Rheineck live WHAT'S GOING DOWN?

Rip It Up, Issue 171, 1 October 1991, Page 39

Rheineck live WHAT'S GOING DOWN?

Friday Nov 8 with S.P.U.D. and I Second Child opening. • lan Moss plays the Gluepot Nov 12 &13 with opening act Brendan Powers. ■ • Babes in the Mood (Janet Roddick, Charlotte Yates, Jackie Clarke etc) revue starts in Christchurch Oct 22 at Repertory theatre and opens Oct 29 in Auckland at the Town Hall Concert Chamber (see live review). • Bluesman Carey Bell headlines the Ponsonby Blues Festival at the Gluepot Oct 25 & 26. • Semi Lemon Kola are doing a

national tour. Key dates are Hamilton's Rockafellas Oct 25, Wellington's Naked Angel Oct 26, Christchurch's Dux DeLux Oct 31. • The Harp Attack finals take place at the Gluepot Oct 24 with special guest Brendan Power. • Doleday afternoon gigs at the Blues Barn include: Semi Lemon Kolas Oct 17, Warners Oct 24, Rumblefish Nov 7. • Andrew Fagan tours NZ for > six weeks from Nov 1, on his Serious Latitudes poems & music tour. See page 35 for complete dates. J • Shihad play the Carpark, Wgtn,

Nov 2 and Head Like A Hole play the same venue Nov 7. • Auckland rockers Dead Flowers commence a South Island tour Oct 17 in Motueka. Key dates include Christchurch's Playroom Oct 25, Dunedin's Crown Oct 26 and Invercargill Oct 31. In the first week of November the band plays North Island dates. fThe Hard-Ons play NZ dates early Dec with Freak Power opening — Dec 4 Wellington, 5 Napier, 6 Gisborne, 7 Auckland and Dec 8 Hamilton. • The Able Tasmans are touring

with the Australian band the Hummingbirds — Nov 6 Palmerston North, 7 Carpark Wgtn, 8 Waikato University and Nov 9 at Auckland's Gluepot with extra Aussie guests, Ratcat. • Choirboys visit NZ for gigs October 30 at Wellington's Carpark, Oct 31 Tauranga and Nov 1 & 2 at the Gluepot, Auckland. • Painters & Dockers visit NZ late November—Wellington Nov 28 and Auckland's Gluepot Nov 29 &30. • S.P.U.D. play Slammer with Meatboy and Grogans

November 1. • Scarf ore on tour October playing the Carpark Wgtn Oct 17. • Hallelujah Picassos and e Blue Marbles play the Gluepot Oct 19. • Heavy night at the Power Station, , Oct 18, features Confessor, DVS, Heavy Duty and Adrenalin. • AC/DC play Mt Smart November 16. • Dire Straits play Dec 14 Christchurch, 17 Wellington, 20 Auckland. • Expect Toni Childs before Xmas.

• Rod Stewart may tour in February. • Artists appearing at Wellington's NZ International Festival of the Arts, March 1992, include Nina Simone, Tuck & Patti, Victor Borge, Joe Williams, Louie ’ Bellson, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Joe Pass, James Morrison and Youssou N'Dour & Super Etoile De Dakar. Bookings are initially limited to Friends of the Festival but public mail bookings open Oct 28 and counter sales start Nov 18.

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