RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 51, 1 October 1981, Page 3

RUMOURS

Auckland Vinyl in stores includes' Herco Pilot's double EP, Fury's Rare Record EP, Newmatics' Broadcast o.r. and Techtones' T.T.23 ... Danse Macabre have finished their Reaction 12 inch EP. Sounds rather neat and hits stores November. Tracks are 'Torch' (new version), 'Conditioner', 'Between The Lines', “£€o’ and an instrumental with no name ... also EPing are Clean with •five Hood/Knox 4 track goodies out soon on Flying Nun. Hip Singles are no more, Dick Driver has joined Blam Blam Blam the band who as Whizzkids lost Andrew Snoid when he replaced Dick in Pop Mechanix ... Rem recording artists Alms For Children have split. Paul and Ben may form a new band. Drummer Daron will return south and singer Gary is open to offers. New are Wild Matadors with Kerry Buchanan, Alastair Rabbit, Peter Mesmer and mystery singer ... big buzz at Mainstreet Newmatics gig were Prime Movers

with Nick Crowther . (guitar/ vocals), Chris Mathews (drums) and Kevin Howlett (bass) ... also new and 3-piece are Dabs with ex Ainsworth Rowan (guitar), Geoff (bass) and Steve (drums) ... Bongos (Gill, John and Phil) debut at '5 Band Special', Mainstreet Oct 21. New R&B/blues venue is DB Waitemata, Albert St. Featured in October are Sonny Day Band, A 1 Hunter's Torpedoes, Shakin' Jimmys and Deros. Bookings phone lan,. 762-075. Ex Waves man Graeme Gash has recorded an album at Harlequin. It's on Siren in Australia and through Festival in NZ. -There is a meeting for rock'n'roll musicians, spm Nov 3, Symphonia Hall (details on page 4 ad) to discuss ways to improve situation for bands. Don't miss it! New Neighbours drummer is Dave Hinton. They are recording for Stebbings, 'Lovers Never Crawl' and 'All My Dreams' ... Andy's hand is better and New

Entrants return with new material, Rumba Oct 20-21 ... next Mirrors single is The Park' ... near legend, Smelly Feet has done a film clip of his classic 'Vegetable Market' ... bassist Phil Toms is staying with Herbs. uWi The first Harlequin Studios Production School commences Nov 28. Four classes run simultaneously and in the final workshops; top producer Roy Thomas Baker and his engineer lan Taylor will participate. Thomas Baker's [credits include Cars, Queen, Foreigner and Alice Cooper. The QEII

Arts Council is assisting and if you want more info phone Mike Chunn (09)|779^353f^||p8 Working out in a Taihape woolshed are Daggy & the Dick Heads ... Knox's TEAC had four kittens, three tortoise shell and one black ... National Gallery purchased two Bryan Staff Pop Shots pics one of Jamrag and one of XS. The Corporation Australia Outdoor festival at Tanelorn, four hours north of Sydney, featured Split Enz, 'a blistering' NZPOP (formerly Pop Mechanix), Mi-Sex, Pink Flamingos and Spys.

NZPOP are halfway through recording their album with Eddie Raynor producing ... Split Enz commence their seventh album late November at Sydney's Paradise Studios. Co-producer is English engineer Hugh Padgham (XTC engineer) ... Mi-Sex are rerecording several tracks for their next, Shanghaied ... major release likely for Fane Flaws single, Way You Get Your Way' with Peter Dasent and NZPOP rhythm section ... new Angels album is near complete. American Ed Thacker (co-producer Flowers' Icehouse USA version) is producing. L.B. Sands

Christchurch Androidss return Labour weekend and do Labour day special with Newtones and Playthings at the Gladstone. Their single 'Auckland Tonight'/'Getting Jumpy' will be out by l '^^rtjP|ipCH Balloon d'essai are releasing a comic, .'Balloon d'comic'. It will be available in record shops. A single will follow ... Sheer Fanatix got an excellent response supporting Stray Cats. They are recording tracks for Dropa Kulcha ■ ... Pedestrians are recording 'Sunday Paper'/Tooking Out My Window'/ 'Stay', but drummer Peter Wood is planning to leave ... Playthings have declined an album offer from Music World ... Art Decade will record 10 tracks for their Tandem financed album. December release likely. The Pin Group will do a Gladstone early week with Mainly Spaniards and Hey Clint, early October ... 12 Percent ’ won't regularly play Star & Garter after mid October ... Mockers and Instigators play Christchurch soon ... Thumbs of. Brass return from south late OctoberSßHH|| Labour day special at HillsLabour day special at Hillsborough will feature five bands from Ipm. A free night Tuesdays is planned to showcase new bands. 3ZM Heatrave concert at Jellie will feature the unlikely mix of Kevin Borich, Zero Bars and Blam Blam Blam ... Dick Driver will be with Blams for Swingers dates ... look for summer concerts at the Arts Centre. Special Cases now reside at Valley Inn ... Lance Parkyn has that Yamaha baby grand ... Holden Sound will have light hire facilities soon. JW

WellingtbnJjg^yyflPql The venue problem continues to be a major headache. Studio 7 closed after only four weeks despite solid crowds for local bands ... Pub gigs may be looking up" with the Royal Tiger and Cricketers Arms both testing the water ... Real action seems to be in.the smaller, do-it-yourself gigs. Naked Spots recently played at Rawa

House, and Thistle Hall, recommissioned for Rock Against Racism, hosted the Clean and Spines briefly until the law intervened. Police were called to eject a small group of trouble makers, but instead arrived in massive force, complete with riot batons and closed the show ... the Hard Hat Ball at the University featured Private Eyes, Riot 111, Chaos, Flamewave and Mangaweka Viaduct ... the Viaduct have a 45 out, as do Network ... Spines' EP out soon will be the end of recent flood of Wellington recording ... Steroids (on N.l. tour) and Mockers recently headlined Wanganui's River City Rock Show. Brown Trout Festival returns Jan 23-25 (Wellington Anniversary Weekend), Waitahora Valley near Dannevirke. Bands interested write to Brown Trout, 58 Trafalgar St, Dannevirke. Les Crew UK & USA No news of a new Talking Heads album, but Sire will soon release the Jerry Harrison debut, The Red And Black. Meanwhile Tom Tom Club a temporary

aggregation Talking Heads' Frantz and Weymouth, Andrew Belew (now in new King Crimson) and Tyrone Downie, have released an album, Tom Tom Club ... also in New York, Mink DeVille album Coup De Grace is complete. Willy wrote all but two tunes ('You Better Move On' and an Eddie Hinton song) and produced with old producer, Jack Nitzche ... also in New York, Blondie are recording Chris Stein, Debbie Harry and Jimmi Destri ... lan Hunter cohort and London Calling producer, Guy Stevens died recently (heart attack)... first lan Dury Polydor album is Lord Upsminster. Band is Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Chas Jankel and Tyrone Downie. Stiff will counter with compilation Stiff's Greatest Durys ... Rita Marley and Island Records' Chris Blackwell are appalled by the release of Chances Are, the first of four albums of material recorded by Bob Marley between 1968 and 1972 and owned by once Marley manager, Danny Sims. The early recordings were overdubbed in

New York after Marley's death ... UK indie Do It are now distributed by Virgin. Expect Adam Ant's Dirk Wears White Sox and recordings by Mothmen and Anthony Moore soon ... Human Condition are Jah Wobble, ’Jim Walker and guitarist Animal. First pose is on tape only}•'... while we get Elizabeth, UK get 13 Clash gigs in October ... Dave Fielding of Manchester pop group (yeah, they got one) the Chameleons told NME “we went to see the Fall once and they had two local bands supporting them. We saw the Fall three times that night." While on the subject of the Queen and all, the final bastion of pommie imperialism, NME, described Blam Blam Blam as "three aging

.musicians" ....David Fenton, the singer, writer and guitarist for Vapors has left ... ex Selecter Pauline Black is in studio with Bob Sargeant producing ... as package, replaces the , term product in the record biz, Rip Rig and Panic excel with a debut album in the form of two 12 inch 455, with sides not known by mere numbers but titled red, yellow, blue and green ... the Gary Numan band now records as Dramatis. Meanwhile Gary is flying around the world in six weeks in a single engine Cessna 210 Centurion. His new album is Dance and RIU thought he was into cars ... Teardrop Explodes are now three. Gone are the bassist and the keyboards man ... Bob Geldof will play Pink in Pink Floyd movie The. Wall ...

Icehouse (nee Flowers) cancelled part of North American tour after their gear truck hit a horse trailer in Canada. While in New York, Russell Mulcahy ('Vienna', 'Bette Davis Eyes', etc) made videos for 'We Can Get Together' and 'lcehouse' ...

Jimmy Page will write soundtrack for Charlie Bronson flick Death Wish II ... new Bowwowwow album is See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! ... new UK Jam 45 is 'Absolute Beginners'/'Tales From The Riverbank' ... Associates have two new UK singles (five so far in '81), 'Message Oblique Speech' and 'White Car In Germany' ... future vinyl includes: Heaven 17 Penthouse & Pavement includes amazing 'We

Don't Want No Fascist Groove Thang'), Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love (includes cover of A 1 Green's 'L.O.V.E.'), U2 October, Passage Degenerates, Blues Band Itchy Feet, Knack Round Trip, Motels Apocalypso, Prince Controversy, Comsat Angels Sleep No More, T. Rex In Concert, A 1 Green Tokyo Live, The Sound From The Lion's Mouth, Genesis Abacab, Bee Gees Living Eyes, Saxon Denim & Leather, Mink De Ville Coup De Grace, John Foxx The Garden, Marianne Faithfull Dangerous Acquaintances, Billy Joel Songs In The Attic, Bauhaus Mask, Madness 7 (13 tracks all produced by Clanger Winstanley), Orchestral Manoeuvres Architecture & Morality and Nils Lofgren Night Fades Away.