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A NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN dir. Sidney Lumet THE FULL MONTY Al 73 perhaps it is time the sun set on Sidney lumet's long and varied career but still, here he is again, up The hit British movie that is moving mountains in the States at the moment, The FullMonty is a Sheffield- to his neck in crime, cops and corruption with yet another assault on America's iudiciol system. Twelve based feelgood comedy is directed with rightful conviction by Peter Catteneo. ll has been likened to last Angry Men, Serpico, Dog OayAftemoan, Prince OfThe City, The Verdictand OBA are iust some of the year shit Brassed Off and is doing so well in the states that it is being elevated to the some league as Four brilliant which made the veteran director's name, so he knows the territory well. Perhaps too well, for if Weddings AndA Funeral. the reason for such euphoria is that The Full Monty is not only very funny but one there,is a problem with Night Falls On Manhattan it's that he brings little that's fresh and original to the of those unique movies which goes down equally well with both men and women. subiect matter. This time it's Andy Garcia as o squeaky clean prosecuting attorney struggling with divided violet!tie Robert Carlyle _(Begbie in Trainspotting) plays the lead_os Gaz, o Sheffield steelworker who, together with a few pals and his old foreman Gerald, is laid off from his iob. With unemployment high and few coins in loyalties, moral dilemmas and pressures on his ovm professional integrity. Ian Holm impresses as his father, their pockets and the local lob Club offering few prospects of a brighter future, morale is low. that is until an old street cop gone to seed, while Ron Liebman steals the show as a sharp, scathing, unscrupulous DA. our Gaz hits upon the idea of forming a cut-price version of the Chippendales. they go down o storm with Other characters though are badly under-written, and all too often the film skates along on surface detail without ever really getting under the skin. Even the court-room scenes for which Lumet is duly famed are the ladies at a local nightclub on a Friday night. his mates think he's mad but once he persuades Gerald ( 1 lacking the spark of other recent efforts such as TV's Murder One. There's no doubt that this is a finely who knows afew dance slepslto go along with it, auditions begin and the idea takes form. Gerald, Gaz, o crafted film and for Lumet a solid if unspectaculor return to form, but approach it with too high suicidal security guard, a well-endowed handyman and an old geezer who can strut ‘the funky chicken’ expectations and you are sure to be disappointed. H0 offer one thing the Chippendales aren l prepared to — "the full Monty". It's the best these men can offer, the shirt off their backs and their Y-fronts down, too, in return for an honest wage. WORKING: My Life As A Prostitute by Dolores French (llista £5.99) With o Simon Beaufoy script full of sharp iokes and affectionate Northern iibes, The Full Monty is a laugh-a- Dolores French is one dedicated woman. Originally becoming o prostitute by standing in fora couneson minute Carlyle is excellent in the lead role Tom Wilkinson la Gerald with believable d h while Mark ' r P Y5 DPT friend, she subsequently explored all aspects of "the life" as she moved from being on escort agency " Ady plays, to great effect, the shy, ovenveight and sensitive member of the troupe who is reluctance model " to working in a Puerto Ricon brothel, then as o street walker, and even having her own window in personified when it comes to the eve of the big performance. Amsterdam's famous red light diistrict and her own agency in Atlanta. She writes frankly of her The Full Monty doesn't carry the some political anger as Brassed Off but really is very funny and experiences and of the somtimes bizarre services requested of her, and some of her insights into human beautifully played by the assorted company. MA JUMP THE GUN nature make professional psychologists seem shallow in comparison. Her comparisons between the men of Another British director Les Blair brought us the passable British comedy Bad Behavioursome years ago. As different nations are particularly enlightening. EVENT HORIZON dir. Poul Anderson a directorhe is very much in the Mike Leigh mould, placing importance on intensive rehearsal and In her time she has come across probably the smallest dick in the world l "it was more like bumping into improvisational acting techniques to come up with a suitable and authentic script. This time Les Blair has They tell us the year is 2047 yet this doesn't feel like the future; it feels iust like o film you've seen before someone in a lifi than having sex" ) and possibly the largest ( " the only freebie I ever gave "). travelled further afield to bring us o drama about life in present-day South Africa. ll focuses on the lives of and are about to see again. Alien, Hellraiser, lce Station Zebra, any old haunted house movie; they're all Emphosising the importance of prostitution as a social service and highlighting the ignorance of society in here in the melting pot, reheated and rehoshed in big budget sci-fi horror style. Laurence Fishburn and Sam six working class characters, both black and while, and charts their plight in the brave new apartheid-free general, and the weakness of the authorities in particular, with many policeman being portrayed as pathetic LOST HIGHWAY dir. David Lynch Neilheod a team of stereotypical space truckers on a mission to salvage a prototype spaceship, the Event world nurtured by President Mandela. Occasionally contrived and perhaps a little too long, lump The Gun is Satirising and celebralingboth the banal and brutal side of Americana, David Lynch core's not for coherent worthwhile if you fancy seeing a frank and intelligent film that grasps the preoccupations of those trying to slobs picking on working women as on easy way to fill their arrest sheets, this is o highly educational book Horizon ofthe title that seven years earlier had mysteriously vanished without trace. Once on board clues for anyone with an open mind. After attending several court cases involving prostitutes she began to storylines nor for conventional plot structures. insteadhe digs around in the mind's deepest recesses and make their way in the new South Africa. It's also a lot better than the recent Johannesburg thriller to the original crews untimely demise begin to emerge and quickly it becomes clear that the some hellish campaign for the decriminalisation of prostitution and founded the first prostitutes union, HIRE (Hooking ls extracts contorted, contradictory dream images that either prove powerfully stimulating or puzzlingly fate awaits the ships new inhabitants. In fact it becomes all too clear all too quickly as the tension and Dangerous Ground. PM oblique. Lost_Highway, his first film since the ill-advised though underrated Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me lump The Gun at Broadway Mon 22nd - Thurs 25th Sept. Real Employment). ll turns out there are some I,700,000 prostitutes working in the USA. She was the first more interesting elements of psychological terror are replaced by o typical unimaginative horror slug-fest. to speak out for them with o ground-breaking appearance on a prime time W talk show. maintains this approach to produce an eccentric tale of erotic anguish. Event Horizon is far from the worst of this summer's Ioaks-pretty-but-forget-lhe-plot films and as its makers In the slo-o-o-ow opening scenes, |azz saxophonist Fred (Bill Pullman) and his icy wife Renee (Patricia Anyone expecting o promise of promiscuily or a cheap thrill-— you have no idea. Working illustrates how rightly claim,_there is no alien monster around to use as an easy and obvious target. But stripped of its eye- THE SWEET HEREAFTER prostitutes were years ahead of the government when it come to AIDS and other sexually transmitted Arquette) are the recipients of o series _of video tapes each one more sinister and nasty than the last. popping special effects, stunning pull-back shots and sci-fi trappings, this is iust The Mary Celeste in space. Atom Egoyan's latest is o departure from his previous efforts (The Adjuster, Exotica, Calendar) as in the Eventually something snaps and Fred finds himself convicted of his wife's murder and sentenced to die in diseases, and some of the passages in this book should be used for the purposes of health education and Alien took similar influences but twisted the tale to good effect and reinvented the genre. Twenty years past he has adapted his ovm screenplays. Here he takes a Russell Banks novel as the subiect for his film, AIDS awareness. She also explains a canny prostitutes’ trick which involves hiding a condom in the mouth the electric chair. and things getvery weird: Somehow Fred is suddenly transformed into Pete (Balthazar one which Banks himself considered the least adaptable of his novels. In terms of the plot, think of the lqler Event Horizon looks tired and stole andbuy inference, sci-fi movies in general are in desperate need and " blowing " it onto o client's penis, of whom apparently only about one in twenty actually notice! It GetlY_l, o young garage mechanic who services the cor of the violent, volatile gangster Mr. Eddy (Robert tragedies which have affected whole communities like Hungerford or Dunblane. In The Sweet Hereaftera o a radical revamp. The future is out there, it s frightening and full of dumb, wise-cracking Americans. H0 saved her life on at least one occasion. For anyone currently practising or even considering taking up the Loggia) whilst simultaneously making out with the guy's desensitized girlfriend Alice (Arquette again, back small town has to come to terms with a coach accident in which a large number of it's children are killed. world's oldest profession, this book is on invaluable guide, especially for the health and equally important now as o bleached blonde). But what was seen as simply an unfortunate accident is complicated by the arrival of a big-city lawyer who Occasionally these two separate sets of characters are linked together through names, faces, photos and stirs up the community with legal talk blaming the bus driver who has survived the accident. The road to safety aspects. The rigorous screening of clients by agencies makes credit control companies seem flashbacks, but still it is hard to find clues to the conundrum, even at its conclusion. Lynch may ask healing can only be paved with bitterness unless someone stops the lawyer from carrying out his work. llfill amateurish by comparison. Although prostitution is still illegal she uses a working name and was only arrested once, one of the most questions about the nature of identity and poke fun at the human psyche, yet he still resolutely refuses to anyone stand up and question the motives of this demonstrative stranger? open_u_p his work to easy interpretations. However lost Highway is for from a road to nowhere and it is Ouielly emotive, The Sweet Hereafter iumps between different time zones and different characters as it amusing episodes in the book when she was streets ahead of the inept Vice Squad who managed to infringe surprising, in this post-Torantino all-talkie world, iust how refreshing it is to hear stilted dialogue, eerie steadily builds up o rounded view of events. At the heart of it all, actors Ion Holm, Sarah Polley, Maury the low several limes while trumping up desperately obscure charges against her, since she had actually silences and an unsettling soundtrack. Performances range from the muted (Arquelte, Pullman) to Chaykin and Bruce Greenwood give layered and convincing performances. Certain parts are sensitively done nothing illegal. This led to her marriage to a criminal defence lawyer, o very understanding chop. She sympathetic (Getty) to the road rage manic (Loggia) while the most disturbing and disquieting threat handled while other ideas seem o touch understated, but Egoyan's film won this year's International Critics was eventually appointed to the Mayor's Task Force on Prostitution in her hometown of Atlanta where she emanates from a malevolent mystery man (Robert Blake). Henry Rollins, Richard Pryor, Marilyn Manson prize at Cannes with iust cause. It's on intelligently perceptive film which concentrates on the complexities continues to work at her chosen career to this day. Christine Chapel and lack 'Eraserhead'_ Nance all contribute brief cameo appearances and This Mortal Coil's Song To The of character as it explores the aftermath to a devastating local tragedy. MA Siren providesthe main recurring musical motif. The design is predictably stark and stylised, the lighting The Sweet Hereafter can be seen at Broadway until Thurs 9th Sept. THAT YELLOW BASTARD: A TALE FROM SIN CITY by Frank Miller‘ a most non-existent; in every_sen_se this is o dark film. Overlong, perhaps, and at times undoubtedly tedious (Titan Books limited Edition hardback if 6.99 out now. Softback £12.99 out 3rd Oct.) but you will still see nothing like it this year. Kiss me deadly. I-Ian); Quinlqn AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY It's back to Sin City where tough cop Lieutenant John Harligon is one hour from retirement but still as Find the Lost Highwayat Broadway until Thurs. IBth Sept. The star of Wayne's World, Mike Myers, turns his varied talents to the intrigues of international espionage dedicated as ever, which is why he goes after someone the rest of the force would rather ignore, even at playing both o goofy superstud British spy Austin Powers and his dastardly terrorist target, the wonderfully the beginning of their career. Junior is the sickfuck paedophile son of a powerful, corrupt senator who camp Dr. Evil, in this hilarious comedy spoof which also stars Liz Hurley. Swinging 60's spy and part-time protects his son from the law. Junior has a history of raping and torturing children and Hartigan's been fashion photographer Powers is frozen cryogenically only to be thawed back to life in the 90's to seek and tipped off that he's iust kidnapped II year-old Nancy Callahan. With the single-mindedness of the Caped thwart the evil Dr Evil who has threatened to do away with mankind unless he is paid a large sum. Hurley Crusader, 60 year-old angina sufferer Harligon goes after the yellow bastard to save the girl's life. That's plays Powers’ lithe assistant putting up in the PC 90's with her bosses sexist 60's iorgon — " do you wont when his troubles really begin as his partner's advice to leave it alone becomes a sinister warning. Hardly to shag now or later? — and his use of words like ‘fob’ and ‘groovy’. The clash between the two is has he blown Iunior's hand and dick off than he himself is taking in more lead than AI Pacino at the and of superbly funny, even if Hurley's Sloane accent detracts from her (for once) better-than-wooden acting. $carfoce— and he was short of breath anyway. Soon he has plenty of time to wonder why he was kept Myers meanwhile dominates the film as writer/aclor/producer. Not all his iokes come off, but most do. alive as he sacrifices everything to save Nancy's life. l Look out for some original sequences as he and Liz use hotel obiecls to innovative effect as, both nude, This sickening, sadomasochislic story, starkly illustrated in brutal block and while imagery contains on they protect their modesty with hilarious timing. Dr. Evil and his incongruous, grunge-loving son also shore uncompromising ugliness. It's basically o good versus evil yarn but the subversive Frank Miller suckers you into Sin City then stretches the imagination with this sexagenarian superhero Hartigan who appears THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS dir. Sidney Lumet some wonderfully funny exchanges. It's wacky, wild, upbeat but slight, and intellectuals may not beat o path to the door, but if you want a little light relief Mike Myers-style, lake time out— you won't be indestructible in the face of some lethal situations. Quite o thriller that leaves a wry smile on your face and Mode in I965, shot in black and white on grainy film stock and cost entirely with non-actors, The Battle Of dry bile in your mouth. Algiers is one of the most powerful and overtly political films ever mode. with detailed documentary disappointed. MA CC precision and row, gutsy authenticity it focuses on o specific period in Algerian history, the guerilla slrifigle against their french colonial oppressors. Between I954 and I962 the revolutionaries took control of the AIRFORCE ONE In Wolfgang Petersen's thriller Harrison Ford plays a no-nonsense IIS president shaken up by o gong of THE X FILES: Internal Affairs try John Rozum Casbah and transformed random criminality into_a highly focused and forceful campaign. Caught up in The X-files in comic book format gives the ghoulsome twosome the usual kind of cases to deal with riveting crowd scenes, street battles and frighteningly realistic bombings it is impossible not to be moved. Nationalist terrorists from Kazakstan who hiiack the president's aircraft as he is returning to the States after although they are all new stories not adapted from the never-ending tv series. There aren't any humorous *mz* But the film is no simplistic goody and boddy polemic. both sides are shown in the cold Ii ht of do with the a meeting with the Soviets. Led by a passionate revolutionary Gary Oldman, the hiiackers fail to capture stories in this book, unlike the previous Night Lights which had it's hilarious moments. But it has Mulder and GROSSE POINT BLANK emphasis- on the tactics. they use and the methods they employ. In fact the American BlackB Panthei the president but take his wife and daughter hostage who, together with the rest of the entourage are held Scully's usual dry exchanges, even better if you imagine their voices, and there's Scully's usual forensic an this hugely en|oyable film, co-writer and actor John Cusack plays Martin Blank, a hit-man with the movement was so impressed that The Battle OfAlgiers was used to teach urban guerrilla warfare to its to ransom in a bid to release a rebel leader from prison. Conveniently the president has o military fortitude: " There were extreme traces of epinephrine and a massive vasovogol reaction that triggered a ubious claim to fame of being the man who killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. He is cold, slick trainees. This is the textbook for modern political film-making and the bench-mark by which others are background and must remember all his old skills if he is to defeat his chilling adversary. In support Glenn andprofessional but lacks motivation for his work. He sees o shrink (Alan Arkinl who foils to raise his Close in the role of a shocked Vice-President required to run the country in Ford's absence. Naturally it all myocardial infarction." |udged and found wanting. " So what did he die of? " spirits and even a keen rival called Grocer (Dan Ackroyd) has no ioy in persuading marlin to agree to a The Battle Of Algiers commences on Fri I 9th Sept at Broadway. Ho ends in fisticuffs and a few shennannigans in the Mile High club but the whole thing is neatly pulled plan whereby they work together. Blank in fact chooses to go to his high-school reunion with an en route together by director Petersen who is rejoined here by actor Jurgen Prochnow, star of Petersen's excellent " Fear." *BXBCllIl0I'l.|OIl planned and arranged for him by his hard-working PA Marcello (Ms Joan Cusack). Once he There are four shorts here, about a dead organ donor who comes back to reclaim what's his, an Hawaiian $ELECT HOTEL screen debut Dos Boot. There are one or two embarrassing echoes of Independence Day as iingoism and US Leliiclrs his reunion in Grosse Point, Michigan, he meets up,with long-lost sweetheart Debi (Minnie Driver) flog-waving bravery take over, but for the most part Air Force One still provides plenty of nail-biting in- ~ poltergeisl, a vompiric overcoat and a doctor who cuts off his nose to spite his aliens. But there are no This French drama selects a Parisian squat as the home fora brother and sister (Jean-Michel Fete and Julie aliens and no clues to any of the unexplained bits of the tv episodes. I suppose that's because the truth is o as become a local DI but has to dodge the attentions of other hitmen who happen to be in the area. Gayet) who are into burglary, drugs and prostitution. When someone's apartment is ransacked, the owner flight fare. The big question is— will the airlines show it? MA Grosse Point Blank is on hilariously dork comedy with some wonderful dialogue which comes courtesy of a out there; it's certainly not in here. ' sets out to track down the perpetrators. The brother and sister team are soon targeted and sparks fly as Air Force One takes offnationwide Sept l2th. CC giur-ma: writing tefamf Torn Jankiewicz, Dll_De Vincenlis, Steve _Pin_k, and Cusack himself. It was directed by class differences are exposed. It's o low-key film revealing the desperation in the lives of those caught in in Sieorge rrr%gagfi_=.i o Miami Blues fame and includes o first-rate indie music score put together by Joe a spiral of low-level crime and drug dependency. MA qrirmmiri. e_ I m gets off to an excellentstort, combining neat performances with some wonderful timing Select Hotel steals into Broadway Fri lOfh- Thurs l6lh Oct. fin crac ing lines, and, although it dips slightly in the middle, rouses to o superb finish. Cusack hasn't eon this good since The Grihers, and Ackroyd hasn't been in such a good film since The Blues Brothers or Trading Places. - Grosse Point Blank hits Broadway Fri l9th - Thurs 25th Sept. Mm Arnold‘
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NEUK I. VIP./Freedom/Sick/Control There is on owful lot of undits who iust con’t see the it seems thot the twisted kookiness ot Slush is utter your soul uttroction in this style olirock. Sotonic soundin , row ongst for keeps. GT vocols with hecivy guitors ver ing on metol onfl steum troin drums. I like these drums unilthe guitors ore classic. As for the GOOBER PATROL vocols, love them or hole them. Huge Boby Ions might love Extended Vacation (Ihem's Goodl them. If you're feeling pissed off this might be your tonic. SM This is scury. The press release staunchly instructs us " forget everything you've ever heord " by Goober Potrol. Apparently GLYCERINE Class A / Libido lpromol they hove left their " smile on the foce of punk " imoge for If the New York Dolls were still oround ond MCS weren't so behind." In short, " we ore wcirned, " this beost ...roges ". I onihilistic (ond deod) then they could be sounding like wos slightly concerned thot they'd token Motorheod's lettering Glycerine. ond if only Glycerine were more etgglosive they in vuin on the cd itself; so noturully I wos o bit nervous putting might hove prefixed their ncime with 'Nitro'. is is o bond it in the deck, wondering if it might shoot out of my computer which may be swept utg by the torrent of hurd-edged rock screen like something from on Alien movie. So I was quite bonds thot ore doing eir domnedest to ignite the lotter relieved to find thot the beust wosn't so much rugin os stoges of the millenium. even Dosis ore going for u heavier woking up to find the milk hod gone off. Whot you Iind with sound but, unfortunately for them, not us convincingl us some of the underground octivists. GI cerine ore on tlieir woy this olbum is thot, yesll, It is the GB of old but they've iust to lorgeness. They certainly hove the bollox. SM sundpopered the singer's throot more (which would moke you quite pissed off, I suppose). There ore some brilliant tunes in TEENAGE FANCLUB I Don't Want To here— check out We Deal You Choose ond lt’s 0l(Iwhich I Control You ((rescd 238) sweur wus on o previous cilbuml but. .. imogine Lemmy's Me ond Teenage Fonclub would not see eye to eye. The title voice doing o Sleeper cover ond thut's how out of plcice these MOODSWINGS photo: Mke Diver now, but whereas ii lot of bonds would hove mfllowed with truck hos the right message but but with such o siife vocols sound there's nothing wrong with being the hoppy foce ' I - - Psychedelicotessen (Aristol oge the (romps hove become dirlier. Oueen 0 Pain is pure orrongement ond so-so ocoustic blondness, I con’t see it ml,'::,':,':'i$',l':i,§i:'dP'£%f:i15|l'\:':0ne5 90' '0 ‘med some MG The most oppropriotely nomed oct since Metullicu do genuinely sociol distortion ond thot is no bod thing. I used to be o knocking your socks off us o single. Second truck The Count would hove been my choice, more rock thon pop with bigger DDS I ' deliver the broadest of musicol moods in o virtuolly condom member of the legion Of The (ramped fun club buck in the TINDERSTICKS Curtains (This Woy Up) goers alongside our very own Deep Joy order. The rich, ombienl opening couplet Iifeforce In A Pizza 80's-— sod enough, i know, but this disc reminds me why. electric bolls. Middle Of The Road is, us it soys, (I return to the Third olbum in for the sextet finds them in ever more Permonent Revolution. o roll of honour indeed ond o worthy SKELETON KEY The World? Most ond (rysmlle burst open to let the swirling strings of Ooh, listening to this is the ourol equivolenl of slipping on the mood of the title truck. SM exponsive ond (whisper it) commercial vein. The lush strings tribute to the do-it-yourself vision of Kain (onoville ond Aki Famous Undertaker (Dedicated) Undislrucled flow through. Such is the seomless nuture of the old lecither ot the end of the night, heading out into the neon ARNOLD 'l'wistICrescd 257Pl shimmying through the opening truck (pick u title from those Nuwoz in bringing streetwise, ethno-Brit Roots fusion to the A mini olbum thot's Rock through ond through, but swinging whole disc thot steel bond bouts mixing it with troncey donce glow of the street lights, knowing sleep is still several hours listed on the buck) moy echo the misty, tortured torch reolms global podium. C0'N between bluesy riffs ond full-on grunge. Listen to the first Huge! You've oll probobly hecird it. If ever there wos ci perfect ond rock tempos seem the most noturol of fusions. The proiect owoy. TFDN pop song, this is it. In its obsence you'd miss it. That is until of reviousoutin shut woit until youheor the (ubun truck ond you'll think Stone Temple Pilots hove come buck wos cluttered together by Grunt Showbiz ond JFI Hood, who truihpeteer .l6SIlSgAIBlI'ltIIIY come on boord. Together with Joe JOHN CALE Eat/Kiss: Music From from the deud, but by the second mellow truck with lozy you've hod it rammed dovm your lugholes so much thot you sound like they've troipsed some eorly Pink Floyd tapes RIVERDALES Storm The Streets con"'t stond it uny more. For the duration of it's brief pop de Jesus’ flute ploying the two lend (I porodoxicolly bright The Films Of And Warhol (Hannibal) guitors ond rumbling bussline, you're not so sure. By the end oround ull corners of the globe ond decided thot everything (Honest Don's Iotolly Beoten Brots Recordsl you might come to the conclusion thot this kind of thing only existence it slonds to put so much chort motericil to shcime. An swing to softly sowing voice of Stuort Stoples. The only other A reworking of music WIIIIBIIUY (ole for these '63/64 Iilms, goes. Ever imagined o version of Redemption Song storring I will be unoble to do this review without mentioning the indie pop unthem if ever I heord one. (Iossic. SM singer to oppeor is Ann llllognuson who duets on buried Bones, these I995 versions exhume cohorts from muny phoses of his hos o limited audience these doys ond thot they oll go to Rock Tonitu Tikorom stirred into o brimming Gospel soup? Yes, they Romones so here goes... Romones, Romones, Romones, but otherwise Staples dominotes throughout. Touches of voried career, olthough these pieces belie such on ovont (ity on o Suturdoy night. Dr you might decide thot it's os good offer thot, too, oncl o whole lot more. GT Riverdoles, Riverdoles, Romones. .. get the picture? It's totolly GENE Speak To Me Someone lPoIlydorl Almond, Brel ond Woits ore scattered oround but this is reputation us his / theirs. Present ond correct ore the spiky, os Americon rock is going to get. Skeleton Key disploy vuried d brillioi}t, gengiric II; fuclIc( but with ssngs llike I'm Nglll Freak, Another gem of sheer mo nificence from Drawn To e Deep ultimotely II deficint, desolate sound thot is totolly llndersticks. chill, uneosy bits ond coupled with quirky, poppy ond styles ond tolent. . but obove oll the good sense. to stick to 6 HANDSOME Han some (EP(4B67684) Mentu Retor , on Kic Your Heo ln,t is is wort ten times End ond the perfect son Ior when mellowing out, huving o Boroque ond beoutiful. GT downright romontic hits (I very effective whole is presented hungover or being unoshomedl depressed. Gene ond Rozzer. which is, diire one soy, more interesting thon its visuul "mks '0' mlmmum rock "ve"°""' You dame’ MG This lot hove enough cohesive energy to muke them veryd more thon uny Dosis wonnobes. Drink beer... enioy. TFDN - - oppeoling. Every one of the twelve trucks kicks, grinds on ore diamonds in cool-mines unclI con’t rote this enough. MG GONG You Re Mixed (Glissl occomponiment. Very listenoble, contemporary (olmost!) BR(]Irl\(iI:u|l(gI|éc=:'E]crT;.;elE|p(|lcIldS up who remembers Brod rocks with o slouched, long-hoired, leather covered_di_sposition I AGAIFS: l|_T_op Of The I‘:VorlldIEpitciph}l music. (O'N Somewhere in o field in some shire it's the mid 80's ond I'm in from that semsume em h was every grunge kidts Mus, Hm the sort which mode Sisters DI Mercy ond The Mfisiian sq Yigung Dutc hBo Re igion-esque pop , 0l( ut ‘got Eort_ KENICKIE PUflI(CI IEMII the buck of o corovonette truding port of my mind for onother, Second time round ond hot on the heels of the first, it's o VARIOUS ARTISTS lb“ be S G0 d . G" wh -, Hers ig Rockers will hove no reuson to disopprove of t is on s uttering t eir own songs ore power u in ii woyt ot Jomie poking the dying embers of o musociol lifestyle neglected by o m .couse. tone ssor wos on guitur. ess ot. Wm‘) have the comma"cy to make the big. time. .in o big. woy. Ponic. will. understond' but the bloody Beatles cover, I meon. .. brilliont tune which I'm omozed didn't do better in the churts. spikes ond shoulderpods. For us custodions of on endangered Preaching To The Perverted (Spunk) buck ugoin with the rest of the bond, but hove Brod chonged SM oh fuck "ts cmp| Epitaph are quick to point out that | Against But Kenickie will hove to do better thon thot old re-release As I like o little kink from time to time I gratuitously occepted chestnut. I whole-heortedly ogree with whut the ‘re soying, culture the soundtrack wos Howkwind, Foust, Amon Duul ond me" S'y'e uny now "'0' grunge has "file" "ow". he_ '°"e'? OBLIVIANS Play 9 Songs with Mr. I were babies when Punk first happened, still lhot's no excuse the mighty Gong. this rubber-clod S&M soundtrack disc. Almost every truck well octuolly, they seem to hove adopted quite well, opoit aw-mmnm (Gym fof so muth Su“hmine_ "D" though; I've come ucross one too mony Punkuslor my liking consists of Hurd Iionce luscivious moonings from o PVC- during my dubious dobblings with the Underground, ond it's Critics hod foiled to reod between the curtoon imogery (unlike from one or two dire trucks which sound like Borry Mcinilowl I know o fuir few people who would love this, the X-Roys covered sociul underbelly. Mognus ond Muyu Iiennes oll so true! It's almost scary but rest ossured ou'll never meet with Funkodelic ond Zoppu) to find the seminol musicol complete with piono ond those cheesy bongo-type drums from being some of them. In foct if you smashed up on ll-Rays cd GEEK 3D Geek ((olumbioI embliizon their perverse style on the entire score, mixing it up one who odmits it. Moybe there should be help groups for the lodestone within. Since thot nadir the 80's festival loithful took the 70's I it's busicolly o rock/pop olbum with the odd guitor ond o Penthouse cd, ond put the bits together you'd probobly It's _o_bit tricky being originol in the musicul bcitllefiold so, _ h controls of the musicolien invusion to the heort of the 90's, with their ovm gloved honds. For my dork pleasures the solo thrown in for good grunge/metol meosure. huving soid end up wiih something Sounding |;ke yh;5_ rugged’ seedy‘ ospiring to innovcition has become ii more worthwhile pursuit. too underground ond sociolly owore. theropy should include ond their reword here is to drink deep of the well so loyully inclusion of trucks by The Alool ond Percy X were very thot I con’t see why anyone would poy good money for it— Huesy mk»nim|| wnh U mg gumgey fed to it MG geek_ore innovative. The fusing of |ungle beots, guitars ond tunneling to Austrulio; olter oll, tliut's about us for guorded. The old I6-truck is treoled with ploylul deference by welcome. By the ninth tune Aiure by Woy Out West the mood except moybe the aforementioned Rock (ity crowd. MG Hock indiéstéiol voculls mgr higve been tdogght of I y mony, d underground us you con go. MG the Shomen ond Youth on Muster Builder ond o I2-minute hcid shifted to House. But not for too long. Ambient dubs ore isre or e us im ousi e most on e ective execute Sprinkling Of (lauds respectively, while the Orb go their own followed by the beuutiful ombienl techno-folk of Who Are DEADSTAR Deodstor (Discordont) TUE CRAMPS , . by feliv. Geek are bne of the low. Eot your words, lhe Fol Deod MULU Pussycat(Dedicoted) sweet wuy like they do. The four-beot, one-key stroightiocket You? by Omni Trio ond then the classic techno sound of Percy I went to see Deodstor u couple of months ugo ond topped my 3'9 B_e°I5_ F"°m B°d5‘_”_”e I_EP'I°Phl Nozi it works. l'm Falling Over is is o little moronic but the Pussycat is o durkly duncey truck with loid-buck vocols ond o well WIIIP "I9 Willi 9 Wei P°55""li ll1'5 '5 l°l"5|""" 5W°l"P "Flt, rest hos the energ to keep you tuned in. Gothic Jun le? Well, is croflily slipped Houdini-like by vcirious octove doctors ll. The timeless omethyst by luturo percs things up II tod, loot olong hoppily enough but I didn't drop my pint sized ciitchy tune; the other trucks hove less vocols ond more depth upplying its effects to the rush of good old kinky sex in pluce tl0Wn dirty ttlltl sweoty. From the feedback sooked slime IBSI gt the end of the cligy it'5 iust another drum pattern, Stick ond mood. MG revelling in the trompe l'eor inherent in this music. Even Stevie cimozement; this olbum is huving pretty much the some effect. of God Monster From The End Of The World to the Rock City onyihing you like on top ond hope it works. Geek get owoy Hillfish lets down his technocool guurd. (ompromises with of o little bitter sweet white speckled pill. five Stor treiitment It's good, os indie with guitors goes, full of rice songs with indeed. SM crowd pleuser Sheenu's In A Goth Gungl I suppose she got fed Wit it ill style! _ §lYl vorious orrongements ore skilfully troded off, us with muster strong tunes ond stronger vocols. They hove o lot going for up of being o Punk Rocker) this oozes sex. The (rumps hove DREAM CITY F"-M CI-U5 III D16, I Die percussionist Pierre MoerIen's disuppeoronce on some bits, them. They're o 3-piece, for o stun I i.e. not onother Sleeper) been going for so long they should hove the formulo right by / I-°Y° I"5¢'"° "P lB9IltlI"5 B9"ll"9ll which is more thon mode up for by Yomutoki Eye's isoloting OP8 feat. LISA GERMANO Slush IV2l ond their tunes hove o rougher, more seductive edge thon the ond skilful splicing of some owesome I974 Jungle. Zero's Few voices to hove emerged in recent yeors con mulch likes of Echobelly. When. I sow them, the singer wus weurin Titer Blowslcool/vs/Godfat“lwr coming home, he's coming olong with u shockwuve of the lndiono's I.isu Germono for sheer, sultry, gruff chorm ond here the some boots us me so so top morks for tuste. I soy ’gooiI imminent munifeslotion of the planet Gong in 2032. Whatever she is teamed with U.S. trio Giunt Sond for their lotest luck’ to them. MG wan» IDDDIGLIP/Blbl/v I ’ revelotions owoit this moy be olbum of the millenium, uny colloborotion. Lending I] slightly.more countrified tone thon -we 'D.C.I (Rurnpilmlcer) millenium. One for the believers. (0'N usuol to the moteriol cillows Germono's vocols to prowl RYKERS Lesson In I.oyaIty(Row/ Sony) Mark (GoTropo) restlessly through such songs os the opener Sand, o reol Since I992 Germony's Rykers hove been smoshing the senses V. ARTISTS ...And Still No Hits (Nutionl nomodic compfire clossic. She turns wistful on the strongely with New York (ity-slyIe Hordcore. The trunsformotion to o Thiiry-5orvoChLllod/ Notion records l00th releose ond olmost ten true summers lyricol lfl Think Of love ond delivers o beciuly on the simply moior hos not mellowed them one ioto; if onything they ore o forges Womb (on) long, here's II slice of their birthdoy coke, presented very pleoding It's A Rainbow. The instrumentol DPB sees Giont Sond bit more industriol but sill hove vocals to mulch Sheer terror Fri} ~ Depw/titre lounge much like Dn-U's Pay ll All Bock Series. Welcoming lurching buck into lounge iozz fields which they've explored ond the guitors of Slopshot. Lyricully very personol with two before, then hit spooky mode for The Devil loves l.A. Fun