FLYING NUN

Rip It Up, Issue 129, 1 April 1988, Page 8

FLYING NUN

7. Flying High < Flying Nun's increasing inter-national-profile is a minor, nonetheless satisfying, “up yours” to the powers-that-be in the New Zealand music industry who have neither the guts nor gumption to promote, represent or encourage talent that doesn't fall within their own narrow conception of what constitutes ■ . "contemporary” music. Same goes for the ignorami clogging the commercial airwaves. ; 8. Liverpool -7'' Formerly the Dire Straits of football, terminally dull and consist-, ently successful, Liverpool have this season blossomed into the British team of the decade. Ball playing defenders, a midfield that mixes solidity with flair, and the advent of Barnes.and Beardsley up-front alongside the - Rushlike Aldridge. ■ Liverpool; have produced a style of football that's gone some way in casting off the awful spectre of the Heysel Stadium tragedy. 9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov If only for the opening-para-graph: "LoLeeTa. The tip.of. the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”

Pseudy but a bewdy — made even more brain swimmingly by the . fact that English was Nabokov’s second language. 10. Favourite Solitary Activity Wandering around alone in a house singing restyled versions of Straitjacket Fits’ songs (and other toons that take- my fancy) in an absurd, third-rate cabaret Ray Woolf type of voice. Like jelly beans I find this sickening but a lot offun. f