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Rip It Up, Issue 14, 1 August 1978, Page 18

LOCAL PRODUCT needing a push and said that the record companies, the radio and the TV people were gonna have to wake up. Which has got me into trouble with the record companies, the radio and the TV people. So this week I’ll go further. RIP IT UP needs to wake up as well. When you look at an American pop rag it’s almost all American stuff and British mags are full of British stuff. But when you read a New Zealand rock rag it’s mostly American and British stuff. . . Like the Purvettes sing on “Disco on My Radio”, WHAT’S THE GUTS?

I walked into one of me locals the other night and saw this GORILLA playin rock n roll on the piano. Not only that, there was a MUTANT on guitar and a PLASTIC SURGERY CASE punishing an electric stand-up bass. It transpir... It transp... It turned out they were a band called SPATZ . . . half a dozen genuine crazies who also play under the tag of LES HOTS. Apart from the visuals I was knocked out by their music it’s mainly original, it’s tight, and it rocks . . . Fact is I was so impressed I talked them into letting me do a few

gigs with them. So it's Purvis back on the road with the first stop at Whangarei in the far north.

I was downing a lager in a pub yesterday and this guy was describing the place he worked at. “It’s one of those jobs that’s like smoking a joint the more you suck, the higher you get.” (I admit it, I steal half the jokes I use how else am I gonna get them?)

What with these extra-tough DRUG LAWS coming up here and various spokesmen calling for the death penalty for hard trafficking, I’d be surprised if we ever see THE ROLLING STONES touring here,again. Keith Richard might forget himself like he did in Toronto and end up gettin’ LEGALLY EXECUTED . . . Still, Mick could write a great song about it On the level, Neville