rumours

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

rumours

Mark Phillips

UK & USA Guitarist Al Archer has left the new Dexys leaving only vocalist Kevin Rowland and the trombone player from the original band. Funky but sheep! The five ex Dexys in Bureau have a single out here soon titled 'Only For Sheep' ... Eric Clapton cancelled his USA tour. He has stomach ulcers. Exhaustion has caused Bruce Springsteen to delay his UK tour and Police to cancel a tour of Europe. Blondie are on holiday for six months ... B side of new Bowie single, ‘Up The Hill Backwards’ is an electronic instrumental, 'Crystal Japan’ ... making movies are Madness (Take It Or Leave It) and Cure (Carnage Visors). The Cure flick is opening for them on the UK tour. Their album is tentatively titled Faith (out here May). On stage they dedicate their new single ‘Primary’ to lan Curtis. The remaining Joy Division members are now known as New Order... first Simple Mind’s LP on Virgin will be produced by Steve Hillage ... Yes have fired vocalist Trevor Horn ... the Glimmer Twins are in Barbados sorting completed tracks for a new Stones album ... Enzed release is imminent for Devo 12 inch live EP featuring ‘Freedom Of Choice Theme Song', 'Whip It’, ‘Gates Of Steel’, ‘Girl You Want', ‘Be Stiff and ‘Planet Earth’ ... ditty name of the month goes to the Freshies for ‘l’m In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk’. Second place goes to the Dead Kennedys with 'Too Drunk To ****’. Their new drummer is Darin Speedboy ... next Eno is funky ... Attraction Steve Naive will record a solo LP. What happened to their Mad About The Wrong Boy? ... Malcolm McLaren’s Bow Wow Wow have left EMI ... new UK Associates 45, ‘Tell Me Easter's On Friday’ is on Situation Records ... a Talking Heads live album (recorded on USA tour) is likely ... lan Marsh and Martyn Ware (ex Human League) have formed a production company, British Electric Foundation and have released a cassette, Music For Stowaways. They araalso two-thirds of Heaven 17 (with singer Glen Gregory) and have released a 45 ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang' ... first Spartan single by ÜB4O 'Don’t Slow Down' has been delayed due to legal action by Graduate Records ... who’s producing who? Rachel Sweet (Pete Solley), Bram Tchaikovsky (Nick Garvey), Michael Jackson (Quincey Jones) and Iggy Pop (Monkeys man Tommy Boyce) ... the Knack play Starwood on April Fool's Day ... forthcoming albums include Spizzles Spikey Dream Flowers, Live Wire Changes Made, Who Face Dances, Diana Ross To Love Again, Santana Zebop, Judie Tzuke / Am A Pheonix, David Johansen Colours, Hunter Ronson Band Theatre Of The Absurd, Joe Walsh What’s A Guy Like Me Doing In A Dump Like This, Status Quo Never Too Late, Robert Fripp League Of Gentlemen, Gang Of Four Solid Gold, Rico That Man Is Forward, Selecter Celebrate The Bullet, Leon Redbone From Branch To Branch, Rolling Stones Sucking In The Seventies (1974-8 compilation), Badfinger Say No More. The Corporation

Late News The new Coup D’Etat line-up will debut at Jaggers, Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 April. After several weeks out of Auckland they play the Gluepot early May. Expect several new songs ... rehearsal studio, Studio 132 now has 4 track facilities for bands to record their progress and building is completed. The Steroid organised Wellington Zone concert was a sell-out. The 2ZM promoted concert featured Steroids, Mockers, • Beat Rhythm Fashion and Digits ... first release for Ocean Records is the compilation tape Whirl Pool with songs by Geoff Clarkson, Jo Hodzelmans and others ... work is underway on Progressive Music's new Anzac Avenue set-up. If you can help, see page 23 ad ... if you sent a tape to Sweetwaters for the new band spot, the organisers would like to return them. Send your address to Sweetwaters, PO Box 47-237; Ponsonby, Auckland 1 ... Maceys is the new licensed late venue in. Hamilton. Top Scientists play final gigs with Rick Bryant at Maceys Easter weekend. Buzzcocks have split. Pete Shelley will pursue a.solo career. John Maher drums for Invisible Girls ... Robert Plant gigged recently fronting seven-piece band the Honeysuckers ... new Pil Flowers Of Romance is out. Old Cream drummer Ginger Baker has been hired for Pit's UK Tour bass player, on Adam & the Ants’ UK and USA tours is Gary Tibbs of Roxy Music ... lan Dury may leave Stiff. Mickey Jupp is back ... Undertones have signed to EMI... Yoko Ono is recording an album, Season Of Glass in New York, with the Double Fantasy musicians and Phil Spector producing. The first Digits album Dog Wrestled . To Ground By Underarm Combat : Flea is completed and due out in May. It’s on Sausage Records. DWTGBUCF is the first in a series of three albums. Side One is produced and mixed by Tony Parkinson . (Smashed Executive,. 979) and Side Two by Robbie Duncan. Working Titles for records two and three, are Grendle The . Savage ~ Is . Off ■ His Gumboots and Flying Saucers Steal My T.V: ... seen in Christchurch,

Dick Driver and some Australians ... Pop Mechanix missed Enz's dates in Brisbane and Cairns to record a video (with same producer as 'Counting The Beat’ clip) and play more Sydney gigs.Thevideo is largely black & white. Borich Returns Since the demise of the legendary La De Das, guitarist Kevin Borich has successfully fronted his own band, the Kevin Borich Express. With him on his first ever NZ pub tour are bassist Michael Deep and ex Dragon drummer Kerry Jacobsen. The tour coincides with the release of the album Angel's Hand. After playing nearly every night in recent years, he is now spending more time on studio work and songwriting. Jacobsen joined after Borich played on recent Marc Hunter sessions. Working with other artists, is something he does quite often. Renee Geyer and Dutch Tilders are two of the most memorable. "They were both similar in that both were blues albums. In the case of Renee, it was a contractural obligation that she wanted to do quickly. As it turned out, I think it is probably

one of her best albums. "The one with Dutch Tilders, sparked out of having a jam with him. We did it direct-to-disc, so we had to play straight through. We did one side one night and the other the next. It was like a live performance in that there were no overdubs. I really enjoyed it but I wouldn't like to try it again for a while." The tour takes Borich to the major North Island pubs: "I'm looking forward to going places I haven't seen since the days of the La De Das.”