rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 168, 1 July 1991, Page 30

rumours

AUCKLAND Taranaki band Sticky Filth are in Auckland at Last Laugh mixing their new EP which is going to be released on their own label Fullmoon Records later this year. If you want one of their mushroom ball t-shirts, send $23 to Fullmoon Records, c/o Oakura Post Office, Oakura, Taranaki... while we're talking about things hard, fast and heavy, Ultimate and Phobia are undertaking a national tour in August, and Ultimate have a six song cassette out soon. Chic watering hole Cause Celebre is now going to be open from 11 pm to sam and serving great breakfasts from 2 or 3am... Honeylove are releasing a seven song cassette called Kiss Me I'm Cute. You can go to their tape release party at the Parnell Library Hall on July 27 and buy Honeylove t-shirts and stickers as we 11... Semi Lemon Kolas have released a cassette album called The Extended Pleasure of Reality on sale exclusively at Real Groovy Records for $12.95 ... Auckland covers band Headwaiters (residency at Shinos) have released an EP featuring three original songs and are touring nationally to promote it... the Clear are recording at Writhe with Brent McGlaughlin for a new album (dist. Flying Nun) and are apparently changing their name to Lung .. . if you missed Brent Hayward's 102 second movie Mondo Biko at the JPSE night the other night you will have another opportunity to witness it at Bruce Hubbard's forthcoming Feast Of The Flowering Night featuring films and bands at 166 Symonds Street on August 23 ... seems the Gluepot is getting even busier with Wednesday and Thursday nights getting booked up. New band in town are Dead Flowers with Bryan Bell and Damon Newton (ex Bad Boy Lollipop), Rob Dollars (ex Psychodaises) and David James (ex Hot Rats). The band's first Auckland gigs will be late August. Surge nightclub has folded after a brief but incendiary life as the city's only "alternative" nightclub. Where will all the bad dancers go now??? DONNA YUZWALK WELLINGTON Shihad have their four track EP Devolve out now on Pagan and head out on an extensive national tour this month with locals Head Like A Hole in support... the Warratahs release the single 'Backlog of Love' from the album Wild Card this month... David Greer has a three track tape The Kiwi Battlerout now and Paisley Park Battle of the Bands runner up Vas Deferens have Original Hits, a seven track tape in stores now. Winner of the Battle was Brooklyn Express. Winners of last year's contest Southside of Bombay have recorded a single produced by lan Morris. Emulsifier's four track EP on Wildside is selling well locally and both Charlotte Sometimes and Six Volts have new albums due. The Volts will reform for a final tour to support the album Stretch. All members of the band are busy in other projects about town. The Brainchilds featuring Janet Roddick, David Donaldson, Steve Roach with Tim Robinson have been popular at the Antipodes bar at Trekkers with a new performance room planned at that venue ... Craig Talbot has a second tape of

originals completed under the name The Last of the Big Spenders produced by one Jack Kerouac aka Darren Watson. With Smokeshop now history Watson has been working at the Oaks with a new lineup of the Hot Leftovers and has been recording and touring with Dave Murphy. Lushburger, having sold most of their debut release, Will Flush have recorded 11 tracks at Progressive and recently re-recorded the vocals and they are looking for a deal. Amazing Broccoli are in Writhe this month to record seven tracks for a tape release and will tour nationally in August. .. Skapa have a new line up and are touring and hope to complete their album 500 n... new five piece Garbage and Flowers and the Drain is to do the odd gig. Cropt have turned in some impressive gigs recently and the one-off reformation of Bumpin' Ugly was a scorcher with the addition of the Purple Kite horn section aka Andrew Clouston and Vaughan Horn. Guitarist Jeremy Jones has also been working with the Out Swingers, resident at the new Remix Bar above Clare's, that also features the vocals of diva Susan Lei'ataua. Harry Death have a new album on the way and had a successful southern tour only to find many absent possessions and a long gone flatmate on their return. The word is out!... drummer Neil Cruikshank of Putty, Charlotte Sometimes and Ruauamoko will be representing a number of local independent acts at the New York New Music Seminar with Jim Moss of Jayrem.. . Merlene Chambers is to record Tm Your Backdoor Girl' at Writhe. The Empire Warehouse is still operating sporadically and they now have an in-house video to record shows... Llama from

Spermacide is now playing bass with the Torpedos who also feature Rupert ex-Dodge Weirdo on vocals, Dougie ex-Mindfuckers on guitar and Chris on drums. Radio Active PD Ania Glowacz has left for a northern hemisphere summer being replaced by Peter Harrison... film and music buffs should check out the season of silent films by Asta Nielson at the Film Festival with live original music written by Dorothy Buchanan and performed by Prelude... the Naked Angel parties put on by Terminal City Productions beind the St George on Friday and Saturdays are offering DJs and live action till the wee smalls. Take your dancing shoes... Happy fifteenth birthday to Radio Active this month and goodbye to Chelsea Records as they go to the wall. And hey, instead of bitchin' about not being mentioned here in, swing by Solid Air and tell me your news. I'm not omniscient. JOHN PILLEY DUNEDIN The major musical event of the next few weeks is the People's Promotion organised Battle of the Bands. Featuring 36 local bands it will run over three weekends from 1 8 July at the Crown. Each night will feature four bands with a rotating roster of judges. The final, with special guest judges, will be held at Sammys on 10 August. All the heats will be filmed by local TV station Channel 58 with highlights shown the following day. The Death Ray Cafe album has been delayed due to problems with the cover art work (where have I heard that before?). The album's release will be marked with a South Island tour... the 3Ds will celebrate their third anniversary

with a night at Sammy's on 24 July. They will be joined by Jane And The Magick Heads with the Renderers possibly playing to give the two Davids a break. A 3Ds album is in the pipeline with recording to begin towards the end of August... a couple of new bands are the Windows who sound as if they graduated with Propeller's Class of'Bl and Isolation Backlash who I haven't heard but their vocalist is one of the few people who publicly admits to listening to the Dead C. The planned Rampant EP will now not happen. Instead, a limited edition tape has been put out with a CD to f0110w... ex-members of Johnson Sharkscreen and the Sferic Experiment are practising together under the tentative name of The Children's Television Workshop... to avoid the repossession of their Marshall amp Cyclops played to a large crowd at Super 8. Also playing was a partial Goblin Mix reunion featuring David Mitchell, Alf Danielson and Peter Jefferies... earlier this month the Strangeloves visited Timaru with Funhouse's Justin McClean... Music Mansion is the name of the city's newest second hand record shop. It can be found in London St just up from the Albert Arms. .. following on from the acquisition of new carpet five odd years ago Records Records now has a new paint job. Roy Colbert's choice of blue and yellow should at last push Albie Albertross off his perch as the Otago Nuggets No 1 fan ... the artists on the Radio One compilation album are: the Webbsters, Glovepuppet, Ann Mein, Tin Soldiers, My Deviant Daughter, Lesser Gibbons, David Eggleton, Cynthia Should, Big Eds Used Farms, Laughing Gas, Das Phaedrus and Quatermass.

CRAIG ROBERTSON