Hello (Again)!

Rip It Up, Issue 93, 1 April 1985, Page 2

Hello (Again)!

There are those who would say it had to happen ... Hello Sailor have gotten back together. The reformation stems from what was to be a one-off gettogether to farewell the old Gluepot in February. The gig proved so enjoyable that, according to guitarist Harry Lyon, doing it again was virtually inevitable. "Nobody needed persuading it was like telepathy," he says. So the final Hello Sailor lineup Lyon, Graeme Brazier, Dave

McArtney, Lisle Kinney and Ricky Ball is back together for a two week tour of the North Island, kicking off at Auckland’s Windsor Park on April 29 (see Coruba Calendar for further dates).

The five have achieved something like a reformation at various times in the five years since Sailor dissolved, most notably with one Legionnaires lineup, and Lyon agrees there’s a special chemistry between the members: “Like five fingers on a fist.”

It’s appropriate that Sailor are doing a pub tour, seeing as they

virtually invented the local pub circuit with the Rum and Coke tour in 1977. "But this band is not getting back together to play the pub circuit," Lyon emphasises. “We’ll see what happens after this tour. We’re not doing it for financial reasons when we play it’ll be because we want to, not because we need the money." They're hoping to have as many as half a dozen new songs together for the tour and will probably record a single afterwards (at Harlequin, natch, seeing as Lyon’s the studio manager) and, if that goes well, possibly an album. But that's all speculation at the moment. The thing that the guitarist really wants to emphasise is this: "We’re doing a lot of practising for this. We’re making an effort to make it really good.”