rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 173, 1 December 1991, Page 34

rumours

WELLINGTON i Let’s Planet are negotiating a major contract with US East Coast label First Warning who will finance the completion of the Planet’s second album . ... the Warratahs, now with a distribution deal in Australia, recently had successful gigs in Melbourne and Sydney and further trips are planned. * Annie Crummer, who is currently on four with Jimmy Barnes, is working on her Warners album with Nigel Stone . .. This Fish, consisting of Trish Morrison and Perry Piercy on vocals, Bernie Messmer guitars, AK Goss bass and vocals and Dave Head drums, have a nine track self-titled tape out on their own label ... Skapa recorded their show at the Carpark on the 16th for inclusion on their forthcoming debut album. Harry Death have a four track tape outtiled New Stuffrecorded at Angry Dog studio, and they are still waiting on their ten inch from Australia . .. Flesh D-Vice-er Eugene Pope is back in town after a period of roadying and playing in the UK .. . some 200 people were turned away from Shihad's recent gig at the - Carpark with a tightening of age checks after a recent prosecution. The venue now operates as two separate rooms with live music in one and the non-door charged Exchange bar. The dividing wall has sand to prevent sound leakage . . . the Crawbilly Creeps are back with a less psychobilly more country sound and have been drawing good crowds. Trekkers have just about completed their new bars that will see anew performance room, but the new stage looks mighty small... Dave Murphy and Marg Layton are working regularly as a duo .. . the Olympic Hotel in Naenae is running regularly as a music venue. Coming up are rare visits by Billy TK and Sonny Day ... Bill Lake has a new band the Lifesavers and the hottest Latin band in town has to be Solatino.

Bailter Space have completed a new album and Nick Roughan has some other interesting new material ready for release . .. Tangata Records have secured a distribution deal with BMG/Arista and have a number of singles ready for release to be followed by a compilation album .. . Survival, formerly Dread Beat And Blood, and now made up of David Grace lead vocals, Simon Grace vocals, John Grace guitar, Boy Grace - drums, vocals, Nathan Warren bass, Charlie Waenga keyboards, have their new single ‘Native Oppression’ out late Nov on Tangata. Both the single anda track ‘Rua Kenana' have been selected for a forthcoming Smokefree campaign. Supporting Survival on their extensive summer tour will be singer/songwriter Emma Paki ... new record shop in town is Ebony Records specialising in dance and alternative releases. The Fringe side of next years International Festival has been finalised, opening with an international Buskers festival on Feb 29 that will also coincide with the finale of the two month Summer City Programme. ' _ Finally, RIP Andy Hopkins, a man with impeccable music taste.” JOHN PILLEY DUNEDIN Continuing the Dunedin invades the States series, 6,000 3Ds CDs were snapped up within days of US release. The compilation success is good incentive for an intensive tour in March ... widespread US distribution for Snapper, inking a deal with Communion. 150 stores stock the album, bought by the company upfront. Back home, Flying Nun guarantees February - will bring Shofgun Blossom while ‘Dark Sensation’, a one-sided 7 inch, will arrive from Scotland soon. Six Orientation slofs - equals a national tour ‘92 . ... following several quiet months, with new drummer in hand, Some Velvet Morning smoothly reinstated themselves for a weekend at the Crown .. . debuting the same weekend, Kid Eternity. Messy

grunge guitar delivered by practicing pop-posers, it was great ... Camel Club now offers post-pub gigs, Strangeloves and Puddle being two recently . .. newly appointed manager Geoff Moller is currently preparing Puddle’s first ever press-kit— not bad for a band that's been around half my life. Live At The Teddy Bears’ Club is out, and rumours of an Auckland trek new year . . . the Chooks hit town, their all-night extravaganza blowing hundreds away. And the audience . .. the Xpressway Xmas catalogue includes the vinyl version of Peter Jefferies’ Last Great Challenge In A Dull World, Scorched Earth Policy’s Foaming Out cassette, a 50/50 split between live and EP material, and the Cyclops 7 inch. Coming aftractions: a debut LP for Sandra Bell, Dead C's Hash 70s Realities, a double album. And Seely Girn is Alistair Galbraith’s refrospective of the past five years, with some new stuff thrown in. Due in March, the triple boxed set Killing Capitalism With Kindness. : - Southbound Tours offers Invercargill's Canzona Club for touring bands. For S7O and 10% of the takings, receive in-house gear, accomodation and even breakfast! Contact Sheryl Forde, 701 Highgate, Dunedin . .. Jester has been born unto Stephen Hall-Jones. Available at a comedy magazine outlet near you . .. Shrink yer heads BFM, Radio One celebrates Christmas in style. On the 20th, classic NZ music vids and Attila the Stockbroker will accompany local legends (aspiring or otherwise) Tin Soldiers, Puddle and Verlaines.. . . Auckland, we send you one Paul Rose on Xmas day. The man who has been an invaluable contributor to the local scene is heading for bigger and brighter things. Kisses and best wishes Paul . . . I'm allowed to be mushy, ‘tis the festive season. Have agood one. : NATASHA GRIFFITHS AUCKLAND Robert Rakete debuted hisnew - band Angelight at the Gluepot on Monday night ... . other new bands in

town include Dual Purpose (“white boy reggae from the west coast of Auckland”) and Tinkletown (with ex-members of Phobia and Tractator, “heavy tendencies with experimental ideas”). Arcadia at 166 Upper Symonds Street is running a series of Friday nights called ‘Stick It In Your Ear’ featuring a variety of solo and small acts. A recent nightincluded Otis Mace accompanying Anna Rexia who turned out to be Frankie from Fatal Jelly Space, who proved herself a very smoochy torch singer; and the Auckland solo debut of Axemen mainman Steve McCabe whose repetoire included a cover of ‘Spanish Eyes’ and the theme from Dads Army. - Did you know that Lotto lady Marise Wipani goes out with G:W. McLennan of the Go Betweens? That explains why she was wearing a Go Betweens T-shirt on the Bugs Bunny Show a few weeks ago. s 3 ' One week Guitar Workshop in Gisborne at the Polytech summer school from 13-17 January, For more information call Henk Hoogland (06) 868-8068... Poor old Charlotte Yates of Babes In The Mood fame had a whole bunch of equipment stolen from the Auckland Town Hall concert chambers on November 21. She lost her pink Fender Stratocaster, a Roland JC 770 amp, Boss WS-100 remote unit and pack, various leads, a Marshall distortion pedal-and AC adaptor. Most of all she'd like her Fender back, but if you know anything about any of the above, please call her on (04) 884-331, or write to PO Box 11-711 Wagtn.