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Rip It Up, Issue 167, 1 June 1991, Page 26

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PINK FROCKS Funny Things Happened to me on the Highway To Hell Definitely reminiscent of Jack Pudding — not surprising since singer Graeme Rhodes was in that band — crossed with early Wire. The production is quite good, lively and clear, raw enough to inspire but obviously not recorded in a tin room. Pink

Frocks also have some ex-Doubting Thomases members though nothing in their sound suggests this. Rather they are more like the sort of jerky punky pop that one used to hear in the City Hotel around 'B6-'B7. Soon to be playing live. :

STATE OF MIND A Secret Walled Garden

Clever technological new age ‘B2 radio music can get scary. Also scary is trying to read lyrics printed antleg small on annoyingly intense blue paper.

However, aside from that, as a friend said, it’s quite exotic really — lots of dark ambience which at fimes can get a bit wishy washy but resolves into effective layers of moody acoustic guitar, keyboards and/or saxophone and vocals. | wonder how they got the Talk Talk singer to sing for them? This sort of stuff is definitely commercially accessible as bands like Japan and Cocteau Twins have proven. SHIREE LOVE :

LATENEWS... Former Temptations singer David Ruffin died of a suspected drug overdose in L.A. Ruffin quit the group in 1968 after recording classic lead vocals on tracks such as ‘[ Wish It Would Rain” and ‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg' . . . David Bowie joined Morrissey on stage for the latter’s encore of ‘Cosmic Dancer’ (T-Rex) . . . Mudhoney’s

forthcoming album is entitled Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge .

.. the new Siouxsie & the Banshees LP is Superstition and drummer Budgie and Siouxsie have just got married . . . according to UK tabloid The Sun, the Edge has left his wife Ashlinn . . . Shane MacGowan and Sinead O’Connor will record the old Lovin’ Spoonful hit ‘Do You Believe in Magic'.