RUNVIOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 145, 1 August 1989, Page 33

RUNVIOURS

WELLINGTON The Six Volts received a 10,000 Lottery Board grant to assist with their £ travel to the Edinburgh festival. The tape of their debut record The Hills Are Alive is out now with the vinyl to follow next month ... good and bad news on the venue front. The Clarendon Tavern has changed ‘ownership and manager and booking agent Peter Kaye has left the pub. It seems that a residentband will take over. Good news is the completed rebuilding of the Southern Cross lounge bar ... meanwhile Peter Kaye is now managing Bumping Ugly and there are rumours of a trip to 0z... September have demoed four tracks at Radio Active's studio. The confirmed lineup of the band is David Coventry, Charles Edwards, Ben Vere-Jones and Paddy Moran. Skapa have recorded two originals and a cover at Sound Source and head south to Sammy’s this month. Electronic “industrial” three-piece Trasch have an album due for release nextmonth on EMI through local label Intellect. Look outfor a 7* later this month ...Jim Moss of Jayrem has been to New York and Europe promoting NZ music and he has secured a deal licencing the the first No 9 album Nowhere Fastto Fire Engine records for German release. The reformed band are planning to record another album that will have “less thrash”. Acoustic blues musician Phil Hope has recorded demos atßadio NZ with Keith Norris and Clark Fisher ... Putty In Her Hands are now simply know as Putty and have a new keyboard player ... BassistSteve Hemmens is no longer playing with Chicago Smokehop butis still sitting in withthe Hot Leftovers. A new Smokeship albumis planned, this time reversing the ratio of covers to originals ... Caroline Eastheris temporarily joining Neil Jones and the Heaters while continuing to write and rehears with Lets Planet ... blues guitarist Dave Murphy is backin town after a year overseas, ; giggingin the US for much of the fime. He has impressed sitting in with the Hot Leftovers and we can expect a new band, possibly a reformed Juke Jivers, and solo work. o Ahot, as yetunnamed new country band debuted ata house party recently. Expect gigs soon, possibly at Cosgroves ... A new booklooking specifically at the Wellington music scene from the 50s to the 70s has justbeen released by author Roger Watkins entitled When The Rock Got Rolling ... meanwhile Stranded in Paradise author John Dix is offto a book fairin Japan. John will relocate to i Auckland on hisreturnand workona series of reunion concerts planned for the

S.P.UD:.’snewline-up (L-R) Glen - Campbell, Peter Buckton, Barnaby Curnow, Mathew Heine and Lance Strickland. S.P.U.D play the Gluepot Friday August 18 with the Beads, Cuban War Poets and the Osterburgs. A o new year thatis rumoured to include Max Merritamongst other big names. Punters will have to keep their ears to the ground to learn of the unpublicised warehouse partiesin central downtown ... the Greg Johnson Set make a rare trip south to play Chips on the 23rd. ' JohnPilley AUCKLAND Ex-Cat, ex-Peking person Margaret Urlich played two evenings at Roma at the beginning of the month, testing the water with hernew band and a bowler hat. Her solo album is due for release soon ... Anigma’s Metallica support was their last gig with singer Geoff Wright, who has since leftfor London. Anigma are continuing as afour piece, with guitarist Dave Goodison taking over vocals. They play the Venue this month. On the eve of the release of Mr Johnson's LP The Watertable his band The Greg Johnson Set have acquired a drummer ... cadaverous post-Goth groovers packed Siren’s Hit The Floor party. Rappers The Homeboys entertained with a song lyric that goes something like “ - and thenshe - stuck three fingers up my arse.” If this is street cred itwill never catch on ...and on August 9 apprentice Siren DJ Mick Hucknall spun discs for the evening. He has since left the job to do “other things” ... the Upper Hutt Posse album Against The Flowisin the can and ready for release. NZ film Just Me And Mario has been going well atthe Bridgeway ... Six Volts won a lot of friends when they played two nights at the Gluepot. Fave was the theme from Stingray and a stirring version of - ‘Maring’... comic book Such Is Life needs “humourous, violent or perverted” strips forissue 3: write to PO Box 56-203,

Dominion Rd, AK ... new Fan Club single is'l Feel Love’ (no, not thatone) due outin September. The bandrecently finished mixing their second album in Melbourne with USA producer Mark Berry. CHRISTCHURCH . Afterbeing heralded as “the best chance we've had” etc two years ago, Audio Access hasfinally closedifs doorsafter along and often painful struggle, leaving us with some great recordings (Six Of The Best, Blue Factory tapes, efc) and the question “what now?”. (Stay tuned for answers next month!2) The venue situation looks like it will pick up though, as following in the footsteps of the Subway and the Carlton early week, the Soho and the Groove nightspotslook setto start business shortly. Both are on Litchfield St and the Groove looks likely to become the city's first heavy metal nightspot! Other bits: Wayne Pester, owner of the wonderful Selwyn St record and bookshopis back in the promotions game (he was previously involved with Johnny Devlin, the Troggs and Big Time Wrestling, amongst others) and is now responsible for bringing us Billy Joe Shaver, Butch Hancock and Jimmy Dale Gilmour, with promises of more country underground heroes later this year-...new bands around towninclude Jordan Minesota, Strange Witness and Rose Tamster...Love Horror Web have their new cassette out— it's available from all good record shops .. the next Christchurch Music Lobby meeting is on Tuesday 15 and is open to everyone. The group s gaining alot of interest and has recently been successful in boosting its fundsthrough Lotto Combol! Finally, is this the calm before the storm2 Answers or any other news tome on 663-735. J.Greenfield DUNEDIN Xpressway's long-awaited second vinyl release the Alistair Galbraith / Graeme Jefferies Timebomb'single is out now. Plagal Grind will continue when Alastair Galbraith returns from Europe towards the end of the year. New bassist will be 3D David Saunders. lt's a

rumour but it's true, says Bruce Russell ... Another Scarfie Band and Funhouse have both had songs goto the top of the Radio One alternative Top 11 ...Radio One will help those who can't play fulfill their dreams of becoming a rock star with alip sync/ instrument mime competition at the end of next month. But before then they will be presenting the

real things with gigs by The Bats, StraitjacketFitsandThe - Verlaines. Lawrence Kennett and Lisa Prestonof The Portage have had a five-track EP pressed which will be outsoon, cover - artwork permitting ... Strawberry Sound has been forced to close its 16-track studio because of lack of use ... meanwhile

Stephen Kilroy's Fish St studio is up and running ... Perfect Garden continve to be busy, tripping to Christchurch to support Dolphin, helping the 3Ds pack out the Empire, and being asked to appear on TVNZ's Life In The Fridge Exists,and hey they’ve even managed to write two new songs. s ‘ :