SOUNDGARDEN, LEMONHEADS, OMC YOU AM I, SHIHAD FUR BIG DAY OUT

Rip It Up, Issue 232, 1 December 1996, Page 2

SOUNDGARDEN, LEMONHEADS, OMC YOU AM I, SHIHAD FUR BIG DAY OUT

Renamed (formally Breast Secreting Cake), and with a self-titled album recorded for release in the new year, Bressa Greeting Cake have a single ‘Papa People’ out on Flying Nun. The video features a love triangle starring a young woman, a giant weta, and a horse.

Several more foreign acts have been announced for the January 17 Big Day Out at Auckland’s Ericsson Stadium. Soundgarden, You Am I, the Lemonheads, and Beasts of Bourbon have been added to the acts already announced; Supergrass, Prodigy, Offspring, and Sepultura.

The first two New Zealand acts to be announced are OMC and Shihad. In the January RipltUp (in stores Dec 23) there will be details of the full and final line-up of foreign and local artists appearing, and performance times, stage locations etc. There are innovations in the non-music area. There will be a double flying fox with two parallel wires, allowing twice as many people to use the facility, plus the skateboard ramp will be extended in width by six feet to allow the three visiting top USA skaters to appear at once.

BIC’S SILVER SCROLL AND CAR ACCIDENT Having won the APRA Silver Scroll Award this month for her single ‘Drive’, Bic Runga was involved in a car accident when returning home from the Saturday night Michael Jackson concert in Auckland. She and her boyfriend were hit head-on by a car going the wrong way on to the Wellesley St motorway off-ramp, with Bic sustaining a broken collar-bone in the collision. The tour the singer was due to start, has been cancelled.

Johnny Cash on his second Rick Rubin produced album, Unchained, covers Tom Petty’s ‘Southern Accents’, Beck’s ‘Rowboat’, Soundgarden’s ‘Rusty Cage’ and a few standards, plus his own songs, all with help from Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers.

Oasis tribute band No Way Sis have signed a record deal with EMI to take their Glasgow clone magic to the world. The first release is a cover of the New Seekers’ song 'l'd Like To Teach the World to Sing’, that is best known as a Coca Cola jingle. Ironically there’s even Coca Cola’s slogan ‘Can’t Beat the Real Thing’, as a refrain.

Lost & Found is a retrospective collection of photos by Kerry Brown, Dave Dobbyn, Greg Semu and Darryl Ward, at Auckland’s Gow Langsford Gallery, December 10 to 24. Though best known as a musician, Dobbyn has taken his photography seriously for years. Brown, Semu, and Ward have all directed videos and photographed both music and lifestyles. “I’ve learnt a lot about photography from Kerry, Darryl and Greg,” says Dobbyn. "I'm really flattered to being doing a show with them.”

Recording the collaborative album Dance Hall at Louse Point saw P.J. Harvey and John Parish achieve their longtime goal to work together. “This is the first time I’ve written words to someone else’s music,” says Polly. “I feel that it has changed my approach to songwriting in a positive way.”

Prince celebrated his release from his Warners contract with a celebrity party at his Paisley Park recording studio, and a 30 minute satellite broadcast live performance. The show started with a gospel chorus singing “Free at last” and a sample of the same phrase from Martin Luther King’s famous civil rights speech. Prince’s new album Emancipation is being marketed with his own slogan “Three hours of sex, love and liberty.” Cover versions on the album include Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me’, the Delfonics’ ‘La La Means I Love You’ and Joan Osbourne’s ‘One Of Us’. A world tour commences in 1997 and will bring Prince to New Zealand for the first time.