Letters

Rip It Up, Issue 74, 1 September 1983, Page 24

Letters

Post to 'RIU' Letters, PO Box 5689, Auckland 1.

What happened? Where's the so-called "boom" of new bands we were going to see this year? Where are all the silly young thangs who brightened -up Friday and Saturday nights? There are a few new bands around but new ideas? Not likely! In Christchurch the White Boys parade their brand of heavy metal which is as regressive as listening to the latest Iron Maiden albumTjlfj bands here aren't made up of people who've been playing for ages, then they offer nothing but cliches and borrowed stances there are few exceptions.

Recently Terror of Tinytown and Marginal Era toured here is this what AK is breeding? Bands who don't give a damn about their audience and play pretentious and self-indulgent music.. It would seem'Auckland , living dulls the critical senses and people like these bands because they don't hear any better —'bit like commercial radio innit?

I'm not getting all nostalgic - the opposite. I'd give my right ear to actually enjoy seeing someone new. F. Rae Christchurch

• What's .- happened to everybody's sense of humour? The Sex Pistols r T-shirts in Malcolm McLaren's 'Soweto' video are his way of taking the piss out of an industry that takes . itself .too seriously. It was great to see the funny, different and entertaining Soweto' clip\ amongst the ; other serious and boring clips on Ready to Roll, RWP etc. McLaren went on his worldwide search for the different and original * and-pro-vided it. Not bad for an insignfficant little jerk. If it wasn't for McLaren we wouldn't have the pleasure of some .of the .most interesting and important music of the. year. " . Fun Boy No. 1 Wanganui