DUNEDIN

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

DUNEDIN

The students have cleared out, but Winter never seems to be leaving. Snow on the hills in late November. Bloody Hell ... The Cellars Bar is now up and running. The opening night featuring Shayne Carter and Fats Thompson was a great success and was followed by a weekend of jazz. Most recently local popsters Smirky played there three nights in a row. One of the few local bands unashamedly pursuing melody with any great success, Smirky are hoping to record a CD in the coming months ... new band Two Moons, comprising Kerri and Paul Winders and Jason Kerr, played at the Empire recently. Also playing the same night were Queer, who are Richard Baker, Emme Milburn, Mark Sharma and someone whose name escapes me, and Graeme Downes solo ...

Apple and Humania have both been recording songs which have received airplay on Radio One, ... Radio One can finally be heard in all the little valleys around town and far beyond thanks to a long awaited power upgrade ... Keri Baser of Drugs vs. Grandchildren is heading north. Watch out, Nelson, Satan’s sister is on her way. Keri and Shaun (also of DVG) have both adorned their flesh with matching tattoos of the artwork from their last single ‘Sick Monks’ ... James Robinson (ex Christchurch) is set to give his Dunedin debut of his solo show No TV ... Crude, aka Matt Middleton, has been busy recording some of his work. He and Sally McDonald have also been busy keeping Shayne Carter company in Dimmer ... Sandra Bell has two new 7”s out on overseas labels. ‘Angel’ is being released by Colorado label Zabrinski Point. She has also done a split single with Johnathon Davis (Folk Implosion etc.) on Road Cone. The latter release is a poem, ‘Red Leaves’, with piano accordian accompianment. She is also researching the role of women in Dunedin as part of the The Dunedin Sound Exhibition to be held at the Otago Early Settlers Museum next year. Yellow Eye Records are to put out a mammoth 3 CD, 70 track archival release of Dunedin Music (1958-87), entitled But I Can Write Songs, Okay, in conjunction with the exhibition. Release date March 96 ... more Yellow Eye news, new band Swampy are working towards a CD EP release on the label early next year. Cynthia Should, who recently won the Speights/93 Rox band contest, will release a CD at about the same time, as will T and D Bigger Band and Love Consort CDs. Yellow Eye jazz sampler Trees is to be released in Wellington on December 17 at Antipodes ... music TV is getting closer in Dunedin with a programme in the making. To be aired soon on Southern TV ... a couple of new esoteric labels have popped up. Gallery Desford Vogel are to release a retrospective CD by Marie and the Atom on their own label, and Kim Pieters et al have founded the Metonymic label to release the first CD by Rain, entitled Sediment ... Doramaar, the allwoman noise/improv’ group who have just released the beautiful Corpula CD on Bruce Russell’s Corpus Hermeticum label, are to put out their next CD, Terra Incognito, on US Fuestron label ... back on the pop front, Mink have finished recording their new CD at Volt studios, with Dale Cotton doing the engineering ... any news phone (03)472-7291

DAVID MUIR