Late News

Rip It Up, Issue 75, 1 October 1983, Page 12

Late News

Yes, there will be a Sweetwaters next year, but that's all anybody's prepared to say at the moment ... new Car Crash Set single will be Those Days'/'lmagination' ...

Void's Capital Chaos live punk compilation will be out in November. It features 13 bands who came from as far away as Dunedin and Auckland to play Wellington's Underground Emerges and Golden Showers bashes ... still in Wellington and Flesh D-Vice will have their debut EP 12" of Hard Flesh out on Halloween and intend to play various venues in the city on Oct 15,22 and 29. The 22nd is a six band punk extravaganza at the Rock Theatre ... Aftershock have recorded an EP and are looking for a 1abe1.... all the former Neoteric Tribesmen are back together but remaining, mysteriously silent about their plans.

Auckland Walk will eschew the usual pub circuit for their- first national tour. The band will be aiming at the young market it picked up with its Shazam Battle of the Bands win and playing 25 small concert halls from late this month. Their debut single 'I Wasn't Thinking' is out on Oct 10 and an album follows mid-Nov ... new Wellington mod outfit is the Vectors. They are: Kevin Whooley (vocals), John Leigh (guitar, vocals), Alex Polaschek (guitar), Lou Sule (drums) and John Sule (bass). '

Lead singer Annabella Lwin has been given the boot from Bow Wow Wow. The band's three male members, Dave Barbarossa, Matthew Ashman and Lee Gorman apparently felt it was time to move on creatively and asked Annabella to leave. They are currently rehearsing new material but no decision has been made on whether to engage a new singer. Annabella will pursue a solo career. Bye bye boys ...

Jamaican /singer Prince Far I has become the second celebrity to fall victim to his country's vicious political scene. He was shot dead at his house on September 15. His wife was also wounded. No motive has yet'been established for the murder ... and the funeral for poet Michael Smith, stoned to death last month, has been held, amidst calls for an. investigation "into his killing. Only one of the group of men involved has been arrested so far ... Bay City Rollers comeback gig at Britain's futurama bombed out in a big way when lead 'singer Les McKeown was arrested for throwing cans at the audience after only a few songs. Tut tut ... Orange Juice are now minus drummer Zeke ... and wee Nick Heyward paid the price for slagging a Dead or Alive record in Melody Maker when the band attacked him with fire extinguishers in his recording studio. Records: The Fall Perverted By Language (first single The Kicker Conspiracy'). After what we'll generously describe as a "false start" this year, the South Island's TV Eye Records seem set to leap the gaping chasm between cassette and vinyl. First project is an album Who's That by Say Yes to Apes, which will be distributed by Hying Nun. Tracks include 'Electric Toothbrush Simulator', 'Balloon Party Maelstrom' and Bloodsong'.