AUCKLAND

Rip It Up, Issue 210, 1 February 1995, Page 32

AUCKLAND

Singer Fiona McDonald and keyboardist Michael Lawry have left, the Headless Chickens. Angus McNaughton of Incubator Studios has replaced Lawry, and the band will continue with recording plans for their third full-length album ... Dead Flowers’ bassist Dave James has left the band. They are currently looking for a replacement ... Martin Phillipps has formed a new band and will be recording and gigging in Auckland on completion of contracts ... after a series of frustrating delays, Grace will release their debut album, Black Sand Shore, on February 27 ... new Second Child drummer is Ben Sciasia from Balance ... Upper Hutt Posse have a new single, ‘As The Blind See’, out soon thru BMG ... country music singer/songwriter Glen Moffatt’s debut album, Somewhere In New Zealand Tonight, will be released by Sun Pacific Records in March ... spotted at Foodtown Grey Lynn: Thorazine Shuffle’s Josh Hetherington, shopping at 11.30 at night with his sunglasses on ... Moana and the Moahunters recently returned from Malaysia after performing two shows at the indigineous music festival. BMG Records have released the Moahunters album Tahi in Asia ... AKA Young & Ruthless, winners of the secondary schools Smokefree Rockquest funk section, have recorded ‘Run For Cover’ at York Street Studios. The single will be released by Southside in March ... Catherine O’Dwyer (exFatal Jelly Space) has joined Virginia Reel on drums ... free weekly gig guide The Fix will be back in stores during the last week of February ... OJ & Slave have signed directly to BMG Records for the release of an EP due in the shops late March ... Darkness Productions are presenting Voodoo Jungle, featuring DJs Riddle, Jonathan Stowers, Jungle Jay, D-Rave, Stephen Green and New Zealand’s first jungle performance by Kaos Theory, at the Box, Thursday March 2 ... Chris Knox has a new single, ‘One Fell Swoop’, out mid-month, which includes a cover of Abba’s ‘SOS’. An album, Songs Of You & Me, will follow in March, prior to Knox touring Europe ... the 95bFM Summer Series Concerts take place on February 5 (Tufnels, Breast Secreting Cake, Chris Knox, Garageland, DLT, Applicators) and 19 (Hallelujah Picassos, Able Tasmans, Urban Disturbance, Future Stupid, Sniff, Repeater) at Albert Park. It’s not what you know ... Flat Hampster Man have split up ... King Loser have been recording with Billy TK Snr ... The Bob Marley Exhibition continues at the Auckland Museum until Sunday February 19 ... spotted at the Powerstation: tough guy Al

Jourgensen, of Ministry, taking almost a minute to remove the cap from a bottle of DB Export Dry with his teeth — they twist off much easier ... Tim Finn has formed a new band called ALT, featuring Hothouse Flowers vocalist Liam O’Maonlia and Irish Songwriter Of The Year, Andy White.

JOHN RUSSELL