Chickens hang out in Happy Valley

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 551, 30 August 1994, Page 3 (Supplement)

Chickens hang out in Happy Valley

Headless Chickens haunt Happy Valley next Wednesday in a Ruapehu first — an open air family concert on snow. The evening runs from 6.30pm until 11.30pm, with food and drink stalls set up to help create a carnival atmosphere. The band also plays Hot Lava on Thursday 8 September. The Chickens have recently completed recording of their new single and hope to have it out before Christmas. They plan to return to New Zealand after a tour of Britain and finish recording their new album. Their remix single of Juice has been selling especially well in the UK and Europe and they are currently the hot new thing on the underground dance scene. All this bodes well for their tour with Pop Will Eat Itself and Senser in the UK in October. They have well and truly moved from a small alternative New Zealand band to a top international act - catch them on the only dates before they leave for overseas and potential stardom! Fagan Also soon to pop in is Andrew Fagan doing the rounds. The five-piece band play Hot Lava, with The Urge, on Saturday 3 September. Fagan are Andrew Fagan on vocals and guitar, Tom Davidson on guitar, Kevin Moody on guitar, Ian Williamson on bass, Craig Home on drums. Fagan has been at it since 1978 when he fronted the Wellington student post-punk band "The Ambitious Vegetables", later becoming "The Mockers" and dominating the kiwi music culture. Here he gained his reputation as an eccentric live performer and one of the country's more adventurous sailors. After four years in Britain he returned with a third volume of poetry, film scripts, and more songs than would fit on his album "Blisters" - recorded before Fagan sailed across the Tasman aboard his 5.6 metre sloop "Swirly World in Perpetuity" in the solo trans Tasman race. He now has the unique distinction of having raced in the smallest boat to ever cross the Tasman Sea.