CHRISTCHURCH

Rip It Up, Issue 220, 1 December 1995, Page 12

CHRISTCHURCH

Leonard Nimoy are to be included on an IMD CD compilation for early 1996 ... Debris plan a four song tape release in December ... Arnie Van Bussell is compiling Nightshift 5, featuring artists who have recorded at Nightshift studios during the year ... Pumkinhead, despite all of the other rumours, are staying together and are releasing a CD single of ‘Nark’, produced by Malcolm Welsford, and are working towards Australian tour dates in early 1996 ... The Sheep Technique 3 has been sent to the student radio stations in New Zealand for airplay. It features Soma, Squirm, Mezzanine, Leonard Nimoy, Nil-State, Debris, Doctor Lovegland and Teen Angel. The Sheep Technique 4 is being planned with possible tracks from the Strangeloves, Beats and Pieces, Rotor and Salmonella Dub ... the lead singer of Preservative 211 has shot the gap, and they now call themselves Radiation Free Dolphins ... after being the loudest band in Australia, Loves Ugly Children lasted six songs into a gig in Brighton before the management turned the PA off. They were too loud for the nursing home right next door! The UK tour started in October with four gigs in three days with bands who were “quintessentially English” that “Christchurch bands would rock all over". LUC have recorded five tracks with an English producer, described as “not like Cakehole" in production style. These may be available for a February release, while the band will return home in mid December ... if you want your band to be featured on the Christchurch Music Online page on the Internet, send a blurb to James Guthrie, 2/53 Gloucester Street, Christchurch 1 ... closing its doors to live music is The Firehouse, while the success of the first gig at His Lorship’s will mean it will feature live music regularly ... recording at RDU studios recently have been Squirm and Beats and Pieces ... Trawler are heading to Dunedin for a second attempt at recording at Volt Studio ... apologies to Snort for the incorrect rumour in September’s column about a CD release gig at the Dux. The band is recording further material for their CD release prize from Operation Music Storm ... Holocene are back together after a break of babies and stuff ... Cinematic's catalogue has been bought off Beats Bodega by Loaded Records in Wellington ... new releases available from Mezzanine on cassette, the Terminals on import from Raffman Records (USA), and an upcoming CD release from Atomic Blossom in December ... Swallow, a new heavy grooves fivepiece, are recording an EP cassette at Redd Acoustics ... Matt Middleton’s ‘Crude’ project is

releasing 500 copies of an album of 4-track material on the Forced Exposure label out of Massachusetts, USA. He is also the new drummer for Shayne Carter’s Dimmer ... new bands around town include Rocket Monster, with Chris (ex-Burn) and Nik (ex-Euphoria), and XU XU Pedals, with former members of the Griffins and Banshee Reel ... taking a break from Christchurch for the moment is Failsafe’s Rob Mayes ... any January rumours phone (03)379-6320 before December 11.

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