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Rip It Up, Issue 195, 1 October 1993, Page 2

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Spin Music Editor Craig Marks will fly from New York as a guest speaker at the NZ Music Seminar in Wellington Sat 13 & Sun 14 November. Further details see Taking Care of Business ... Kiwi bands coming up on Zn Focus are Hallelujah Picassos on Oct 25 (4.30 pm Mondays on TV3) and Freebass on Nov 1 .. . Supergroove have released a new single 'Scorpio Girl'... there will be two Strawberry Fields Music Festivals this summer — Jan 2 there's Strawberry Fields South with Supergroove, Head Like A Hole, Headless Chickens and Jimmy Barnes. On March 5 & 6 there's the Raglan Strawberry Fields Festival... Dead Flowers are on an Australian tour late October playing Sydney and the 4ZZZ outdoor birthday gig in Brisbane. As part of the 4ZZZ 10th Birthday the station's NZ Music Show is running a 60 question "NZ Music Trivia Quiz" with first prize a return trip "NZ Rock Tour" to Auckland sponsored by Qantas (Air NZ couldn't see the value in helping promote NZ music/culture) to visit such legendary NZ rock landmarks as the Gluepot and the Flying Nun office... buses will run direct to the U2 and Tina Turner concerts from Auckland suburbs (Browns Bay, Glenfield, Takapuna, Papatoetoe, Manukau, Henderson, New Lynn etc). Details phone 623-1885 . . . Ted Clarke's Backdoor Blues Band have released an album Deja Voodoo via Metro Marketing . . . the Dave Dobbyn collection of his earlier solo and DD Smash recordings (and Th'Dudes 'Be Mine Tonight'), will be released before Xmas with tracks such as 'Devil You Know', 'Repitition', 'Outlook for Thursday', 'Guilty', 'Magic What She Do' and 'Slice of Heaven'... October Punch It Up — attention seeking gone wrong; Hans Hoeflich versus Matthew Hyland (see Elvis Slag). Crowd control gone wrong; in the midst of a Dead Flowers set in Whakatane, bassist David James leftthe stage to whack a hoon who was hitting a member of the local support, but he got whacked back in the face, harder, so guitarist Riqi Hadfield left the stage to rescue James and then drummer Rob Dollars leapt in to rescue the hoon, and then the band played on . On a more serious note, venue management gone wrong; when refused entry to Deßretts upstairs bar Sounds chain Manager Shaun Joyce and friends were leaving Deßretts when bouncers approached Joyce from behind, grabbed him, pushing him into the doors, across the pavement against a car, then knocking him to the ground, putting the boot in so Joyce was at the hospital six hours and needed four stitches above the left eye. Joyce has laid charges with the Police. Ain't High St sophisticated?