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Rip It Up, Issue 214, 1 June 1995, Page 4

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Tank Girl hits the big screen in July with Lori Petty in the lead role. With ‘Courtney Love-Cobain’ credited as ‘executive music co-ordinator’, the line-up is suitably bizarre. Devo revisit ‘Girl You Want’, and there’s a who’s who of femme fatales. Bjork performs ‘Army of Me’ with Nellee Hooper, there’s L7’s Sub-Pop gem ‘Shove’, ‘Aurora’ by Veruca Salt, ‘Thief’ by Belly and Hole with ‘Drown Soda. From the UK, there’s grunge stars Bush and Portishead. Two collaborations take place for the movie — Joan Jett with Paul Westerberg on ‘Let’s Do It’ and a track by the Magnificent Bastards, namely Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots), Zander Schloss, Bob Thomson and Jeff Nolan.

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Dapper rapper Ice T stars as a Kangaroo in Tank Girl and performs ‘Big Gun’.

Aussie sensations Silverchair have confirmed two New Zealand dates for June. They will play at Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre on Friday June 9, and at the Wellington Town Hall on Saturday June 10. The trio (singer-guitarist Daniel Johns, bassist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies), who first played in New Zealand at this year’s Big Day Out, will release a third single, ‘lsrael’s Son’, from their debut album Frogstomp, to coincide with the tour.

Teenage Fan Club gear up for the release of their new album, Grand Prix. For their fourth album, the producer is David Bianco, who has worked with Frank Black.

The inimitable Washington DC group Bad Brains return soon with a new album entitled God of Love. Having signed with the Madonna-owned label Maverick, the band invited original vocalist HR back to the ranks, and recruited former Cars vocalist Rik Ocasek to repeat the production job he did on the band’s 1983 album, Rock For Light. Of the new album, the bigdreaded HR says: ‘‘lt’s a top rankin’ sound.”