RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 50, 1 September 1981, Page 4

RUMOURS

George Kay

Auckland Newmatics' double 45 with gatefold, sleeve is due soon. Tracks include superb 'Riot Squad' ... Penknife Glides 12" EP Nervous (in fab cover) is in stores now. .They've recorded the rhythm tracks for their next EP ... Blind Date have completed,., a new single. Paul Crowther produced, tracks are 'ln My Dreams' and 'Echoes' ...

Androidss' Ripper 45 is Getting Jumpy'/'Auckland Tonight'. The Techtones do-it-yourself album is complete and it will appear on the Ripper label. Of the 13 tracks, five are live (Gladstone or Albion). The rest were recorded on Chris Knox's Teac four track with Doug Hood and Steve Roach producing ... the ten track Willie Dayson Band live album will be out October. 'lvans' features Dance Macabre EP is recorded.

Hip Singles moved their mixer into Studio 132 and recorded nine tracks. A four track EP is possible ... Blue Flames have recorded 'Let Me Bop' and 'Nuclear Rock' ... Rank And File are recording Once A Fascist' and 'ln Love' ... Hit And Run have recorded three songs at Harlequin.

Sweetwaters 1982 will feature ten imported and 35 local acts on the big stage. Negotiations are in progress with several British bands. Expect more watts and a digital delay system on the main stage.

Chris Knox will do a ten minute special for RWP on the Dunedin scene ... New Entrants

are off the road for five weeks as drummer Andy Johns broke his hand ... Herbs are looking for a bass player at 768-747 ... Adam Holt and Terry Towelling have a band but no quality singer. Can you help? ... Nigel Burnham who compiled the fine Hicks From The Sticks album, is looking for bands for an 'overseas independent bands' album. If interested, send tape to High Bragg House, East Farndale, Kirbymoorside, York, England ... new in Tauranga are Ulster ... Freudian Slips are Jacqui, Alison, Elizabeth, Kathleen and Nikki. The Corporation

Australia The Models, featuring exSwinger Buster Stiggs, have finished, recording their new .album in London. They will play 15 dates before returning to Australia ... Renee Geyer has a Top 10 hit in Oz (her first) with 'Say I Love You'. Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons have not split. The new line-up includes. ; ex-Skyhooks/Sports drummer Fred Strauks. They've released a 10 inch, . 9 track record with 'Nosey Parker', 'Sweet' and other goodies not on albums. ‘ Fast Forward cassettezine N 0.6 is out. It features" Go Betweens, Hunters And Collectors and an interview with Robert Oertal of Glasgow's Postcard Records. $3.99 (Aust) from Fast Forward, PO Box 5159 AA GPO, Melbourne.; Me0245 debut album, Screen Memory produced by Peter Dawkins is released ... Kim Hart and band had a truck and gear stolen while in Perth ... Sydney ska outfit, the Allnighters (with David Bebb on drums), have ’ released an EP entitled She Made A Monkey Out Of Me. The Corporation Christchurch Janine Saundercock has left. Playthings and new guitarist/

bassist is Paul Kean ... Solatudes will stay together after losing vocalist Anton' Jenner, with new synthesiser man Rick Tindall and new name.

Volkswagens, Pedestrians and Wrong Way Corrigan Band will play at a free Unemployment Benefit Concert Saturday Sept 12 ... Dunedin band the Verlaines debut in Chch with the Clean early October ... veteran rocker Richie Venus with the Blue Beetles and guests appear at the Gladstone Sept 21 & 22. LM & RS

Cowboys hit Dunedin and Nelson while Narcs head for the North Island and Zero Bars tour the South. Newz will headline 3ZM Jellie Park show early summer.

Shots has closed due to lease problems but will reopen elsewhere ... Lance Parkyn will buy a Yamaha grand and form a band with Gary. Nottingham ... Hillsborough will start free night,. Wednesdays late September, to showcase new bands. Sheer Fanatix continue to play excellent, discreet covers and attract attention ... Ken Ackroyd and others are in Aussie style Head Injuries. JW

Dunedin No Drill is no longer. Chris Davies has joined with exMother Goose Pete Dickson and ex-Strictly Blues Neville Anderson and Russell Scoones, to form New Zealand Landing Party. A single T Can'Hardly Wait' is imminent. Millie Grunt's Last Deal, now just Last Deal have an offer from Melbourne's Sting Records ... ex-Cruze and general soundman, Barry McConnachie has joined the Intruders.

LA/jazz/soul/funk/you name it band, Sugar Iced Tea have been brought out by the Shoreline to fill the resident spot ... Empire Tavern now caters for live bands and has so far hosted the Clean and the Verlaines.