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Rip It Up, Issue 200, 1 April 1994, Page 30

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The Three the Hard Way single ‘Hip Hop Holiday’ is the first Kiwi single this year to be certified Gold — i.e. sales exceeding 5,000 units . .'. USA label Merge will distribute the 3Ds album The Venus Trail in the USA. Merge is a highly regarded indie owned by the people from Superchunk .. . Hello Sailor are recording a new album.. . Bilge Festival will release an 11 track album Cape Goat on Wildside... expect a new compilation Good Things from Failsafe Records. Artists include Love’s Ugly Children, Squirm, Supertanker, Pumpkinhead, Keith, Springloader, Hoover, Atomic Blossom, Throw, Malchicks, Semi Lemon Kola, Lils, Wadd, Lurch and more . . . King Loser have signed to Flying Nun with a vinyl 7” ‘Stairway to Heaven / ‘ Highway to Hell’ out this month ... the original painting by Phil Judd for the Split Enz debut album Mental Notes is for sale. Anyone interested should write to PO Box 74-321, Market Rd, Auckland . . . the Bats have recorded a new song in Christchurch for an EP featuring material they recorded in the USA last year ... the upcoming Thorn album on Lost Records is recorded by Nick Roughan . . . members of Shihad have helped produce some 16-track recordings by Premature Autopsy . . . Paul Übana Jones has

recorded a new album at York Street Studio... Kerry Brown is directing the new Crowded House video ‘Private Universe’... the forthcoming Dead Flowers album Sweetfish has been mastered at Sydney’s 301 Studio . . . Supergroove have a new single ‘Can’t Get Enough’ in April and an album will follow . .. the Tall Dwarfs play Europe (London, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands) in April after the release of their Three EPs album with guests Bob and Scott from Pavement. Each EP has a name — A Question of Medical Ethics, Sam's Spaniel and Up the Down Staircase... Wellington film-maker Amanda Clarke is making two videos for Head Like A Hole ‘Faster Hooves’ and ‘Spanish Goat Dancer’ ... the NZ Music Awards take place Monday April 11 at the Pan Pacific , Auckland . . . Headless Chickens bassist Grant Fell is now managing MC OJ & Rhythm Slave . . . Warner Music’s whizz Rhythm, Absolute Disco and Trip compiler Myles has his own single out ‘Sanctuary’ co-written with Anthony loasa ... Head Like A Hole's single ‘Faster Hooves’ is out with a track each from Steak and Funkmutha too . .. you may be able to get a late listing into the 1994 NZ Music Directory by contacting Lena Days at Stellar Night Productions, PO Box 10081, Dominion Rd, Auckland. Phone / fax (09) 630-1289.