KING SHAG COLUMN
V Well ; this ;month» has been a I bore; and iif ; Arry l is V bore, then there is not much to write about. But there was the grand opening of the brand new Mainstreet. Of course it is really the same old Mainstreet, but the dance floor is smaller and the bar is bigger - a very good sacrifice of space - and the tap beer has-been changed from watered-down piss to ’orrible watered-down Lion’s piss, but ah, heaven - Steiny Blues. > Stranger and the Banshees ■ are just finished and now ■ there’s another band on who have this fetish about Rip It Up writers. And yes, what would Mainstreet be without the Screaming Meemees. Still plugging Keans' clothing and their debut album, If This Is
Paradise , I’ll Take The ’Aircut, . these guys are pure evidence to the Ratbag theory that old musos never die, they juStjump on the next bandwagon- But they did put on quite a good x show for the Wednesday crowd - 50 people. Next month Arry goes to Wellington, Carmen comes to Auckland and ; Chris Knox stays where he is. ARRY
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Rip It Up, Issue 63, 1 October 1982, Page 30
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185KING SHAG COLUMN Rip It Up, Issue 63, 1 October 1982, Page 30
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