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INXS, not just another pop concet

The band attacked hits like H by Tom Cozart These three elements combined You Tonight and Devil Inside v Managing Editor with sparse keyboards, heavy bass, and eat-you-alive guitar-playing quick and brutal force. They a played songs from their 1984 alb When INXS took the stage in allow INXS to perform some of the The Swing. These songs swept^ Chapel Hill’s Dean Dome Friday most original and intelligent pop crowd into a frenzy. j night, I was struck by the absolute music available today. The high point of the show ] lack of pretension projected by the an acoustic version of Shine I band. There was not one obtrusive It Does. Even this slower numi special effect or any hint of spandex Concert which combined one extra-ls in the band’s stage-comfortable acoustic guitar with Huthchen cloths. Even the lighting remained Review nothing-to-mess-with vocals, low key for the neariy two-hour not stop the audience from stan( show. Jumping into 1985’s What You and shouting. Sometimes you Kick: Inxs rocked Chapel Hill’s Dean Dome. Their relatively minimalist stage Need, Hutchence and company The show closed with the ba latest single Never Tear Us Af presence and quasi-frantic ap­ began their straight-forward hits- This song, another highlight, i proach to pop music are two fac­ fest. They played all the songs from unlikely hit for the band, tors that create the appeal of INXS. their latest release. Kick and over half the songs from its predecessor. crowd did not seem to mind th Cleveland leaves impact triguing western motif of the s Accessible rhythms and quirky Listen Like Thieves. and made more noise than the) beats construct the perfect by Kati Mafko playground for Michael Hut- INXS’ 20-song show did not all night. Asheley is considered a contem­ For those of you still skep chence’s affected vocals. Hut- bore the audience with 15 minute On Sunday, September 11, porary/Christian performer, about INXS because of some j chence’s voice is more like great versions of their most obscure Asheley Cleveland performed in however, most of what she sang on fear of pop music, take in bursts of tonal sexuality than actual material or provide bathroom time the O’Kelly courtyard (between Sunday could be considered in the show. I promise you’ll get ov( singing. during drawn out drum solos. Alamance and Long Student contemporary category. Center). Before her performance Some of what she sang included the area churches provided favorites such as James Taylor, Car- refreshments to those people who ly Simon, Bob Dylan to name a Showband back and ready for actio were in attendance. few. She had a very diverse ar­ Asheley Cleveland is from rangement of songs but the majori­ Nashville Tenn. but grew up in the ty of her songs were the familiar San Francisco bay area. She is a favorites. into her third year of Showl by Cheryl Kern There are about 60 students in writer of music and has had much the band that are mostly Freshman “I had to join my first two Asheley relied on her voice, Entertainment Editor of her work recorded by Steve and Sophomores. Keith explained because of my minor, but it Camp, Scott Wesley Brown, Bud­ acoustic guitar an electric guitar much fiin I’m going to stay ar The Showband is back and ready that the reason for the lack of par­ dy Green and Billy Sprague. and two amplifiers, this was all she year.” to play for everyone at this Satur- ticipation of the upperclassman is She has also sung on records needed to convey her feelings and ”No I’m not nervous day’^s football game. because of the harder classes that with John Hiatt, Steve Taylor, Steve love for her songs. Her interaction Saturday, but we did lose a The Elon Showband has been enter their schedules when they Camp, Randy Stonehill, John with the audience gave the whole good players to Graduation ar here at Elon since the early 1970’s. come to the upperclassman years. Steward, Jo-El Sonnier and cur­ show a very “ down to earth” and dying abroad in London ai Elon, at one point, had a marching The Showband plays at all the rently she can be heard with Em­ enjoyable time for all those who might not sound as good, bu band that changed into the Show­ home football games. Keith said my Lou Harris on her new album. attended. still have fun,” Harth said. band. The band’s first director was they meet around 12:00 pm on the The School supplies some Jack White and the change occur­ day of the games and load up the percussion instruments, but n red because of the drop in the truck. All the members help to set the students have their own enrollment of music majors. up when they get to the field. To their high school band. Most Bill Keith has directed the Show­ start the game they play The Star students in the Showband ai band for the last three years, “It’s Spangled Banner and the Elon in the Concert Band after th image been great, we all have a good Fight Song. ball season ends. time,” Keith said. Sandy Harth, a Junior, is going

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