boils down to Fane buying the tapes from Harlequin Studios, selling them to Mushroom Records, and returning from overseas to find they'd been lost in the post. "It's beyond me!" he proclaims. Eventually he decided to use the track as an experiment for video. Fresh from a video course and full of ideas he covered himself in grey* matter, the concept being to shoot colour but to have it look black and white. Accordingly, when a colour image entered the frame, it would contrast wildly with the 'fake' black and white. "It didn't work," he says, "but the clip has created a lot of interest in the band and I've had offers to do other people's clips. D.D. Smash have asked me to do their next film clip." 'The Way You Get Your Way' video has received a fair amount of TV time in Australia. Fane denies that the song is simply about his being manipu-

lated by women. "It's a relationship thing. It's like domestic, torture. A love hate relationship where you don't mind what happens because you're in ; love. You put up with each other." Fane's been in the studio working on new material which will appear either as an album or mini- ! album in the new year. He plans ' to tour NZ at the time it's released. "I was sick of what live music does to my health, I can't handle the life very well, but-having had a two year break, I find once I get into the studio with a potential band we get so excited we end up saying we'll have to do some gigs. And the idea of touring NZ is appealing because we miss NZ." The other half of Joe's Music, Peter Dayson will accompany him, plus NZ saxophonist Mark Symonds, possibly Jonathan Swartz on bass, and Bruno Lawrence as a second percussionist, he feels like he needs a break from being a film star, so Fane says. There he sits on his patio, surrounded by bluegums, parrots, and eating toast. "The weather is the . main advantage here," he says. "But I can earn money from songwriting here which I could never do in NZ. I'm . currently .writing some soul songs with Renee Geyer, because I really like soul music. There's also an amazing jazz-avant-garde thing happening with young musicians - pushing into areas I like. There's a lot of energy, we can survive well and its getting better."