RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 225, 1 May 1996, Page 37

RUMOURS

AUCKLAND Crowded House will take over York Street Studio in July and August to record their fifth album, the follow, up to Together Alone ... the Auckland Youth Theatre (behind the Town Hall) is opening its doors to live bands again for the first time since June 1990, when a budding interior decorator at a Warners gig decided a section of the toilet wall would look better in the foyer. Balance, Here’s Proof and Diswomble play an all ages show there on May 31 ... the hardest touring band in the land, Evilis play at Squid on May 17 ... 95bFM are organising a high schools tour by Nothing At All! for the last week of May and the first week of June. If your school might be interested in accomodating the band, phone Simon at bFM on 366-7223 ... Aaron Carson played his last show with the Dead Flowers at the Powerstation on April 26. The band are presently searching for a new bassist. Meanwhile, former DF guitarist Riqi Hadfield has returned to Auckland and is piecing a new band together ... Max TV filmed the recent Chills/Garageland double bill at the Longview in Howick, for two forthcoming specials on each band ... Pumpkinhead make their first visit to Auckland since the Big Day Out, playing an all ages show at the Powerstation on May 17 ... ex-Supergroove members Tim Stewart and Che Ness have formed new bands and are finalising. recording plans ... Nathan Haines is releasing a live in the studio album on Huh! ... Bizarre Beats have closed up shop at 1 O’Connell Street, and instead are setting up mail order distribution. For lists or info, PO Box 8385 or fax (09)623-3323 ... the next batch of Flying Nun seven-inch singles will be out on June 4. The lucky recipients this time round are King Loser’s Celia Patel and Sean O’Reilly, the 30s' David Mitchell and Denise Roughan, and Dunedin’s Cloudboy ... newcomers Tim Teen & the Teentones have recorded their debut single, ‘Let’s Rock’, for independent cassette release in early June ... the May 10 Auckland show by Anthrax and Cyco Miko was postponed until May 24, after drummer Charlie Benante’s brother was shot dead in New York ... the Doris Days have recorded four songs at Ground Zero for a proposed EP release next month ... Spacesuit are now looking forward to recording in November ... Christchurch’s Loves Ugly Children are shifting to Auckland this month, and will immediate--ly begin work on a new album with former. SPUD guitarist Matthew Heine. The trio play two shows in Auckland during May, at Kurtz on Saturday 11, and at the Powerstation supporting Shihad on Friday 24 ... don’t forget the Hatching Battle of the Bands, entry is open till May 31. Phone Rayna (358 1846) or Trish (377 5441). for info. JOHN RUSSELL n a i K«rno*rnn n n n t li

PALMERSTON NORTH The long line of new bands coming (but hopefully to survive) continues whith these bizarrely named projects: Sesqui Kings (featuring members of Wholesale Drainage), Earl Grey and the Biskettes, Fusion Refugees (born out of the Johnny Carson “school” of free jazz), and Mechanic (an aural landscape and blasting from local artists Jack Black and Dan Campion). Mechanic had a tape release party in April (along with other Lizard Mull label mates Foisemaster) ... Bullfrog Rata have been playing around town with Midge Marsden ... the Wild Horse Saloon is having too many gigs, and the bands are suffering as a result, due to the audiences spreading themselves too thinly ... the Susans' It's Their View CD release party was weird, because nobody

actually played, but the wine was bloody good! ... people recording lately include Harassment, Matt Soong, Wholesale Drainage, EZB and Cytoplasm ... Kiwi Rock are organising a battle of the bands, which is being held at the Albert... Dave will you a record at Yellow Bike record cutting if you beg ... CUNT had the best time with Unsane on the tour. Speaking of which, Unsane have a track on the next Valve magazine release, which is a CD — vinyl fanatics, don’t cry. Valve has gone all cosmopolitan now, with people on it from other places too, including Jello Biafra, along with hordes of other wonderful people like: Stump Thumper, Deluxe Doom Inc., Foisemaster, CUNT, Body Bomb, Rhonda K, HDU, Baldman, Gaylene and the Undertakers, Sandra Bell, Leonard Nimoy and Jack Black. Contributions for future issues and purchase orderss (sls) can be made to PO Box 4391, Palmerston North. CLAIRE PANNELL

DUNEDIN Radio One is to hold it’s own Onefest, a weekend of mayhem and joy. It will cover the weekend May 9-12. Line-up includes Suka, HDU, Cloudboy, Love Consort, Johnathan Talbot, Slate (Andrew Dickson), Crude, DJs Nosleep and Big Phil, a film premiere and more ... Genevieve McLean is popping back into town to do some recording with Mink and Love Consort ... Johnathan Talbot, who frequently appears on Radio One's Top 11, is to release a tape of solo recordings in May, and a Geraldine single is also in the pipeline. His group Eve is gigging as usual, and are set to release a tape in the near future ... Axiom, who describe their music as ‘progressive thrash’, have released a six-song tape. By far the best metalish (my comment) band in these parts. Available from PO Box 2244, Dunedin. They are also looking for a new bass player ... The Dunedin Sound Exhibition is up and running. A series of cool performances is swinging along. Reformations aplenty, Look Blue Go Purple will have done their thing for the first time in many years by the time you read this. The triple CD But I Can Write Songs Okay has been released on Yellow Eye in conjunction with the exhibition, and contains some very cool and rare pre 80s material, along with the later, more obvious material; 73 tracks and a great booklet written by Roy Colbert — a musical history-of Dunedin music ... Gamaunche, mid-80s non-Flying Nunners who played on the same bill as Alastair Galbraith and Bob Scott, have been moved to do new recordings ... also released is new book, Kiwi Rock, which chronicles NZ music in the modern era (post-Stranded in Paradise). It comes with an eight-track CD, for the most part previously unreleased songs by the Chills, David Pine, Straitjacket Fits, the Bats, the 3Ds, JPSE, Snapper and a live version of ‘lggy Told Me’, by the Enemy ... Chug have finished recording a new album ... despite geographical difficulties, the Verlaines are recording a new CD ... Fold have released their self-funded CD, Plantlife, and are gigging all over the place ... Pimply White Thighs continue to be the ultimate support band, next in line are the Able Tasmans ... Polyp may be reforming. While those outside of Dunedin may not give a shit, this is big news locally. Well, sort of big ... lastly, the annual Freekßall held at Fox River on the West Coast is blasting off at BPM, June 1 and keeps going till dawn. Playing are Inunga Funga, Horse, Snort, Soma, Lonesome Throats and DJ Tin Tin. Tickets available throughout the South Island. Should be a wild time ... any info, phone 472-7291.

DAVID MUIR