Rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 92, 1 March 1985, Page 28

Rumours

Wellington The new Spines LR The Moon, was delayed by lack of studio time for mixing but should be in record shops by the end of March ... Fear

Of Extinction, a city four-piece, recently released a 12” EP on their own Fear Of Extinction label ... Violent Summer are set to release their first ER 'Morning After’ on Jayrem. The band was formed by Steve Wilson and includes Legionnaires ... the MIDEM conference held recently in France and attended by several NZ indie labels proved fruitful for Jayrem. Jim Moss reports he has definite UK releases through the Cartel and Rough Trade for the Spines, Low Profile, Circus Block 4, the Idles and IQU In the States Flesh DVice are likely to be released and The Silent One soundtrack has

already sold well there... expect to find the following in your favourite plastic parlour over the next few months: Step Chant Unit single 'Painting Pictures’ Midge Marsden/Roger Fox collaboration, Hot Records compilation and Vietnam four-track ... Victoria Uni’s orientation programme has proceeded smoothly with excellent audiences at gigs. Full marks to Richard Simpson and cohorts. David Taylor UK & USA New Smiths single, 'Shakespeare’s Sister’, appears to demonstrate unprecedented good taste on the part of the miserable Mancunians by featuring an Elsie Tanner pic sleeve. Wow ... Danny Sims, the man who released the tacky Bob Marley demo collection Chances Are, is now claiming that Marley signed a contract with him in 1972 handing over the rights to all existing recordings and those for the next three years, to Sims’ own company. He’s claiming millions of dollars in court ... Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones get their first shot at a movie in Morons From Outer Space ... and Terry Gillam’s follow-up to Time Bandits is an exercise in large-scale madcapness called Brazil, which stars Robert De Niro ... a cassette single of a banned Rolling Stones song is the latest release by the Music Industry Liberation Knights, a London-based group dedicated to making available recordings that have been canned over the years through record co executive nerves or whatever. This single, ‘Claudine’, is about actress Claudine Longet who beat a rap for shooting her ski instructor boyfriend. M.I.L.K. also claims to have top-quality unreleased material by the Beatles, Beach Boys (including the legendary unreleased Smile tracks), Bowie and John Fogerty ... will Bill Laswell. fresh from the Mick Jagger LP, produce the next Motorhead platter? ... UK indie Pinnacle has made it through receivership and is now fully operational, after being purchased by a publishing concern called Lambourne Productions, although it has lost 4AD ... former Sex Pistols drummer Paul Gook has joined the Chiefs Of Relief, the post-Bow Wow Wow group, who claim to be ready for a burst of activity ... former Gun Club singer Geoffrey Lee Pierce has been

playing in London in a jazz combo which also includes drugorientated journo Kris Needs and Ollie from the Specimen ... new book, Elvis The Novel, by Robert Graham and Keith Baty has been gaining favourable comment for its approach to the saga Stevie Ray Vaughan has produced the new LP by Alligator Records guitarman Lonnie Mack, Strike Like Lightning. Albums: Sex Pistols The Mini Album (previously unreleased early material), Killing Joke Night Time, Tears For Fears Songs From the Big Chair, Howard Jones Dream Into Action, China Crisis Flaunt the Imperfection, Husker Du New Day Rising, Martin Rev Clouds Of Glory. Auckland Success for NZ music overseas: the Patea Maori Club's Poi E’ adjudged joint single of the week in the March 2 NME by the venerable Charles Shaar Murray. Said CSM: “sounds like an excerpt from a great party”... in a deal initiated at last month's MIDEM music fair, Flying Nun records will now be distributed in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Apparently FN has already built up a small word-of-mouth following in the motherland Dance Exponents also benefited from the fair and have so far confirmed a French release deal on the strength of ‘Sex & Agriculture: Goblin Mix are now bigger by one with the addition of David from the Exploding Budgies on wild guitar... new Peking Man single is 'Lift Your Head Up High’ which will be available on Hit Singles in both 7” and 12" form. The 12” will contain extra live tracks... new about are This Times Square, effectively a combination of Skin Dynamics and Stiff Richards. They have a debut five-track EP out and are in search of a bass player and a keyboardist. Contact Garry (665-227) or Rewi (762-099) ... former member of Marginal Era, Richard Newcomb is working with IQU who also have the services of Peter Van Der Fluit on bass and are looking for a permanent singer... graffiti in mens’ toilets at Mainstreet: “Flesh D-Vice six years too late, and five bucks too much South The Star & Garter is now completely finished as a rock ‘n’ roll

venue. The new manager didn't exactly, urn, encourage live music... the Punch are recording at 3ZM and preparing themselves for a month long Aranui resident spot ... the Haemogoblins album has now become a five-track EP and they have a new bass player in Greg Bainbridge, who also plays with the Builders ... Bill Direen rumoured to be taking the Builders to Australia later this year ... also planning an Australian trip are the Connoisseurs Currently working together but without a name are Peter Cooke (ex Wastrel) and Martin Morris (ex Exponent) ... Vince Pinker also has an as yet unnamed band ... the Wastrels have recorded a farewell single, 'Shadows’/’She Don't Need You’ at Auckland's Mandrill and may do a live album in Wellington before Anton Jenner leaves the country in late April... it would seem that the Idles are finished. Drummer Barry Blackler is to travel to Auckland for a few appearances with Crystal Zoom Monitor are breaking up. Rob Failsafe is currently working on the much-awaited followup to the Accident Compilation cassette, which will this time also include bands from Dunedin... also due from Failsafe is the Southern Front LP ... the Say Yes To Apes plan for world domination has moved a step closer with the arrival in ChCh of Kevin “Bad Ass” Smith and they plan to delight local audiences shortly... Peter Arnold is planning a follow-up to his Jumblies 45 'Stuff Of Dreams’ and is trying to put an actual band together... the Bats are recording at Nightshift.

On the heels of the Punch, fellow Timaruvians Naughty Thoughts are moving to ChCh ... Ritchie Venus & the Blue Beetles have been working on a longplaying cassette and a single at Nightshift... Charles Bravo are rehearsing new material for a cabaret act ... the Minit Men recording at 3ZM. Passing thru ChCh in near future are Aust’s Mickey Rat and Sneaky Feelings ... don’t forget the Flying Nun spectacular on Easter Monday with Chills, Sneaky Feelings, Look Blue Go Purple and Skeptics. Tickets $lO from Record Factory and Radar Records ... rumoured to tour here soon are Aussies the Riff ... and did you know that Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst went to Mossman Primary School with Aussie cricket

captain Alan Border and actor Tom Burlinson? In fact they were all prefects there in 1967. Strange but true! Alister Cain