tours

Rip It Up, Issue 45, 1 April 1981, Page 23

tours

Split Enz return home in April to-promote Waiata, their follow-up to True Colours. Blams support Enz except in Napier, Tauranga, Hamilton and Auckland when Penknife Glides open the show. Dates are April 19 Christchurch, April 20 Dunedin, 23 Wellington (St James), 25 Manawatu Sports Stadium, 26 Napier, 27 Tauranga Sound Shell, 28 Hamilton and Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland, April 29. Outdoors there is Stevie Wonder and band on April 11 Auckland and April 13 Wellington. With Wonder are 13 musicians or vocalists, three pianos plus clavinets and synthesisers. Jermaine Jackson on his recent NZ visit claimed that it's the hottest band Motown have ever assembled. Hammond Gamble supports Stevie Wonder in Wellington. Let’s hope April is Hotter Than July. Dire Straits play Western Springs on April 15 after a very successful tour of Australia. They sold out six shows in Sydney. New boys Allan Clarke and Hal Lindes will be there. Late April Aussies Midnight Oil tour for two weeks. Bird Noises EP is released to coincide with the tour. April 29 they kick off at Otago Uni. May 5 and 6 Madness hit the North Island. Auckland first, then Wellington. Check out this issue’s Madness Tour Supplement. Venues are respectively Logan Campbell Centre and St James Theatre. The Cure Tour is scheduled for early August. Their single ’Primary’ and a album Faith will be released by .May. In May there is a tour from Muchmore Associates, namely Ralph recording artist Snakefinger