RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 217, 1 September 1995, Page 37

RUMOURS

AUCKLAND The Pod Hatching battle Of The bands prelimanary heats are almost complete, with semifinals being held throughout September, and the Grand Final taking place on September 30. Check the Gig Guide for full details ... Huh! Records, home to Nathan Haines, have signed the OMC. Their first single for the label, ‘How Bizarre’, is due out in September. Meanwhile, Haines’ debut album Shift Left is to be released worldwide on Verve Forecast in November... ‘Suffer Never’, the first single from Neil and Tim Finn’s forthcoming album Finn, is out next month ... Nothing At Alli’s debut album will be released in early October. The current working title is Get Some ... the Exponents have inked a deal with Warner Music and will release the double A-side single ‘Lulu’/'Summer You Never Meant’ this month ... former Braintree drummer Darryn Harkness has formed a label called Chant Music, to release his solo material. Out now is a limited edition seven inch single, taken from a forthcoming album recorded in Auckland and Palmerston North with Julian Reid (also exBraintree) ... Figure 60 have completed recording eight songs for a forthcoming CD release ... new band in town is Bloom, featuring ex-Blue Marble Pip Brophy, and Cameron and Andrew Pollack, formerly of Shrink ... BPM Records opens in late September in High Street. The brainchild of Box/Celebre coowner Simon Grigg, BPM will stock weekly imports of US, UK, Australian and Japanese dance releases ... bands performing at the 1995 Rescue Rock Concert at the Powerstation on September 23 are: the Nixons, Hello Sailor, Jungle Tongue, Quiet Earth, Nacho Mama, the Spirals, the Cartoon, Benevolence, the Susans, and the Monsters. First band is on at 3pm. Tickets are 10 dollars at the door ... new label Earwig Records are looking for ‘alternative’ bands to appear on their CD compilation. See Small Ads for details. JOHN RUSSELL PALMERSTON NORTH Spotty Dog will release Hard Of Hearing 3 on October 1, featuring Dog Tooth Violet, Paranymph, and Vortex Victims ... sadly, Blunt did their final gig at the Wild Horse Saloon in August with Ape Management and

State of Hate ... the New Royal has opened up to more bands for live gigs, again ... the death of Dog Tooth Violet is leading to some interesting new developments in the pipeline — stay tuned for more details ... the Palmerston North Visual Arts Collective and the Stomach crew are organising an extravaganza evening, multimedia event, with financial assistance from PN Community Arts Council. Planned for October 21, the night features visual performance, art exhibitions and noise from the likes of Froit Head and Meat Market ... Rob Thorne is currently on his national tour of New Zealand. Look out for his manic one-man show in a town near you ... Motorsheep were spotted performing on their front verandah on a sunny (rare event in Palmy) Saturday recently, looking very happy, due to great sales of their recent independently released single, on luscious blue vinyl ... Greg Malcolm has finished recordings at the Stomach, to be included on his forthcoming CD album ... Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith host a music seminar at the Stomach at 2pm on September 15 ... check this out!! So far about 60 bands have recorded at the Stomach this year ... Full Noise are soon to release their second cassette EP, this one entitled Headstoned, a three track metal outing ... Rescue Rock took off at the end of August at the Albert, with many local and out of town bands donating their time to the cause ... any Palmerston North rumours, phone (06) 356-8199 Extension 7780. CLAIRE PANNEL NEW PLYMOUTH New Plymouth — ‘where it’s happin”, as the sign outside the Nitespot says ... Premature Autopsy, Afterbirth and Burnt Offering were happin’ there a few weeks ago. Other happin’ events have been Figure 60, at Ima Hitt Record Store, Shihad and Short, who were really happin’ at the Mill, The Nixons also happin’ there — enough of that! To the future ... A Handful of Dust play at Ima Hitt Record Store on September 14 at spm ... Sticky Filth are looking for a new drummer... the nucleus of Tension are planning to reform ... originals nights are starting to work well at the Red Room, despite management problems. The Nod and Jallal play September 14 ... The Citadel has had a couple of live events: Banshee Reel, who’ve had two full houses, and the Pet Rocks, whose gig is basically a trial to see if the venue is receptive to more ... Nomeansno are not playing in New Plymouth

on their tour in November, but the Porkers will be at the Mill on September 26 ..: Burundi is not doing anymore live events, but is still a fine place to eat and drink ... Tarantula released their first cassette, and promptly withdrew the 100 copies because of a threat of legal action over its sampling of some MC Hammer song ... Nefarious have refueled themselves and are rehearsing again ... Hideously Disfigured and some covers band called Dehumidifier played a Friday night gig in the back room of Evo leather shop, after the Okato Tavern pulled the pin on a Hideously Disfigured gig. Must have been some nervous rednecks out there. Another date is being worked on for the same venue ... if you want a gig anywhere in New Plymouth, get in touch. We will find the best deal we can for your band. Phone (06) 758-9988. IMA HITT LTD. WELLINGTON Not really a rumour, more a reality, but it seems everyone in the Capital has fallen ill with something incredibly nasty: sort of like a non-fatal Ebola virus. Non-fatal, sure, but it still knocks ya on ya arse ... speaking of Ebola, well, Ebola Cola — that being the name of the new Lichen Pole CD, recorded at Word of Mouth — watch out for the release party some time this month ... likewise on the release front, Breathe have their CD out and will shortly be heading off for a wander around the North Island ... don’t turn your back on the past — it’s coming to get you. In this case, in the form of that fantastic beast, the rock opera. The name of the opera is Moses Sings the Blues, and it is co-written by Lemon Spitfire guitarist Geoff Day. It will be grandstanding around the city in September ... country boy (‘feet in LA, mind on Tennessee’?) Barry Saunders will be showcasing songs off his new album Weatherman this month ... Bilge Festival and Letterbox Lambs will be playing together at an- Antipodes gig this month ... Scote have released their Straightophile cassette. Their release party also featured Monster and Late Night Shopping ... the debut Short CD, Shagpile, is charming all who go near it. They’ll be playing live with the 3Ds when they head north ... Moeski are a new band playing this month ... the Pauas are all set for another round of live action as we head towards summer ... Fat Mannequin have demoed material for their debut album, and are currently finalising a deal with Hamilton label Hark. They begin

recording late September at The Zoo ... The Oaks Tavern now has an in-house PA and is open to touring acts. Once renovations are completed, capacity will be 500+ punters For bookings, phone (04) 499-5880. DONALD REID CHRISTCHURCH Hampster are in Europe until November. They have arranged a number of gigs in Britain, Norway, Germany and France, and will also be negotiating with a German jazz label which plans to distribute their, material in Europe and the United States ... The Bats’ first single off their Couchmaster album, ‘Afternoon in Bed’, is due out at the end of October. They also play the End of Lectures Stein, on October 13 ... Squirm have North Island tour dates with Loves Ugly Children in Wellington, Palmerston North, Hamilton and Auckland as part of LUC’s national tour to promote their new album ... after initial difficulties, ‘Dimension 5’ is looking to establish itself properly as a live venue. If you didn’t already know, it’s opposite Java ... Chicane tour the North Island in September ... Nerve have released a seven inch single on clear vinyl, featuring ‘Captain America’ and ‘Executive Bathroom Key’ ... Pumpkinhead made Newsnight recently, after the police got concerned about Brent Milligan’s supposed attempt to rob a bank with a banana during the filming of the video to their new single ... I & I plan a CD release for November ...

Trawler have just finished recording tracks in the IMD studios in Dunedin ... new on the RDU are recordings from Golf Course Alligators, Squirm, The Rarms (an offshoot of Sifter), and two projects from Anabell from Hawaii 5-0, Stethoscope and Hurricane Bob ... appearing again recently was Fence, featuring Dave (ex-Prodigies), James and Paul Sutherland (Into the Void). Fence have a “distorted yet ambient sound, and like to let the guitars speak for themselves, without human interference” ... Astralchain are reforming ... reported on a national student radio was the ‘real’ reason that Mick Elborado (Spacedust) appears on the cover of King Loser's new album ‘You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live’: “At a Terminals gig at the Gluepot, Elborado used everything from a piece of 4x2 to his glasses to play organ. He then proceeded to dance across stage with a buring log down his trousers, and tried to set his keyboards alight.”

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