CHUG

Rip It Up, Issue 185, 1 December 1992, Page 2

CHUG

Chug, a new(ish) Dunedin band consisting of ex-members of some of that town’s most revered ensembles, have just released their first single, ‘Flowers’, the last in Flying Nun’s 1992 seven inch series. At one time or another, one or other of Norma, Alf, Stephen and Alan have been in Look Blue Go Purple, Snapper, the Chills, Goblin Mix, Stephen and the Verlaines (have fun fitting the names to the bands). But now they’re all doing other things, including Chug - influences "everything and everything”. "We’re quite fussy,” says Norma over the phone from Dunedin where it sounds as if she is quelling a dog fight in her kitchen, “we try not to make anything sound the same. We’re not embarrassed to be playing pop music." Chug intended to be a studio band (easy, they thought, since one of them runs Fish St recording studios) and play only occasionally but now they seem to be playing more than they intended and they’re enjoying it. As is Flying Nun head honcho Roger. He’s offered them the chance to do another single and an album next year. Go see what kind of noise Chug make when they support the 3Ds at the Gluepot on January Bth.