RUMOURS
UK & USA The Selecter,' hit by two defections recently, have now lost lead vocalist Pauline Black. The band are currently in USA and plan to continue without a replacement ... the Cure, who impressed here by their willingness to keep their volume below ear-splitting levels, are currently on the road in Britain with Pink Floyd's PA ... also on the road, but probably using cardboard megaphones, are new Joe Jackson band, Jumpin' Jive. They will be play- „ ing exclusively 1940's swing music, with a large horn section. ' Linda Ronstadt is also dabbling in the 40's, preparing for an album of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald tunes looks like she's not a punk any more ... her old mate Elvis Costello has been in her neck o' the -» woods recently, recording more, tracks with country star George Jones ... da Ramones are also about to record produced by lOcc's Graham Gouldman.
lan Dury has split, apparently less than amicably, from Stiff Records, and is currently occupied recording the dreaded solo album ... ? & The
Mysterions are back together
... Bow Wow Wow are now signed to RCA and have a new single, 'Chihuahua' ready ' to roll. Just to prove that New Zealand really is making it on the world recording scene, we have news that the new Beat album features a track called, 'A Dream Home In New Zealand' ... what's more, Tangerine Dream soundtrack for made-in-NZ horror flick, Dead Kids is completed. Howard Devoto has left Magazine. He announced his decision, which effectively kills the band, on the eve of the release of their fourth album. He will not form another group, but no other plans have been .announced ... the Clash have had to double the length of their sell-out concert season in New York after the Fire Dept halved the legal crowd capacity of, their venue ... English 'March for Jobs' finished on May 30 with a massive London concert featuring Pete Townshend, Aswad, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jim Capaldi, the Members and Tom Robinson recently unemployed, though not on the march, is Stuart Adamson, late of the Skids.
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Rip It Up, Issue 47, 1 June 1981, Page 10
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