don’t ask me

Rip It Up, Issue 214, 1 June 1995, Page 5

don’t ask me

You play... Guitar/Vocals. Your fondest moment is... Being part of the survey. If you weren’t in a band you’d be... A person who isn’t part of a band, I guess. The best thing about being in a ‘famous and popular’ band is... We’re not famous or popular, but it’s good fun writing and playing music you like. Your most shameful moment was when... I wrote a rap song in Grade 4. The person in a band you have met and most admire is... Tim Rogers of You Am I You have been mistaken for... Nobody at all. Absolutely nobody, OK! On a Sunday you... Sleep. Your dream gig would be with... Helmet You lust after... Everyone on Baywatch except for the guys. You are afraid 0f... Hip-hop music. The best room in your house is... My bedroom. The future of rock ’n’ roll is... Good, if people start to listen to new bands like Blue Bottle Kiss, Midget, Hardware, Fur etc., and listen to Helmet.

The last clever word you learnt was... It. Who or what picks you up when you’re down... When I’m asleep my brother punches me in the head and that gets me up. What is in your pocket... A pool table, gun, wardrobe, CD player, a few CDs, a piece of chewing gum, an old hanky, and a walkie-talkie Q'ust in case).

Green Day are playing two charity gigs in Oakland, California for organisations whose services the band members have .made use of, namely the Berkeley and Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics, Food Not Bombs and San Francisco Coalition ' on Homelessness ... Johnny Cash cancelled his UK tour after discomfort following an oral nerve operation. Cash flew back to the USA to recuperate at a pain management clinic ... tickets for two Pearl Jam USA shows sold out in seven minutes ... David Bowie has signed to Virgin Records ... the Cure will release a new album later in the year. It has been described as “more dance orientated and upbeat” ... former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steve Adler was arrested for possession of heroin after neighbours found him slumped over the steering wheel of his car... look out for the Sonic Youth biography Confusion Is Next ... Verve cancelled tour dates after guitarist Nick McCabe broke his hand in a fight with a bouncer in Paris ... Manic Street Preachers guitarist James Dean Bradfield is currently recording with Therapy? The new Therapy? album features their “crooning” version of Husker Du’s ‘Diane’ with strings ... good reports in the UK press include a lead review in the NME for Chris Knox’s Songs of You & Me and four stars for Shihad’s Killjoy in Q magazine. Melody Maker described Chris Knox live at the Netherlands state-sponsored 10-fi convention as “a veritable guru” ...

Shihad are playing two major European outdoor festivals; Roskilde in Denmark June 29 and

Phoenix in England'on July 16. Prior to the festivals Shihad are touring Europe with Head Like A Hole? Both bands will do New Zealand tours in August ... Tim Finn’s A.L.T. play London in June ... super bassist Rob Wasserman has sued . Woodstock Ventures after he tripped on a tent peg at last year’s event, fracturing his left arm .... singer Sarah Cracknell has left St Etienne to pursue a solo career ... the family of Jimi Hendrix object to the overdubbing of. drum parts on the new release Voodoo Soup ... a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan has been televised. Taped . in Austin were Eric Clapton, B.B.King, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Dr. John and Buddy Guy ... early 1996 Island will reissue remastered Elton John albums with bonus tracks. So it will still fit on one CD Yellow Brick Road is the only.title which will not gain a bonus track ... three live' tracks from Strawberry Fields will feature on the b-side of the next Pumpkinhead single ‘Third Eye’ ... in the studio: Sonic Youth are recording in Memphis for an album scheduled for September release. Sonic Youth think Lollapalooza is “tacky” but they will be able to build their own studio with the fee they are getting ... the Charlatans are mixing their , fourth album at Rockfield Studio in Wales ... Loves Ugly Children have recorded their debut album in Dunedin ... the Finn Brothers have, completed mixing their album at York St Studio ... the Bats are recording a new album in Christchurch ... Steve Albini is producing a new album for the Fleshtones.