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JULY 1986 • FREE! That Magazine from CITR fml02 cablelOO CJIV Benefit with THE SUBTERRANEANS Sun. June 29 THE BOTTOM LINE & THE ZAMBONI DRIVERS Mon. Tues. THE STINGIN'HORNETS Wed. 30,1,2 Thurs. Fri., 3,4 JAZZMANIAN DEVILS Cat Productions present THE WOODENTOPS Sat. 5 NO FUN-"Love & Music" an exploration of rock's drug Sun. 6 culture Mon. lues. Wed. THE ROCKIN'EDSELS w/guests 7,8,9 POISONED w/guests Thurs. Fri. Sat. 10,11,12 Sun. 13 TBA Mon. 14 B & B (Bob Bell-Barry Taylor) w/guests lues. Wed. 15,16 from Montreal-CONDITION with Cleveland's Mm MY DAD IS DEAD Thurs. 17 TBA Fri. Sat. 18,19 HOLLY ARNTZEN w/guests Sun. Mon. 20,21 TBA tues. Wed. 22, 23 from Halifax THE KILLER KLAMZ w/guests Thurs. 24 from Toronto CHANGE OF HEART w/guests Fri. Sat. 25,26 THE YODELLS with UNDERTAKE DADDIES Sun. 27 TBA Mon. 28 From Portland THEATRE OF SHEEP w/guests Gourmet Express - Nightly Dinner Specials 7-9 PM Open Sundays 7 to 9 PRE-MOVIE SPECIALS • NO COVER 7 to 9 UNLESS POSTED 932 GRANVILLE ST • OPEN 7 pm TIL 2 am • 684-VENU DfcORDER That Magazine from CITR fml02 cablelOO July 1986 • Vol. 4/No. 6 EDITOR Chris Dafoe CONTRIBUTORS Pat Carroll, Terry Walker, Steve Edge, CD, Jacques Major, AI Thurgood, David Firman, Ralph Synning, Kevin Smith, Reza Sara, Laurie Mercer, Mike Harding PHOTOS Jim Main CARTOONS Rod Filbrandt, Chris Pearson, Susan Catherine, Ian Verchere, William Thompson COVER Illustration — Rod Filbrandt Colour — Dave Wilson PRODUCTION MANAGER Karen Shea DESIGN Harreson Atley IN THIS ISSUE LAYOUT Pat Carroll, Dorothy Cameron, Don Bull, NIRVANA IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER Robin Razzell, Mike Mines, Ken Jackson, Terry Walker goes on a dream date with the Dave Wilson, Alan Scales, Randy Iwata Prima Donnas of Polyester: The Crimpolines. 6 CD, Karen Shea TYPESETTING THE CHAMELEONS Dena Corby, Sheila Haldane Reza Sara opens a fetter bomb from these Manchester reptiles. 10 PUBLISHER HUNTER S. THOMPSON Harreson Atley Bad craziness with the Dean of Gonzo journalism. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE 12 Robin Razzell By CD and Jacques Major. DISTRIBUTION MANAGERS Bill Mullan, Steve Robertson IN EVERY ISSUE BUSINESS MANAGER Randy Iwata AIRHEAD Love Letters in the Sand. DISCORDER, c/o CITR Radio 6138 SUB Blvd.. Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A5. Phone (604) 228-3017. BEHIND THE DIAL DISCORDER Magazine is published monthly by the Student Radio Soeiety of the University of British AMARC 2 (bet you can't figure out what that means) Columbia (C1TR-UBC Radio). and coming events. 18 CITR fml01.9cablel00.1 broadcasts a 49-watt sig nal in stereo throughout Vaneouver from Gage Towers on the UBC campus. CITR is also available via FM ON THE DIAL cable in Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancou Programming for the deprogrammed. 19 ver, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Maple Ridge and Mission. DISCORDER circulates 15,000 tree copies. For SPIN LIST advertising and circulation inquiries call 228-3017 and 22 ask tor station manager Nancy Smith. The essential 20 (give or take a few). Twelve-month subscriptions available: $10 in Can ada, $10 U.S. in the U.S.A., $15 overseas. Send cheque VINYL VERDICT or money order payable to CITR Publications. Unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, cartoons Jonathan Richman, Robert Wyatt, Husker Du, and graphics are welcome but they can be returned 23 only it' accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped Butthole Surfers... envelope. DISCORDER does not assume responsibili ty tor unsolicited material. DEMO DERBY The offices of CITR and DISCORDER are located Local tapes harshly judged. 28 in room 233 of the UBC's Student Union Building. For general business inquiries or to book the CITR Mobile THE ROVING EAR Sound System call 228-3017 and ask for station manaeer Nancv Smith. The Music Request line is Chief Petty Fry Cook Broadway reports for duty 228-CITR, in the Bay Area. Tony Bennett will never be the same. 30 JULY 1986 3 RH8A|> sssssssssssssssssssssss c/o CITR Radio 6138 S.U.B. Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 2A5 Oh Shit! What Have We I Saw God at the Xerox Done Now? Theatre Dear Sir: Airhead, The Burnaby Community I have just experienced some Standards Committee, at their thing very enlightening to my meeting held on 1986 May 01 we soul, mind and body...it's called were introduced to your maga ...Einsturzende Neubauten...I zine, which was submitted by not only watched them play their one of the Committee members. instruments (?) but participated Arising out of a discussion and entered into their own private which ensued regarding the world of sound...music. What magazine, the following motion they manufacture is the very art was adopted. of noise...the art of a culture rare THAT staff contact the Student ly seen... heard. Radio Society of UBC and re Their performance was very quest details regarding the powerful, and overwhelming... method of distribution and areas and upon leaving one felt a covered in the circulation of the sense of being electrocuted with magazine DISCORDER. There the artistic creation of...Einstur fore, would you kindly provide zende Neubauten. this information as requested. Treza D. Yours truly, Mrs. M. Pasqua I'm sure it was good for them too. Secretary Would you like a cigarette? Community Standards Comittee Oh boy. We figured we were in Airhead Plays Post Office "What in het world real trouble here. Visions of piles of Discorders going up in flames Dear Airhead, on Boundary Road, surrounded If I may relay my deepest feel to do" by fundamentalist Burquitlam ings towards Disturbed Young church groups carrying placards Man (Airhead, June) through denouncing our dear little mag as you. 'A Holding an smut. Banned. Denounced from Dear Disturbed, i\ international the pulpit. Maybe even an issue YOU DUMB SON OF A 'J conference of in the next Burnaby election. BITCH... >7 community broad We were thrilled. Those of us young punks ly casters during Expo A brief phone call to M. Pas who are governed by our parents qua, however, revealed that the can't move into UBC to get CITR ' may not be the best concern stemmed from the use on our radios. We should all thing to do, but then of profanity in one of the ads in move into CITR range (10 feet again, neither is Expo. our April issue. The members of from the station?). We can't all fit. the Burnaby Community Stan The high power idea is a good We need 350 billets dards merely wanted assurances one, but until it goes through, my and plenty of that our vile rag would not be radio gets CITR with an antenna AMARC Z volunteers. thrust at their tots by trench- and on mono—oh well. coated men standing on street But YOU are a first-class July 25-29 corners. jerk. Think there are no punks in So if you've been Rest easy, folks. Discorder's North or West Van? Think again. wondering "What in only Burnaby drop-off point is at We (or most of us) can't get CITR the world to do this BCIT Your children are safe. and want it to go high power— summer?" SO TAKE YOUR HOLY SHIT IDEAS AND GO TO HELL... Give us a call. Love and Flowers Scharrque mjune iy, r.uu p.m. 1 Amarc office 1 • Vancouver Indian Centre Rm 107 1 7607 E. Hastings (at Commercial) 1 253-0427 4 DISCORDER Foreign Mail such as Raw in Tottenham Court Road or there is the better- Dear Airhead, known Fridge in Brixton, the Perhaps your mag has got fur Apollo (as mentioned) and even ther afield than Basingstoke, the Camden Palace on its better Hamshire, England, but maybe nights. But jazz is surging in not quite so regularly. After stu popularity; every major club dying several of your issues, I'll worth noting has at least two jazz give you an Englishman's point sessions each week from The of view, if you're interested. Way to the 100 Club. They've In my opinion, one of the been taken over by slick-cut tren most important functions of any dies bored with the monotonous new-wave mag is to inform, on tones of the synths. When one events, arts, etc., and especially says punk is dying out there will music. To this end, I find your always be someone to leap in its JSS& Vinyl Verdict rather a letdown. defence, so let us say that the im Your writers don't seem to actual age has somewhat mellowed. ly analyse the music recorded on The only 'punks' you see now the LPs; instead, they always are those neferious creatures Thanks to your support the live music seem to concentrate on a potted that inhabit the Kings Road, beg program at the Arts Club has been saved! history of the band in question ging money to fund their habits Find your salvation every Friday & Saturday (i.e. the B.A.D. review in your or posing for photographs with March issue.) Not one clear-cut anxious, thrill-seeking tourists. night at the Arts Club Lounge, featuring reference to music. The true punks of 76 are ten the best original independent bands from I'm not suggesting you carry years older now and have redir across North America and a measly $2 cover out a marketing exercise to try ected their experiences and tal and sell the records, but at least ents into other fields. charge — Vancouver's best entertainment give the prospective punters Everyone foreign thinks Lon value.