LETTERS

Rip It Up, Issue 38, 1 September 1980, Page 15

LETTERS

Post to RIU LETTERS, PO Box 5689, Auckland 1. Best wins an LP Voucher.

Is Ken William’s review of Roxy Music’s Flesh And Blood to be taken seriously? Surely not. To mention this album in the same sentence as their past greats is scandalous like saying 'I like Mi-Sex'.

This once experimental, very original, imaginative band has degenerated to a slick, commercial sound, filling out this latest album with the worst features of Manifesto. Flesh And Blood is sure to win them many new fans, most of whom have probably never heard of For Your Pleasure or even Brian Eno.

If I want to hear this sort of spacey funk I’ll buy the Commodores, thank you Bryan. Both Ends Burning Mangere East

What’s all this fuss about heavy metal? Don’t spoil RIU, leave it as it is if you guys want heavy metal, then start your own mag. Tl Whangarei.

I think RIU is still the best music mag in the country and far better than In Touch, which is like a class magazine from one of the dumb fourth forms. It is always full of spelling mistakes and sentences that don’t make sense.

The only thing wrong with RIU, is Wellington’s Rumours. Why can’t we get someone good to do it. First we had R. Solez with stupid jokes that were not funny anyway. Now we get Connie D.

Martin who is even worse. The rest of the country must think Wellington is really backward when all they hear about is time-wasters like Life In the Fridge Exists and Wallsockets, who sing out of key and can’t play their instruments properly. There are plenty of real bands down here. I think the Rodents, are the best but Puppetz, Glasshouse, Backstreet and lots of others are ten times better than rubbish like Life in the Fridge. Life Outside the Fridge Exists Rongatai

Okay Mr Ken Williams you can take the cotton wool out of your ears now, and listen to Terence Boylan's Suzy again and discover how bloody good it really is. I also think Newz suck, does that mean Auckland loves me? Barry Christchurch

In August Rip It Up you mentioned us, Condemned Sector, as a Palmerston North band. This is not true. We are a Wellington band. You

should get your facts straight before publishing them.

We are a three piece band and having given up trying to find a bassist, we double up guitar and vocals. We have yet to make our debut due to technical hitches, like a proper practise room.

I would like to thank Robert Smith of the Cure for showing an interest not like the Ramones who were too up themselves to be bothered. Richard Watts Condemned Sector

The Toy Love album, especially “Pull Down the Shades”, has done wonders for our sex lives. The Peroxides Dunedin

i would 62 BEATLES be LIVE extremely grateful PROMO if you MINT CONDITION could print my VERY RARE letter cos OFFERS? i will get WRITE my TO ad printed S. McINTYRE 10 for ROSELLA ST. nothing CHRISTCHURCH, thank you. S. Mclntyre Christchurch

I love Mi-Sex. They are real super and I think their music is really fabulous. If I win the voucher send it to Steve Gilpin my hero. They are may favourite punk group. Punk Rocker Otara

Thank you, ME from New Zealand. My friends believed me. Inferior Individual Pakuranga

We say that John Foxx and Gary Numan are BOTH jerks! Iggy, Ziggy, Eno, Lou Reed Hamilton

This is just to inform everybody that the Toy Love album is f * *king good and that everybody should have it. Trev Tauranga

If shit like “Funky Town” can be so damn popular, why the f**k can’t the Beach Boys. Afterall, "they’re just trying to keep the summer alive.” Surfer Dan Oamaru