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' . ,'l•l THE: .· : ·. .. .. .. FILES Issue 20 ' ~eAre~o! "More Clamour The V Files Than Glamour!" Number 20 Cor Blimey. Two whole years and still here. We made it through the opening of Mmmm •• Cake! Popstarz, the rise of Duckie, Neil Ward the fall of Roxy Motel (eek, why did I bring that up?), and a Going The Distance near lawsuit. We've played Arthur Van Hoogstraten, host to some brilliant live Phil Brooke, Sarit Michaeli, bands and some we'd rather Rick Gordon, Susan Curtis, forget. We've also churned out Mal Bird, Trevor Gordon, 20 fanzlnes and opened a web Anil Patel, Shane Brownie, site. Oh ••• and we played a few P.A.F. records as well. In this Big, Bouncy, Bursting, Hang The Blessed DJsl Birthday, Bonanza Issue, we Mel Bird talk to the charming men Phil Brooke behind Handsome Devil, look at Sarit Michaeli the ever changln' Comet Gain Neil Ward and get the 'slowdown' on Speedurchln. Poster Boy Anil reports on the Lesbian and Gay Film Fest, and Sarit Peter Knight checks out the dykes of Holland, and you can also V Box check out the 1 00 songs which PO Box 7984 shaped Club V (according to London Mel, anyway). On our new SE13 7XR Retro Page, P.A.F. looks at the seminal punk band, X and V-mail there's much more besides and [email protected] NO garden shed and book-club [email protected] (steady on leaflets either. Hurray, and grrrlz!) welcome to year 3! •••• Neillx V website Calling bass players Sleeping. IF YOU can play bass guitar, and think you can handle the power jazz chords of Club V™ Nervefeeder, they are on the lookout for a new bassist. Singer/guitarist Lin every second Saturday Munro says she looking for a queer or Upstairs at The Garage queer-friendly man or woman who is 20-22 Highbury Corner prepared to be committed. The band London N5 are very close to getting signe\J , and Tel: 0171 607 1818 their current bass player wants to leave amicably before things get serious. For those of you who didn't see Nervefeeder Your Smiles"/"l'd Like To Know• on when they played Club V, Lin describes 12'h May, by which time they'll be them as being along the lines of Skunk wildly famous. Anansie or Placebo. Contact the V PO First formed in prototype when Box if you're interested. marking your singer/songwriter Kirsten was only 13, envelope "Nervefeeder" (what else?). Davey now boast four women and a "male member", the lovely Luke. Speed freaks They're playing the Borderline on 23'd April if you fancy checking them out. NOW THEY'VE sorted out their name, In support, Wilby will be warming punk boys Speedurchin will be our things up with some gentle lndie pop. headline band on May 3'd. You may Rosie Wilby, after whom the band is remember their previous set at Club V. cleverly named, has been described They'll be ramraiding the stage at 10.20. as having the voice of Kate Bush and [See Speedurchin profile later] the lyrical style of Jarvis Cocker. Thank goodness it's not the other way Go Golem! round. ALSO ON the 3'ct we'll be having the launch party for the new Nightnurse Fever pitch! single, "Golem". The whole shebang will start at 9pm, and there will be some special surprise guests and other stuff that even we don't know about. Ellyot is being a bit mysterious. Everyone is welcome, but get here early, or the Golem will jump outta the closet and getcha! [See more Nightnurse trivia later] Try Chi Scottish-based trio Chi will be 1 headlining Club V's 17 h May night and previewing their new single OJ MEL got dragged into the quiz at "Haywlre"/"Buttercup". The band used Duckie's recent football night. to be called Chicane until they realised Someone (urn, who could it have that there were about 3,000 other bands been?) let slip to the Duckie crew that with that name (notably those namby he liked that silly game of two halves. pamby dance merchants). The new Chi He didn't win though, despite some record is a split single (sharing vinyl good head ... er, I mean heading skills. with Belfast's Griswold) and is due for The lad did good. Give him a 1 release on 12 h May. Chi are good Mexican wave. mates with The Jennifers, who may be persuaded to support them on the 1 7'h We just need to twist Michael's arm a Mouthfull cut it little ... MOUTHFULL WILL begin cutting their debut album this week at Brixton's Fuzzbox Studios. The plan is to Davey rock itl record 10 songs including some new 1 AT THE end of May, the 31' to be exact, stuff, and get it out by the summer. the phenomenal Davey will be crammed Just in time for Pride'. on the V stage. Following support slots with The Wannadies, Bawl, Number One Cup and Sleeper, and an acclaimed Web hedz appearance at Reading, this five-piece IF YOU read the V interview with are due to release their first single "Save former Tongueman bass player Andy Fenby In Issue 13, you might be Posters are (not) go interested in a spanking new website PETER KNIGHT has worked like a stave devoted to the seminal queercore duo. in irons to produce our hot new pin-up It can be found at: posters, and the effect is unbelievably http://www. wystan .demon .co.uk stunning . We hope you'll agree that they look much better in the Club V "2,4,6,8 , Information Superhighway" environment than on your bedroom wall. Yes , Tom Robinson, the grand doyenne In other words; LAY OFF 'EM YOU of queer pop, also has an official web THIEVING GITS!!! I site at: The Jackson jive http://www.tomroblnson .com LUSCIOUS JACKSON, currently fucking , sorry, funking their way up the And there's more! The lovely Duckie charts with the stinky "Naked Eye" , crew have just launched their web site recently revealed their innermost secrets at: to the NME. Drummer Kate Schellenbach said she wanted to pick http :1 /www .users .dlrcon .co .uk/ -duckle her favourite Spice Girl. Mate Gaby said : 'You like the elegant one. You told Also, a reminder that Joe Keith has me! I like the dysfunctional one and the given up sleeping, eating and breathing bulimic one.' 'Weill like the one who's to bring you web sites for Mouthfull, in the closet,' replies Kate. Kidnapper and Nightnurse. These can be found at Mail man http://www .ftech.net/ -joekeilh/mft .hts Talking of the music press, a V diehard, http: I /www. flee h. net/-jo•keith/kld nap per. htm I Trevor, had a letter printed in the same http: 1/ www. ftech .net/-joekeith/nlghtn urse. htm I issue of the NME (19'h April issue). He accused them of overlooking the SHIT! I guess with all this activity on the burgeoning gay lndie scene, and gave information superhighway It's time we mentions to Club V, Duckie and relaunched 'The V Files' on the Internet. Popstarz. Page editor Mark Sutherland More about that next month. replied : "Call me old-fashioned, but disco1•ering June is busting out ••• that some gay people prefer indie music to IT'S WAY ahead, but we've lined up The Hi-NRG!tuhno doesn 'I really qualify as 1 Mittens for the 14 h June and The new .~ does it? After all, piemy of struigl•t Controls for the 28'h. people prefer Hi-NRG!techno to imlie The Mittens played a recent support music and we don 'I report on that either." slot here, and made such a lasting Well , call me petty, but straight people impression, that we've Invited them back don't get stereotyped when it comes to for a headline slot. their music tastes. On the other hand, The Controls used to be called Flex, there are still plenty of people around and played their debut gig at Club V. who think 'gay=disco'. They've come on in leaps and bounds since then, aided and abetted by new bass player Veronique (who I keep calling Dominique ... it's my S&M Letters training) . • We haul 11 very nice letter from Make sure you see both these bands, Readers' Wife Chelsea Kelsey, and an and that's an order! e-mail from Miss Amy Lame, thanking [check out the live review of The us for the Duckie interview in our last issue. Chelsea is vet·y plcued we're Mittens later] b~tcking Blur again, and confesses to having a penchant for Elvis (the King not the Costello). • Michael from The Jennifers has a Outings s pecial request. He's a huge fan of actor Ross Kemp (aka Grant Mitchell) and he's desperate to get his hands on a recent issue of 'Attitude' which 23 featured La Kemp on the cover. There • Davey - Borderline are no back Issues available, so If you 24 have one lying around In your loo, or • Salad/Eicka/Fomula One • under your mattress, and you can bear Ding walls to part with it, can \'fC have it? You • The Mittens · Bull & Gate can either send It to our PO Box or • Warm Jets - Garage bring It to the club. 25 • Sussed · Garage /See Trevor's re,•iew of The Jennifer.s' • Gold Blade/Gretschen Hofner · The recent Hope & Anchor gig Iuter/ Venue 26 Murk Partridge writes .