Hallowed Be Thy Name

Rip It Up, Issue 82, 1 May 1984, Page 4

Hallowed Be Thy Name

The guy claims to be from a local music paper called Melody Maker. Except then he says it’s an Australian rag. Then it’s tied up with a six part TV series ... He'd make a much better spy if he could get his story straight. Spy? Yessir almost certainly a man on a mission from God. The Youth For Christ organisation’s campaign to stop the band YFC, aka Youth For Christ (or Youth From Christchurch, as the ad in the paper had it) is stepping up. The above conversation took place outside the Windsor Castle, where earlier a nervous grey man had presented YFC’s Jonny Ogilvie with a legal letter of intent, threatening action if the band continued to use the name. The letter showed a significant shift from the organisation’s previous stance, in that

that in on the frequency and it happens, it becomes exciting immediately, to me as a player.” What’s your attitude to guitar effects in general? “I like to keep them to a minimum. At one stage in my career I was getting all these effects racks and everything else and 1 noticed I was playing more with effects and sounds than with my guitar. And I believe I was a notch down in my playing because I was playing with all these bloody effects. So I cleaned them all out and went back to a straightin master sound. And then I picked up on it again a little and got the wah-wah going. I’ve now got a chorus on some of the softer numbers because it’s got a lovely 12 string effect and I’ve got a digital delay. But I don't play around with the delay; I've just got it on so that if I hit the chord it's got that one snap which gives the chord a lovely fat sound. I also put in an overdrive thing to give it a bit of oomph.” He forgot to mention one other technique that's vital to the Heep show. He plays that Les Paul extremely bloody loud. RB

it forbade the band to use not only the name, but also the initials YFC. Amidst its stern language the document contained a rather curious (and probably unwise) paragraph accusing the Christchurch three-piece of trying to falsely attract fans by using the name.

Letters threatening action have also been sent to pubs around the country, Progressive Studios (where the band recorded their soon-to-be-released EP) and others. The three band members remain a bit bewildered by all the fuss but haven’t changed the name yet. And the gig itself? A damn good hoedown no frills disco, mate. But let's ask the man who stood out like a sore thumb, the "music writer" ...

“We 11... it’s a good night out for the way out crowd, I suppose. But they wouldn’t go down very well in a trendy nightclub, would they?" RB