READER COMPLAINT

Rip It Up, Issue 176, 1 March 1992, Page 22

READER COMPLAINT

Well, I finally had to say something, I really couldn't take it anymore. I'm afraid that your publication is utter drivel. To illustrate my point I have to mention a caption from your rumours section, top of the Auckland list, "Kurt Kobain of Nirvana purchased an

Axemen LP at Real Groovy records". Oh my god, did he really, gosh I'm in awe, the great god Kurt likes the Axemen, woopy shit! Talk about ass licky 'in scene' Auckland bullshit. I went to Nirvana and enjoyed it a great deal, but I went to enjoy a good band play some good music and have fun. Obviously your writers went to see the Super Popular 'in' Nirvana. It's all very boring actually. Every month I pick up RIU with the pathetic hope that maybe you've

written about something interesting or new. Perhaps a mention of the Napalm Death tour or a write up of Skin Chamber's new album. Have you guys even heard of Grindcore, Deathmetal, Industrial music or experimental stuff? This sort of music is the ground breaking head of the 90s music scene. Not the boring conservative bull of the likes of the Exponents, SMAK,

Verlaines, Sugarcubes, LL Cool J and Push Push (to name a small portion of your extremely candy coated drivel).

At least get a writer who appreciates and can intelligently write about real 'alternative' music. As for Luke Casey, go back to sleep dude, the speed metal thing is no longer interesting. A few bands who are interesting are Carcass, Morbid Angel, Godflesh, Bolthrower, Entombed, Dismember, Paradise Lost. Please give some

coverage to some of these bands, they are not mindless noise makers and idiots who like to scream. The music is in fact very complex and unorthodox, the lyrics provocative and idea stirring. Once you have acquired a taste for it, you can find a seemingly infinite variety of interesting and extreme music. Yours sincerely, Greg Broadmore HAMILTON DY replies: The item about Kurt Kobain buying an Axemen LP was not intended as 'in scene'showing off, rather it was assumed local musicians might like to know that a member of the Number One band in America went shopping in a local record store and bought a local product to take back home where he might play it to no-one but himself, but he could play it to any number of influential people who could take a liking to said local product which could be good for the band. This news item appeared at the top of the Rumours column simply because, as the last one typed up before printing, it got tacked to the top. Anyway, rumours are supposed to be trivial, aren't they?