Rheineck live ROCK FILE

Rip It Up, Issue 166, 1 May 1991, Page 2

Rheineck live ROCK FILE

There will be a NZ stand at the July New York, New Music Seminar assisted by the NZ Music Industry and the NZ Trade Development Board. Those attending the Seminar include representatives of NZ indie labels Pagan, Flying Nun, Jayremand Southside. The export promotion committee Music New Zealand has helped to fundthe project. The Music New Zealand slogan is “NZ The Fresh Source” and this theme will be used at the New Zealand stand to focus attention on the music represented. Inthe past, some NZ music business people have attended the New Music Seminar and several Flying Nun bands have played at New York venues during the Seminar. Is the name of the latest new club to open in Auckland. Grant (Headless Chickens) Fell and Jason Miller are opening a Thursday, Friday, Saturday nitespot in the old Zanzibar premises in Fort Street (above Scruffs ex-Megadrone). SURGE is for alternative clubbers, somewhere between the Box and the Dog Club. Featuring two bars, pool tables, juke box, performance space for simple two-mike acts, plus a monthly half hour new dj spot. Opened 9 May for the NRA album release party. Thursday nights will play host to more extreme musical things like hardcore ragga and industrial funk; Friday will be your standard hangout night and Saturday will be performance night. So more and more no-one can

complain that there's nowhere to go in this unfair city. Right?

Top Wellington metallers Shihad release their debut EP Devolvein

June. It was recorded at Marmalade Studios and will be released on Pagan Records... cassette-only releases of two classic Kiwi rock bands have been issued by EMI, Larry’s Rebels and Ray Columbus & the Invaders ...when Straitjacket Fits opened forthe Church in Sydney, May 4, the review headline read “Aloof Church highlight strength of Straitjacket Fits” .. .Gisborne performers will hit

Auckland on mass, July 11-13, to play the Gluepot. Appearing will be Gary McCormick, Paul Übana Jones, Ha Ha Bonk, Te Mokai

and Haviti Cultural Group ... Herbs planto link up with Joe Walsh forsome July concertsin the USA. The band will do a concertin Tahitienroute tothe USA...inan indepth interview in May More

Magazine Shona Laing told writer Colin Hogg that her deal with Atlantic Records of New York was “a mistake.” After recording five songs for the label and numerous changesinthe label’s staff, Atlantic decided notto continue recording an album. Laing intends to gain the rights to those tracks and record additional songsin NZ for release as an album later this year.

Auckland rappers MC OJ & Rhythm Slave have released their safe-sex ditty ‘Body Rhymes (Protect Yourself)' with such curious mix titles as “Rubber House Mix" and “Nutty Dread Mix”". After their comparitively innocuous firstsingle ‘That's the Way (Positivity)', the rappers are testing media attitudes to a “pro-sex”, pro-condom sentiment by mixing their humour (“love sock”) with a sensitive issue. Guest vocalist on two of the ‘Body Rhymes (Protect Yourself) mixes is former Upper Hutt Posse singer Teremoana Rapley. Gigs atthe Power Station will now often feature an “All-Age” policy with the downstairs unlicensed and alcohol served upstairs only. This system worked for the recent Push Push concert and several more upcoming gigs will use the same policy. OnJune 2, Sunday of Queen's Birthday Weekend, Freakshowis a hard-edge event with Freak Power, Rumblefish and Braintree. This Power Station gig also promises free comics, noise-orientated sounds and wild videos. There'san “Underage Rage II” concertatthe Power Station May 19 with Nine Livez, Mr. Scary and Ransom Madori. Starts spm. Another new club night has started in Auckland, this time hosted by none other than DOMINIC

ROSKROW and HARVEY JACKSON of NINE LIVEZ! Located at Rocks in the Attic, KICKSTART is a three-hour Thursday night club which aims to feature the sort of hard rock music ignored by radio. Starting with a Black Crowes evening, other acts lined up for the feature treatment include Warrior Soul, Saigon Kick, EnuffZ'Nuff, Alice In Chains, Slayer and Jane's

Addiction, as well as the best of

classic hard rock

“Too much great rock music is being lost because noone’s playing it and people can't afford to take the risk on an unknown product,” says Dominic, “We hope this club will become an essential meeting place for rock fans and will at least stir up some interest in the many bands who have the potential to be the next Guns'n’ Roses.”

KICKSTART starts at 10pm

Thursdays and door admission is $5

STRAWPEOPLE ‘BLUE

Former funky duo Strawpeople are now a trio with the addition of Fiona MacDonald and they're all overthe radio with a Primo advert and a not unrelated single ‘Blue’. Strawpeople’s Paul Casserly r explains, “What happened was we - started to write a complete song " whenallthey needed was ajingle. So once we completed what they ~ needed for the ad we thought maybe we should release the original song version. So we remixed it and here it is.” With ‘Blue’ out, there's talk of a new Strawpeople album before the end of the year.

PERFORMING | ! | “AWellington-based publication New Zealand’s Directory of the - - Performing Artsis now in circulation and copies have generously been - sentfree to bands listed in the - Directory. iitias it i oanian . The 120 page booklet has been edited by Roger Maughan of Off The Edge Productions and areas covered include listings of performersin --~ Dance, Alternative Theatre and - _: -

Music plus numerous industry categories such as Booking Agents,

A Dunedin three piece who play intense guitar, hard-edged but melodic. Das Phaedrus formed in August last year, debuted in September and have since supported such luminosities as the Bats, SPUD and the 3Ds. They've released an eight-track cassette titlted Static Display and intend to

Palmerston North's Clear are the punkiest looking band with the slickest looking independent release. Their Live Stomach album has been released in CD form only, thanks to a deal guitarist / vocalist Dave White set up when he was overseas where, he says, he got “talked into it". The Clear now have fans in countries like Germany and Belgium, thanks to friends who have taken their tapes overseas and gotten them on the underground mail order circuit for people interested in unknown bands from strange countries like New Zealand. Although Dave professes to not know much about guitars, he says the Clear like a big guitar sound like Bailter Space, put against various rhythms, moving away from chords towards something more abstract, though not as abstract as the

Skeptics.

DAS PHAEDRUS

Producers, Record Companies efc. Copies of the Directory can be purchased from major bookshops, music gear retailers or from Propaganda, PO Box 582, Auckland 1. Price $9.95. The Music Trade show at Auckland's Sheraton Hotel will be open to the public on Monday of Queens Birthday Weekend, June 3. The latest gear have its premier NZ showing as much of the equipment exhibited will have never been seen in NZ before. The Sheraton’s ballrooms will be used to display the new products from the exhibiting wholesalers. It's four years since the public were able to attend the annual Music Traders Association (MTA) show. Amajor incentive for musicians to check outthe new gearis a prize of new musical equipment up to SIO,OOO value going o the winner of asimple questionnaire competition.

There will also be a live music display areq, a big band drum clinic and additional exhibitors selling NZ Music, videos, merchandising etc. Any enquiries, phone Richard (09) 732-572. )

record at Dunedin’s Fish Street studios later this year for a possible vinyl release. Now they're embarking on a headlining tour of their very own, supported by fellow Dunedinites My Deviant Daughter, culminating in Auckland later this month. Check it out.

“Brent tries to imitate a drum machine,” says Dave, “he comes up with little off-beat rhythms which form the basis of songs, rather than the traditional putting chords together. Phil would like us to sound more industrial, Brent has a sampler he attaches to drums for strange beats.” Live Stomach is live session work done at the recording studio Dave helps runs in Palmerston North. The Stomach also functions as one of the town's premier venues, as well as running recording workshops and, of course, recording local bands such as K-Tel Dancers, Black Orchid, Earwigs Under Fire, Stage Fright, Untamed Freddy, Top Secret and Damask. DONNA YUZWALK