Letters

Rip It Up, Issue 80, 1 March 1984, Page 6

Letters

Post to 'RIU' Letters, PO Box ■ 5689'; Auckland. 1. . _ . ■ A Bit of Flak Dearest Rip It Up: A special prize to you for your contribution to the New Zealand music industry! Yes, a marvellous achievement. You really, do encourage local musicians to take part in the "scene." Tell me something, is it the genetic structure of your writers causing them this most unfortunate problem, whereby they cannot get past a female musician's physical appearance to comment on their musical presence!? "Tina Weymouth - gorgeous pixie." "Chrissie still looks great." (Page six, RIU Feb) The most insulting experience I have ever had was after a performance, when a "progressive, open-minded NZer came up to me and said: "Your band was great, some really great innovative bass - lines, really excellent drumming and you LOOKED marvellous." You treat famous overseas bands in the same. vein. Does every female musician have to have major surgery so that you guys can start listening? WAKE UP! It's 1984! ■ A Concerned and Irritated Human-Musician Auckland' Lucking Out This is just to inform you that there is one schoolgirl in NZ who* thinks Jordan Luck is BLAAAH. Me. Akerfan Christchurch

From the Street As the compiler of Street Music

I find Kerry Brown's review (Jan RIU) silly in the extreme. To say CBS and I misjudged the audience is absurd. Street: Music was released on tape only with no TV advertising and yet at the time of writing it is . the number, three selling compilation on the charts. I suggest ’ that instead of writing trendy put-downs Kerry could help us with SM 2 and join us in the frustrating task of trying to find NZ license holders for tracks like the ones mentioned in his column. i irapMMg Steve at Gemini Otahuhu ; Fall from Grace : ; ? S.J. Townshend, you do not deserve to be a Fall fan. You were wrong in your Bauhaus "review," just like you were . wrong about Southern Death Cult. If you are going to throw shit, throw it at the right poeple or you might end up wearing it yourself. Please be more accurate in future or I will make a coleslaw out of your cabbage patch doll. All this and no Barry Jenkin bah!

A Short Nick Cave The Capitol If you can t spot the difference between the Fall and Bauhaus you're in serious trouble. RB

Aural Deodorant? Re Mark Bell's letter, Jan RIU. Not only did Mr Bell send his feeble justification to the wrong publication but .he failed to address himself to the main point I made! by Mr Stark. CULTURAL PARASITES! If Bell hadn't been living in his self induced coma he might have realised how pathetic Coconut Rough's attempts to justify their existence appears to others. So far they have released two singles that are as relevant to the South Pacific as the Young Doctors is to medicine. It's not that people expect you to come up with a good reason for splashing yourself all over the media like some aural deodorant. Shit, what you do in the privacy of your own ego is your affair. So why don't you face up to the cold reality of it all. Coconut Rough are nothing more or less than a POP BAND. My love to JenTwHHHIBHB MYX Wellington