Rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 215, 1 July 1995, Page 8

Rumours

AUCKLAND New Dead Flowers bass player is Aaron Carson, formally of Freak Power and Shagpile, he replaces Dave James who left earlier this year. The new line-up will tour the North Island this month, including an all ages show at the Powerstation on Friday 21, with Second Child and the Nixons ... Future Stupid have been spending a great deal of time at Ground Zero Studios in Newton, working on their six track EP (working title Complex Simpilicity), and plan to release a two song seven inch single. For live bookings, phone Big Mike (025) 983 953 ... Adrenalin have been recording tracks for their forthcoming second album at Phil Rudd’s Mountain Studio in Tauranga, and have been named “cultural ambassadors” for Waitakere City by Mayor Bob Harvey ... Dam Native are recording their debut album at the Lab, with Max TVs Zhayne Lowe producing ... Greg Johnson's jazz outfit Bluespeak are working on a covers album, featuring a collection of 50s "drinking songs”. Chris Van Der Geer of Second Child will engineer, and the record will be out on Pagan towards the end of the year ... DJ Rob Salmon has left Urban Disturbance ... King Loser have not split up. They’re doing a few dates around the countryside this month, including a return to the Las Vegas Strip Club in K’ Road on July 21. Their second Nun album, You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live, is due in August. Also during August, they plan to tour Australia with Loves Ugly Children and Garageland. The latter will release their debut EP Comeback Special mid-August ... Sun Pacific Records are to release a new La De Das album, recorded recently at Montage Studios in Grey Lynn ... all the tracks for Flying Nun’s Abba tribute album have been recorded, and Abbasalutely will be out on August 28. JOHN RUSSELL WELLINGTON New band in the city Letterbox Lambs are doing the new band thing, playing gigs at Bodega this month, one with Mellow Thumb and one with Breathe ... speaking of Breathe, they are heading on the Ebola Cola tour with Lichen Pole next month ... Lichen Pole are releasing an eight track EP, so you can get excited before they get to your town ... Banshee Reel are getting good responses from the Canadian tour, as well as shows packed with happy punters, the band have sold out of their merchandise ... Surge are about to release an album called Then Again, and expect to tour in the near future ... the Roots Foundation are as active as ever, providing regular dance parties, all with different twists and themes ... Gravel Slide is the name of the new Bilge Festival album. Expect the Nick Roughan-mixed album, plus a single and video, to be released real soon ... Shihad's Killjoy has been released in Japan on the JVC Victor label, with the extra track ‘Prayer’ (to the cult of Supreme Truth?). Wait for their New Zealand return in August. DONALD REID CHRISTCHURCH Appearing on high daytime rotate on C 93 in Dunedin is Squirm’s 'Voodoo' after it was included on the Kiwi Hit Disc 3 ... Sifter have finished recording demos in Taipatini Studios in Greymouth ... the Tardigrads have recorded an EP to be called ‘Reload’, produced by Jason Young of Loves Ugly Children. The Australian CD pressing is being arranged through Ode Records in Auckland, who have a deal with Disctronics in Sydney ... Spacedust have an album in production, to be released on the American 18 Wheeler label, and a limited local release of a double A-side clear vinyl single with Brother Love

... Brother Love also have an album due to be released at the end of the year on the American New World of Sound label ... Wadd’s 7 track CD is out now on new label Ahm, who are distributed through IMD. The label also has Creeley, Swim Everything and Range, and catalogues are available from PO Box 1619 Christchurch ... Holocene are having a video produced by James McAllister of the Ham Film School ... The Strangeloves, with Tom Mahon back, are recording new material ... Tempest's second video, ‘Skitzo’, has been completed, and will be airing locally soon. The single is from an album due out later this year ... Dave Yetton (ex-JPSE) will be finishing recordings with the rhythm section of the Muttonbirds later this year at Wellington’s Marmalade Studios, for an EP/mini album ... Ape Management are releasing a seven inch through Wellington’s Cato Music, as well as their clear vinyl seven inch of ‘Big Hair’, on Spinning Clock Records ... a new ‘Christchurch dedicated music mag’ appeared in June, and featured an interview with Pumpkinhead. The organiser of In Tune is Niki. Phone (03) 348 8154 for more info ... EST and Salmonella Dub put tracks on a cassette compilation that was only available at their recent Edge gig ... at the Dux recently were Range, a new band featuring Blair Parkes (Creely), Hayden (Wadd), Bert (Creely) and others ... the Caledonian Hall was the venue for the first event organised by the Christchurch Music Society, aimed at an all ages audience. As usual, police and fire wardens took an active interest, stopping the gig for half an hour during Pumpkinhead's first song because of overcrowding ... congrats to Snort and Atomic Blossom for their first and second placings in the finals of Operation Music Storm. The bad luck on the night had to go to Tracer, who found out that there was no stage crew when they broke a string, and consequently managed to waste 10 minutes of their 20 minute set ... the Edge has a new bar planned for upstairs, aimed at the alternative market... Creely tour Dunedin in July ... and thanks to Weaverbabe for tearing down and covering the' posters for the Mothgods gig at Warners recently, when they were playing the same night at the Quad ... any rumours phone (03) 379-6320 HAT