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THE CRAMPS Nardwuar gets the scoop on the fucking best band in the world 6 PHRANC They play "I Enjoy Being A Girl" on Muzak, too - by Pete and Andrea 9 SEVERED HEADS Tom Ellard joins the rhythm of machines - by Lloyd Uliana 12 ROOTIN' TOOT1N' HOOTENANNY Here's listening to you, kids - by Bartholomew, the Patron Saint of Hootenanny 15 MAMMORABILIA: RUSS MEYER'S OBSESSION WITH BIG TITS Nobody gives a better Russ Meyer interview than... - with Grandee Englehart 16 A LITTLE MAN, FALLING A story by Christopher Kovacs 30

AIRHEAD Fact or fiction? 5 HELL'S KITCHEN Wow. Slick. Bo-nus. Groovy 20 COMIX ARE ALL I READ It's "Bob's Favorite Comics," not Leigh's 21 LOCAL MOTION Let's get Janis - she listens to everything!! 22 REAL LIVE ACTION Bug Head, Babes in Toyland et al 23 UNDER REVIEW John Zorn, Fugazi, The Cynics and bts more 24 DISCORDER DATEBOOK What's on, what's hot, what's hip and what isn't 26 ON THE DIAL It's like TV Guide, but it's for radio 28 SPINUST It's a list regarding spins, okay? 29 0P&? INDEPENDENT ftf*»! EARTH GUY LABELS AT Scott Fearnley 5 FANTASTIC -".pOS*"EBS DANCING ON THE CLOUDS Marc Yuill and Julian Lawrence 11 ROLAND THE HAPPY WANDERER •PRICES! Geoff Coates 20 SOCIALIST TURTLE "RAP" DISCS Colin Upton 21 , a TAPES 8 BORDUM Bryce Rasmussen 27 THE • RECORDED FOR OFFICE USE ONLY VIDEO TWO EDITOR Kevin Smith ART DIRECTOR Scott Chernoff PRODUCTION MANAGER Bill Baker EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Chrte Buchanan, Paul Funk, Viola Funk ASSISTANT TO THE ART DIRECTOR Geoff Coates ARTIST Scott Fearnley WRITERS LOCATIONS! Bartholomew, Grandee Englehart, Christopher Kovacs, Andrea Luplnl, Pete Lutwyche, Janis McKenzie, John Ruskin, Lloyd Uliana, Leigh Wolf PHOTOGRAPHERS John Sinai, Leonard Whistler WORD PROCESSING Randy Iwata, DEPOT Alice Lorlng COVER PHOTO Leonard Whistler SPINLIST Jas Uppal ADVERTISING Mike Harding, Lloyd Uliana ADVER­ TOP DOG IN CD's FOR NW WASHINGTON!!! TISING PRODUCTION Randy Iwata SUBSCRIPTIONS/MAIL DISTRIBUTION Robynn Iwata PROGRAM GUIDE/DATE- BOOK/DELIVERY FRIEND Randy Iwata ACCOUNTS Barbara Wilson TECHNICAL SUPPORT Ted Aussem

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652 COLUMBIA STREET • NEW WESTMINSTER • 526-8675 JUST THE "FACTS" Copywrite. This band (who's about a project by someone we Dear Airhead, members include a couple of love so much? Also, Dirt has done Just lasl Friday, I had a In your article "Avant guys from SLOW) got the best of some recording, but the outcome chance to catch Jane Siberry live, Garde Artist", Rick Gibson the bunch. They were signed to of which is as yet undecided. and what an exciting perform­ wrongly criticized Lifef. e for Geffin records of L.A. and were Finally, the Smugglers should ance it was. Yet, an incident not protesting against th' lan­ basically given $25,000.00 to actually have a single oul on Get occurred lhat left me wondering gley poundkeepers shooting of record with to make the best Hip Records (The Cynics' label) what is happening to this world. dogs in the head (March 1990). damn album possible. What did come June or July. While preparing to take pictures If Gibson had checked ihe Copywrite do with the cash? of Jane, I met a rude and obnox­ facts he would have discovered They spent most of it on hot dogs, JUVENILE MASQUERADE ious speciment. He was an that Lifeforce convinced the beer and other fun stuff... besides Yo, Airhead, American photographer for a few Langley Township Council to recording costs. What is happen­ Those coming to Viola's major record companies in Can­ stop shooting pound dogs in ing with the Geffin-Copywrite defense have missed the point. ada. He told me the most de­ January 1990. If he was so con­ connection now? You got me, but Most everyone will agree that menting thing that left me pon­ cerned why didn't he protest it? there ain't no album in the near reviewers shouldn't lie about dering my self-worth. He said, The media has blown out of future, that's for sure. their opinions and that reviewers "The record companies and mu­ proportion Gibson's publicity On the brighter side of with an attitude are more inter­ sic stars couldn't careless if some stunt of crushing animals for things in the Teamworks part of esting to read. two time bit newspaper covered "art". He had no profound state­ town, Bob's Your Uncle has been However, Viola's reviews the concert." I had to question ment about art. He had no insight officially signed to a major rec­ consistently gloss over such this generalization and his moti­ into life's problem. His press ord label from L.A. so we should important elements as Music and vation for even being in the rec­ release in December 1989 made be seeing and hearing a great Performance and dwell over the ord business, maybe the title and it clear that his only goal was to follow-up LP to their first vinyl deeper questions of cloths, hair kill "small animals" as a new "art offering from Zulu back in '87. length, who knows who, and does Anyways, I was really as­ medium". Also in anticipation is a full- anyone cool-enough-to-count- tonished by his comment. I per­ I enclose the facts about this length album from Vancouver's as-human-by-Viola's-standards sonally think the university and bizarre incident. I hope you will Kings of rockabilly, the Nervous like the band, etc. It's fine that college newspapers keep the al- give the public both sides of the Fellas. The Nervous Fellas were Ms Funk's "pieces" see print, but signed a while back to Nervous as reviews, they are juvenile. They help underground bands In respect for all life, Records of England who assure Fred Maycatt wilh media coverage and support. Peter Hamilton us there won't be much more of a argue that these two bands, as zine. No one wanted lo review the P.S. I don't like Hell's Kitchen, These papers are the medium of Director of Lifeforce well as many olher bands, put out BGM record so il wasn't re­ either, but at least it doesn't communication between the I guess there isn't much tapes. But let's face it, TAPES viewed. Thai's how it works (or masquerade as something it isn't. community and the underground Thanksforthe "fads." Thepoint, point in mentioning the two new SUCK. You know it, I know it. doesn't). bands. Maybe if it wasn't for tiny however, would seem to be that album releases from both D.O.A. Take ROOTS ROUNDUP for Bobs Your Uncle's EP was PRIVILEGE AND MOTIVA­ little newspapers like the Reflec­ there was such an uproar over and Spirit of the West. Both instance. They just put out a on Criminal Records, not Zulu. TION tor, Jane Siberry might not have one ral, which was destined lo bands are now on major labels. brand new tape! What a waste! We've reviewed Curious George Dear Airhead, gotten as far as she has (just a die in the stomach of some reptil­ New Vancouver releases Tapes are nothing. They can live, reviewed their LP, and did a I am appalled by some of speculation). I just wanted to ian pet, yet unwanted dogs are have also come from'those hardly be counted anywhere past feature on them. We've given our the ignorant people who work in inform your readers lhal they still being killed, now by injec­ young, playful punks Curious the demo file. But back on track... own Nardwuar (He writes for us the record business. As a journal­ should be lucky that there are tion instead of being shot (possi­ George, on an independent label, also searching for a deal is the don't ya know. Check out his ist for a small college in Calgary, free papers to read for informa­ bly more humane, but dead is and also from CiTR's own "ga­ small but mighty Chris Houston. Cramps interview in this issue.) Alberta, I have had the privilege tion. Keep up the good work and dead), and other Sniffys continue rage king" Nardwuar the Human Whether he plans to do another coverage in the past. Wilh of reviewing alternative rock putting out creative il- to end their lives as petfood. Serviette, on his very own indie solo album or an LP with his Nardwuar being one of our own concerts and records. I have taken of Discorder. label. Curious George's LP, brand new band EVIL TWANG there is the little problem of con­ great pleasure meeting n Thank you, ITS A DIRTY JOB... "Children Of A Common (featuring Art Bergmann who's flict of interest, however. And : people. But s Nikol Mikus second solo album jusl came out, Dear Airhead, Mother" is an absolutely excel­ how can any of us be objective have come across some rude Calgary, Alberta. Ok, Discorder... you've had lent offering of really fun punk as most of you should be aware) it. I'm really sick of it now. You music in the tradition of the Sex is unknown but either would can print this as a letter to Airhead Pistols and the Stooges. I often surely be entertaining, thought or as an actual article, I don't find myself slamming with my provoking and disgusting. And care. All I know is that somebody cat when rocking to this LP. s far a s the has to do it since you people are Nardwuar's record is another vinyl happenings in Vancouver obviously so braindead-lazy you rocker but in a different sense. in the present and near-past. Next This record, entitled "Oh God, month DISCORDER will try to My Mom's On Channel Ten!" is bring you more REAL LOCAL Anyways, here it is: THE a garage-rock compilation album MOTION but will probably fail. featuring fourteen garage bands REAL LOCAL MOTION: Oh, and one more thing. Just in from all over North America. Here it is folks, the "let's case you're deaf and blind, From Vancouver, local garage bring Vancouver up to date ar­ NOMEANSNO put out they're legends, THE ENIGMAS appear, ticle" from the lame-ass Discor­ best album so far earlier this year as well as two up and coming der. This month, we'll take a look entitled "WRONG", which has garage bands THE SMUG­ at the vinyl happenings in Van­ been selling like wildfire GLERS and Nardwuar's own couver in the last while. throughout North America and band THE EVAPORATERS. Over a year ago, a big vinyl What makes this comp. really deal went down with three local special along with the variety of Vancouver bands that most hep great garage tunes is nutty inter­ Susan Ferran cats are already aware of. The view segments between songs of *** most of the released albums most talked about deal has defi­ Nardwuar "versus" such notables listed are available at local indie nitely got to be THE SCRAM­ as Jello Biafra and ex-U.S. presi­ record stores such as ZULU, BLERS and their infamous Penta dent Gerald Ford. Also included SCRATCH, or TRACK. agreement. Contrary to popular in the package is a hilarious book­ rumor the band has not been let featuring pictures and bios on So we are "braindead-lazy" and thrown off the label for being all bands included. "lame-ass," eh? And you write rude, drunk, and just downright one letter that tells all about the obnoxious. No, the execs at Penta On the smaller side of local scene. BIG FUCKING like that sorta stuff and therefore things. Dirt has been in the studio DEAL. Once is never enough, so THE SCRAMBLERS album has lately recording a soon-to-be- put up or shut up. Ifn you got not been shafted! The record is released EP. Also in midst of whal il lakes, do something on a just a mere six months- late and album making is the aforemen­ regular basis rather than an oh- counting... Second in the deal tioned garage-rock outfit THE so-easy one off potshot. was BRUNO GERUSSI'S ME­ SMUGGLERS. Other bands like But about your specific DALLION who was signed to the HARD ROCK MINERS and points... Why is the Scramblers WEA Records and have since put SARCASTIC MANNEQUINS record soooo late then? Could it out a garage-pop type LP entitled are holding back from the indie- be that Penta lost its distribution "In Search Of The Fourth Chord" thing, in search of a minor-major deal with Elektra in the U.S., and and is a great offering of fun deal (with no pun intended). tunes. But we wouldn't know that the whole future of the record right? God knows DISCORDER I kinda wish these bands label and its acts is up in the air. didn't review the album! would" put out an indie record so The unpaid individuals who we can have something to listen contribute to Discorder deler- The last band was to while we wait! Yes, one could of the maga- ARE THE BEST FUCKING BAND IN THE WORLD WITH YOUR HOST NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE

By phone Irom Marseilles France: But they've never been upset that you and Country in London was great. There took their song or played it in concert or was a band called Ug and the Cavemen Who are the Cramps? anything like that. Like Hazil Adkins? who dress up like cavemen, barefoot with Nick Knox, Poison Ivy, Candy Del Mar, No, they should be honored that we cov­ leopard skin print things, and do all, like, and Lux Interior. ered their songs and credit them. I can't cavemen songs. They do "Go Gorilla," What is the bands' average age? imagine why somebody would be mad "Be a Caveman," all these covers, cave­ The line goes dead. about something like that. They would man things. have to be out of their minds. The only This incredible Elvis impersonator, By phone from L.A.: thing I heard about someone being mad that was a Vegas guy who's living in was Rufus Thomas because "Can Your England. I guess it's a tax problem or Hey Ivy, remember I was trying to talk to Pussy Do The Dog?" is inspired by his something. That was a good opening act. ya before? song "Can your Monkey do the Dog?" and Ya, I called you from Marseilles and I was I think he didn t like the obscene way that How did the Cramps all meet? Were you, just getting a bunch of noise. I couldn't we rolled 'Ihe Dog." like, in a record store and were you, like, hear your voice, only a very loud scream­ both looking at a rare Hazil Adkins single, ing squeak! .~- How did ya find the song "The Crusher" and both trying to grab it at the same by '60s burn-outs the Novas? time? Now that you are back from your Euro We got it off a compilation album that we No. Actually, when we met Candy Del pean tour where are you now? had found in England, while we were at Mar, we were trying to grab a parking spot In Los Angeles. Miles Copeland's (I.R.S. founder and atthe same time. We were in a parking lot Stewart's brother} house. We were stay­ of a liquor store, and they didn't have Have the Crampimps eveXbeever beet n to Vant^l^ ing there cause we were going to be play­enough parking spots for the store, and before? ing at the Lyceum in London. iB^ we were both kind of challenging each Oh yeah, lotss of i times We bought the record in the after­ other for the parking spot. And then she noon, went home and played it on his recognized me and Lux and that's how we When was your first time her«$f *|j| record player, and decided to play it that met. Oh boy, let me think, it was probably '81 night at the Lyceum. Everybody figured Nick, we've known forever, it seems. or '82. Ya, the first time in Vancouver m out it was pretty close to Drug Train" so We were introduced to him from a friend played the Commodore Ballroom. One of that we already kind of knew it, and that's of ours from Cleveland who knew Nick the things I remember is the guy brought We first Hme we did it, the same day we and knew we needed a drummer. me a... the guitar I'd been playing was a bought the record. Lewis which was a Canadian make and I'd Wasn't Nick in a band called the Electric never seen another one. I found an ad fer Are there many Cramps bootlegs around? Eels? another one when I was in Vancouver and Seems like about a hundred. Ya, he was in the Electric Eels, and this this guy carried the guitar down to the gig guy Bradley, who's dead now, introduced to show it to me, and I bought it. Does the sight of om cause anger to run us to him. rampant through your body? So you have a piece of a Vancouver in­ Well, to some degree because they ex­ Didn't Nick's brother also once play in the strument them? ploit our fans. They're usually horrible Cramps? Ido. My Lewis; it's a great guitar. It'swhat quality, they cost$30anti up, and they're His cousin Ike did. I played "Surfin' Dead" on. { packaged in a deliberately misleading way. A lot of our fans want to own every That was after Brian Gregory left? You've covered a few old ancient rock- song we ever covered, so what the boot­ Oh, way after. That was after Kid for | abilly tunes and stuff like that. Do any old leggers will do is re-titte them. They'll awhile, and then we had another guy play­ I fat rockabilly guys come up to you and get give a new title to a previous song of ours.ing, Click Mort, and then Ike played with | mad that perhaps you're "borrowing" They'll call "Psychotic Reaction," "A Walkus again for a tour. He was just helping us 8 their tunes? Down Broadway" or they'll call "Bacon out kind of as a favour 'cause we didn't •j* No, I've never had anybody bet mad. t Fat," "Big and Fat" and these are all delib­ have anyone to tour with. o don't think what we do should provoke erate attempts to suck money off our I, them to be mad, 'cause we are honoring fans. What other guitarists have the Cramps j them. We've met some rockabilly guys churned out since Kid Congo? '5 from what we do. We've met Sleepy La Have you had any interesting opening Ike Knox, Click Mort... We've had various | Beef, we 've met Ursel Hickey and there'sact s lately? people hired, like Fur, who played with us J a lot more I'd like to meet. Yeah, the show we just did at the Town for two months. Actually, before Kid was 6 DISCORDER a girt called Julian Grindsnatch and she's kno w. But it tva. just kind of meaningless / liked the one... I think it's done now, Maybe Tm shy. Lux, when did ya first star to sing and yell, in the "Urgh" movie with us. to keep saying the Cramps, 'cause I was "Sleazoid Express" was a good one. I also and become a crazy rock 'n' roller? producing them. like the little magazine that Hollywood Are there any movie or TV appearances Well, when I was very young my brother Were you and Lux from Cleveland origi­ Book and Poster puts out. coming up for the Cramps in the future. used to play "You're Cheatin' Heart" on nally? Have any other artists requested your What about "Kicks Magazine"? Yeah, actually today! We're doing a TV the piano and I remember that was the No, Lux is from Akron and Nick is from producership? That one is a little too anthroplogical, kind thing today for a show called "After first song I sang. "St. Louis Blues," was Cleveland. We 've produced friends of ours from backof like from the Margaret Mead point of Hours." And we do a lot of television in another song I sang, just at home with my East, the Mad Daddys, a group from New view of "Look what I dug up." They're not Europe. brother playing piano, and then I sang And what about yourself, Poison Ivy? Jersey, and another New Jersey group like the people they write about. "Hey Jip!" with a band called the Perpet­ Umm, I'm from... many places, mainly... I called the Sickidz. Who do you think is the Cramps' biggest ual Davenport... and that's all I remember was in Sacramento when I met Lux hitch­ Don't you have some association in the critic? before the Cramps. hiking. Are the Sickidz still around? shady past, dear Ivy, with Miriam from / have no idea. I'm not sure that we would No, they're not. There's a group no< "Kicks Magazine"? pay that much attention to the Cramps' Do you think you need a bit of training to Then did you just decide to form a band called Pink Slip biggest critic. do vocals? right off the bat? Daddy with some of No, you need training if you're gonna be a No, we didn't do that for a while. We were the members, and I What is the most crooner. just pretty much interested in each other. think they just came mis-matched gig out with a new re­ the Cramps have So you did have training? Did the New York Dolls, in any way, in­ lease. ever played. Like No, I didn't have any training. spire Lux and yourself to get a band to­ you guys playing gether? Are they a big influence on the What about Enigma with Depeche Mode How about Ivy, did she get much rock 'n' Cramps? Records, are they or New Order? rolling guitaring lessons before she Oh huge. We love the Dolls. We saw themtreatin g the Cramps Umm, probably a started? a bunch of times, and I think that was nicely? Hopefully show we did in Dal­ No, she's really smart. She just learned it really the final band that made the Crampsthe y are paying for las Texas once, at by listening to records. form. I think that was one of the best this phone call, some small club. bands there ever was. right? We were sand­ What was you r first studio attempt? I was We have an unusual wiched in between looking at a song on the record "Rock­ What do you think of what Buster Poin- deal, even a lot of two bands that both abilly Psychosis and the Garage Dis- dexter is doing now? major artists don't were, like, huge cease." Was that yer first venture? If he's happy what he's doing, I guess he's have the kind of deal guys with beards. No, that was the second time we were in earned it from having been in the Dolls. we do. They've given We were the middle the studio, and that was when we re­ Tm certainly not interested in that par­ us complete artistic bill, and the open­ corded "Gravest Hits." But the song ticular thing that he's doing now. But he is freedom, and not ing act and the you're referring to, "Red Headed David Johansen, and the Dolls really did only at our request, headline act did Women," was a much better recording something special, something magic. but they really want Jimi Hendrix songs when we recorded it. Later on Jim Dickin­ us to have it. I think and Doobie Broth­ son added synthesizer to it and all kinds Who did the Cramps play their first gig they really feel we 've ers songs. And we of little funny noises. I don't like that with? proven something were in the middle version very much. The original version is of that in Texas, and The first real gig we did was with Suicide, by now, so it's a nice just the four of us and him playing piano, we were not wel­ a band out of New York that used to play position to be in. I and him singing, and that's good. But I come there... that pretty frequently in the late 70s. We were mean they really are don t like that synthesizer shit! was kind of fright­ kind of a regular co-bill with Suicide; getting behind us; ening. they'd headline and we'd open for them. us doing what we Why did you move to L.A. The Great We also played with the Ramones a lot in do. They're not Hollywood? trying to change us. New York. I was wondering 'Cause I love L.A. It's a real great city. They seem to be Ivy, do you think Outside of Spain, I wouldn't think of any taking us quite seri­ You guys were featured in that video "Live that John F. Ken­ place else I'd like to live these days. Ex­ ously, and I appreci­ at Knappa State Mental Hospital," Was nedy possibly was cept I do like Vancouver. Vancouver's ate it. that a real show? murdered by awful nice, except I don't know much Ya, it was. Richard Nixon and more about it, except what ya see when Hallucinogens? CIA? you're here for a couple of days. How did that get arranged? Have they ever Boy, I don't know / dunno, I think at that time it was Howie played a part in the anything about that. Yvonne De Carlo is from Vancouver. Klein or somebody in San Francisco that Cramps act? Tm afraid that's not / know that. set that up. Wejustshowed up and played. I suppose that's just one of my big de­ It was a real gig. one of our many in­ partments. And Eroll Flynn died in the British Proper­ fluences. I mean, ties of a cocaine overdose with his fifteen An incredible show it was, featuring a lot we've all done them, American politics? year old lover. of Brian Gregory on guitar. Where is he so you can't turn back on that. There's no She was a drummer, briefly, in the Ya, I don't think Tm too authoritative on I have a great movie of him and his fifteen nowadays? Is he still around L.A. or Hol­ going backwards there. So that's defi­ Cramps, a long time ago. At that particu­ that one way or another. year old lover called "Cuban Rebel Girls." lywood? nitely an influence. lar time she disliked rockabilly. She didn t It's pretty boring but that girl is a real No, not at all. We haven't kept in touch for like the music that we make, or she was What about Canadian politics? knockout. about ten years. We're not friends. Poison Ivy, what is your favorite Poison? putting it down all the time. All she liked / know even less. Oh my... was the Dictators and various new bands. Did Brian Gregory... Was he a bad boy to the Cramps? Now she writes about rockabilly and says Do you know who the Prime Minister of / don't answer any questions about him. We're not friends. C'mon you know the answer. she loves it, so beats me. Canada is? No, I don't. No, I don't. What movies have the Cramps been fea­ A few years ago you recorded "Songs the One evening in Hollywood do you go out tured in? Lord Taught Us" at Sam C. Phillips' Stu­ and groove to the scene, and check out Thanksforyour time, Poison Ivy, see ya in Uhh, none that I'd care to say anything dio. Is he still alive? new bands at all? Vancouver! about. We've been in some movies but He certainly is. He's alive and very kick­ Not very much. We mainly kind of have Bye. we'd rather make our own movie. ing, very youthful, young. I think he's a Strychnine! our own little world here at home. We go vampire, 'cause he looks younger now Only in moments of supreme faith. Actu­ out once in a while, but basically keep to "Near Dark"? than he did in the '50s. ally, we just came from Spain and we wereourselves. Backstage at the heavily securitized Yeah, that was a good movie. I like that. really hoping, but we didn't have time, to Commodore Ballroom April 12th: That's the way vampires should really be. Where was "Stay Sick" recorded? find some absinthe there, 'cause it's What about Hollywood's favourite chil­ They're all Hell's Angels really. All vam­ We laid the tracks down at a studio called something that's very hard to get except dren, Redd Kross; are they sort of the After a mind-boggling Cramps show pires today are Hell's Angels. Music Grinder in Hollywood, which is a in Spain and parts of Europe. I've never bastard heavy metal sons of the Cramps? in which the band played every single great studio. It has this huge room, I think tried it, so I was kind of intrigued by that. They're good. I dunno if they are any of tune off "Stay Sick!," complemented by Here's an appropriate question, Lux Inte­ it used to be a brewery or some kind of those things, but they're a fun band and I old standards like "Primitive," "Mystery rior. Do the Cramps give many inter­ factory. It just looks almost like an aircraft Who is Kurt Perkheiser? dig watching them. Plane," "Tear it Up," "Psychotic Reac­ views? hanger; it's all wood and concrete. We I don't know. tion" and "You've Got Good Taste," I Well, I dunno mixed at a studio called Record One, And Mick Jagger and Ray Davies, have managed to lasso Lux into answering a which is a studio owned by Ocean Way, Who is Chris Wallace? you ever met those two L.A. faves? few Crampsian questions. Yes, Lux Inte­ Because I want the scoop. I want the which is really the best studio in Holly­ / dunno. I don't want to answer those No, I haven't. rior, the lead singer who earlier in the Cramps scoop. Like, everyone around wood, in LA., maybe in the world. questions, they're rude. evening had sweated up a storm, punked town is doing Cramps articles, can you Do you ever express a desire to? out, fondled his leather "uniform" and give me the Cramps scoop. Like a one This time, you, Poison Ivy, produced the Reading is fun and healthy. Do you have No, not particularly. I certainly admire even rolled around in mock sexual posi­ liner, give it to me please, Lux! Don't Cramps? any fanzines that you, like, browse Ray Davies a lot, but I almost don't feel a tions with a very willing, plasticized Van­ make me work for it. / really have on all, to some degree, you through? need to meet people I really admire. couver human barbie-doll. There's no Cramps scoop. MAY 1990 7 MAY CONCERTS CiTR 101.9 fM Presents WEA Recording Artists THE CHILLS from New Zealand with special guests WEA Re i cording Artists ELEVENTH DREAM DAY from Chicago

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POPULATION • THIRTEEN • STATUE PARK « I IDIOT SAVANT 1 SECOND NATURE TOWN PUMP 66 Water Street Gastown An Interview with Phranc music out there that's very good and very sincere and that song seriously? I mean, you'd have to be pretty racism and homophobia aren't things that disappear. by Andrei LvpiniLupin tod Peter Lgtwyche then there are always those people that're gonna jump unconscious to swallow that one whole. There's a lot The song is still very contemporary, and it's sad. | earing Phnnc live, eilher in concert on the bandwagon. After doing wha! I've been doing of humour in my voice. Even though I'm singing the i different for so long, wanting a folk thing to happen for so long, original lyrics, you can tell I'm cracking up when I'm You're Jewish, and you're lo listening to her rec- just when I had given up all hope, all of a sudden it's singing. I do it as a consciousness-raising number. seiual politics. What's your standpoint on Middle East | oeds. She is i story-telling folk the fad. I take a poke at myself in that song too, because They play "I Enjoy Being A Girl" on Muzak a lot, too. politics? such, she worb best my first album was called "Folk Singer." That came It's a very popular show tune ofthe '50s. Doris Day did I don't think either party is right. I think Israel is wrong | in intimate live situations. Whilst out in '85, before the term had struck, and it was very it and Pat Suzuki. a lot of the time. I've been working on a song about Gher billing_ As < "Lesbia n Jewish Peminist with i difficult tob e sitting there not being able toge t a this. I grew up in a nice, white, middle class Jewish severe flattop ind combat boots" leids to expectations record out, no one taking me seriously, and all of a How did the album cover come about? family, where they sell Israel bonds at temple on the of in mgry, confrontational performer, in reality she is sudden Wow! it's the folk music revival! Everybody I really wanted to do a spoof on all these teen idol high holidays, Israel is the promised land, the land of open, honest ind yes, frink, but into cotnmunicition wants to be a folk singer. covers. Those gorgeous covers of the late '50s and milk and honey - Israel can do no wrong. Israel was rather thin confrontation. We Hiked to Phnnc when '60s, which were so beautiful and I just thought it perfect in my mind. It's the way I grew up and I she wis list in Vancouver in January, before her show How important is it to you to advertise yourself as a would be a lot of fun since the first record was so stark, swallowed it whole. at the Town Pump. lesbian Folk Sin|er"? so black and white. It wasn't until not very long ago I had a political I don't feel that I advertise myself. I feel that I let discussion with a friend,an d they said, "How can you Are your audiences getting bigger? people know that I identify. My music isn't exclu­ In your song "Take Off Your Swastika" you criticize be so Wind?" I said "What do you mean? I'm a Jew, Yeah. Well, after ten years of opening for other people sively for lesbians, most of it has nothing to do with my people who wear swastikas as fashion accessories. Israel is it." Then I had my eyes opened up to the situ­ and trying to win them over into my audience most of sexuality. My sexuility is not i bigger part of me than The Cult recently got into trouble in the UK because ation- fightingan d killing each other over a piece of the time, I have a pretty good mix, land. which is my favorite - just to have a And when I was at the Vancou­ very eclectic mishmash of all kinds ver Folk Festival I met a woman there, a yiddish folk singer, an Auschwitz survivor, and she lived You opened for The Smiths, that audi­ in Israel for fifteenyear s and she ence would be quite different from moved back to East Germany be­ your usual audience. cause she couldn't live in a country Well, now people are coming to where the Israelis did to the Pales­ shows where I'm headlining and tinians what the Germans did to the saying, "I saw you at The Smiths." I Jews. That just hit me. That was think it's really important to play for really, really powerful. ill different audiences - making myself available and accessible tog o What does being Jewish mean to out on tour and support other acts. you? It's often really a challenge for me to It's a sense of family, and tradition, win over someone's tudience, but it that I love. I don't focus on how mi- only benefits me to try ind build my sogynous the Jewish religion can tudience ind expand my ludienoe to be, or all the places where women include everyone. are excluded in Judaism.

Do you still get nervous before you Often lesbian women talk of aliena­ perform? tion from the family because of the I always get nervous but I've come i choices they made. You talk of love long wiy. Years ago I used to get and support It can't have been easy nervous when I woke up on the morn­ for your family to accept the choices ing of a show. I'd look at my clock that you made. and go, 'Ten hours 'til soundebeck!" It's been a long time. I've been out It was just hell! But the minute I'm on for fifteen years as a lesbian. I came stage I'm okay. It all goes away, I'm out when I was seventeen, moved comfortable. out of the house because I couldn't be a lesbian in their home. I spent a Who do you listen to? lot of time and a lot of energy com­ I listen to Van Morrison, They Might municating with my family, and Be Giants. I'm a big fan of k.d.'s. through a lot of work on both our When I'm in my car I listen toto p parts I'm very close to my family forty country radio. I like it because today. But it did not come easily and there's a lot of humour. it didn't happen overnight. I've redeveloped my relation­ Do you listen to any children's art­ ship with my grandfather in the past ists? two years. My grandmother would I like Raffia lot I'd like to do a kids' always take me aside and I could record one day, or do a little tour of always identify with her when no kids' bookstores or something. one else would have anything to do with me. She was always there. When you write a song like "Bloo­ Since my grandmother died it's dbath,*' where do you start from? been very difficult (for my grandfa­ Emotion. That song comes fromfeel ­ ther), and I found myself just being ing helpless and angry. Because there all the time, being very in­ whether I like it or not, it doesn't volved with the funeral, being close really matter that I'm a woman, that I'm a lesbian, that my hair or my shoes. You can see my hair or my shoes. Billy Duffy wore a swastika T-shi with my family and being with my grandfather. My I'm treated as a minority. I live in a country that does When I was growing up, there were very few and Ian Astbury has stated that he enjoys "Nazi chic." grandmother had been sick for a long time, and last ha- nothing to help the black people in South Africa, and lesbians that were out, and I thought I was the only one. Does this depress you, given the huge popularity of The nukkah my grandfather took me aside and put his arms I'm white, so I'm the oppressor. I'm part of the prob­ So I've made a commitment to just be out I feel good Cult amongst young audiences? around me, gave me a kiss and he said "Sorry." My lem, what can I do to be part of the solution? about who I am. I have received a lot of support from Saying that it's acceptable in a fashion sense is being grandfather is not a man who apologises and will never the women's community and I've made it my job to go completely ignorant ofthe historical symbolism of the admit that he's wrong. He said that he loved me. 1 still Do you see yourself as someone with a political out in that big world and just be who I am, come out as swastika. They're not stupid people, they're very smart get choked up thinking about it. We've become very agenda, who jut happened to start singing? people, and it's very irresponsible. That's what's dif­ close and he's proud of me now. No, I'm a folk singer. I write songs that tell stories. I think young people should have a chance to ficult to swallow -if you're a performer in public, with That's the music I grew up listening to, the records that grow up and be whoever they are, whether they're a lot of younger audiences, you know people look up You're optimism is impressive. Is it because you have my folks had when I was a kid. The music was always heterosexual or gay or lesbian, and know that they can to you and there's a lot of Cult fans who are gonna get a referencepoin t to a time when things were wane? very simple, and really a vehicle for the lyric; and my have happy and productive lives. It's frustrating to me [swastika] T-shirts so that they can be cool. I'm not happy (about the state ofthe world), and I'm music is really very simple. I'm not a fancy guitarist; that most of the time the media chooses tofocu s on my When I was in punk bands in LA, which is angry, and I get frustrated, and I feelsmall , and the it's really a vehicle for the lyric. I feel very comfort­ sexuality more than my music. And that's the price I'm where I wrote the song from direct personal experi­ world can't change fast enough for me. But I've able with the folk format and the ballad. I think it's an paying. ence, I had people all around me wearing swastikas learned, I think, tochalleng e it I'm just as angry but it excellent way to communicate and to tell stories. 'cause it made the old people in the street mad, 'cause doesn't always work when I'm communicating tob e You sing "I Enjoy Being a Girl" almost completely it pissed their parents off; they got a reaction -I think that angry. It's easier and more effective to channel my What do you dunk of the current popularity of folk straight. The humour comes in because we know who's it gave them a sense of power. These weren't stupid anger in maybe different ways, add more humour, deal music? You took a swipe at the image in your song singing it How would you feeli f that song started people either. The song was written in rage. Being a with issues in a way that doesn't hit people over the "Folk Singer." What do you think of Tracy Chapman? letting airplay without the commentary - does it worry Jew, being a lesbian, the swastika to me is a symbol of bead, in a way that lets them open up, think about an I think she does a good job. I think she's a positive you? absolute oppression and death. When I perform this issue without shoving the issue in their face. It's hard example for young women. I think there's a lot of No, because I think in this day and age who can take song I talk about how fascism and anti-semitism and not to [shove the issue in their face] sometimes. ^^^BH fllr Er/* flu a •if! im/k ih\ 'fA«^» *w^B ^C$i&2f______P^5 t , _j_-_j_P^- "t 10 DISCORDER 22SES_* wiPUPrW *t J

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RECORDS • CDS • CASSETTES RAP » REGGAE » POP » HOUSE » JAZZ « SOUL « ROCK » BLUES "It seems to be some sort of neoclassical thing again band. There's only two people who actually stick their mugs on the cov­ and music at the moment is now at the point where ers (Ellard and Jones), but there are it's trying to justify itself" a lot of people who pick and choose the stuff including the people who I work with at Volition Records (Australia). I record a lot of stuff and then we sit around and work on what's going to turn up under the banner. The conditions are that it has to have been the sort of stuff that we're putting out now. But there's certainly other material that can be used. The reasons for the change are reasonable. Number one, experi­ mentation for experimentation pur­ poses is a wank. You experiment to find the things that you find person­ ally satisfying and then you explore them. I am personally satisfied with the sort of nuances that I'm working with now on "Rotund For Success." On earlier records I really feel like there's a hand pointing down and going, "Hey, this is wacky, this is by Lloyd Uliana interesting, wow, they're using this Join the Rhythm of Machines.Fridays 12:30-4:00 AM technique. It's very futurist, wow, I haven't heard anything like that." "A machine... the definition of a machine is a very broad one. That's fine for a while, bul if you Anyone who has used a spade is using a machine and to keep on doing that you're a wanker. criticize shovelling snow as being less fluid and artistic be­ Those little hands have to be swept cause the person didn't get down and use their hands is a sort away. of spurious criticism. To extend that a long way, I'm using a Every little sound on "Rotund very basic connection here, but the machine is simply a tool. For Success" has actually got just as much work and detail input into it It's just an extension of your arm. It's an extension of your but it's not with neon signs all over brain. it. Rotund has a lot of really strange If you really want to look at the Ellard: It's an ignorant question in a ways of coming about sounds, but whole position, you can say that your lot of ways. A lot of people say, we're not advertising it anymore. body is a machine that is run by your "Why don't you sound like Bruce mind or your soul or whatever. It's Springsteen?," you know, bij very much about where you see rocky. You ha D: "Big Car" sounds really philo­ yourself and your work starting and Bruce^m^^ sophical ("Here are sights I may not ending. I see myself starting with machines see / Shine a light on me / Here are ideas and the ideas of oth_ ingsteen paths I may not tread / Shine a light work with and going throi icing packages as I used to do on me") What's it all about? lot of machines. Not only HHH nusic He produces his stuff. I sizers and stuff, but the P<9^^H> produce my < There's nothing work with and yourself fori \E: None of the songs are about any­ machine; and the tour you vague way of thing particularly specific. When on is a machine. done. It's <;._%>u disguise real world situations, The whole process of i saying, "I they sound philosophical. That's all sort of machine and I don't philosophy is, anyway; taking a these machines are different elcept problem in the real world and tum- their usage is very poxy. Peoph D generalities. use synthesizers don't often try 'A lot of the songs I'm writing at get to know each machine very the moment just tend to be about They just acquire more of t what you'd really like to be doing which is crazy! Completely craz; with your life and the reality of it. That's why you get so much nothinj Lifafts so short and you really should music around." >t going for it, but you just don't Tom Ellard is Severed Heads. A |it around to it. Then you wake up seemingly permanent fixture on rand you're old. "Big Car" and dance music charts in recent years "Greater Reward" and all these with such singles as "Big Car," "All pletely aT>iu4_JISince the Accident," "Dead Eyes and that's a big preoccupation, I use of synthesizers (i.e. machines) Opened," "Blubberknife") and ap­ suppose, on my part. carries with it a lack of spontaneity pear occasionally on "Come Visit and instinct. Ellard and video-origi­ the Big Bigot" and "Bad Mood Guy." nator/mixer/cohort Stephen Jones Do you have any intentions of ever D: It's hip to dance again and the opened their Rotund For Success pursuing that style again? corporate labels see dance music as Tour (with MC 900 FT Jesus) in some sort of saviour. Where do you Vancouver in early March. Lloyd see it heading in the '90s? Uliana met up with Sydney, Austra­ E: Yes, yes. That stuff is still being lia's Tom Ellard. recorded. The band is a very large E: What's going on at the 12 DISCORDER some folk music revival. That's what have you reply with some opinions Nitzer Ebb. Nitzer Ebb don't seem to the majors are playing at anyway. on them, alright? have much of a sense of humour to The majors have found folk music as First off, Depeche Mode. them. some sort of saving mechanism which means they don't have to E: They write great singles and their support dance music. Dance music albums are terrible. The albums are D: Midnight Oil. was the thing that was going to keep really stodgy but the singles are quite them going, but it's tricky and can­ nice. They write nice pop songs. By E: There's two aspects to Midnight tankerous, whereas folk music you all accounts they go on about world Oil. Aspect number one is the songs can get everyone into it from six peace and love, but basically, they 're which again, I find really dull. It's years old to sixty years old. just rock and roll attitude. "Save the like "Johnny B. Goode" and vari­ I think dance music is going lo trees, chicks after the show." ations on that sort of sound with a become more and more of a ghetto. I I think Daniel Miller, the pro­ couple of English producers thrown don't have much confidence in it. ducer, is the real star of that particu- Obviously some people could come along and correct me quite wisely in that respect. There's so much stuff "That's all philosophy is, anyway; taking a problem which is just like turning on a drum in the real world and turning it into generalities." machine and away you go. There's quite a legitimate concern: "Why am I buying this stuff... fuck it all off!" lar exploit. It's particularly more And then there's the political There is good stuff going on in pleasant than most music, so thumbs aspect of it. A Midnight Oil concert dance music, but it's going down the up to Depeche Mode. is basically the big bald guy up on google hole with all the bad stuff. stage going "Fuck the Americans" It's like the indie punk stuff of the and everyone in the audience going late '70s. There was lots of really D: Einsturzende Neubauten. "Fuck the Americans" like "Sieg nice singles around then, but there heil, sieg heil." It's like a political was just so much schlock that after a E: I just find the whole sort of thing right wing rally with all these bald while you just didn 't feel like buying dull. In Australia there's this joke; it guys in the audience and the bald guy it anymore. All these sorts of poxy goes, "I've got spiders crawling up on stage. The words are good but the bands that came along at the end of my anus." 'Cause there was this band way they are forced makes it who thought they were Neubauten sloganeering. and this line came along: "I've got If you' ve got space in a newspa­ spiders crawling up my anus!" Eve­ per you've got media access for one D: It just seems that the line between ryone just laughed and left. They're reason and they exploit it for other what is considered underground a "spiders crawling up my anus" reasons. Not so much Midnight Oil dance music and what is mainstream band... bash-bash-bash-bash-aagh!- because I do believe that Peter Gar­ dance music is disintegrating. For bash-bash-bash-bash-aagh! It's fine, rett in his political activities in Aus­ instance, not in this country, but but I'm not interested at all. tralia has earned some respect for his certainly in the US, support for the thinking. Severed Heads has allowed for But there's this band that did a crossover into the Billboard charts. D: Nit: rEbb. Vietnam veteran's song and they got their half page in the entertainment E: Yes, but crossing over into Bill­ E: I just find there's something miss­ section. It was all about a Royal board doesn't really signify all that ing. Half a record. The record I have Commission that was going on for much. It means more within the in­ should have been done at two levels. the Vietnam veterans. And they're dustry than it does to the average You could buy the CD and there saying, "It's all lies. The vets are listener. As far as the average lis­ should have been another CD with right. The government's lying. Blah tener is concerned, we don't exist. all the melodies that you could play blah." The commission hadn't fin­ For our fans, I suppose they just see along with it. It's really DAF all over ished. None of the findings had come that we've softened and with the out and yet here was some bunch of softness has come more attention. DAF were sort of kitschy and dildoes coming on saying, "We We have softened in a way, but that's that was nice. They had that big sort know. We're a band, we know." And only part of it. That's the ice cream of brutal guy - "Roar! Roar!"- and they're getting media space. That on top of the rock. they get the little girlie singing and sort of thing's just got to be stomped Music...you start off with con­ stuff. That was more funny than on like cockroaches. straints and the constraints become less and less and then it becomes options and then it gets to a point where it's almost mandatory to be as grotesque and overbearing as pos­ sible. You've seen it in painting, where you've gone from very stud­ ied portraiture over to all sorts of bullshit, basically. People just started throwing paint at a canvas and saying, "There you go." Then they've tried to justify that by saying the act of throwing the paint has a legitimacy. Then people started call­ ing the bluff and it is just garbage. It seems to be some sort of neoclassical thing again and music at the moment is now at the point where it's trying to justify itself.

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16 DISCORDER You have a dislike for Canada Cus­ out. It takes time for me to master theatre, fortunately, as far as I re­ so high - that would go to the Sloan- through their bookstore. toms. I was wondering why? these films, video masters, and to member, 'cause it was part of a Kattering Institute - that he couldn't No, there's only a few bookstores Why, your whole structure is ar­ have the time. And now I've done it, midnight show series, I don't re­ possibly afford me. I don't like Mr. that are buying it, because I don't chaic. In censorship, in stickers that but it still isn't out. It's ready for member the motorman's punch. I Waters, I don't like his films, and I give any discounts. They have to have to be on videos, particularly German television. Someday it will seem to remember the pubic hair don't like what he does when he pay. The consumer would have to Russ Meyer's. It's almost run like a be on video. When I'm ready, when remaining intact. interviews you. pay more than a hundred and thirty- police state. Police can knife in, and I get rid of my book, BRM, the Well, I don't know who had the print, Okay. eight fifty. But by and large the book­ knock over a guy's store and im­ "Breast of Russ Meyer," and do a but we had some difficulty with a Now, who else do we hit? stores just want to own it. pound his video cassettes, the whole sufficiency of fishing, then it will schlock operator out of Montreal When does your video come out? You take a certain amount of strin­ shebang. come out. I just don't feel like doing showing my pictures without justifi­ Of what? gent quality in the way your films Well, it's not really quite like that. it now. I have the master done, but I cation. So a lot of my films have been Of "The Breast of Russ Meyer." look. As you were saying earlier, I'll put it this way: I cannot release haven't the time to devote to distrib­ shown in 16mm. We had a Canadian When I'm ready. the transfer of the videos has to be my films in Canada. uting it. Have cassette boxes made distributor who had been licensed by How long do you expect it to run? good for videotape. I've talked Have you tried? and all that. I have more important an American whom I am seeking to I don't know, maybe a year, maybe with a couple of people who have Yes, we've tried to release them, and things to do. incarcerate. The Canadian distribu­ two years, maybe five years, who worked with you on transfers and feel that there'll be no problem. It's You've just sold some films to Ger­ tor seems to be an alright guy, you knows. I've got many other things to they say you're a real stickler for the poorest market, short of Korea, man television? know, submitting a lot of evidence to do. detail. that I have experienced. We don't sell them. We let them me where the pictures have played in Do you know what the running Quality. What was the problem with the have license to show them in West 16mm. time of it would be? Quality. This goes through all of Koreans. your videotapes? They're thieves. Yes, they're all handled the same Well in the future, would you ever way. They cost a great deal. "Motor consider releasing your films in Psycho," for example, cost nearly Canada if the problems were 4500 dollars, four thousand five cleared up? hundred dollars US, transferred from Sure, I'd release them in Canada. film to one-inch masters. It's in a We've dealt with this, my distributor vault and it will sit there. The Ger­ and I, for too damn long, with what mans have their master, that's all I was her name, Mary Brown, the woman who had two-foot long feet... The Germans, when are the Ger­ You're talking about the, uh... mans going to be showing their ...built like a hoe handle. No, no, I film? don't take any heart from this. I They're going to be showing it later encounter your people always at this year. They're going to pay trade shows. They have the same roughly a million dollars to show story, "Oh if we could just get your them twice, ten features, no cuts, films up there." I only had one guy starting with "Mr. Teas," up through who had the balls, and I can't re­ and including "Vixens," no cuts; you member his name. He bought forty know, at the time that little Hans is cassettes, but he had to have them down eating his strudel and his shipped to his brother-in-law in wurst, at eight o'clock at night, atthe Kentucky, then brought them across family hour. the frontier in the boot of his car. So Well, that's always pleasing. Let's I have a total negative attitude to­ see, how do you feel when film crit­ wards your Customs, and your cus­ ics and fans attach symbolic mean­ toms. ing to your work? Well, from my own research just Well, I think it's fine. Whatever they before I came to meet you, I sort of want to say, it's great; all these kinds agree with what you're saying, in of ideas as to what Meyer's trying to terms ofthe censorship, because I say. found a couple ofthe rules in their Some ofthe more well-known film guidelines to be very ridiculous, critics in North America feel that concerning anal sex, or the sugges­ "You have the Meyer obsession, the obsession for tits. Big tits. Meyer's obsession for you are the only true auteur of the tion of anal sex. And I used "Be­ satire, the send-up. Nobody makes a better Russ Meyer picture than Russ Meyer." cinema. Russ, have you always neath the Valley of the Ultravix- found it difficult to give some of ens," as an example. And the Germany. They will show ten films, I guess because of things like this It used to be about seventeen hours, your creative powers to others? Canada Customs guy said, "No, uncut. That's a ritualistic thing for motorman's punch essentially de­ probably four hours. I've got much You have the Meyer obsession, the I'm sorry, they talk about it." me. If you have to cut, don't play it. stroying what you envisioned for work to do, much work. And I don't obsession for tits. Big tits. Meyer's And it's best to forget it. I'm not I just sold one to Finland. No cuts; the screen, I guess this is one of the feel like working. You see, you've obsession for satire, the send-up. No­ going to lose any sleep over it. The "Supervixens," the bathtub stomp, reasons why we're not going to be got to be hungry in the film business, body makes a better Russ Meyer hell with it. Occasionally a brave the dynamite up the ass, all of that. seeing "The Breast of Russ to work hard, and I'm only working picture than Russ Meyer. soul will send his money and we'll Canada though, oh. You know what Meyer." on the book. That's my only interest There used to be a little running send him a cassette, and it goes. We we had to do when we showed Oh, you couldn't handle that, no way at the moment. gag through some of your films in­ don't send it UPS or anything, we "Supervixens" on screen? could you handle that, there's so And when do you expect the book volving Martin Bormann. send it regular mail, certify that it's a No, I don't. much pubic hair. There's even a to come out? Yes, regrettably, the gentleman, video cassette, and they get them. We had to punch out the nether re­ hardcore sequence with me and Kit­ I don't know, I won't say any more. Henry Roland, passed on over the We had one guy in B.C. that didn't gions of all the girls, pubic hair, with ten Natividad. Oh no, you haven't When it's ready. Great Divide. I used him because of get his. what we would call in the United got a chance, a ghost of a chance. It's When it's ready. incorporating him originally in "Be­ Really? States a motorman's punch. Like just concentrated tits and sex, unre­ Yep. yond the Valley of the Dolls," and Sent it twice. Each time the eagle- they used to have on buses and street­ lenting, non-stop. And as you were telling me, it's then I decided for him to become a eyed guy who looks more austere cars. In order to transfer your ticket, John Waters referred to it as going to by around ninety dollars. running gag, as it were, in other than some Sandhurst second lieuten­ you'd have to have it punched, you "Berlin Andertits," and said it A hundred and thirty-eight fifty. films. I helped with his hospitaliza­ ant intercepted it. have a little hole made in it. So, would probably run around twelve A hundred and thirty-eight fifty. tion; kept him up to snuff as far as the Going on to some of your films, a ridiculously, I punched out all the hours. In two volumes. You're only doing Screen Actor's Guild was con friend of mine was wondering why areas that showed pubic hair. Fatuous man, I don't particularly a limited run of this book? "Faster Pussycat" was out, and Really. care for him. He's got a lot of opin­ Five thousand. The famous movie critic and "Motor Psycho" wasn't. It was like, watch the bouncing ball. ions. He offered me a job in his new Five thousand. A normal person friend of yours, Roger Ebert, whi Because I didn't feel like bringing it When I saw "Supervixens" in the movie. I was pleased to price my fee wouldn't be able to order this is still the only film critic in North MAY 1990 17 100% COTTON T • SHIRTS

• We print with Polyfab water based textile dyes • No toxic chemicals or solvents • Soft Touch, never cracks • Beautiful, rich colours Mon-Fri 9:30 - 5:00 .Sat 11.00 - 3:00 clothworks 6«9;°'27 textile dyers and printers 132 Powell Street, Vancouver America to win the Pulitzer Prize, come out here. Nothing has changed. the seven top women I have been in­ myself, "Why are they?" I don't There'll be about twenty has never made any secret of the It still has a very immoral kind of timate with in my life. know. I really don't know why, but people, one of which is Hugh Hefner, fact that he co-wrote the screen­ backyard. [Hollywood people are] Who are the seven top? I'm pleased. who has been very cooperative and play to your 1970 movie, "Beyond very prone to take potshots at my I wouldn't say all that to you. You You said to me that the films would helpful, and a few ladies that I care a the Valley of the Dolls." films, but on a personal level so many can read it in the book. You have to outlast the "Rambos" and the great deal about, and some personal Well, he essentially wrote "Beyond people relate. [It's] what we would draw conclusions, because I don't "Star Treks." friends. There'll be about 22 copies the Valley of the Dolls." We co- say, not all that nice. say "You are number six," or "You I don't think there's any doubt about given away. The rest'll be sold. wrote, he and I, the treatment. Man Do you go to other people's films? are number four." that. The true test is if someone can So Roger Ebert will probably be... by the name of Manny Diez did some Uh uh. I don't go to films unless Edie Williams was a girl I met lay down some money and purchase Oh, he'll get number one. additional writing on it because they're what I call gut-pulling mov­ at Fox. She was a starlet there; she a cassette for themselves to look at He'll get number one. Roger had to leave after thirty days, ies. Y'know, a lot of violence and was under contract there. It seemed over and over again. Apparently, by They'll all get numbered. Roger will and that's all the time he had avail­ head-bludgeonings and so forth. I get number one. able to us. But he essentially wrote saw a picture called "Impulse" the Will you autograph these? the script, yes. other night that Sondra Locke did. Each one. Each time someone buys a Well, he thinks that it holds up The girl that was with Eastwood. She "Apparently, by and large, the only films that people can book, its value will escalate two­ well as an expose of Hollywood did a marvelous job. It's a wonderful enjoy over and over again are mine." fold. It will be a real collector's decadence. Looking back- film, but it doesn't have any names, piece. He not only thinks, he knows. so it'll probably do its job and.... Well, I'm certainly looking for­ He knows. Well, looking back, did What's good is that a girl did a great like a good way to complete my rep­ and large, the only films that people ward to It. "Motor Psycho," as we the film turn out the way you envi­ job. I really admired it. ertoire would be to marry a starlet. can enjoy over and over again are talked about earlier, is not avail­ sioned It? Name a couple of other films that And it seemed as though we were mine. I mean, with all this stuff about able on video. Is there any other Certainly. But I didn't do a film on you liked. only married for forty-five minutes. "Citizen Kane" and the "Rambo" titles that are currently not avail­ Hollywood decadence; it's Meyer's Oh, any Clint Eastwood film; I go to We were actually married for four films, whatever... You just can't look able? decadence. see him. But that's essentially it. years. And she was an attractive at these films over and over again. Sure, there arc a number of them, but There's a lot of this... So I guess it would be pointless to lady, and very aggressive in the sack. You can with a Russ Meyer film. Ap­ even 'The Handyman" will be avail­ ...statement about Hollywood. It just ask you if you have any directors When we were speaking. parently there lies the rub, the secret. able someday. It's been put on tape, happened that we set it here, because you enjoy. But she is not the most impor­ Who knows what the secret is? but I have no time to do the advertis­ it was a proper place, better than in Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel, who tant or the most renowned, the most Maybe because they're cartoons. ing. I have a book to do, and that's Kanarsi, y'know. I guess doesn't do much work any­ significant, or the one with the best They're simple. You don't have to more important. Someday they will Right. Would you say that Holly­ more. Those are the people, essen­ body, or anything of that nature. A strain to hear someone saying some­ come out, someday. The Federal wood is still the same as it was back tially. fine lady, and let's leave it at that, all thing because everybody usually Republic will be showing them over in 1970? Okay. Out of all the women you've right? speaks in bellows. I really don't the television network in Germany. Only more so. I think probably that been involved with, I guess the Shewasjustupin town a few years know. As I said, I'm pleased. I guess because of the book you so-called film "tycoons" are trying most famous lady has to be your ago doing her act, an auto-erotic I guess the same thing goes for a haven't had time to go to some of with even more v igour to take advan­ ex-wife, Edie Williams. "love dance," which involved au­ movie like "Faster Pussycat," the usual hangouts, as your friend tage of young frails (ed. note - '40s No, she is not the most famous, not at dience participation. which seems to be enjoying a lot of Roger goes over to Cannes every expression for girls) who 1 all. In fact, Edie does not even fit into Ah, whatcer. notoriety lately. year. Russ, people that dislike your mov­ Well, there's talk now they may put No, that's not a hangout for me; I ies point to the fact that you use it on the stage in England. People are don't go to those kinds of things. I go ordinary women, not actresses, approaching me on that matter. fishing somewhere, or in search of a and they can be from any profes­ So it'll be a musical, will it? large breast. I don't have any han­ sion, with the only qualification I have no idea what it will be. I don't gups. being that they have an attractive think fP*Mll he aaqriusical. Do you search locally for large /In nis •»- * face and very large breasts. The We're all very much looking for­ breasts, or do you... word that I... ward to your book when you have I don't search anymore. I've got all They're not ordinary women, they're it completed. the breasts I need, enough to com­ really very special ladies. And it's That won't cross the frontier, only plete a "Mondo Topless Too," CUBAN ___!__>_'. always been extremely difficult to by smuggling it in. Pubic hair. spelled TOO. REVOLUTION find women that would qualify. Cer­ It will have pictures of pubic hair, Well, Russ, it's been very, very tainly the main thing is their boobs. will it? nice talking to you. They've got to be big. They 've got to Yeah, there's even some full-frame Glad you got it this time; that your be cantilevered. They've got to be close-ups of it. Looks like a brillo equipment's working. Hopefully it gravity-defying. They've got to have brush. There's alotof nudity; there's is. Bye. a wasp waist, lyre-like hips; svelte, 2300 pictures. Not any are going to y'know. Long, attractive legs; nice be censored for the sake of the 1 u yT. o\d face. Not ordinary ladies by any Dominion. You'll have to slip it To hear more of the wit and protege , stretch of the imagination. through, y'know. also, interestingly wisdom of Russ Meyer, listen to kin her.*"* Well, I've heard a lot of people with regards to the press and people Moving Images, the movie and en­ n< who've disliked your films use the who want review copies, there are no tertainment show on CiTR, Friday, starf» 3 rote word "infantile." Does that ever freebies. No freebies. May 26, and Friday June 1 at 10:30 anger you when you hear this? What people will have to do in the morning. No, I don't care about what some­ what are interested to review it and You can catch three of Russ i^f body says. Like they say, I'm contro­ so forth, they will pay what is called Meyer's classics locally at the Van­ versial. the wholesale price, which will be couver East Cinema from May 18 When you do the film, you control above ninety dollars at the present through the 27th. Meyerfanatics can every aspect: the writing, obvi­ time. It could go even higher. And enjoy themselves with "Beneath the ously the direction, the editing. Is they will make out a cheque to the Valley of the Dolls," "Supervixens," M> there anything else that you keep Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, and "Beneath the Valley of the Ul- '* ' TK.' your hands on? which is one of my favourite chari­ travixens." Fans who miss this pres­ Oh, I handle all facets of the film. ties, and that's where the money will entation will be able to catch these I'm responsible for everything. It's go; for people who wish to review. same films playing at the Roxy in 'NO ESCAPE..;™?™1* my conception to begin with. I exe­ They have to be certified people of Victoria from June 29 through July cute it, film it, edit it, create the ad­ the press, whether it be radio or tele­ 13. vertising, then get out and sell it on vision, or newsprint. No critic will Finding Meyer's films on video the road. That's all past; that's years get it for free, no way. The only requires a diligent search of the before, y'know. person that I have promised a free appropriate video shops. Did you ever think that your films copy was the vice-president of Play­ Special thanks to Jim H. for would be so long-lasting? boy, who has agreed to do a very am­ assistance in research, and to Philip No, I never did, and I have to ask bitious article on it. W. for transcriptions and editing. MAY 1990 19 Hey wow. Finally unearthed obscurity, dragging the whole that kooky blue Slurpee fla­ corporation right along with vour again, at the Sev-Elev at 'em. ISM AlmaA 10th.'Cept instead of Bonus day at the just "?Mystery Flavour?," Hastings Sev-Elev recently, they're calling it "Blue Rasp­ whence I happened upon a 3 - berry," which kinda destroys for-the-price-of-2 pack o' the mystique a bit. But then, King-Dons at $.98. Crinkly nor does it taste the same as it white plastic wrapping in­ did last year, so maybe it ain't stead of the usual anonymous even the real thing. tinfoil, which destroyed some On a depressing note, it of the Star Trek quality of seems NO Dairy Queens, not eating the darned things, but even the trusty old one back in hey. Good value for the Surrey across from my par­ Hell'sfKitchen money anyway. ents' place, put an extra sprin­ Went and checked out kling of the chocolate bar atop Olympia Oyster & Fish Co. one's Blizzard anymore. Nor for the first time this year a does the server-person mas­ couple days ago; and yes, the terfully flip the Blizzard up­ food still kicks butt. (Kicks side-down before handing it BCANZ fin?...)Sixandahalfbucks'll to you. Is tradition, ritual, get ya a heaping platter o' cod sacrosanct custom, going to & chips with a dollop of cole Hell in a handbasket in the slaw and a tall cold Dad DQ empire?! Goddamn it, I 'TOOAY Root Beer. And the conversi say. tions to be eavesdropped upon A serendipitous discov­ from an unobtrusive comer of ery of mine in the chewing- kind of gum that stays that with green lettering and yel- this little joint rival any in the gum realm was made at Best way even after lengthy chew­ low-and-red accents? Yes, the Only for sheer interest value. Quality Produce (3100-blk. ing. Slick. old Popcorn Twist package Lotsa customers are greeted W. Broadway), where you can Just up the street, the has gone the way of the dodo, by name; the counters are pick up a 5-stick pack o' Lotte Hollywood Theatre has supplanted by a staunch con­ lined with '50" s greasy spoon gum for $.25, or 4 packs for some highly eatworthy cook­ servative royal blue dealie style condiment containers; $.99. "Be always happy with ies, the saucer-sized kind, with tasteful red and yellow and lip-smacking chow, excellent taste and flavour," going for a dollar apiece. lettering. Tasteful! Yeccch. neighbourliness, and a lack of proclaim the blue wrappers of Crammed with both white and The whole essence of Pop­ pretension (rare on Robson each piece. God knows I go dark chocolate chunks and corn Twists is TRASH, dam- St) are the order of the day. In through it at a rate that could better than many I've had at nit! Without appropriately fact, why am I telling the out­ sustain the Korean economy the Van East. Your zits will tacky packaging, I predict the side world about it?! Robson singlehandedly. It's that re­ thank you. wormy little vermin will at Thurlow. Mind-bendingly ally mushy, chewy, malleable Remember disco-white plunge into the stale depths of groovy fish posters too.

20 DISCORDER "BOB'S" FAVORITE COMICS those potentially secular attempt to shock and amuse deared the Church to thinkers The SubG*nlu»0*> Comic Book fl beings who really needed to while reinforcing the Sub­ of original thought is the Publlihed by Rip Off Pre«, Inc. believe in something.... any­ Genius ideals of sensory over­ moneygrubbing aspect? The In the beginning there was thing. Thus began the pub­ load and total disrespect for Church of the SubGenius lack and Bob said, "Let there lishing history of one of the Leigh authority. Artists such as Jay seems to be going yuppie be slack." In the wake of such greatest written conspiracies R. Kinney (Co-Editor of mainstream and the effect of sublime sooth, a group of of the modern era. Heralding Wolf "Gnosis") and Paul Mavrides such a BIGTIME mindset is abnormal mortals founded a the advent of the four comer- (Co-Creator of "Anarchy apparently fraying the edges church in HIS name and called stones of this great Church — Comix") have contributed of the original concept. Per­ it The Church of the Sub- Sex, Violence, Religion, and their work to this thirty-two haps since the assassination Genius. Following the slogan Philosophy, the initial zealots page romp. Cutesy cartoon of J.R."Bob" Dobbs in 1984, "You'll Pay To Know What took these words to imply ¥RE__^M doggies undergo vivisection, the High Priests of the Church You Really Think," HIS fol­ complete freedom of thought T1 friendly policemen turn out to have succumbed to the forces lowers have created the ulti­ and process and thus, the holy 'VNL—~Z^K ' ' M_____ci be alien co-conspirators, of rampant capitalism and mate religious marketing crusade to destroy the con­ saints rum into sodomites have begun to recruit invest­ vehicle in an era of such enti­ spiracy was underway. before your very eyes, all this ment bankers to their cause. ties. Unfortunately, the comix The SubGenius Comic and more for $3.50 (Can). This would explain the over­ version of the SubGenius Book is the divine revelation What more could you ask all tone of dead metaphor that System® pales in comparison of the Reverend Ivan Stang B from a comic book? reeks like spoiled tuna on a with the seminal documenta­ (one of the few humans to Well, more laughs per hot summer day. tion the Church cranked out have actually met BOB), who page for starters. How about The idea of The Church during the previous decade. in the last ten years has pub­ less schlock and more shock; of the SubGenius going main­ The origins of The lished three books: 'The Book artwork that doesn' t appear to stream is rather unsettling. Church of the SubGenius are of The SubGenius," "High have been lifted from the Far gone cults are like sexual shrouded in deep mystery. Weirdness By Mail," and "3- pages of Police Digest; less secrets; when cloaked in What is known is sketchy and Fisted Tales of 'Bob,'" and overt sexism and more raw mystery the excitement is comes from dubious sources. St. Palmer Vreedeez, who is postulations such as "Jehovah are fueled by the sweat from sexuality; and perhaps apotto almost unbearable but when Legend has it that Malcalypse the design mind behind this is an alien and still threatens my brow! I circumcise dino­ piss in when all that is being revealed to the light of day the Younger (Kerry Thornley, sporadic nonsense and a well- this planet." An example of saurs with my teeth and make offered is poor performance? they seem rather bland and a close personal friend of Lee regarded practitioner of their more sublime attitudes them leave a tip! I pick the At its best, "BOB'S FAVO­ ordinary. That said, one hopes Harvey Oswald) found a copy "Primitive Victimization" is this excerpt from the classic GOD DAMN terror of the RITE COMICS" is rather that the second issue of of the Discordian Bible (The and Bulldada. Together, these "Brag Of The SubGenius," fucking gods out of my nose scathing in a middle class sort "BOB'S FAVORITE COM­ Principia Discordia) in a bus two rejects from the Society which was transcribed from a before I hock out a lunger and of way. At its worst, the comic ICS" is more hip and less terminal washroom in Far of Jesus have compiled con­ cassette recording made at a extinguish the Sun! bores a hole into your head hype. Having been a fan for East, Texas on a dark and crete evidence that Oswald seance in 1973: "Yes baby, YEEEEEEHAW!" while trying desperately to over a decade I am certainly stormy night. Realising the acted alone, that Einstein was I'm twenty-three feet tall and This comic, their first, laugh at itself. Deadly dull willing to let the Church have document to be his passport to an alien, and that Crest really have thirteen rows of teats! I fails to measure up to their stuff indeed. the benefit of the doubt full-breasted women and does prevent cavities. am too intense to die, I'm previous publications. Done Could it be that the time though I will pause before I imported liquors, Malca­ The Church itself has a insured for acts o' God and in a traditional anthology of BOB is long past and all fork over my shekels if and lypse/ Thornley began to long history of publishing Satan! I'm a fission reactor, I style, "BOB'S FAVORITE that is left of the original pata- when #2 appears at my local spread the word of BOB to engaging ideas and bizarre fart plutonium, power plants COMICS" is a hard-boiled physical premise that en­ comix outlet.

MAY 1990 21 This month brought me one of Rooted. In an ideal world, the largest bags of demo tapes there'd be a new Roots I've ever seen - what follows Roundup tape every summer is just a taste of all the good to listen to while lying out in stuff that's at the station right the sun somewhere. Fortu­ now (call up and make a re­ nately, it often seems to rum quest or, better yet, go see out that way - this one has ar­ these bands play somewhere): rived in stores just in time for the good weather. These eight Bruce A and the Secular At- songs may be the best-sound­ avlsts-"By Request" "All ing to ever emerge from Pro­ Torn Up" Bruce et al have file Studios. My favourite come a long way since I com­ (playlisted at the station) is pared them to early Frank probably "Sleepin'," which Zappa (will they ever forgive mixes up an immensely pleas­ me?) in this column. While urable combination of har­ they always did have those monicas, horns, guitars, and clever, catchy lyrics (ie "Girls words that are somehow both in the Shower," one of those sad and good-natured and rare demo tape songs to make only contribute to the cheer­ the transition to being sung ful tone of the song. Buy the absent-mindedly by lots of tape! people at work and so on), there was a quirkincss to their Drums Along the Gardiner- sound that might have held Boronto. "My Hometown" off some potential fans. But and the title song are the two now it looks as though Bruce playlisted at CiTR, but "She has come around to song­ the musicianship, this song sitely produced, played, and Said No" and "Beergut" (at writing more in the tradition simply goes on for too long, sung. So what if these aren't least) are also bound to stay in of what he did with the Secret which leaves the listener with their best lyrics? Don't listen your head for a while. My Vs. Catchy guitars and impas­ the feeling that it's just tune­ to the words, just enjoy the copy of this tape has been sioned vocals add to the big less and confused. 'The Spi­ rattling around in my car for a pop sound and these songs der" has its moments, but couple of months now, and have the sort of early punk- Evan and Angela probably Tankhog-"Reptilion" (sic), this has given me time to type pop sensibilities that just aren't gong to make a big "Tears" Wow! Tankhog out- evolve a theory about punk might win over the occasional splash with this o powers the competition. rock recording: mainly that commercial radio MD —let's music in this genre, when ///II111III/////II1I1III/////II1U11I/////I hope they do. The Town Pump presents made immaculate by 24-track studios, lots of EQing, effects, Planet of Splders-"Hey" and noise reduction, almost Recording Stars from always loses something of its Pittsburgh, Penn. This is the first demo I've heard that was recorded in essence. Happily, this isn't "The Sonic Studio," which what happened with Boronto. belongs to SFU's Communi­ There's just a lot of sing-a­ THE cations Department, and I long-able sneering, growling, can't say that I'd recommend and yelling with a nasty blur it. Perhaps the recording fa­ of guitars and thudding cilities can be blamed for the drums. Although, as you may muddiness here, and the way See thru Flowers-"To Cynthia While I, myself, find it hard to have guessed, they're from CYNICS the guitars (with too much Toronto, once-Vancouverite Gray" Robin Plaits (bass, sing along with lyrics like With Vancouver s newest Hit makers midrange) sound like key­ guitar, vocals) now sings and "She's a reptile," and this is Pete Moss fronts the band. THE boards. It's also unfortunate strums for another Victoria hardly to be confused with (Also buy their "Fish" single - that "Hey" probably isn't the band, 64 Funnycars. On the Slow (in spite ofthe two bands the one with the Indian chief band's most memorable song whole, this tape is an odd having more than a mighty on the sleeve.) SMUGGLERS - "I Had," the second selec­ combination of primitive re­ bass player in common), I tion on the tape, is more repre­ cording techniques and rela­ hope, at the very least, that Wages of Sin-Wages of Sin. sentative of their harder (and tively high-tech effects people will stop acting like This tape, and its playlisted & from Bellingham: better) side, and was the song (mainly on the vocals), and Mudhoney is the only band song, "Pretty Blonde that stood out most in their these seven songs do suffer worth banging your head to in Enigma," are this month's Shindig performances. Stylis­ from the flatness that often this part of the world. most pleasant surprise. These THE MONO MEN tically Planet of Spiders are a plagues studio projects (since are the new-and-improved lot like the Gruesomes and Plus a Special Guest appearance by there are only two people in Jimmy Roy's 5 Star Hillbil- Wages, with poppier, more Garage legends other recent garage-'60s the band. I'm just assuming lies-"Everybody's Talkin'" powerful and varied songs, bands, but usually with a it's a studio project). In spite Quite simply, this is beautiful enthusiastic backup vocals, The WORST cleaner and more controlled of the not-so-great recording sounding. Yes, the music's and an unstoppable beat. The Tuesday sound. I guess it's just going quality, some of this sounds more hillbilly than rockabilly, lyrics are tantalizingly tricky to take a better recording to do very pretty (one song goes so which means you can't jump to make out (there is a lyric May 22 them justice. far as to be a little reminiscent around to it much, but this sheet, but I don't know if it of '60s BeeGees) and "Cyn­ tape is awfully nice to listen comes with the tape or only in TOWN PUMP Evan Symons-"The Spider thia Gray." the first and best to. I just wish someone would the promo package) but usu­ and Ze Watch" Angela song, is short, simple, and (in tell me where it was recorded ally worth the effort and, ulti­ Symons (nee Rancourt) is the finest pop-rock traditions) mately, appealingly simple. singing her own lyrics here, also has a chorus that'll stick While all four of these songs which would make you won­ in your head. And now the tapes you can are catchy, "Pretty Blonde der why it's Evan who's got buy for your very own (either Enigma"probably is the most. his name on the tape if this Green House-"Spring Will in the shops or from the bands Never mind that Gary (the weren't the only song where Call" Like everything else on themselves): singer) said the song could be she does. While the vocals this tape (previously on our about me - bet he says that to themselves are all right, as is playlist: "Dive") this is exqui- Roots Roundup Get all the reviewers. 22 DISCORDER Bug Head Babes in Toyland Jojoka Marshmallow Overcoat Town Pump Numb Tuesday, April 3rd Club Soda It would be easy to dis­ Tuesday, April 10th miss Jojoka as pretentious art­ If Angus Young was a wank, what with Mark Critch- girl, instead of the manly ley's banks of synths, Sondra Australian guy that he is, (s)he Lockwood's "serious" lyrics would probably still have and posturing and the slow picked up a guitar, donned a motion big screen video back­ parochial school uniform, and drop, but that wouldn't really formed a band. And that band be fair. Jojoka's chosen multi­ just might have been Babes in media performance style is Toyland. This all-girl Min­ difficult, both technically and neapolis trio a Totally N-Tol- as far as audiences go - going erableTuesday in April some­ on stage at the sparsely popu­ how tolerable. (Just ask the lated Town Pump with a fish head-bobbing Superconduc­ strapped to your chest takes a tor members who remained in lot of guts. awe at the front of the stage When the separate ele­ throughout the Babes' set.) ments of video, sound, move­ What the band lacked in song ment and voice did mesh variety and virtuosity they cohesively, the result was more than made up for by their startling and very enjoyable. extra loud crunchy guitars False colour water videos great, and a refreshing change tape, pitches in snapping that complemented the combined with ethereal key­ from Town Pump guitar cross-patterns a la Keith wildly, flailing, screaming board and voice to create a bands. LeBlanc, and the bassist alter­ antics of the Youngesque lead mesmerizing montage. Bug Head were excel­ nates with the tape in playing singer. All too often though, the lent. From Seattle, the band slap or hard dub. After an "ambitiously performance was held up by consists of a drummer, bassist What this band do is long set," the steadily grow­ technical hitches and Mark and keyboard player, but re­ pretty well unique around ing crowd was ready for head­ Critchley's determination to ally the group is expanded by these parts, and adding the lining Numb, but Marshmal­ show his versatility on elec­ their lighting engineer and live facet to House Music low Overcoat, a garage-y five tric piano, guitar, synths and two dancers, who give the changes it from a cold, ma­ piece from Tucson, Arizona, drum pads. The minutes be­ show its visual impact. chine music to real life sweaty took the stage. The few eager tween songs that were spent They play dance music, dance workouts, with musi­ dancers who were encouraged setting up his colossal hard­ specifically House. The basic cians who are able to react to to gyrate might have briefly ware arrangement spoilt the beats and samples are on tape, the crowd and alter the mood mistaken Club Soda for a continuity of the performance and the musicians play over appropriately. UBC frat dance. and distracted the audience. I this, crashing in and working What pissed me off was The confused were always thought that the tech­ the piece to a frenzy, or some­ the lack of support for this quickly brought back to real­ nology was there to make times stopping altogether and gig. Okay, they're not big ity as Numb began their or­ complicated changeovers un­ letting the tape carry it. The names but they have had ex­ chestrated mayhem. With necessary, and when you go dancers intensify the energy, posure, on CiTR and at a gig lights, smoke, and a some­ on stage with that kind of as do the pulsating slides, and at the Commodore earlier this what forced sense of impend­ backup, you have to make when Bug Head are in top gear year. It always amazes me ing doom, the four members sure its going to impress or they kick out incredibly pow­ why people are willing to pay of the local industrial/noise else risk the title of "Wealthy erful chunks of rhythm. The $25 to see some English "al­ ensemble took over. Lead Music Hobbyist." As I've said drummer, freed from time­ ternative star" bore (Matt singer Blair Dobson tore into though, when it worked it was keeping constraints by the Johnson?) play songs that the crowd in more than one sound just like the album ver­ way. He also announced that sions, in exactly the same way this was to be the last local as the previous night, or even show for Numb. This is bad six months ago in another news. A Numb show is a bril­ continent, with no acknow­ liant amalgamation of a fre­ ledgement of the audience at netic Big Black performance, VERY BIG all, yet they daren't risk six interesting arrangements and bucks on a couple of new sounds, and a Graceland VERY BLACK bands who are actually still dance mix. VERY COTTON into the idea of communica­ Although industrial mu­ tion. At the Bug Head gig not sic has become something of a VERY COOL only were they relaxed Vancouver mainstay, with enough to take time out to several offerings to choose AND IN VERY LIMITED sing "Happy Birthday" to one from, Numb has managed to of their dancers (now I know remain unique and avoid the QUANTITIES why they're an instrumental trite and boring Gothic gore ONLY 15 DOLLARS band!), but the audience all that has become so much a got invited to the after gig part of the genre. This is defi­ (BY MAIL PLEASE ADD $2 party! If you're into dancing nitely a plus for fans of loud (and if you ain't, you're dead) noise/thrash music who have POSTAGE AND INCLUDE then next time Bug Head something other than black in come to town go see them. their wardrobes. YOUR COMPLETE They combine the funkiest If you ever again get the Acid House with the intensity ADDRESS) chance, remember, a night of a live band, and they love with Numb is worth a slight what they're doing. hearing loss. Peter Lutwyche Lisa Christiansen Einsturzende Neubauten "Hirnlcgo" ("Brainlego") dealt with on "Beg to Differ" Haus der Luege captures so terrifyingly what (cool punk rock stuff like Greg Garlick (Some Bizarre) it must be like to be schizo­ society, conformity and the Wow. EN have truly phrenic, that if it weren't for fall of civilization). So, check The Cynics are playing the evolved. Never mind the glo­ the inherent humour to lighten out Prong, one of the best Town Pump on May 22nd. rified press-release liner it up, it'd descend into a par­ "whatevercore" bands notes ("EN's music now ody of itself. around. Burton Cummings sounds uncannily prophetic, And so on. No filler here, Mikey Jiggle Plus Signs their previously reviled les­ unless one looks at it from the (Capitol) sons in dissonance, disruption perspective of EN being ele­ Death My first exposure to and disfunction fully vindi­ vator music for the criminally Spiritual Healing Winnepeg's second most cated by scientific studies of insane, in which case it's all (Combat) famous son was the dreadful natural chaotic patterns..." filler, and damn good filler at Right on, dudes! These expansive ballad, "Melanie." blah blah blah). It's my bet that. Those highfalutin' liner guys play soooo fast! "Spiri­ Full of trite sentiment, the that were these songs to be notes do, if you read far tual Healing" is, like, a totally song was only pushed to hit performed/mutated at a free- enough through them, yield a crucial album. I mean, these status by the movie of the for-all venue like the Expo pithy quote by which "Haus guys thank their instruments! same name, which, inciden­ bowl, just as many people der Luege" may be summed Yeah, and on "Living Mon­ tally, stan-ed our poor, hap­ would leave. On the other up: "Nor does God get off strosity" they sing about cool less Burton. Of course, I knew hand, this is their first album lightly." Amen. stuff like killing women who him by reputation as the im­ that doesn't demand listening Viola Funk have kids bom addicted to passioned wild man of the to on headphones, which drugs. Check this out: "Some Guess Who -1 probably saw a should come as a relief to all Cows say she's naive/ She' a stupid reunion concert on television those fans who have to worry Daddy Has A Tail! bitch/ Some say to forgive/ at some point. about their hair staying up. (Amphetamine Reptile) Guilty, she must die." Yeah, On this comeback album. Overall, the band's "IF YOU ARE OF­ UNDER REVIEW right on! Burton gets intensely per­ sound is a lot cleaner, more FENDED BY SCENES OF juice-oozing, mind-bending badly. These are a bunch of The next song, "Altering sonal. He strips bare his eve­ connected and concrete (figu­ SEXUAL ACTIVITY, DO muck. A Mid-West interpre­ troubled boys (?) alright. But the Future," is about killing ryday existence to reveal his ratively now, not literally as NOTENTERTHESE PREM­ tation of grunge, if you will. hey, all the more fun. The women who have abortions. failings. He tells us what in the past). "Haus der ISES." This album could do Lines like "I saw a band's musical acumen - "Life for a life should remain contributed to this revival. Luege," translating as "House with a warning sticker to that girl...She was so pretty/ She feedback, pulsating bass the rule... look to the past is The album paints a portrait of of Lies," reads like an epitaph effect on its cover. Course, made me understand...That seeping out of every crack, what we should do/ When a guy - yeah, just an ordinary for the '80s and a precogni­ the depiction of Wilma she was the girl to finally obnoxious homet-attack gee- justice was done and justice guy, somewhat of a poet, tion of the '90s in one. A Flintstone as a three-breasted make me a man..." don't score tars — provides the ideal foil was true." I couldn't have said though aren't we all? - who's soundtrack for our days, to be frog serves the purpose just as high on the originality meter, for the twisted lyrics. And dig it better, man! reached an impasse, dealt sure. well. Yup, you got yerself true. But a few lines later you those total '70s FM radio echo Oh yeah. Death think so with it and emerged from it all "Ein Stuhl in der Hoelle" another kooky 'n' warped come across a gem like "I am chamber vocals on "Chasin' much of themselves that they with a new outlook on life. No is the closest EN have come to band from some part of the a waffle and you are the syrup/ Darla." "You say I'm not a- credit every masturbatory excuses are made for past fail­ a capella, the lyrics accompa­ Mid-West, and one that kicks I am covered with square way-ay-ay-ay-ake..." guitar solo. If that isn't ings. "Plus Signs" signals a nied only by "footstomps and butt at that. Though the tu- dents, you are sticky and Notwithstanding all enough, the singer sounds like new spurt of activity for this amateur tap dancing." "Time­ nage occasionally bogs down sweet." Eat your heart out, these pluses, the record would he's drowning in oatmeal, and volcano from the age of the less and haunting Central into (or should I say, "speeds Aunt Jemima. be worth buying for the title all the band members wear fat dinosaurs. European folk blues" the liner up into") kinda generic Rife with sexual warpifi- "Part My Konk" alone. guy muscle shirts. Bitchin' The key line can be found notes also say. Yeah, I guess. hardcore mode, as on cation, "Tail" should be WAAAAAAY! dude! By the way, does any­ in the first single, "Take One But I'm loath to slap pat syn­ "Camouflage Monkey" and avoided by anyone the least Viola Funk one want my Death cassette? Away," where Burton sings: opses on EN's stuff, espe­ half of "Bum in the Alley," bit unclear as to her/his gen­ Mikey Jiggle "Mama, I've joined the cially the amazing compo­ for the most part the Cows der identity, because it'll Prong church, y'know." No, not that nents of this album. serve up a hefty platter of screw your mind around Beg to Differ The Cynics church, but the sacred ground (CBS) Rock 'n' Roll of the unknowable. The ether This is Prong's first re­ (Get Hip) of the mind, man. Culling lease for a major bigtime la­ On their last album, inspiration from Stephen bel. Fortunately, the band "Twelve Flights Up," Pitts­ Hawking's "A Brief History hasn't sacrificed anything burgh PA's Cynics offered up of Time," Burton has come up musically for their new sounds similar to "Surrealis­ with his philosophy of a tem­ bosses. For the unhip, Prong tic Pillow" period Jefferson poral conscious plane exist­ is a throbbing, grinding, su­ Airplane. There are none of ing within the great being that per-heavy three piece from those allusions on "Rock 'n' is the universe. New York. Comprised of ex- Roll." The Cynics have Ironically, the only members of Damage, Swans dropped the Wurlitzer organ clunker here is the track, and the Radium Boys, Prong and turned up the guitars in "Cerebral World," in which rides the fine line between order to blast out some he spells out his new under­ metal and hardcore punk. straight ahead, unrestrained standing. In five different Thankfully, perhaps due to rawk 'n' roll. places on the record he men­ the group's punk rock back­ Lead singer Michael tions the influence - or ma­ ground (two members work at Kastelic sings/yells so hard it nipulative quality - of time, in NYC's CBGB's, the ultimate sounds like his voice will pack each instance pronouncing hardcore homeland), Prong is it in after each song. The adept the word "time" differently so far more intense, intelligent rhythm section combines with as to emphasise the very mal­ and innovative than the Kastelic's primal vocals and leable nature of it. speed-metal freaks they are guitarist Greg Kostelich's On "Bridge in Time" he often compared to. stinging riffs to create four­ evokes the names of the past, Prong's sound is difficult teen songs of tightly wound Johnny and the Hurricanes to describe. I'd call it a sort of '80s garage rock. Credit must and Henry Mancini, repeating "Metallica shuffle" played go to Greg Vizza, whose deft them over and over like his with great restraint with re­ production gives the album a own personal mantra. Bells spect to speed and flaming crisp, unencumbered sound. and a sitar-like drone fill out guitar solos. Also, Prong has a "Rock 'n' Roll" is the the soundscape to produce a refreshingly honest and Cynics' best LP and one of nether-worldly effect. Hyp­ simple approach to the issues this year's finest independent notic. However, the real pay- 24 DISCORDER off comes when you've sat minute surprise. The only way a band who' s young and inno - Especially riveting is the mind, or time of day. It's has a lot of piano and organ in through to the end of side two I can try to describe it is to ask cent, with incredible poten­ power of lead singer Manon happy or sad, early moming, the background, but he also to discover the Vegas-y (hints you to imagine the last time tial. Briere, whose vocal chords go late night, and mid-aftemoon provides an organ based in­ of a possible career move, you suffered from a really The flip side, "Basket- into spasms as she shouts out music. Fugazi's "Repeater" is strumental entitled "Roller- hmmm?) "Boring Dreams" painful toe stubbing. Or case," tops off a great single. the lyrics. The course, dense just the thing to listen to no Rink," as well as the hymn­ and the timely "Free." Both maybe you've lived through a Lyrics like "You're the Grand layer of sound of the music matter what you are trying to like "She Can See The An­ celebrate the liberation of the true mishap, the featured Marshall of the parade of my adds to the sense of unleashed do, except maybe trying to fall gels Coming." mind from its snares of logic memory of which is a short mistakes" makes this a superb pent up emotions, frustration asleep. The sloppy production, and old habits. Burton sends a but seemingly interminable in particular, evoked by Bri- Or perhaps the differ­ which gives the album a more compassionate and congratu­ burst of the most excruciating Another plus is the very ere's vocals. ence is Ian MacKaye.ex of intimate feel, seems to be in­ latory slap on the back to the pain that you could ever be­ cool, limited edition red vi­ This album is a fine de­ Minor Threat, Pailhead, and tentional. With a bit of editing people of Eastern Europe, but lieve possible. Or maybe nyl. Hopefully, we'll see a full but from a band who can defi­ Embrace, and the originator this could have been one ex­ he is really addressing the you've given birth. Imagine LP from these guys on either nitely give Fugazi a run for of the "straight edge" move­ cellent EP. As it is, it's still a home front, his audience, with that pain... tenfold... imagine Estrus or Popllama Records their money. ment. pretty good LP. Because of the lines "You will find les­ the soundtrack to that pain. really soon. Greg Garlick Or it could be that Fugazi the quality of "Intolerance," sons in the teaching and learn­ Imagine that soundtrack Available from local are the ultimate in motiva­ I'll buy Hart's next album ing, and you will walk prouder being as close to you as the indie record stores, or direct Fugazi tional music. They are the best even before hearing it; and 'cause you will be free." nearest record store. Imagine from Stumpy Joe c/o Estrus Repeater at making you re-think your while I've heard Bob Mould's More often than not. that those eight songs (aver­ Records, P.O. Box 2125, Bel­ (Dischord) goals and inspiring to achieve record, I haven't bought it. Burton's new '90s sound is age length: twenty seconds) lingham WA, 98227, USA. The three best hardcore them. Bartholomew nothing special. But it'll get are but a brief portion of an Whatever it is that makes on the radio where deeper hour's worth of the most var­ Fugazi special, the proof is in The Fall thoughts are few and far be- ied musical sandwich you can the puddin'. So find a copy of Extricate bite into. Do I need to say "Repeater," pay attention, (Cog-Sinister) Len Morgan more? Surf, reggae, boogie- and don't waste any time. Every once in a while a woogie, sleazy lounge jazz, Bartholomew band comes along that no John Zorn funk, be-bop, rhumba and the matter how good they are Spy Vs. Spy above mentioned punk rock Grant Hart musically, they can't be en­ Naked City blitzkrieg. And that's just one Intolerance joyed because of the obnox­ (WEA) song. (SST) ious and arrogant lead person­ These two records were "Naked City" might as Remember Grant Hart... ality. Some examples would released within six months of well be a retrospective of the the drummer from Husker be Morissey of the Smiths, each other, and both demon­ whole John Zorn trip. He has Du? Yeah that's right, the one Paul Weller when he was in strate New York saxman John assembled the cream of the who wrote better songs, had a the Jam (there was nothing Zom's ever increasing ro­ American avant garde - pared better voice, and didn't get a enjoyable about the Style mance with the extreme. down from the number that major label deal. Council) and Steve Albini of "Spy Vs. Spy" is the appeared on The Big Gun- His debut album, "Intol­ Big Black / Rapeman. Most name given to Zom's collec­ down. He treats familiar erance," is on SST but don't people would think that this tion of Omette Coleman- ground with Morricone and expect "Land Speed Record would apply to Mark E. Smith penned songs. Zom tears Omette Coleman covers and, II." Like ex-Husker Du gui­ of the Fall, but just the oppo­ strips off the Omette mys­ like his Spillane opus, this tarist Bob Mould's album, site is true in this case. The tique and pays tribute to the album could sport the warn­ "Intolerance" does not share obnoxious arrogance of jazz great's compositional ing: "completely concerned many traits with his old M.E.S. actually heightens the skill at the same time. with crime" (that ofthe inner- band's sound. Rather than a pleasure when listening to the The "treatment" each of city television/ movie crime heavy droning guitar, half the band's albums, including these sixteen songs receives drama variety). The inside songs are soaked with a Mel- their fourteenth, "Extricate." consists of the band playing sleeve of the CD features a lotron organ in a hip shakin', This album, their first the characteristically brief colour illustration of a tattoo- not headbangin', groove. The 'post-Brix' album - Brix theme once or twice, the dual festooned man holding his opener, "All Of My Sense," is being Smith's now ex-wife saxes then breaking off into hand up to his head, appar­ reminiscent of the keyboard and guitarist on the Fall's last spastic squeals and honks, ently to hold in the blood work in Santanas' "Black seven albums — proves that mad-dervish style drumming gushing from the place where Magic Woman," but in a good she was not an essential ele­ from the two drummers and a his ear - now sailing through way. The second cut, the ment in creating the disjointed rudimentary sort of key feel­ the air - had been. rockin' "Now That You Know rhythms and venomous lyrics ing applied by the bassist, who Both albums are only Me," forays into a "Highway which have come to represent is alone in his venture to hold available on cassette and Stumpy Joe are at the Railway bands in the world are: Victo­ 61" era Dylan, with a great the Fall's music. We hear some semblance of order. compact disc. Club, Monday, May 28. ria's Nomeansno, England's lead harmonica. Smith chanting "You You They all return to the theme. Len Morgan Tyler James Snuff, and Washington, The first single, You You You You know I And end. This is done at an D.C.'s Fugazi. The best of "Twenty-five Forty-one," the hate you baby, you malad­ incredible breakneck pace. Stumpy Joe Bloodsister these three is... whoever has address where Hart lived with justed little monkey," doubt­ They swiftly kick into another Day Dreams 7" Bloodsister the most recent release. So for an old girlfriend, relates the fully a reference to Brix, in song, performed in the same (Estrus Records) (109 Records) the time being, it is Fugazi. sadness of moving out of a the song "Black Monk Theme manner. Stumpy Joe is a new, Out of New York's After seven, six, and much loved apartment and the Part I." We also hear him ac­ The sheer relentlessness young, power-pop garage Lower East side comes three track EPs, their fourth unwelcome end to a relation­ tually SINGING "these are of this approach mimics Or- band from Seattle whose de­ Bloodsister, a band consist­ release is a full length album. ship. ("It was the first place the finest days of my life" in nette's trait of using repeti­ but single on Estrus Records ing of five female thrashers, Eleven songs of intelligent, we had to ourselves, I didn't "Bill is Dead", and we can't tion to the point of making is excellent. "Day Dreams," blasting out the grungiest rock emotional intensity create- know it would be the last.") doubt him on this point. your ears beg for a respite. the A-side, is an amazingly 'n' roll this side of Killdozer. not by speed, volume, nor This kind of personal politics On "Extricate" we get a And it's all plated with the catchy garage song with all Produced by Don Fury complexity, but by honest, and love gone wrong lyrical virtual short history of the same emotional ambivalence the right elements to be a real (responsible for producing thoughtful songwriting and content, which also appears in Fall: the pseudo dance tracks, that Ornette applies to his art. underground/ college radio bands such as Agnostic Front solid musicianship. But don't songs like "Fanfare In D the stream of consciousness The music is exhausting, and hit. Complete with raunchy, and Guerilla Biscuits), this LP these qualities have to be pres­ Major," "The Main," and the grunge, the full throttle pop certainly to be taken in a full clear and powerful vocals, delivers a strong throbbing ent in all good hardcore songs tres smooth "You're the Vic­ tunes, and even the well cho­ dose for recommended effect. intelligent lyrics, Replace­ wall-to-wall sound to berate you may ask. Yes, but Fugazi tim" (of yourself and no-one sen cover ("Popcorn Double As the ubiquitous "they" say: ments-style lead guitar, and a anyone's frontal lobes. This put something else into their else"), remains from the Feature"). All the things that in short, a masterpiece. groovy, rocking rhythm sec­ is not to say that Bloodsister's music that I can't quite put my Husker Du days. the Fall constantly flirt with Now take "Naked City." tion, Stumpy Joe is a band that debut LP is migraine material finger on. By moving away from are represented but with much Smack dab in the middle of ain't gonna miss. "Day but, with the volume cranked, Perhaps its that Fugazi's drumming, in favour of key­ better production this time. this album is a little three Dreams" gives me a picture of it could cause a mild stroke. songs fit any mood, frame of boards, Grant Hart not only Bartholomew MAY 1990 25 DISCORDER DATEBOOK TUESDAY 1 MartoSebe.ty.n Grow Up and Heroes continue Cinema... Folk Club... Flggy Duff from New­ Michelle Shocked at th* Com- closes at the Vancouver East and Muzsltas at the Vancouver at Station Street Arts Centre foundland at the WISE Hall modor*... Steel Kiss continues Cultural Centre... Festival of En­ East Cultural Centre (8pm. (8:30pm)... Denys Arcand's Je­ TUESDAY 8 Steel Kiss con tin (830pm).. New Work by Alex at the Vancouver Little Theatre vironmental Films at the Ridge SI5)... Ken Mitchell's two one sus of Montreal (7.30pm) and ues at the Vancouver Little The­ Varty by Vancouver Pro Musica (8:30pm. $10)... Th* Second Theatre... Bagdad Cat* act comedies Dick * Jane Grow The Declne of Ihe American atre (830pm. $10)... The Little at the Glass Slipper (8pm)... Annual B Festival continues at (7:00pm) and Sugar Baby Up and Heroes continue at Sta­ Empire (9:45pm) at the Vancou­ Thief (7:15pm) and Valmont Murmer of th* Heart at the Ridge the Vancouver East Cinema... (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... tion Street Arts Centre ver East Cinema... Roadklll con­ (9:15pm) at the Vancouver East Theatre (7 15 8c 9 30pm). Chop­ Murmer ot th* Heart at the Ridge (8:30pm)... Matador by Al Mo- tinues at the Ridge Theatre (7:30 Cinema... Roadklll continues at sticks and Matzo Balls (7:00 & Theatre (7:15 & 9:30pm)... Th* TUESDAY 29 Ian Tyson at dovar continues at the Vancou­ & 9:30pm)... Vincent: the Ufe the Ridge Theatre (7:30 &; 9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... Big Chll (7:00pm) and Th* D*- the Vancouver East Cultural ver East Cinema (7:15 & and Death of Vincent Van Gogh 9:30pm)... Cousin Couslne cllne of the American Empire Centre.. Festival of Environ­ 9:35pm)... John Gray's musical (700pm) and Amadeus (7:00pm) and La Lectrlce TUESDAY 15 St**l Kiss con- (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... mental Films at the Ridge The­ Rock and Roll continues at the (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... tlnues at the Vancouver Little atre... UBC's annual graduation Vancouver Playhouse (until the 1990 Quickie ROHO National Theatre (8:30pm. $10)... Murmer WEDNESDAY 23 Christy ceremonies (9:30am 81 2:30pm) WEDNESDAY 9 Stein Festi­ 26th)... Roadklll featuring a Wheelchair Basketball Champi­ of th* H«art at the Ridge The­ Moor* at the Commodore... in the War Memorial val Party with Sarah McLachlan, soundtrack by Teknaculler Rain­ onships at War Memorial and atre (7:15 8i 9:30pm)... Chop­ UBC Summer Strings Concert at Gymnasium.. Bagdad Cafe BID Henderson. Skywalk and coats. Cowboy Junkies, the Osborne Gymnasia.. sticks and Matzo Balls (7 00 & the Recital Hall (12:30pm)... (7:00pm) and Sugar Baby Metropolis Dance at the Com­ Ramones and others continues 9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... Steel Kiss continues at the Van­ (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... modore UBC Summer Strings at the Ridge Theatre (7:30 & SATURDAY 5 CITR presents couver Little Theatre (8:30pm. Concert at the Recital Hall 9:30pm)... UBC Film Divisions Spirit of Ihe West at the Commo­ WEDNESDAY 16 UBC $10)... Hot Wednesdays at the WEDNESDAY 30 UBC (12:30pm). . Hot Wednesdays at Persistence of Vision '90 at the dore... The Hollowheads, The Summer Strings Concert at the Pit Pub. music by CiTR...Th* Summer Strings Conc*rt at the the Pit Pub. music by CITR... Steel Paradise Theatre (7:00 eV Picasso Set and Cartoon Swear Recital Hall (12:30pm)... Hot Second Annual B Festival con­ Recital Hall (12:30pm)... Ian Kiss continues at the Vancou­ 9:00pm)... King ol Heart* at the Scout Hall... Teenage Wednesdays at the Pit Pub. tinues at the Vancouver East Tyson at the Vancouver East ver Little Theatre (8:30pm. $10)... (7:00pm) and Diva (9:00pm) at Head and Last Wild Sons at the music by CiTR... Steel Kiss con­ Cinema... Murm*r ot th* H*art Cultural Centre... Hot Wednes­ Spike Lee double bill with Do the Starlight Cinema... Paintings by Town Pump... David Raven Band tinues at the Vancouver Little at the Ridge Theatre (7:15 & days at the Pit Pub. music by Right Thing (7:15pm) and School Houthang Seyhoun on exhibit at 86 Street... Luka Bloom at the Theatre (8:30pm. $10)... Murmer 9:30pm)... Wh*n Harry m*t Sally CITR.. Festival of Environmental Daze (9:30pm) at the Vancou­ at the Vancouver East Cultural WISE Hall!... Steel Kiss continues of th* H*art at the Ridge The­ (7:00pm) and Manhattan Films at the Ridge Theatre... ver East Cinema.. Roadklll Centre (until the 28th)... Asian at the Vancouver Little Theatre atre (7:15 & 9:30pm)... Chop­ (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... UBC's annual graduation cere­ closes at the Ridge Theatre (7:30 Art Exhibit opens at the Asian (8:30pm. $ 10)... The Second City sticks and Matzo Balls (7:00 & monies (9:30am & 2:30pm) In & 9:30pm)... Romero (7:00pm) Centre Auditorium featuring Touring Company continues at 9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... THURSDAY 24 Thesiio'sat the War Memorial Gymnasium... and Salvador (9:15pm) at Star­ works by Liang Shlh-Feng, Letty the Vancouver East Cultural the Town Pump... Opening re­ Heavy Petting (7:00pm) and light Cinema... THURSDAY 17 SonsolFr**- ception for Sonic Boom 1990. Sh*'s Gotta Hav* tt (8:45pm) at Shea. Johnson Susing Chow. Kel Centre (8pm)... Dick ft Jane dom at the Town Pump... Cool Szeto. Gu Mel. and Tlnyen Chen the fourth annual open festival Starlight Cinema... Grow Up and Heroes closes at THURSDAY 10 Cool Thurs­ Thursdays at the Pit Pub, music (until the 27th)... Art exhibits at for young composers, at the Station Street Arts Centre days at the Pit Pub. music by by CiTR... Steel Kiss continues at Community Arts Council: Shawn Glass Slipper (7:30pm, $8/$6)... THURSDAY 31 cool (8:30pm)... Jesus of Montreal CiTR... Steel Kiss continues at the the Vancouver Little Theatre Westlaken's Recent Works and Cool Thursdays at the Pit Pub. Thursdays at the Pit Pub. music (7:30pm) and The Decline of the Vancouver Little Theatre (8:30pm, $10)... Murmer of the Anita Wong's Vessels In Ceramic music by CiTR... Steel Kiss con­ by CiTR... UBC's annual gradu­ American Empire (9:45pm) at (8:30pm, $10)... Do th* Right Heart at the Ridge Theatre (7:15 in the Lower Gallery, and Jo­ tinues at the Vancouver Little ation ceremonies (9:30am & the Vancouver East Cinema... Thing (7:15pm) and School Daze 81 9:30pm)... Chopsticks and seph Wong's The Vanishing Theatre (8.30pm. $10)... Th* 2:30pm) In the War Memorial Roadklll continues at the Ridge (9:30pm) at the Vancouver East Matzo Balls (7:00 & 9:00pm) at Countryside... Aurora Australls Second Annual B Festival con­ Gymnasium... Heavy Petting Theatre (7:30 & 9:30pm)... Sound Cinema... Simon Fraser Univer­ Starlight Cinema... Photographic Works continues tinues at the Vancouver East (7:00pm) and She's Gotta Have ot Music (2:00pm). Vincent: the sity Stud*nl Films at the Ridge at Presentation House Gallery Cinema... Murmer of th* H*art It (8:45pm) at Starlight Cinema... Life and Death of Vincent Van Theatre... Romero (7:00pm) and FRIDAY 18 CITR presents (until the 27th)... Antonio Mun- closes at the Ridge Theatre (7:15 Gogh (7:00pm), Amadeus Salvador (9:15pm) at Starlight Toots and th* Maytals and tadas' multi-media work Sta­ 8r 9:30pm)... When Harry m*t (9.00pm). and The Rocky Horror Cinema... Mango Dub at th* Commo­ VENUES VENUES dium IV on exhibit at the Charles Picture Show (midnight) at Star­ dore... Bob's Your Unci* at the Sally (7:00pm) and Manhattan (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... CHARLES H. SCOTT GALLERY H. Scott Gallery (until the 6th)... light Cinema... 1990 Quickie FRIDAY 1 1 CITR presents Town Pump... Steel Kiss contin­ May works 1990 opens... ROHO National Wheelchair Bas­ ues at the Vancouver Little The­ Emily Carr 1399 Johnston Street. Scramblers, Sissy Boys, Brain- FRIDAY 25 Dr*adZ*pp*Hn ketball Championships at War atre (8:30pm, $10)... Th* 2nd Granville Island 687-2345 eaters reunion and Elvis at the Town Pump... Sonic Boom Memorial and Osborne Gymna­ Annual B Festival opens at the CLUB SODA 1055 Homer Street WEDNESDAY 2 Chris Hous­ Lovechlld at the Commodore... 1990 at the Glass Slipper... Steel sia... Out of the Cradle and Into Vancouver East Cinema... Mur­ 681-8202 ton and the Smugglers at the Forgotten Rebels at the Town Kiss continues at the Vancouver the Creek fish release program mer of th* Heart at the Ridge COMMODORE BALLROOM 870 Railway... Hot Wednesdays at Pump... UB40 at the Queen Eliza­ Little Theatre (8:30pm. $10)... at Kanaka Creek Regional Park. Theatre (7:15 &. 9:30pm)... My Granville Street 681-7838 the Pit Pub. music by CITR... Steel beth Theatre... Pacific Coast Th* Second Annual B Festival Maple Ridge (10:00am- Life as a Dog (7:00pm) and COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL Kiss by Canadian playwright Music Festival in the Old Audito­ continues at the Vancouver 2:00pm)... Mayworks 1990 con- Bab*tt*'s Feast (9:15pm) at Star­ 837 Davie Street 683-4358 Robin Fulford opens at the Van­ rium. SUB Ballroom, Freddy East Cinema... Festival of Envi­ couver Little Theatre (8:30pm. Wood Theatre, and Dorothy light Cinema... 8* STREET MUSIC HALL former ronmental Films at the Ridge ExpooSite 683-8687 S10). Dick* Jane Grow Up and Somerset Studio (4:00- Theatre... S*x. Ues and VWe- SUNDAY6 Nardwuar the Hu­ SATURDAY 19 D*IAmltrlat FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE 280 East Heroes continue at Station 8:00pm)... St**l Kiss continues otap* (7:00pm) and Last Tango man Serviette Presents Ugh! the Town Pump... Steel Kiss con­ Cordova Street 689-0926 Street Arts Centre (8:30pm)... at the Vancouver Little Theatre In Paris (9:15pm) at Starlight Glgantor at the Smash Gallery tinues at the Vancouver Little GLASS SLIPPER 185 East 11th Matador continues at the Van­ (8:30pm, $10)... Murmer of the Cinema... couver East Cinema (7:15 &. with Untamed Youth from Mis­ H*art at the Ridge Theatre (7:15 Theatre (8:30pm. $10)... Th* Avenue Second Annual B Festival con­ GRUNT GALLERY 209 East 6th 9:35pm)... Roadklll continues at souri, the Rattled Roosters, the &. 9:30pm)... Canadian Pre­ SATURDAY 26 Dharma tinues at the Vancouver East Avenue 875-9516 the Ridge Theatre (7:30 & Evaporators, and the Smug­ miere of Chopsticks and Matzo Bums at the Town Pump... Sonic Cinema... Murmer of the Heart HERITAGE HALL 3102 Main Street 9:30pm)... Stephen Frears' My glers... The Rave-ups and Balls (7:30 & 9:30pm) at Starlight Boom 1990 at the Glass Slipper... at the Ridge Theatre (7:15 8r PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Beautiful Laundrette (7:00pm) Chickasaw Mudpupples at the Cinema... Steel Kiss closes at the Vancou­ 9:30pm)... Some Ilk* It Hot Howe Street 688-3456 and Sammy and Rosie get Laid Town Pump... The Second City ver Little Theatre (8:30pm, $10)... (2:00pm). My Ufe as a Dog Pin INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... Touring Company closes at the SATURDAY 12 One Riddim, Rock and Roll closes at the Van­ (7:00pm). Babette's Feast 36 Powell Street 734-8001 May works 1990 continues... Vancouver East Cultural Centre Benny and th* Sunders, Tropical couver Playhouse... Th* Sec­ (9:15pm), and Th* Rocky Horror PRESENTATION HOUSE 333 Ches­ (8pm)... Jesus of Montreal Breeze, Dido, and Soul Survivor ond Annual B Festival continues Picture Show (midnight) at Star­ terfield Avenue. North Vancou­ THURSDAY 3 CITR presents (7:30pm) and The Decline of the at the Commodore... Forgotten at the Vancouver East light Cinema... ver 986-1351 The Chills from N ew Zealand and American Empire (9:45pm) at Rebels at the Town Pump... Cinema... Festival of Environ­ 11th Dream Day at the Town the Vancouver East Cinema... RAILWAY CLUB 579 Dunsmuir Pacific Coast Music Festival In SUNDAY 20 Roots Roundup mental Films at the Ridge Pump... Cool Thursdays at the Roadklll continues at the Ridge Street 681-1625 the Old Auditorium. SUB Ball­ at the Town Pump... Th* Second Theatre... Doctor Zhivago Pit Pub. music by CITR... Steel Theatre (7:30 8r 9:30pm)... The RECITAL HALL School of Music. room, Freddy Wood Theatre, Annual B Festival continues at (2:00pm), Sex, Lies and Kiss continues at the Vancouver Land Before Time (2:00pm). Vin­ 6361 Memorial Road 228-3113 and Dorothy Somerset Studio the Vancouver East Cinema... VW*otap* (7:00pm) Last Tango Little Theatre (8:30pm. $10)... cent: the Life and Death ot Vin­ RIDGE THEATRE 3131 Arbutus (9:00am-6:00pm)... Thurman Murmer of th* Heart at the Ridge In Paris (9:15pm), and Eraser- Dick ft Jane Grow Up and He­ cent Van Gogh (7:00pm), and Street 738-6311 Baker and Joseph Jarman at Theatre (7:15 & 9:30pm)... Who head (midnight) at Starlight roes continue at Station Street Amadeus (9:00pm) at Starlight SCANDALOUS FOLK CLUB. 127 Tom Lee Music Hall... Steel Kiss Framed Roger Rabbit (2:00pm). Cinema... Arts Centre (8:30pm)... Matador Cinema... Stadium IV exhibition continues at the Vancouver Lonsdale Avenue. North Van­ closes at the Charles H. Scott My Lit* as a Dog (7:00pm) and couver 926-2663 closes at the Vancouver East Little Theatre (8:30pm, $10)... SU N DAY 2 7 Ian Tyson at the Gallery... Vancouver Interna­ Babette's F*ast (9:15pm) at Star­ SCOUT HALL Francis Road and Cinema (7:15 &. 9:35pm)... Murmer o( the Heart a t the Ridge Vancouver East Cultural tional Card Show at Heritage light Cinema... #1 Road, Richmond Roadklll continues at the Ridge Theatre (7:15 & 9:30pm)... Gone Centre... Th* Second Annual B Hall (10:00am-5:00pm)... 1990 SMASH GALLERY 160 West Cor­ Theatre (7:30 & 9:30pm)... My with th* Wind (2:00pm), Chop­ MONDAY 21 CITRpr*s*nts Festival closes at the Vancou­ Quickie ROHO National Wheel­ dova Street Beautiful Laundrette (7:00pm) sticks and Matzo Balls (7:30 & Psychic TV at th* Town Pump... ver East Cinema... Aurora Aus­ chair Basketball Champion­ and Sammy and Rosie get Laid 9:30pm) and Depeche Mod* Reggae Sunsplash '90 at the tralls: Photographic Works STATION STREET ARTS CENTRE ships at War Memorial and (9:00pm) at Starlight Cinema... 101 (midnight) at Starlight Cin- Thunderbird Stadium (2:00- closes at Presentation House 930 Station Street 688-3312 OsbomeGymnasia... Mayworks Celebration of the 30th anniver­ 6:30pm) with Burning Spear, Gallery (until the 27th)... Asian STUDIO 5B Main Building. Lan- 1990 closes... sary of Nltobe Japanese Gar­ Freddie McGreggor, Marcla Art Exhibit closes at the Asian gara Campus 324-5227 den's dedication... Mayworks SUNDAY 13 CITRpr*s*nts Griffiths, Shinehead, U-Roy. Centre Auditorium... Festival of TOM LEE MUSIC HALL 929 1990 continues... MONDAY 7 TheMteslonand Sons of Freedom at th* Para­ Shelly Thunder and th* S09 Environmental Films at the Granville Street The Wonderstutf at the Commo­ mount.. Bobby Watson and Band, and MC Tommy Cowan... Ridge Theatre... An American TOWN PUMP 66 Water Street FRIDAY 4 CITR presents Spirit dore... Untamed Youth and Horizon at the Arts Club Revue Th* Second Annual B Festival Tall (2:00pm). Sex, UM and 683-6695 of the West with Luka Bloom at Chris Houston at the Railway... Stage... Murmer of th* Heart at continues at the Vancouver Vld*otap* (7:00pm) and Last VANCOUVER EAST CINEMA the Commodore... Teenage Francois Truffault's The Little the Ridge Theatre (7:15 & East Cinema... Murmer of th* Tango In Paris (9:15pm) at Star­ 2290 Commercial Drive 253- Head and Last Wild Sons at the Thief (7:15pm) and Milos Fore­ 9:30pm)... Charlotte's Web H*art at the Ridge Theatre (7:15 light Cinema... 5455 Town Pump... The Second City man's Valmont (9:15pm) at the (2:00pm) and Chopsticks and & 9:30pm)... Th* Big Chill VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL Touring Company opens at the Vancouver East Cinema... Matzo Balls (7:30 & 9:30pm) at (7:00pm) and Th* Decline ofthe MONDAY 28 Rachel Page CENTRE 1895 Venables Street Vancouver East Cultural Centre Roadklll continues at the Ridge Starlight Cinema... American Empire (9:00pm) at at the Scandalous Folk Club... 254-9578 (8pm)... Steel Kiss continues at Theatre (7:30 & 9:30pm)... Starlight Cinema... Ian Tyson at the Vancouver East WISE HALL 1882 Adanac Street the Vancouver Little Theatre Cousin Cousin* (7:00pm) and MONDAY 14 sam w*is Cultural Centre... Exhibition of (right behind the Cultch) 736- La Lectric* (9:00pm) at Starlight (8:30pm. $10)... Dick ft Jane from Seattle at the Scandalous TUESDAY 22 CITR Pr*s*nts paintings by Houshang Seyhoun 3022 26 DISCORDER WITH TV AN* 10$ CrlAA//V!tC5... W0U/ Brown at his best with Roach and Roans PERMANENT CULTURE SHOCK 9 00- (drums and tenor saxophone) One of 12:00AM Permanent (per-md-ndnt): lasting. In­ the most Important Jazz groups ever UVE FROM THUNDERIIRD RADIO HEU tended to last. Indefinitely; AK YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC SAM-NOON 28th Phorooh Sanders' first featured 10 0OPM-120OAM The newest new music: Ugetl. Dho- recording tonight caled Touhid" was CuHure Ck*_har): (1) the cMbatlon of Janice McKenzie ploys the local demo mont. Schnlttke. Lutoslowskl. BktwWte. like a bkstf from a hot furnace when a given race or nation at a give n time or tunes, whte Peter. NardwuaKand some­ etc. Information on concerti. record- Issued In 1966 Sonde™ on flute, otto over al time; 0) the raising of micro­ times Ed) introduce the live bands at ond tenor saxophones along wtth 'out' organisms in speciaty prepared medio Be rto and Gloclnto SceU (maybe) gultor master Sonny Sharock. Music for scientific study; 10»h "List of Mn Arson- (a new Patrick THE BRUNCH REPORT 12-121SPM that chatanges and confronts Hke a Shock(sh6k): (1)violentcofcion.con­ "wonderboy' Sampler project). Newt. sports, weather and more with Spike Le cussion. (2) sudden and disturbing mental and physical impressions. MECA1LAST1 12:30-4:00 AM the CITR News. Sports ond Weather De­ Concepts, noise, Radio Deutsche Welle partment!. now you can request whole shows!. band speck*, turntable feedback- THE ROCKERS SHOW 12 15-3 OOPM THE MORNING SHOW 7 30-B1SAM gammon courtesy uncle miffy. stag­ Reggae. Rock Steady and Ska with See Monday for details. George Barrett. nating creativity: welcome to late night RADIO FILM THREAT 5 30 6 OOPM just just sitting ducks. BLUES AND SOUL SHOW 3-5 OOPM Brought to you from the environs ( Lachlan Murray provides the best o( CFRU Radio Guelph. this show promis< blues, rhythm and blues, funk and soul. to present the of THE SUNDAY NEWS MAC... 5 5 30PM NOW YOU HAS JAZZ 8 15-10 00AM. CUR'S in-depth current affairs/news JAZZ FEATURE FROM 11:00AM-12:00PM THE AFTERNOON REPORT 1-1 15PM v Coverage and analy- Join me. Tommy Paley. on a new day! See Monday for detodi Now on Thunda/s with an extended UBC News, plus news and SLOOD ON THE SADDLE 1:16-3:00»M one hour featurel A morning of stories, sports.doly editorial commentary. en- Country music to scrape the cowshlt off anecdotes. JAZZ, ond humour(maybe) Tommy might be the answer to your THE MORNINC SHOW 7:308:16AM your boots to. With yer host-poke. Jeff events hereatUBC.allnacomprehen- question, or he might not...moybe you See Monday for detaits.(Wake up wtth sK/e and comprehensible magazine dont have a question., t nothing else. Stefan and a yard ful of smiles and pockoge And we promise, no traffic THE UNHEARD MUSIC 3-5 OOPM Ifs worth getting up ford know I do.) Demo Director Dale Sawyer provides ii a rvl2:pr MOVING IMAGES 10:30-1 l:0OAM HEARSAY S3O-60OPM some Insights Into the best and the May 3-BMe Holiday Join host Ken Modntyre as he takes you The best In Iterature. ON RADOI Hear worst of the newest Canodtan music. 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Boiingl AVANT-PIC 700-900PM "Ghohun-ghohun" (snatdier of voices), and "A-s'oro ma gb'esi" Spoken word Alternates Sundays with... JIGGLE NOON-1:00PM ITS NOT EASY SEINCCREEN 1:15-2:30PM Avant-garde thuggery with Pete ELECTRONIC SMOKE SIGNALS 6 8 OOPM (that which speaks without pausing for reply). CiTR 101.9 fM is Mikes mom took away the car. Gov's The greenest of the CiTR DJ crop try Lutwyche. First Tuesday eoch month: Information, news. Interviews, political got a bus pass, and Ifs the same old togermlnate and take root on the air World Music Exploration NEW NAME! both. Listen and find out for yourself. But first read ON THE DIAL. anatyls from the global cultures of resis­ crap that nobody likes. JIGGLE JIGGLE Ifyou are interested In CITR program­ tance. 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X- UVE FROM THE KNITTING FACTORY 6 00- NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRES­ IN THE CRIP OF INCOHERENCY 12- time slots!. Improvised fusions of tradi­ Legged SaHy ond Dr. Nerve. ARTS CAFE 6:30-6:00 PM ENTS... 3:3O-4:0OPM 4.00AM tional ihythms from around the globe. Be updated, be wtth it. be informed Located in North Soho. the Knitting Fac­ BIC DUMB SEX 7-900PM So what it Barry doesn't show up any­ Burroughs. Pynchon. "unreleased IVe about Art. theatre, flkn ond ony other Hoody hoody hoody hoody hoody! tory Is the workroom for the New York NEW TIME! Richard Gere knows the more? Who gives a shit? Guldo and sets' and more. Hosted by Chris Bray- cultural event happening In Vancou­ Chimichangas! Downtown music world where musicians DatolLama Biondie did a theme song Trtni stl do. ver. With Antje! experiment with rock, folk and Jazz con­ for a Richard Gere movie. Pat and Lisa THE Cm* DINNER REPORT S-6:30PM ventions. These performances were re­ have looked at the cover of a Biondie See Monday for details. New Time.Daisy gets to sleep In... corded In late 1989.

THE MORNINC SHOW 7:30-8:16AM From the famous siren to the not-so-fa­ mous BBC World Service, wake up with AI II IF TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY The CITR Morning Show. Information to n go: news, sports, weather and 'scenic HE MORNING SHOW - BBC RADIO NEWS REI HOME VIDEO INTERNATIONAL 7- 9:00PM view' (read: radar) reports, features, Radio adaptations of movies. Taping ent ertalnment reviews and Abe rta Hog 8 this program b strictty prohibited. prices. Wake up wtth Stefan and a yard WHITE NOW YOU BREAKFAST SCRAMBLED STOMP ON THAT BOPPATRON 9PM-12:30 f ul of smtes and happiness. Weekdays! NOISE HAS JAZZ 9 ARE WITH THE EGGS AM YOU BROWNS 1- The donee floor beat brought to you 10 by DJ Mick Hard. Pin them neediest SERIOUS? JOIN THE RHYTHM OF MACHINES 12:30- THE AFTERNOON REPORT 1-M6PM MOVING IMAGES MUSIC 4:00AM Lunch goes down better wtth The After­ 11 THE VENUS Exploring the relationship between post- noon Report. Tune In for no frlfc news, ANOTHER SIDE MID-DAY sports, and weather. FLYTRAP night-out anxiety, the complexity of OF BLAND PHALLACY human movement performance, and SOUND OF BEAUTY 3 6:00PM SHOW ExperimentalRodto.wtthVlslonl Featur­ Tear ligaments to 242.KMFDM. Pankow, ing environmental sounds, found noises. •, mm etc.... Hosted by Uoyd Uliana. Information/propaganda and the POWER BLOOD ON Upcoming Interviews: Nitzer Ebb. Bor- worlds primitive and experimental CHORD ghesia.Klir* and Suicidal Tendencies.. musics from the auditory fringe. Live! 2 THE SADDLE Contributions welcome. Practitioner PAULA'S Anthony Roberts. 3 BLUES AND MUG FLEX SOUL UNHEARD YOUR THE SATURDAY EDGE SAM-NOON 4 SHOW .VALUE OF NOSE Steve Edge hosts Vancouver's biggest MUSIC HEAD and best ocoustic/roots/rogue folk mu­ SPORTS DIGEST 5:3O-6:0OPM SUNDAY MAG sic radioshow . Now in Its fifth year on Join the CITR Sports Department for all 5 CiTR! UK Soccer Report at 11:30. the latest In Thunderbird varsity sports SPORTS DIGEST CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS ARTS CAFE RANDOM SAM.. 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THE JAZZ BEAT HEADS things In his short Ve (1932-1975)..he PERMANENT STOMP ON IN EFFECT 3-S00PM mastered al the saxophones, wrote, 10 SHOW WITH VERSUS The Hip Hop Beat brought to you by DJs ONE STEP CULTURE LIVE FROM THAT composed (Jazz. classical, BEYOND/RADIO GAVIN WOLF AT NtelScobie.ChazBarkerand BIITzotzolis. movies)...we'! hear his soprano saxo­ SHOCK THUNDERBIRD BOPPA- 11 FREE AMERICA WALKER phone tonight. Nelson was one of the THE DOOR RADIO HELL TRON RADIO FREE PARKING 14th Juion Prierfer (who Ives In Seattle) 12 has always been one of the most ca- THE YAP GAP 5:30-600PM pabietrombonistslnJc__ Hi 1 IN THE Hear figures In the Arts world talk about ENVIRON­ JOIN their works, other peoples works and Roach. Herbie Hancock. David Holand. GRIP OF MENTAL AURAL OPEN MEGA THE anything else thot occurs to them. Here he b on his first album under his 2 Hosted by Antje Rauwerda own name. "Keep Swingin" INCO­ SCATOL- TENTACLES SEASON BLAST! 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SECOND PAT TEMPLE AND HIGH LONESOME •No MoonHghTrAlter Fke- THE BEVIS FROND Any Gas Faster Reckless FLOOR OF THE STUDENT UNION BUILD­ SISTER ELECTRIC 'IntotheWUd*" ING. 6138 SUB BOULEVARD. UNIVERSITY DEATH OF SAMANTHA Come all yee Faithless Homestead JOJOKA 'Dogs Awaiting' OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER. BC LUKA BLOOM Riverside WEA/Reprise V6T2A5. CATHERINE WHEEL •Slowing Down' RORY MCLEOD Footsteps and Heartbeats Festival/Cooking Vinyl SHE-DEVILS ON WHEEL- '30-9-89 (excerpt)' CATERWAUL Portent Hue MCA/IRS MARY '101 Knights' CHICKEN SCRATCH Important People Lost their Pants Community 3 LOUISE B. 'Speedwell Caverns' CiTRs newest arts program exposing DIGITAL UNDERGROUND Sex Packets Tommy Boy TANKHOG the written word as art needs youl Be Tears' BOO-YAA T.R.I.B.E. 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Thank you KMFDM Virus 12- Cargo/Wax Traxl TEN COMMANDMENTS 'She Ain't no use fo me' THE SUBJECTS Word of God 12' 2 World Productions MUSICAL PAINTED POETS 'Despite all this' CRAMPS Bikini Girls wtth Machine Guns 72* Enigma EXPRESSION II CHARUE MOROW •BPforbp' PUBLIC ENEMY 911 Is a Joke 12' CBS/DefJam GAIL LANDAU 'Here Comes Confusion' LAVA HAY Wont Matter 3-songCD Nettwerk SpinUst and Demo List have had a bit of MARILYN LERNER 'Naladam and Naleve' MONOMEN Rat Fink/Burning Bush T Estrus a face Ift. The three lists you see to the RAWUNS CROSS •Shaken Up' FASTBACKS You cant be Happy/In the Summer 7* No Threes right should reflect the frequency of STUMPY JOE Daydreams/Basfcefcase 7' airplay of new releases and other keen MUCH LIKE PEOPLE -White Home Coof Estrus things received by CiTR 101.9 fM over THE MAD 'This is only a Test...' 3D PICNIC EMs7' Cargo the past little while. 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NEW ON VIDEO OUT NOW 16.94 LP/MC'S 6.94 S 13.94 VAN MORRISON SUE MEDLEY THE HOUSE OF LOVE The Concert Sue Medley Tlie House Of Love VAN 90 minutes LIVE, filmed al the Beacon Theater in • The self-titled debut from Vancouver's own Sue Medley • The highly anticipated new LP featuring MORRISON New York, 30/11/89 • Features the hit single "Dangerous Times", "Blue Skies", *l Don'l Know Why I Love You" & the U.K. hits Contains material spanning Morrison's 25 year career "Queen Of The Underground", "That's Life", "Shine On", "Never" ond "The Beatles & The Stones" Backed by Georgie Fame _ the Blue Flames and featuring "Oh Atlanta" 8, more • "A marvel ... A success" (Melody Maker); guest oppearonces by Mose Allison and John Lee Hooker • Produced by Mike Wanchic "A perfect 10 out of 10* (The Hard Report), This is the video companion lo "THE BEST OF VAN MORRISON" • Features guest appearances by members of John Cougar "Essential listening. Not lo be missed" (Billboard) Album contoins 16 songs 18 on cassette - 20 on CD Mellencomp's, Von Morrison's & John Hiatl's bands • Coming soon on tour Includes tracks from THEM ("Gloria" etc.) ond spans his entire career

BOOTSAUCE THE MISSION The Brown Album Carved la Sand 1 • Catch the street buzz on this debut release • Coming to the Commodore May 7 in concert 12.94 by Montreal's Bootsauce • Contoins the hit "Deliverance", "Sea of Love", the • Includes the single "Scratching The Whole", "Every 1 's U.K. Top 20 smash 'Butterfly On A Wheel" & More FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS A Winner", "Play Wilh Me", "Let's Eat Out" & more • A Top 10 seller in the U.K. Live At The Paramount • "Combines elements of Iggy Pop, Red Hot Chili Peppers • Also available: "Crusade" the LIVE video One hour LIVE, filmed in Seattle, October 1989 ond The The all rolled into one" Contains all the hits including "Johnny Come Home", - Tom Harrison (The Province) "Good Thing", "Tell Me Whot", "I'm Not Satisfied", "Ever Fallen In Love", "Don't Look Back", "Suspicious Minds", "I'm Not The Man I Used To Be", "She Drives Me Crazy" & MORE PETER MURPHY Deep • Features the hit single "Cuts You Up", "Marlene Dietrich's • Coming to the Commodore in concert May 7 Favourite Poem", "Crystal Wrists", "Seven Veils" & more wilh The Mission • The critically Declaimed breakthrough release by former • The critically acclaimed followup to their Top 20 singer/lyricist of Bauhaus U.K. debut The Eight Legged Groove Machine" MICHELLE SHOCKED • Coming soon in concert • Includes the British Top 20 hit "Don't Let Me The Captain Swing Revue • Also available on video: "Bouhaus Shadow Of Light" Down Gently", "Rodio Ass Kiss", "Cartoon • Coming to the Commodore May 22 in concert Boyfriend's MORE • 60 minutes LIVE, featuring tracks from all 3 albums • "A thinker, a grower, and a kick in the bollocks" (New to date plus previously unreleased live favourites s Musical Express); "one of the most brightly shining • Includes "Anchorage", "When I Grow Up", "If Love Was A Train" talents in the heavens"(CMJ New Music Report) | "(Don'l You Mess Around With) My Little Sister" and MORE QUEEN LATIFAH SALT-N-PEPA • See & heor Michelle Shocked backed by the 7 piece All Hail The Queen Captain Swing Revue band /___> • The long-awaited debut release from the new Queen • The brand new release by the duo that brought of rap/hip hop/R&B and soul you the rap smash "Push It" • Includes the dancefloor smashes "Come Into My House' • includes the dance floor smash "Expression" & more "Ladies First" & more SINEAD O'CONNOR • Features guest contributions from De Lo Soul, Prince The Value Of Ignorance Paul, Stetsasonic's Daddy-0, KRS-One and others • Filmed LIVE al the Dominion Theatre, London, June 3/88 • 3 bonus trocks on cassette & CD • One hour of captivating performances * • Check out the voice featured on Bowie's "Fame '90" • Includes "Mandinka", "Jerusalem", "Troy", "I Am Stretched On Your Grave", "Just Like U Said It Would 8" & MORE COMING SOON HOTHOUSE FLOWERS REBEL MC JIMMY SOMERVILLE TONY TONI TONE BEATS INTERNATIONAL YNGWIE MALMSTEEN GO-BETWEENS THEE HYPNOTICS LE MYSTERE DES VOIX BUL6ARES