rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 178, 1 May 1992, Page 33

rumours

AUCKLAND: The Boardwalk Bar (ex-Dog Club) is back as a regular venue, now organised by Sharon from the Gluepot. $250 secures PA, newspaper ad and security. Sharon says the bar has a 24-hour, seven day a week license, so breakfast gigs are an option. She's also organising a solo acts night on Thursdays, for which she has booked Andrew Fagan and Frankie, Chris Knox and Jan Hellriegal. Cabaret, comedy and poetry type evenings are also a possibility. Next month's big happening is Rotate Your State at the Gluepot, 25 June. Brought to you by Michael Hodgson, the event promises a mixture of film, video and music from the likes of Tinnitus, Compulsory Joy, Theatre of Alchemy, New Flesh, Godstar, Affliction Addiction and others. See next month's RlU for more details... garbage is the name of a Hamilton fanzine created to 'record the past, present and future of Hamilton music*. Contributions are "eagerly awaited from anybody* and it's available from Flying In, Real Groovy or by sending $2.50 to 28A Hillcrest Road, Hamilton... John Peel on the BBC World Service is on at 5.15 am NZ time not 2am as printed in last month's letter's column... Lester Bangs are back, but with a drum ' . machine as third member until finding a real person ... SB3 (as they are currently calling themselves) are looking for singers and keyboard players... look out for King Loser on TV3's/n Focus some time or other... PALMERSTON NORTH

CORNER: Yellow Bike Records have received a $6,000 recording grant and will be releasing another CD with four bands: Rake, Froithead, Sausage Roll and Ethiopian Lard Farmers... Dave White of Lung no longer has a mohawk and has been seen wearing a hare krishna type haircut... Noddy On The Cross have reformed.

Hardcore rock band No Lyz are now five piece. They'll be playing the Boardwalk Bar soon and releasing a

cassette in August... East are now a three piece after the departure of bassist Ben Holst. They're releasing a single on vinyl called 'Fluid' available from Real Groovy and Truetone... Salad Daze drummer Mile Gillet was seen recently in an LA bar with Kurt Cobain and his wife. He's in America to record for Stateside band Olive Lawn... Frisbee Records Z. Bob was arrested and detained

overnight after an altercation with a policeperson. The charge: "Obstruction of a public way". A difficult thing to do in Grey Lynn on a Sunday night... Psycho Daizies returned from their Heinous

Rock tour with a $3,000 bill for damages to vans, venues, borrowed drum kits and PAs... the Axemen are recording an album and single at Frisbee in June... Rich Mixture has replaced guitarist Bad Al in SMAK... look out for That Westie Feeling, 10 city bands who turn into westies on Friday, 12 June at the

Powerstation to celebrate the release of There Is A Feeling I Get When I Look To The Westie. LA Slut (Semi-Lemon Kola), Gestalt, Salad Daze, SMAK, Axemen, Moby Dik (ex-Axel Grinders and Psycho Daizies) and No Lyz will all be, er, performing. Rockers DVS have won the Lemon & Paeroa "Big Break Competition* and L&P will pay for them to make a video of their song 'Big Love'... Whangarei has an indie label Rugged Records and work has commenced at Exchange Studios on ■ a compilation album of Northland music. Artists appearing include Squall (includes Kath Webster from Look Blue Go Purple), Low, Sonic Aggression, Splinter, Electric Puha, Rick Winslow, Unmade Bedsand Amathyst Everett & the Snide Remarks. DONNA YUZWALK ? ; CHRISTCHURCH Just when the going starts getting good it all stops again. The New Atlantis Cafe has had to close since the landlord refused to renew the lease. The Atlantis team are looking for somewhere else, but progress is slow. Dean from Naked Lunch is working on a venue tentatively named Frappers, but is probably no closer to opening than the Atlantis team. Love's Ugly Children are heading to Auckland to play the Dog and Trumpet on the 29th with Zither and Drill. Simon has written a heap of new songs which will hopefully be recorded on their return

... excellent multi-instrumentalist (sorta) Jason Young has left Stark Naked to concentrate on Love's Ugly and EST who have just recorded several songs at Puawai... the Terminals have recorded a new single for Xpressway and have had overseas interest, as have Roy Montogemr/s Dadama... Passage Tapes are busy preparing releases from Amnesia, Suffocation, Skuzzbuckets, Campbell and Jo as well as the Mayday concert which featured RPM, Grenville & Mike and Wellmonster. The Bats are planning an extensive North Island tour whilst waiting for overseas plans to be finalised... young three piece deathmetallers Demise are keeping busy with recording and a South Island tour coming up as well as possible support for the Auckland Sepulture concert... one man techno ambient band Chris Prentice has just released a very limited four-track tape Televisual and is working on a follow-up and possible live appearance. Hammerack are currently trying out new vocalists with Kerry Church top contender... Flat City are working on distribution through the States, made possible through engineer Bart's infiltration whilst touring there with the Verlaines... Paul O'Brien has a new band with John Kelcherand Ross McAllister, no plans to perform yet or a name — just recording. Another ex-Catherine

Wheeler, Brett, has teamed up with Mike, ex-Drillhead, and Hat to form Squirm, who play "melodic sonic stuff" and "are available for weddings, Barmitzvahs and other things". Poiteen are a new Irish-type band playing once a week at the Loft Bar... Holy Toledoes made a good impression supporting Crowded House for six shows, but two members of Studio II almost stole the shows by taking over a song from Neil and the boys on the last night. Dick Driver's new band, which includes ex-Pop Mechanic Paul Mason, will be debuting soon, with Dixie Down Under handling bookings... Soundpeople are now back on Bedford Row (number 28 this time) in their own building ... sounds like Rob and Steve have parted company again,"' ~ leaving Throw drummerless... and in the oops department Silium 19 did manage to play Dunedin at the last moment, having to switch from the Super 8... People's Promotions and Running Promotions are talking of joining forces for a South Island band contest around June. JOHN GREENFIELD DUNEDIN Super 8 has been closed down. City officials deemed the venue a fire hazard and the structural rebuilding necessary will cost over SIOO,OOO. The Super 8 Collective is still going strong, with various performances to raise awareness of the venue's plight and sss... live music's been at its peak this month with Straitjacket Fits, Exponents and Crowded House each drawing crowds of over 1,000... last month's "Riot" has resulted in the toughening of liquor laws and several varsity functions have been cancelled, including some Capping gigs, Wet Lunch and Happy Hours. The riot was front page news for days until the LA events sent it packing to the letters page... Chained Daisies have recorded 10 songs at Graffiti to be released on cassette in June... Waiting For Dog have changed their name to Age of Dog. Made up of ex-Das Phaedrus types, Piers Graham, the irrepresible Victor Billot and Tin Soldier , Tone Griffin, they debuted to an ;.: - impressed audience... Tin Soldiers are not splitting up. They are currently filming a video for TV3's KTV and have a single in the pipeline... My Deviant' Daughter are also still going despite the departure of vocalist Emma. They have continued with interim musicians at recent gigs, including a SJ Fits support... at that very gig not one person pelted new Fit Mark Peterson with rotten tomatoes or anything — even if he is an Aucklander... the Capping mag has undergone a complete revamp, ie no sleazy innuendo or sexist copy, rather, EXIT is a superior publication... Verlaines have arrived home safe and we 11... the second SPeC for the year has arrived. This issue of the Radio One magazine has bits and pieces on such delights as Yellow Bike Records, new-ish bands, Apra, NZ Music Awards and more drawings by Chris Stapp. SPeC is available free from Radio One, Box 1436, ; Dunedin, although donations towards postage would be nice... true jangly

gems Sneaky Feelings reunite for a winter tour and record release... Kid Eternity's lifelong dream becomes a reality when they join 3Ds for not one, but TWO gigs! Isolation Backlash will also be on deck for the Dunedin and Invercargill i gigs, yep, Invercargill again. Tin Soldiers, Polyps and Isolation Backlash will stun Queenstown, which will also be visited by the Chooks and Hallelujah Picassos... the Radio One record is out! Poster pasting is pissing everyone off, Foxys, Sammys Niteclub and the

O.U.S.A. are prime offenders. All three cover huge areas completely all around town. Scout points to People's Promotions t and associated bands who aren't so mindless... Matthew Hyland weep for i joy, duo Dating Godot have already released a cassette Flicker. Send $l O to 17 Pioneer Cresc, Dunedin. This year's band war is looming... Websters scored the Bats support... the South Island tour circuit kicks off with Sneaky Feelings, Tall Dwarfs and David Kilgour... Radio One engineer Jenny Bell teams up again with Stephen

Kilroy for the Radio One and Fish Street , studio engineering course, if you're interested contact Jenny on 477-6115. Holodrolby X and Sentries have recorded and are playlisted on Radio One... David Kilgour, popping up everywhere from Yahoo to What Now, played an instore at Echo Records. He also took Peter Jefferies down to Invercargill with him... the 3Ds are filming their video 'Outer Space' (should be screening by the time this issue gets to Dunedin)... ex-SJ Fits' Andrew Brough has got three-quarters of a

band together, all that's needed now is a drummer... also hunting for that elusive musician is Dating Godot... quite a few official types around Dunedin are keen to push for the lowering of the drinking age to 18, that includes the mayor, varsity president and publicans. The Crown's Doug Nuttal has been . buying local CDs (out of his own pocket!) to play between bands. And some bugga's stolen two of them. Bring back Snapper's Shotgun Blossom and 3Ds Hellzapoppin' you nasty creature. NATASHA GRIFFITHS