Rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 107, 1 June 1986, Page 22

Rumours

Wellington - A concert for the Nicaragua Must Survive campaign will take place on July 6 in the Opera House. Acts include the Topp Twins, Tombolas, Tim Woon, Ourselves Alone, and the satirists Reg & Shell. All proceeds will go towards raising funds for educational materials and medical supplies. There are plans for a similar concert in Auckland in August. For further info contact Gordon Campbell at 721-777. The Skeptics will play soon in the city and have new material in the works ... over the top but rockin’ are the Crawbilly Creeps who are mixing live material at present, with some film footage inthe can ...?Fog had bad luck at a recent Wellington gig when

their guitarist collapsed and had to be hospitalised just as they were to take the stage ... the Manson Family have finally given the capital a taste of their psychotic brand of rock.

- Members of Compos Mentis are planning a punk festival for this summer ... Confessor have their new EP out, called First Sin

... Jayrem have a feast of vinyl ready soon: a Luke Hurley LP, a Black Uhuru LP Brutal, and 12" The Great Train Robbery, a Low Profile 12" The Cutting Edge, and a Rodger Fox Big Band record. Promised are Linton Kwesi Johnson live, Sex Pistols live, and a reggae sampler. In the studio are: the Remarkables, Tombolas, Aoteoroa, produced by Dennis Mason, and Dread, Beat and Blood, produced by Nigel Stone, who will soon begin work on the next Netherworlds LP ... Roman Antix have been busy on the Rocky Hor-

ror Show and have a new single outsoon ... Strikemaster are putting the finished touches on the album Misguided Desires ...Skuldren are a new band from the Hutt Valley. The Brothers Gorgonzola have called it quits; a song of their’s will be on the forthcoming Hard Edge compilation ... Frontier Studios have reopened after renovations with a new: 16-track. Recording there are Grace Under Pressure, ESP (produced by Dave McArtney), the Spines and Tin Syndrome ... Caroline Easther has left Let’s Planet. New venue in town is the latenight cafe Electric Baliroom (formerly the “Flying Ballroom”) in Manner’s Mall, which will run until late September, musicians interested contact Les Hill or Angela Main on (04)842-399 ... after four years booking bands into the Cricketers, David Hyams is moving to work for the Arts Council.

Now booking the Steinie Bar is Rob Morrison.

Bill Direen and the Blue Ladder theatre group will present plays this month at the Aro Street hall starting on June 21 ... the third issue of Anti System is out. Write to: Simon, Anarchy Organisation, Box 141586, Kilbirnie, Wellington ... and finally, contrary to RWP info, the Gordons are not dead — so watch out! 5

Gerald Dwyer/Andre Upston