rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 171, 1 October 1991, Page 34

rumours

AUCKLAND Fatal Jelly Space are back on stage on October 18th at the Gluepot with new member Sue Crengle on keyboards. The band have just completed a video for 'Aliens' which will be screened on Nightline on Thursday the 17th, TVFM having turned down the chance to screen it because its "too radical". Also, expect a Fatal Jelly Space album in early '92 .... whoops wrong again! Last month's reference to the Incubator recording studio as belonging to the Headless Chickens is inaccurate, although one of them is involved in the enterprise that's as far as the HC connection goes... Palmerston North's irrepressible Lung are releasing their second album Cacti on November 13th independently, rather than thru Flying Nun as originally planned. Lung will also be distributed in the States through AJAXX (Chicago), in France by Hyacinth, in Belgium by Embryo and the UK by Plankton. They should also be supporting SPUD at their release party this month. Lung mainman David White is planning to expand the activities of his own Yellow Bike record label (which operates as a collective) to offer releases for other New Zealand bands frustrated with the present range of labels. Any bands interested in further info should contact David at PO Box 586, Palmerston North. Hard-corers Salad Daze have a new 7" EP out next month (currently getting pressed in Sydney)... Casualty are now based in Sydney and have done some recording with the Celibate Rifles' Kent Steadman for a forthcoming 12"... K Road's Slammer is still going, October 26th features Zombie Boy, the Lils, a two-piece Lester Bangs, Anonymous Guru and new Paeroa band Pyromaniacs... Christian speed metallers Frenzy have released a three song demo tape called Social Disease, send $7.50 to 25 Ngaroma Rd, Epsom... the Colonials from Hawkes Bay are a new country group who list their credentials as actually having been joined on stage at their cassette launch by the Warratah's Wayne

Mason, who later described the experience as "shithot". They've released a tape called Living in Overdrive which is available for sl7 from 107 Ferguson Street, Bay View, Hawke's Bay... the Picasso's Peter McLennan is at the helm of an unsual tape release of "audio art" by students of the Elam art school intermediate course. Available from Real Groovy or Red Tapes, Freepost 3254. PO Box 1869 Auckland. Incendiary early 80s ranter Attila The Stockbroker is corning to New Zealnd fora series of shows in December. Stay tuned... solo songster Otis Mace has recorded some music for Cornelius Stone's Vampire chronicles. He's also joined a Celtic band called Celts In Progress featuring two guitars, fiddle and stand-up bass. They specialise in rollicking Irish ballads and they're keen to play parties, guaranteed to break the ice. Call Otis on 777-597 if you want your Xmas bash to go with a swing. Legendary Axemem mainman Steve McCabe is emigrating to Auckland from Christchurch, expect live aural assault some time in near future. Meanwhile, Flying Nun are releasing a CD compilation of highlights from the Axemen's extensive back-catalogue. The Honeylove cassette Kiss Me I'm Cute is finally available — from 6 Sackville St, Grey Lynn ($9). Or you can join the Honeylove fan club and get a newsletter, signed photo of the band, plus poster, plus exclusive comix PLUS a letter from the band PLUS one lollipop. Are these guys hot or wot? Send $5 to the above address. Wait, there's more. You can also get a HL comic (including John Baker's column on masturbation) and "all the soft pom you can sweat" for only $1 from the same address as above. Dave James of Dead Flowers has had two Hartke cabinets stolen, anyone found in possession of these "will wish . they'd never been bom". Jean Paul Sartre's new single 'Precious' will have a video directed by Kerry Brown ... the Video for the next These Wilding Ways single Take My Hand' is directed by Bruce Sheridan. South Auckland funk band . Houseparty got a rave review in Sydney's OTS Magazine: "Polynesia's answer to Massive and a sweet soul thing

it is too. Beautiful vocal from Christina Fuemana, a great melody line and a truly original song." This year's Auckland Motorcycle show is set to draw thousands of bike enthusiasts from all over the country for the Labour weekend festivities. The show will be open from 9am to 9pm, October 26, T 1 and 28 at Princes Wharf. There'll be bike displays ranging from veteran pre-1935 to NZ's Ultimate Muscle Bike competition, plus the usual array of live music, tattoo comps, leather and lingerie fashion parades, trade stands, children's activities, food and daytime beer bar. On Friday and Saturday night the Early Times Saloon nightclub will be pumping till 3am. Be there or be a loser! Tauranga venue Club Mannequin is looking for acts to play the venue. Phone Chase Arquette 07-577-0739. The Malchicks are looking for a new drummer, phone Simon on 866-882 or Matt on 520-5202... and the Sonic Twisters are looking for a new bass guitarist. Contact Paul on 864 069. DONNA YUZWALK

CHRISTCHURCH Some interesting developments in the venue situation... the manager from the Gladstone has taken over the New Zealander (now the Southlander). The manager from the Carlton has gone to the Carlton. So

far all are rumoured to be showing interest in local bands. And local bands have rushed to enter the War of the Bands after a few cancellations, 30 are now battling towards the final on Labour Day. Geronimo Recording Studio are presently arranging a distribution deal fortheir label... Stepford Five are now four with Stephanie Mitchell joining on bass. Celia Pavlova could be moving north which will mean fewer Stepford gigs.. . Hammerack are looking at recording an album now they have finished at the Playroom whilst ex-Hammerack Kevin Emmett's new band Baby's On Fire are due to debut with a single soon in shops. The Bats' are off to Australia to promote their new single 'Boogie Man', this month. History On The Walls is a limited history of New Zealand band posters at Exposure Gallery, 223 High Street, running for most of this month. New bands around include the Masons, Extremely Dog, 147 Swordfish and About Change. Seems Onset Offset may have an overseas deal for several of their early albums. JOHN GREENFIELD WELLINGTON Expansions at the Carpark will see a new back bar, the Exchange, enlarged toilets and the Outer Limits Club starting . again on Thursdays, one Tuesday a month set aside for new bands and rock and roll nights on Wednesdays. The club will also be featuring local recorded music in-house... cafe and performance house La Bodega now have their back room open and regular entertainment, great beer on tap t 00... the Adelaide Cabaret has opened in the renovated Tramways Hotel and features a Les Girls cabaret and there has been a host of licensed cafes/small bars opening.... Paisley Park is still closed but there are plans for a new operation and a new venue is rumoured for the waterfront area. Flipp and Chevy's also have regular entertainment and the Antipodes

bar has music Wednesday to Sunday, featuring Dave Murphy and Marg Layton Sunday nights. * ■ ■ The proposed Blues Festival has been postponed and at the last blues club up and coming blues act Cool Disposition were billed as Calders - Position, but played a great debut. The Sol Mardi Gras at the St James featured new bands Toro Loco, Sol Latina as well as Salas Picante and Kantuta pushing the Latin revival... the Warratahs are in Oz promoting the release of their material across the Tasman and the/re still waiting to hear whether they will play the Highway W>men tour. Recent local gigs have • debuted a wealth of new material and the release of Barry Saunders solo outing has been put back to next year. David Greer is in Frontier recording an album with local musos Barbra Griffin, Dave Don, lan James and Martin Durrant for a new year release. Greer is working solo up to seven nights a week to fund the project... power metal merchants Deliverance are now a four piece and playing all original material... new four piece Fin Fish features ex-Backdoor Blues Band guitarist Bernie Mesmer. Wall of Surf have been recording at Writhe with Nick Roughan and at Marmalade with Tim Farrant for a QEII grant application... Phelim Brady are playing regularly at the new Glass House to support their Irish theme. The first Metal Daze gig at the Empire Warehouse attracted 200 punters and one of the highlights was new band Sacrament with a great singer and the Electric Mayhem 111 at the Carpark - featured eleven bands over twelve hours proving that metal and hard rock is alive and kicking. A new Sticks and Shanty album is in the pipeline from Jayrem and Jim Moss is looking at a compilation of local bands, including the various offshoots of the 6 Volts... Harry Death have a six year live retrospective tape out called Like Warmed Up Death and are looking at a 10" release. They play instore at Ima Hitt's new shop in New Plymouth on the 19th... new old band Too Stuffed To Jump 7 made up of veterans of local 60s bands have their first public gig at the Cambridge on the 18th ... Daddyo have a single 'Born to Rock and Roll' getting a fair amount of FM radio play... Paddy Morgan has started a company called Really Big Records with the first release being an EP from his own band Amazing Broccoli. A compilation of Wgtn bands is also planned. Contact at PO Box 27-322 Wgtn. Resident Australian Robert Joass has a new band Clown Town that features former Space Monkee members and he has an impressive demo recorded in Sydney at Trafalgar by Alan Thorne. One to watch... Fox FM has gone and Radio Active are holding another Sound Engineering Course with Brent McLachlan and Nick Roughan. Active have also been compiling the NZ Music News for student radio syndication with funding from NZ On Air. JOHN PILLEY DUNEDIN The Flying Nun Party was held last month, attracting a near capacity crowd to Sammy's helped by over 100 names on the doorlist. It's a pity that room on the list couldn't be found for David Pine (of Sneaky Feelings), he having recorded three albums, three singles and half an EP with the label. For David and the others of you that weren't there you missed a "boomer" (incidentally the name of the varsity literary review — out now) of a night. Shayne Carter putting in a great performance, as did Bob Scott, David Kilgour, and Alan Haig as the three of them pretended to be something they weren't, in a set which included the ' world's most infamous SSO single. Sadly the Puddle put in a shocker, but Roger Shepherd was so impressed he's given them the go ahead for an EP, now we've just got to wait for the live album and the studio the album the Puddle have already done... the Verlaines, a surprise ommission from the FN Birthday Party (and who said music in this town wasn't political) have their first album for Slash, released Stateside in mid-November,

local release probably next year. Three weeks later than their former label mates, the Verlaines played Sammy's with Krishna Pillai (ex Drop and Sferic Experiment) guesting on keyboards for three songs, including, you guessed it, 'Death And The Maiden'. Also feeling nostalgic recently has been Glove Puppet Stephen Steadman who has reformed mid-eighties local faves Inner Circle... in the wake of the Das Phaedrus split, Andrew Spittle is playing solo, Victor Billot is concentrating on becoming the next David Eggleton as well as managing My Deviant Daughter, and Piers Graham is in practicing with various local musicians. Gaylene, performance poet extraordinaire, is leaving Dunedin sometime soon, so far she has done 16 "last performances"... Gary Muir's other commitments have forced him to leave Cynthia Should. Manic Pop Thrill have gone into recess... Russell Scoones has left percussion duo Smith v Smith.. . the Bats next single 'Boogie Man' will not be coming out on vinyl... the 3Ds will tour the United States at the beginning of next year, their debut album, Hellsapoppin will be released locally in February... February is also now the

release date for David Kilgour's album... Solid Cold Hits, the unfortunately named Radio One compilation album will now be released on Pagan next year. At this stage only two of the bands on it have split up, but we've got to get through the summer holidays yet.

CRAIG ROBERTSON