LETTERS

Rip It Up, Issue 63, 1 October 1982, Page 26

LETTERS

Lorna Dunningham Avondale

Post to RIU Letters', PO Box 5689, Auckland 1. Best letter each month will now receive an album of your choice. There aren't many places left in Auckland to see bands but there are plenty of places to record a record with great dreams of fame and fortune as you do it. To sell the record you must get known. Playing gigs is a good way. Buy a radio station is another. We've just done a record. We're happy with it. We had a choice of about 15 bloody studios to do it in, yet we've only got a choice of three venues to play in. Two pubs (Reverb and Windsor) and Mainstreet ($3 a jug to see us?). Dances are a nice idea but get people with low IQs who think it's clever to be heavy. So if you're thinking of opening a new studio to help us struggling musicians, please don't! Spend your money and time opening a safe, well run club. We've got too fucking many recording studios. Gary Rodent Auckland What blatant hypocrisy JC & BH spout in their epistle in the Sept RIU. Whilst running RIU into the ground they have no qualms about advertising their book in it. It's all very easy to hide behind your initials and sling insults at all and sundry, some of whom are the most hard-working and poorly paid people in this country. Those who have attained any financial security have only done so after years of hard slog and dedication. Certainly the music situation in this country has much to be desired, but knocking all those involved won't achieve much in

the way of change. So JC & BH, if you're so greatly endowed with talent, as your letter implies, get off your butts and do something instead of moaning and slinging off at those who are. Robyn Harris-Iles Colville Dear JC & BH it's a rather boring Sunday evening and I've just read your rather boring letter in Sept RIU. The people you call has-beens and tired, old swindlers and the magazine itself have spent the majority of the last five years making it possible for jerks like you to have venues, local records and a magazine to write one sided put-down letters to. A Music Loving Heroin Addict Auckland One big yay! for JC & BH. They are so right. I'm glad someone has finally told the truth to the establishment. Radio B you can wipe your smug grin off your face. Congratulations JC & BH. DWW In the Sept RIU I was surprised to see in your brief review of Hysterical Rochords that Crossfire is a "now disbanded Sydneyside sextet." Surprised, because I heard Crossfire playing their usual Saturday afternoon gig at a Double Bay pub last week. They were playing as a quintet (no sax), their usual percussionist' replaced by Sunil de Silva. The Australian magazine Jazz (August) gives the current lineup as Mick Kenny (keyboards), Greg Lyon (bass), Jim Kelly (guitar), Mark Reilly (drums), lan Bloxsom (percussion) and Tony : Buchanan (sax). Phil Scorgie who played bass with Crossfire for two years is ' now touring South-east Asia with the Errol Buddie Quartet a Dept of Foreign Affairs sponsored tour.