rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 167, 1 June 1991, Page 34

rumours

AUCKLAND Cuban War Poets are off on a US College circuit tour, both coasts, the result of their signing to Christchurch’s JIA who have affiliations with Off Beat Records in America. JIA have pressed 20,000 CD copies of their Beehive cassette and have already sold some 10,000 copies to America. Rocks In The Attic has finally bitten the big one, as Honeylove found out when they turned up to sound check and found security guards in residence. This Nation’s Dreaming have got their Fort Street Madhouse practise rooms up and running with PA, mikes etc. Straitjacket Fits and JPSE rehearse there and the place is professionally run. Phone 303-4486 to book a time. This Nation's Dreaming are now a three piece and will be releasing a tape or vinyl soon. .. Freak The Sheep LP now due in August and there'll be another one after that so stay tuned ... Matthew Heine has gone to Christchurch to produce noisemeisters Into The Void . .. Queen Meanie Puss are putting out a 10" with Flying Nun and a 7” with Philadelphian label Siltbreeze . . . Second Child should be releasing their record Magnetin August through IMA HITT ... atlast, a Hallelujah Picassos cassette can be found in a record shop near you nationwide. Titled Peanut Butter Now if's three songs, including a thrash monster called ‘Black Spade Picasso Core'. Also available by mail from Red Tapes, Box 1869, Auckland, send $5.30 including p&p. Godpeace are looking for a vocalist, preferably with keyboard and / or guitar ability. They love “Herbie, Theolonius and caffeine”. Phone 303-4486 and ask for Richard.

Sperm Bank 5 T-shirts available now

in three designs: a duck, the SBS logo or a fluorescent live pic of Simon singing. Send $25 to Box 489 Auckland 1. And $lO if you wanna copy of their seminal five track cassette recording featuring the underground classic ‘Put Another Log On The Fire". Assisted by Music New Zealand, singer songwriter Derek Lind williraveltothe UK andthe USAand UK to performat Chicago’s Cornerstone Music Festival (July) and UK's Greenbelt Festival (August). Artists appearinginclude Peter Case and Bruce Cockburn. New club Obsessionhastakenover Fort Street's Megadrome space (downstairs from Surge). Deejaysare Andy VannandClive Frithe (ex Zanzibar) andthey areplaying swingbeat, souland hip-hop butnohouse. Gestalt have an upcoming release . . . and look out for yet another “all-star” band called The Chocolate Slide. DONNA YUZWALK CHRISTCURCH Black Spring have split, with Andrew, Greg and Matthew teaming up with ex-Pit River Indian Adrian Ruka to become 260 Cinema whilst Nigel Brown has joined Scuzzbuckets. David Hunt and Steve Birss have teamed up to form the guitar orientated - Elevation who hope to debut 500 n.... Simon McLaren, who brought us Blue Flesh Syndrome ond Loves Ugly Children now brings us Sex-Trash Automobile which apparently involves more McLaren originals with a ranting poet who strips and whips .. . other new bands around include Black Cat, the Babels, Beetroot and Rosemary’s Garden. Ex-Android and 3 Guesses guitarist Shane O’Neill is now based in Nelson where he has formed Walter Mitty (touring soon) and opened the Orinoco Studio . . .whilst in the deep south

Pretty Wicked Head and The Desperate Men have also opened their own studio to complement their Oreti Record label . .. with all but drummer Jessie White remaining from the original line-up, Fahrenheit have now become Big Sky ...the Topdressers have struck a problem in their search for a record deal - they need a new vocalist, so if you think that's you see Al at Echo. Eldred Stebbing has expressed interest in working with the band. In what must be a first (for a long time) for a local band, the Renderers have the main window display at Echo Records ... prepare for a thrash/death metal special at the Subway on 22 June when Harbinger and Corpse share the bill . .. blues rockers Smokin’ Jacket lost their PA and all their gear when Ziggy's Bar went up. ~ Sunburn No.B is due out shortly but in the meantime Grant McDonagh is working on a Passage Tapes compilation titled Sharp Tongue and has a new band with ex-members of Summer Onions and 2 White Eyes. Hammerack looks like being one of the first bands to try out Geronimo Studios . .. local record stores report Holy Toledoes vinyl is selling very well. J. GREENFIELD DUNEDIN ; While in Wellington during their recent national tour, the Strange Loves recorded ‘She Knows What's Happening’ and ‘Crawl’. These will be released as a single at the end of July. This is instead of the album track ‘Where Has She Gone'. The Strange Loves will be playing at the next Rad Ones party. Unknown Auckland bands the Malchicks and the Nixons may also be played. . . the track listing for the Radio One compilation is almost finalised. Over 40 demos were sent in. The album will be coming out on Pagan and will feature 12 previously unreleased artists .. . reverting to their original line-up and name Funhouse have made a return to the local scene . ... last month also saw the return for only two nights of the shambolic sound of the Groovy Brothers. People’s Promotions are organising a Battle of the Bands. Its been a number of years since the city has had one of these . .. new about town is Lavender Touch featuring the song writing talents of Russel Scoones (he of Smith v Smith). The Burgundy Bar which lasthad a band two years ago has been demolished ... The Doors movie opened in Dunedin with two sold out 11pm shows. The first saw the expectant St James crowd indulging in Mexican waves, that's before they were bored by the film.

CRAIG ROBERTSON