RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 232, 1 December 1996, Page 32

RUMOURS

There’s two big events happening in the city on New Year’s Eve — the Powerstation hosts the Headless Chickens, the 3Ds, Garageland, and Loves Ugly Children, while the Aotea Centre has Nick D’Angelo’s Millennium 4, which features DLT, Che Fu, Teremoana, Mighty Asterix, BWare, Dam Native's Danny D, the return of 3 The Hard Way, and the Hallelujah Picassos ... exSupergroove horn man Tim Stewart debuted his new band the Graders mid-November at Rakinos Cafe in central Auckland, more gigs are planned soon ... Muckhole have wrapped up the recording of their debut album at Lab Studios with Chris Van De Geer. A single will surface in January, while the album (as yet untitled) is scheduled for February release. Van De Geer will also be at the controls when Eye TV begin work on their second album early in the new year ... Rangitoto College band the Larry Wednesdays won the Max TV competition to support Shihad at their recent Powerstation show ... Bizarre Beats, “NZ’s. only supplier and distributor of avant garde music, industrial gothic, darkwave, and experimental electronics”, have moved into the Space Your Face premises at 123 K’ Road; alternatively, their mail order address is PO Box 8385 Symonds Street ... the Racquet Club at 29 Sheehan Street in Ponsonby is now hosting live bands on a regular basis — 0 and Gaunt Pudding play an all-ages gig there on December 20 ... Peter Jefferies makes a rare visit to Auckland to play at the Temple Cafe on December 12, to promote his third solo album, Elevator Madness (available from Crawlspace, 203 K’ Road) ... the one-time Kurtz Lounge venue at 178 Symonds Street has been renamed @Luna. For bookings, phone Rayna on (025)736-736 ... the Doris Days have completed their next single, ‘Hollywood Girls’, with engineer Rex Visible ... Welli’s Head Like A Hole, and HDU from Dunedin, played live-to-air on bFM’s local music show Freak the Sheep during recent visits to Auckland ... OMC will perform at the Coca Cola Christmas Concert in the Domain on December 14 ... delays in the Dimmer camp mean no EP yet. “Next month,” say the bods at Flying Nun ... finally, both Melody Makerand the /V/WEhave published

features on Garageland to coincide with their UK tour. And in other news, the band’s manager CR Smith, obviously suffering from tour fatigue, was found at 6am one morning, passed out on his ex-girl-friend’s toilet with his pants around his ankles. “Some things never change,” say the bods at Flying Nun. JOHN RUSSELL Australian punkers Crank will be appearing at JD’s with Kitsch,

Inebriation and 1080 on December 6. Some locals will remember the two brothers in the band from their tour here a few years ago when they were in SUX. Meanwhile, Kitsch, 1080 and Inebriation have all submitted tracks to Onefoot Records in the hope of getting songs on their New Zealand punk compilation ... Hideously Disfigured have cassettes available in local stores, while Harlequin have a cassette gallery available at gigs or from PO Box 359, New Plymouth ... the Most FM polytech radio has done it’s shortest stint ever — they stay off air all