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[email protected] music dvd movies net Don’t you ! wasn’t born until November 1952, 9 and album charts only arrived in On this Not giving away any dates, but the 1956. However for everyone forget about me day in day I was born, Marvin Rainwater younger than that, this site will be 1987, U2 was top of the pops in the UK with an irrestistible internet surf down released his No1 single, Whole Lotta memory lane. Perhaps you also The Woman. And “My Fair Lady” was Joshua the No1 album according to the share your birthday with Bob Seeger, Mary McGregor or Colin Tree, an brilliant date engine service at album Earl (the Mungo Jerry keyboard www.everyhit.com/dates. This many player, dummy). Have a look. shouldn’t affect too many ent. page believe is the band’s best work. And exactly readers, but the UK singles chart BRUCE HOLLOWAY 10 years later, Notorious B.I.G was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. He recommended listening based on was 24. that. Still, we are in an ’80s revival. minuit BRYCE JOHNS 11 THE GUARDS THEMSELVES Duchess and Jonny Corker are at Aqua Velvet, (TARDUS) various artists Raglan, and that’s $10. INVITATION TO TANGO It’s hard to put a Ventriloquist David Strassman appears with finger on Minuit. You could label (WAGRAM his little wooden mate at Founders Theatre. their music trip hop, maybe. The MUSIC/BORDER Ticket Direct has tickets for that one. Nelson trio — who put out one of MUSIC) 2003’s best albums The 88 — are Tango is the sultry sexy dance of The Parihaka International Peace Festival is on back after an enforced hiatus thanks Argentina and whether you are a to Ruth Carr’s trademark voice down in the ’Naki. Featuring Fat Freddy’s Drop, tango dancer, or just interested in Kora, Anika Moa, Upper Hutt Posse, Ladi6 and almost giving up on her. Which would listening to funky international tunes, have been a damn shame because screeds of others performers. It runs for this is a great album. Invitation to it’s one of the most distinctive and Tango is designed to be a chocolate three days, tickets from Ticketek. Looks a impressive around. Equal parts good’un. Bjork, Beth Gibbons (Portishead), box for those wanting to get a feel Shara Nelson (Massive Attack) and for the beats and wild heart of At Sekure, Cpt Nemo, DJ Ayesha and Joe Nyntee Tricky, Carr still manages to sound Argentina’s favourite dance. Some (Auckland) share the decks, serving up tasty like her own girl. The comparisons tracks are mellow, while others are doses of soul, funk, jazz, beats, breaks and a upbeat. Great to have in the are regrettable, but impossible to smidgeon of hip hop as well. Upstairs at ignore and don’t mean Minuit are background while making dinner or simply local versions of the Bristol with guests over, as it is unobtrusive The Loft, it’s Mikee Boy. scene, circa late ‘90s. They have too and adds a cool flavour to Ent. faves This Night Creeps headline a release much range for that. From the wistful proceedings. And for those who know show for the new BodyTone EP. It’s $10, at Do Me In to the slightly rockier Fake! the moves, it will get you up and SIMPLE MINDS: WELL, IT WAS THE ’80S. and We’re All Scared Professor, dancing too. Ward Lane, and you get The Vacants and The through to the almost funky Fuji, here’s nothing like the sad demise and guitarist Charlie Burchill remain — renditions of its biggest US hit Don’t You Shaky Hands too. Minuit manage to get around the KATE MONAHAN of a 1980s epic synth-rock band to the band ain’t Alive & Kicking any more. (Forget About Me) on the 2003 album Minuit play at Catalyst. The latest Minuit musical traps fairly well for two T get ent. misty eyed about back- Back touring following a three-year blokes with keyboards and a chick Live & Rare smacked of sheer desperation. album is reviewed on this page, check it out. out front who was a drummer. An combed hair, jackets with shoulder pads, hiatus, lead singer Kerr, 46, looks like a Sadly, the band’s biggest hit — from The Anti-Christchurch death metal exponents album with broader appeal than The original Nike Air Jordans, and acid-wash balding, pudgy darts player. Fluent in Breakfast Club soundtrack — was also the Human play 6ft Under as part of the Amputation 88 — dubbed sublime by ent. when aeon flux jeans. Italian, he lives in Sicily where he owns a only song Kerr and Burchill didn’t write. of a Nation tour. Axe Attack main-man Paul released — and by all accounts (M, VILLAGE) they’re a pretty darned good live act. We’ve all gone Actually, all but the bit about original hotel, but last year linked up with Burchill Kerr initially rejected Don’t You (Forget Martin says Human are “pretty extreme in If you don’t believe me, go check through the Air Jordans is a lie, but we don’t want to to crank out the first studio album in years About Me) due to its formulaic lyrics. So places” and one of NZ’s longest-serving out Carr and cohorts Paul Dodge deflating metal bands. Wrath from New Plymouth are upset any Simple Minds fans. (reviewed this page) and headed off on had Bryan Ferry and (wait for it) Billy Idol and Ryan Beehre in town when they experience of also on the bill, and it’s a tenner to get in. play Catalyst tomorrow night. going to a movie Actually, that’s a lie too — anyone who tour. before him. But Kerr relented. Proving his can warble the words to Promised You A Things started to go horribly wrong Across the Kaimai Ranges in Katikati, the with rave reviews first reaction was right, the US loved it, TRACEY COOPER to discover it was Miracle needs help. for the Minds when they turned political, three-day Littleweed Festival is on. A good line- giving the band its only US No1. only mediocre — like Crash. So it’s Of late, ent. has sniggered at the singing about apartheid, the poll tax, and up for this one too, with Kora, Sola Rosa, Minuit nice to go to a movie with terrible Ent.’s always hated that song, partly simple minds diversion of careers between the Glasgow Northern Ireland’s troubles. And they and Batucada Sound Machine all on the bill. reviews to find out that it’s actually because the last artist cool enough to do There’s also theatre, percussion and ballet, BLACK & WHITE rather good. Aeon Flux is one of lads and their mates from across the Irish changed their sound — ironically, that and tickets can be bought from Ticketmaster. 050505 (SANCTUARY those movies — critically panned, Sea, U2, who shared the genre throne in worked for U2, which has kept reinventing a song with brackets in the title was Otis RECORDS) but nevertheless a decent way to the 1980s, the period The Face magazine itself. Redding in 1967, with the seminal (Sittin’ It might seem spend a couple of hours. The movie, On) The Dock of the Bay. 11 harsh for the ent. masterminds to based on the cult cartoon, is set 400 once dubbed “the decade style forgot”. Kerr married Pretenders singer Chrissie compare Simple Minds with Irish years in the future, where all that’s There’s no better indication of the Hynde in the mid-’80s, and the bands Kerr might have a few regrets in his The latest A Low Hum Tour hits Ward Lane. greats U2 (see this page), but Simple left of humanity lives in a walled city bands’ fates since then than their New toured together. We all know what happens life, but one of them isn’t changing the Featured this time round are Connan and the Minds did it first. In the promotion ruled by a totalitarian government. Mockasins — a unique combination of musos, material for this, their first album in Zealand gigs this year. Next week U2 will in those scenarios, don’t we ent. readers? band’s name early on. Its first incarnation Rebel assassin Aeon Flux (Charlize if ent. could be so bold — along with Whipping three years, the Scottish four-piece Theron) is given the task of killing play two 38,000 sell-out stadium gigs in Band members leave, the manager gets was Johnny and the Self-abusers, an early Cats and Grand Prix. You can pay $10 and just tell fans how in the 1980s they the city’s ruler, Trevor Goodchild (a Auckland, and all the tickets were snapped sacked, the band changes record labels hint their music would be a load of w***. evolved into an “epic-sounding pop get in the door, or you can pay $15 and they’ll fine performance by Kiwi Marton up in a couple of hours. Simple Minds over creative differences. In what sounds like an overdue Simple band along the lines of U2”. Anthems Csokas), whom she thinks is toss in two CDs and a magazine. Cool huh? like Don’t You (Forget About Me) and are playing at indoor 2500-seat venues in Kerr changed wives as well, marrying Minds obit, Kerr told Scotland’s Sunday responsible for murdering her sister. Rivers Edge is at Aqua Velvet. Belfast Child may well have made But when she confronts Goodchild, Welly and Auckland in May — you want Patsy Kensit — the bare-boobed star of Herald in August last year: “We wrote their reputation, but they were 20- Victoria St’s Upsett Records hosts another she finds out that things are a lot a ticket? No worries, there’s still plenty to Lethal Weapon 2 — who in a downward hundreds of songs, played thousands of odd years ago. The first thing you more complex than she thought. gig, this time featuring Peace Skank Inquiry, notice on the latest offering is this be sold. A sorry situation for an outfit career spiral mirroring Kerr’s ended up Like any good sci-fi, Aeon Flux is gigs, sold millions of records. We were Fifth Threat, Dick Dynamite and the Doppelgangers still sounds like Simple Minds — Jim based on an intriguing idea, revealed that’s sold 30 million records. plying her trade on Emmerdale Farm rewarded like kings, and we enjoyed 95 and the exotically named Pascadero Avenue. Kerr’s distinctive voice is immediately halfway through the movie. The The bands once shared a producer, but (having ditched Kerr for Oasis twit Liam recognisable. However, the problem impressive sets show a lot of per cent of all of it. It’s not like we weren’t $5, and it’s an all ages affair. is there isn’t much memorable in now all they share is a Gaelic brogue. Gallagher). imagination, and there’s plenty of contenders.” here, like much of their later stuff. Hard to believe now, but Simple Minds At the same time, the New Wave of Omega B has the hip hop flavour at the weekly gunplay, stunts and Theron’s skin Home is a foot-tapping rock number, albums debuted at No1 in Britain in the synth-rock dashed against the rocky beach So was David Tua, and we know where Mic Check, held at Catalyst. you can sing along to Stranger, but to slaver over. Granted, there’s the Tuaman’s career is at. At Sekure, it’s Sophie, and at The Loft, enjoy the closest there is to an anthem is unconvincing “look at how tough I early ‘80s, and the band filled Wembley of musical taste. Things got so bad Kerr Different World, which hints at the am” posing, and nothing about the Stadium in 1989. (Mind you, so did Bros.) even wrote a tune for The Super Mario tasty selections from veteran Auckland tune- better times. There are only nine movie is truly outstanding. Not a These days, if Simple Minds was in the Brothers film. It was time to crank out Check www.sparkle.be — a Belgian fan spinner Bevan Keys, he of George FM’s Keys must-see, but something action and songs, and adjectives I’ve noted ER, the doctors would be signing the time compilation and covers albums, always site — for up-to-date Simple Minds info To The Groove fame. down to describe other offerings are sci-fi fans will enjoy. “pleasant”, “down tempo”, of death card. Unlike U2’s still-the-same the beginning of the end (see Madness). and pictures. The Dusseldorf gig looked like 13 “average” and “slow”. Hardly TANE AIKMAN quartet, only two original Minds, Jim Kerr Ent. reckons the band including two a ripper. Gods of American indie-rock, the back- Melodic folksy-pop five-piece Rivers together-again Dinosaur Jr, perform in Edge trundles into Raglan on Saturday Auckland. The venue has been changed to night for its second Waikato show in St James, meaning J, Lou and Murph will be the space of the month. even louder than you expect, so take earplugs. The band, which it’s fair to say Gonna be wicked. Tickets are $60ish from revolves around singer-songwriter- Ticketek. guitarist Chris Baigent, played at Sohl a couple of weeks back to an 14 appreciative crowd, and this weekend they’ll grace Aqua If there’s one thing veteran Kiwi musos are good at Velvet. it’s crooning, and there’ll be crooning aplenty when It’s a big Rivers Edge began as, well, a one-piece, but over the last the Legends Unleashed 2006 tour reaches Hamilton happy few years Baigent’s incorporated extra players to produce a next weekend. Fans of crooners John Grenell, Eddie birthday to musical flavour based around simple and elegant lyrics Low and Suzanne Prentice can get up close and Albert Einstein, teamed with pared back guitars and gentle drum patterns. personal by entering this wee competition ent. has born on this arranged. Headfirst, the band’s debut album, was released last year day in 1879. You’ll win a double-pass to the March 18 performance and not only gained them airplay from legendary Auckland Pretty smart broadcaster bFM (the single C’Mon Let’s Go Baby made the at Founders Theatre, plus a copy of the latest Legends Unleashed 2CD album. How about that? fella, he was. station’s Top 10), but got some major kudos around the He shares his traps: “This album is refreshingly easy to digest,” gushed Liz To be in to win, fire entries to: birthday with Barry from Radio NZ’s Homegrown, while Legends Unleashed Competition, C/- Ent., a golfer who www.cheeseontoast.co.nz declared it as being “like the guy Waikato Times, Private Bag 3086, Hamilton (Baigent) has just crept out of the woodwork with a stunning Entries must be in by next Wednesday morning, you may collection of, quite frankly, the most beautiful songs”. include name, address and daytime contact telephone know of, Rivers Edge perform at Aqua Velvet from 9 o’clockish on number. Winners will be contacted by phone and chap named Sir Bob Charles. named next week in ent. Saturday night. RIVERS EDGE