Herbs Embark

Rip It Up, Issue 74, 1 September 1983, Page 4

Herbs Embark

Auckland's Herbs left recently on a tour that will take them throughout the Pacific and into Asia.

The tour, Herhs' second, includes a concert at the closing ceremony of the South Pacific Games in Apia, Western Samoa. In addition to covering the places it visited on its last tour the band will visit Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong (playing the 14,000 capacity QEII Stadium) and Japan. Japan Records will be releasing the Herbs catalogue to co-incide with the band's club tour of the country.

between the two parties. Their settlement involves Grigg representing Harlequin's Ze Disc Records in the UK.

• Propeller's own structure has changed, with an Auckland man, Ralph Wells, taking over Paul Rose's half shareholding. Grigg has left for Britain and Wells will run the label in his absence. • Before he left, Grigg spoke to RIU about avoiding such large recording debts in the future. "In future there's going to have to be a great deal more responsibility from bands going into the studio. But that doesn't mean they should go and find the cheapest studio possible. The big studio approach is still relevant. There's no way in the world you can make records financially viable in this country and support a record company without selling them overseas. And to sell them overseas they've got to be up to standard."

Grigg is considering having some of the Propeller catalogue pressed in Britain, probably beginning with a compilation album. He'll also be looking at picking up UK labels for local distribution.

Back home, releases planned soon include a Newmatics live and studio disc and a Meemeeslive EP. RB