TOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 39, 1 October 1980, Page 3

TOURS

Latest tour announcement is the Motels concerts in Wellington and Auckland. The LA band plays Wellington Town Hall on Tuesday November 4 and Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre on November 5.

First outdoor gig this summer is the Labour Weekend Festival at Cedar Park, Hinuera. Top NZ bands appearing there are Citizen Band, Crocodiles, Flight X-7, Tigers, Lip Service, Push, Midge Marsden Band and Creole. Music starts at noon on Sunday October 26. Organisers suggest that Festival goers may wish to camp overnight. Cedar Park is the site of two previous Festivals in recent years; the first in late 1977. Check out the map on page two if you are not sure where Hinuera is. Surprise tour for November is a return visit for Mi-Sex. The band plays concerts in nine centres between November 6 and November 15. The tour is entitled ‘The 1981 Tour' and a three track EP of new material, will be released by CBS to coincide with the tour. Mi-Sex are likely to preview new material that will appear on their third album.

Dates are November 6 Dunedin Town Hall, Nov 7 Christchurch Town Hall, Nov 9 Wellington Town Hall, Nov 10 Wanganui Opera House, Nov 12 Hastings Municipal Theatre, Nov 13 Gisborne YMCA Stadium, Nov 14 Tauranga QEII Stadium and Nov 15 Auckland's Logan Campbell Centre. Two big acts at the Logan Campbell Centre in October, are Hall & Oatas and Thin Lizzy.

Darryl Hall and John Oates will be in

Auckland for one show at the Logan Campbell Centre on Monday, October 20. After a long career, beginning from early days as an acoustic duo, in which they have come tantalisingly close to cracking it, the pair and their backing band look to be doing as well as their record company would like you to believe. With an album and a single in the US charts, and a highly-successful tour of clubs and small halls in the States and Europe, Hall and Oates can be counted as yet another act we are getting on the up-swing rather than on the way to the dump. With them will be expatriots, Citizen Band. Thin Lizzy finally hits town on November 25. The band nearly made it to NZ in 1978, but not enough punters purchased tickets for the planned Western Spring Show. About then Lizzy were at the top of the UK charts with their amazing double live set, Live And Dangerous. The Lizzy line-up is slightly different, but it’s still the same old Gorham, Lynott and Downey team. The new guitarist is Snowy White, who played on two major Pink Floyd tours before joining Thin Lizzy. If you remember Hello Sailor doing Lizzy's “The Boys Are Back In Town", you’ll be pleased to know Dave McArtney's Pink Flamingos are support act for Thin Lizzy. Kiss mania has already hit the Auckland and Wellington box offices. The shows are Nov 30 in Wellington and December 3 in Auckland. Enzeders returning from Australia, Citizen Band, will hit almost all centres in a five week tour. Arriving on Monday 13, they record a single that same night appropriately titled “Home Tonite”, for release by CBS Records. Back in the line-up is Greg Clark on guitar. The band is in Auckland Oct 15-20, Whakatane Oct 21, Gisborne Oct 22 & 23, Hastings 24 & 25, Palmerston North 27, New Plymouth 28 & 29, Hamilton 30, Auckland Oct 31-Nov 1, Dunedin Nov 4 &5, Timaru Nov 6, Christchurch 7 & 8, Nelson Nov 10, Motueka Nov 11, Wellington Nov 12, Wanganui Nov 13, Rotorua Nov 14, Hamilton Nov 15 and Auckland Nov 16.