RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 214, 1 June 1995, Page 36

RUMOURS

AUCKLAND Thorazine Shuffle’s debut three track single ‘An Affair’ is now “being held closely under wraps until elaborate release plans for July have been formalised”, according to band manager Stuart Broughton. The band will also be absent from the live scene for a while due to one member’s “spinal difficulties” ... Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers was on holiday in Auckland for a fortnight last month, before returning to the US to complete the band’s next album ... Joint Force (OJ/Slave/DLT) are on a North Island tour this month with Teremoana Rapley, Mighty Asterix and DJ Stinky Jim. See Gig Guide for dates ... Cosa Nostra have spent a lot of time in Incubator Studio with a live rhythm section recently. According to Trevor ‘Giancana’ Reekie they want to “bugger around and see what comes out” ... Cicada have just released their five track debut CD EP - Oscillator, recorded at the Lab and York Street... Balance have split up ... every Thursday from 7.30 PM to BPM, Max TV’s Serious Fun Show features a segment entitled From The Kerb Up. Hosted by Zhayne Lowe, the show screens items on music, - magazines, record companies and other general interest stories ... Shona Laing has re-recorded her 1972 hit ‘1905’ at York Street, and Spearhead’s Michael Franti spent an evening recording there before 1 the band’s Powerstation show ... ‘Don’t Wait Another Day’, the second single from Greg Johnson’s forthcoming album Vine Street Stories is out soon, while the album will be out early August ... Music Nation host Bic Runga’s debut album Love Soup is scheduled for a July release ... Anthony loasa of Grace has formed his own record label, Kokobutt, and is looking to record British-influ-enced dance outfits. If you fit the bill, send your demos to 26 Lichfield Road; Parnell. Meanwhile, Grace have three new members: drummer Andrew MacClaren and Bic- and Boh Runga on BVs ... Rhythm Oil are releasing their debut cassingle and accompanying video ‘The Art of Flying’. JOHN RUSSELL

PALMERSTON NORTH Suraya of Dog Tooth Violet has saved Palmerston North from terminal boredom by arranging a new venue called Wild Horse Saloon. Yehhaah, wackadoo! ... Yellow Bike Recording Cutting at Himitangi (in assosciation with the Foxton museum of Audio Visual Arts and Sciences) has been busy with seven releases on Yellow Bike records and Spotty Dog Records cut in the last month! Records released include Cunt 12”, K-Tel Dancers 7”, Baldman (Dave White) 7”, Lung Feeding Fucking Vera album, Ashvins 7”, Meat Market 7” and a split 10” K-Tei Dancers and Cunt record. Ashvins and Meat Market celebrated with a gig at the Saloon ... Lizard Mull Records recently celebrated two releases at the Wild Horse Saloon ... State Of Hate and Rob Tjorne have both released cassettes on Lizard

Mull ... Spotty Dog Records are currently awaiting the arrival of a Shoeshine and Ashvins joint CD ... just to keep Palmy busy, the Stomach is organising several all age 5 Bands for 5 Bucks gigs that will feature and debut new and young bands ... speaking of new bands Burnt Weeping Eyes played a succesful set of Gothic hard core at the New Royal ... State Of Hate played in Wellington with Sick Of It All. CLAIRE PANNELL NEW PLYMOUTH The Mushroom Ball was all it should have been — up, energetic, rocking and good vibes. If you weren’t there, it was your loss ... Nefarious will have a very limited edition single out by the time you read this. If you need to have one, you gotta move quick ... a strange thing has been occuring lately, no gigs for a while, then two on the same night. This happened with Warp Spasm and Nefarious and the week after The Ball, Inchworm at the Mill and the Butchers Club at the Nitespot. Both gigs being on at the same time results in poor audience numbers, and the only loser is rock ’n’ roll. Publicans are looking at live music to deal with dwindling Thursday night bar takes, but if both gigs don’t get a crowd, your band won’t be wanted in the bar either. Small towns like New Plymouth can only really handle one gig a week. Don’t jump when that bar mamager calls. Plan your gigs in advance, work out what is best for your band and rock ’n’ roll in general. Don’t sell yourself short... upcoming gigs are Second Child at the Nitespot, Upper Hutt Posse at the Mill and Greg Malcom and band at an unconfirmed place ... Palmerston North (the place people always confuse with New Plymouth) band State Of Hate are working on playing an all age show in town soon ... any comments, questions, whatever can be directed to PO Box 407, New Plymouth. BRIAN WAFER WELLINGTON Barry Saunders’ solo album Weatherman is due in July ... Mark Leaderman, previously of Bilge Festival, has formed Horris Patients. They played their first gig recently with two other new bands, Svelte and Cowcatcher. More is expected from all three ... new young band in the city are Letterbox Lambs (they assure me the name is only temporary). They have already been playing shows (with Mellowthumb from Napier) and have recording plans... Acid Jazz is as popular in the city as it ever was, and the Jazziz II show on Edward St was evidence of this. More (too much?) is expected in the near future ... Funkmutha have stopped playing live gigs indefinitely, as the drummer is fighting an uphill battle with RSI. Despite this, they hope to record near the end of the year ... Southside of Bombay are about to embark on a national tour. As is their tradition, they will cover every inch of the country, going to all the ‘one pub, one shop’ towns, taking funk-tinged reggae with them. They have a new single, ‘Umbadada’, out this month ... Seep are described as ‘avant-garde post post industrial’, and are working on soundtracks for performances around local theatres ... members of Wendyhouse and some of their friends are planning an international musical experiment. Different pieces of four-track recordings will be sent to various people around the globe, where

tracks will be added and mixed. “It could be good, and it could be bad,” says Wendyhouser Pudding. DONALD REID CHRISTCHURCH It took a while, but Dark Tower have released their 8 track CD EP Real Zeal Man. They were luckily into their last song in an awesome set at their CD release party before their backing sample tape unwound ... 147 Swordfish made a reappearance at Pumpkinhead’s Sloth party recently ... the Bats are recording at Nightshift studios, the place they recorded a lot of their original material ... also at Nightshift at the moment are the Tardigrads, recording for a five track cassette realease ... Loves Ugly Children have finished 18 songs in Dunedin for their Flying Nun album, tentitively entitled Cake Hole ... the second of Creeley’s cassette trilogy Step Ahead is available now from PO Box 1619, Christchurch ... Rob Mayes’ Failsafe label is busy at the moment, with the Dolphin album (a double CD) Out Of Hand released in May. The second CD is called Finally Think It’s Time and features outakes and “the other good stuff that might seem out of place on the album” ... also due out on Failsafe are a Throw album, Rememoty, in June and a Chicane EP, for June also, a Cicada EP and videos from Throw, Springloader and the Malchicks, half of whose was shot in Japan ... out of pocket after their North Island tour with the loss of a SSOO rental hire bond are Ape Management, who are looking for gigs to earn this money back. Look out for a Rob Scuzz designed T-shirt with their single release ... Chicane are to be included on Kiwi Hit Disc 14 ... rumoured is a Jay Clarkson tour, a UCard party, the 3Ds at the Caledonian Hall and a hip-hop/dub extravaganza ... Wadd’s CD release has been delayed until June 15 ... new bands around town include Hawaii 5-0 and Beats and Pieces, with a hip-hop/jungle sound ... picking up at the moment is the number of bands looking for bookings at the Dux, in contrast to Quadrophenia, where bands find it hard, at times, to cover the venue’s booking overheads ... Wallpaper and Yellow Crayon are to debut as support for Trawler at the Dux ... the finalists from Christchurch in Operation Music Storm were Human, Atomic Blossom, Snort, Disgraceland and Trawler ... The Sheep Technique #2 is RDU’s compilation cassette of Christchurch music for the student radio network, and will feature Rainy Taxi, Creeley, Atomic Blossom, Hawaii 5-0, Disgraceland, Ape Management and In Vitro ... any rumours ph 379-6320. HAT DUNEDIN Operation Music Storm has been and gone, attracting huge interest from bands and public alike. Eighty-two bands entered from as far afield as Invercargill and Nelson ... new bands Seven and the Underwoods debuted recently at the Empire. Seven also played an impressive set at Sammy's a few nights later with the Verlaines, Trash and the Renderers ... both Trash and the Renderers have just finished recording new CDs at Volt Studios and Fish Street ... more Fish Street news: Lets Planet are due down soon, Loves Ugly Children are still recording, 3Ds, Chug, Magick Heads, Clean and Able Tasmans have all been recording songs for the Flying Nun compliation of ABBA songs. The whole studio, including Tex, was shipped up to Auckland for the recording of the new Able Tasmans CD ... the studio is upgrading to 24 tracks any day now

... Volt studios continue to be busy. Brendan Hoffman is currently recording a compilation for IMD which will include established and new Dunedin artists ... OMIT (Blenhiem) and Aaron Sharma have both released Geraldine singles on the Trinder label ... Gaylene is rumoured to be starting a punk band ... Grant Millman is soon to leave his job as programme director at Rox FM and is set to produce a music show on the new Southern TV channel ... new dance venue Bath Street has become instantly popular ... the Dunedin Musician’s Club is to host monthly performance nights for original bands in an effort to boost membership and encourage younger musicians to join. The first such gig featured Jay Clarkson, the Magick Heads, Runt and Firehouse ... My Deviant Daughter, High Dependancy Unit and Chris Heazelwood will play at Squid soon ... Swarm, Suka are now to tour with the Verlaines instead of Trash, because Robbie Yeats is off to the States with the Dead C.

DAVID MUIR