DiScORDER ?A guide to CITR fm 102 ** CABLE 100 /A guide to CITR fm 102 ^ CABLE 100 The Bard of Brixton a lesson in socio- politics from Professor LKJ
Everyone admires a person "Well, let me talk about who doesn't mince words. Most of England: a lot of people have er the capacity crowd that saw Lin roneously, or even mischievous ton Kwesi Johnson at the SUB ly, presented the problems of Ballroom left as admirers. When ethnic groups in Britain as being they arrived they fell largely into one of integration. The whole two categories: the enthusiastic theory is always seen in terms of LKJ fans, and the curious, who the solution being a kind of a nice wondered what all the fuss had little multi-cultural setup, but that been about in the two weeks prior is a false way of describing the to the gig. They soon found out. problem. Britain, as I understand Backed by the superlative Dennis it, has always been a collection of Bovell Dub Band, LKJ thundered nationalities, even before West In his way into the hearts and, more dians and Asians and other na importantly, the consciences of tionalities began going there. You the crowd. had the English, the Welsh, the So what's a black guy who's an Scottish, the Irish and the expatriate Jamaican living in Cornish. England and who talks mainly "In the same way that the Irish about the problems of class struc question, Welsh nationalism, and ture in Britain doing causing us Scottish nationalism came into West-Coast-of-N. America types the centre of the stage of British to skank up a sweat? politics, so too the question of blacks and Asians in Britain, "I hope people will be able to because we were coming from make some comparisons with British colonies and being placed some of the things I'm describing in the Colonial mould. We were and maybe draw parallels with forced to try and break out of that things happening here, but... I mould and that is basically what don't know a lot about what's hap our struggles have been about pening in N. America so I wouldn't over the last 25-30 years: to break be able to say with any great out of the colonial mould that we authority. Maybe youth in New were placed in and to try and live York or Toronto will be able to and work on the same basis as identify with all the experiences as the rest of the English working youngsters growing up in a mod class. . ." ern urban society with all it's pro blems and so on." But will it be through milit ancy—an eye for an eye, a tooth Your most well-documented for a tooth? topic is the plight of coloured minorities in a largely white "I don't think we can reduce it society, a problem which Van to that. The way we see it and by couver doesn't escape either; we I mean the organizations to you're message is one of mili which I belong, the Race Today tant defiancy: in one of your collective, the Black Parents songs I recall you saying Movement and the Black Youth "Come what may, we are to Movement, we need to organize stay." Be that as it may, do you ourselves to build independent not agree that multiracial har institutions—social, cultural and mony can really only be achiev political, because we adopted the change for the better. We want to aspect, so therefore I wouldn't en but the language of Rasta has ed through a change in the slogan which is the slogan of be a part of the forces of change visage the kind of situation that become the language of protest mass attitude rather than an at young Asians in Britain: "Come and we can only do that from a you've just described." among the oppressed in Jamaica titude of militant defiancy (on what may, we are here to stay." position of strength rather than so it's quite natural for there to be the part of the immigrants)? We would like to see Britain weakness. That's how we see the What is your view of reggae so many songs couched on Rasta way forward in England." that proclaims Rastafari and terminology." Jah as opposed to making Johnson still does not answer The danger with that, would socio-political comment? the question clearly. He's obvi you not agree, is that if you do ously dodging the issue. The im build up a positon of strength "Well, that has always been an pression he gives is that he's and if worse comes to worse aspect of Jamaican popular caught between defending reg then ethnic minorities and the music since we started to record gae as an integral part of his natives tend to polarize—they music, and the Rastas have background and culture and con will start backing "their own"— brought a tremendous amount of demning its myopic, naive vision and in Britain there are creativity and spirituality into the of spiritual bliss for the Chosen 53,000,000 whites and only two music and have also contributed Tribes, led out of Babylon to an or three million coloureds. . . towards it rythmic evolution. . ." impoverished East African coun try under a dictator—who's now "I don't think we've ever per- He falters, unsure. I ask him for dead! cieved our struggle as a black ver his views on the idealism of the Despite this uncertainty, there's sus white struggle. We've always religion. no doubt in his mind about the had a political analysis and a solutions to the broader issues political understanding of what "A lot of people sing Rasta that are of concern to him. He's our situation and problem is. songs and express Rasta sen one of those people who has the We've never seen it as a black- timents because that's what they knack of making a lot of sense. white thing at all. We've always believe in; and a lot of them per Listen to his records and you'll seen it basically as a class thing haps don't even believe in Rasta know what I mean. of which race is an important or believe in going back to Africa —Sukhvinder Johal Photo by Neil Dowie DISCORDER June 1984 »MMM»MMMMMMMMM»MMMMM»M»»MMMMMMMMM»MMMMM'; c/o CITR Radio iflnnfe. n*< 6138 SUB. Blvd. 3r«rmnr- R WW A p Vancouver, B.C. ^ V6T 2A5 fflllOS Cable 100 wlWIE** • ••MMM»MMMMMM»MMM»»»»»»»»»»»»»» and I have had constant fav musical tastes are limited to Editors L.„„ Contributors ourable reactions to the music those encompassed within Chris Dafoe I play, which includes these the format of "Fast For Chris Dafoe Fiona MacKay Sukvinder Johal bands and others like them. ward". When he's not doing Fiona MacKay Dave Ball Michael Shea The need and demand for new the aforementioned show he's Steve Robertson Fiona MacKay sounds is obviously there and been known to play a few Mike Dennis Advertising; BillMullan can't be ignored. (gasp) rock songs and he tells me that doesn't feel any less RobSimms My beloved Airhead, Music may be just "notes" Dave Ball KristaHanni but it's what one does with sophisticated or "alternative" Harry Hertscheg Photograph In response to Lisette Bol- for it. duc's reference to Tony Bea these notes that makes music Distribution vis: am I the last person in "old" or "new". These bands Jim Main Vancouver to realize that this are creating sounds and pro The CITR monthly Top 50 Harry Hertscheg Neil Dowie "Antony Beavis" is also the ducing music unlike a lot of printed in Discorder does not /'fl.upal character in Aldous things you've ever heard be reflect one extremely influ Huxley's "Eyeless in Gaza"? fore. What's so irrational ential individual's musical DISCORDER is a m onihly paper published by the Student Radio How dare this imposter claim about refusing to limit oneself tastes. Rather, it's a com Society of me Universl y of British Columbia. DISCORDER provides a to the ridiculously conserv posite of the artists most guide IOCITR Radio, w lich broadcasts throughout the Vancouver area at to have an above average intelligence when he starts his ative boundaries established frequently played on the FM 101.9. in so much of the music station be they either listen CITH iransmiis its 9 wai signal from Gage Towers on the UBC letter with childish references Campjo. For besi recepiion b 3 sure and have an antenna attached to to excrement. Let this be a represented by the majority of er's requests or the personal y )ur receiver. For iMose of you with persistent reception problems, CITR warning to you A.B., if this is the bands listed in CITR's faves of our announcers. In i , ai , > available on FM at 100.1 in Vancouver, West Vancouver, your real name, I blame your "Top 50". other words, it's not a closed N >r . Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Obviously there are some circle. If you want to hear Mapie Ridge and Miss mother for exploiting the works of Aldous Huxley in this people who don't mind stag more of a certain artist, call us DISCORDER isdisir buied hroughout the Vancouver area. Enquiries and ask for it. Generally we go i > w advertising in DISCORDER or distributing free copies of manner. I know this letter nating and naturally limit DiSCORDEH a anew 1 caiion can be made by calling 228-3017. General comes four months late but their acceptance of progress out of our way to play re CiTH business enquirie s or informaiio n about renting the CITR Mobile it's never too late to defend ion. quests. Better yet, if you're oound System is also a mailable at 228-3017. The request line is 228-2487 CITR or Aldous Huxley, for I am not going to start truly committed to your Oi 22
- a diagnosis the others' speech impediments. All SHE really wanted was to pro fit from the record that the coali tion made. She denied them meaningful careers, allowing June 15 At the Waterfront H them only to perform on the records. She withheld funds that 686 Powell * rightly should have belonged to i A GB Production nn_ mMgk , . , +c the coalition. The coalition con J 327-5019 for info J sulted their attorneys and decid ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ed to file a law suit. With the small man at their phone 7380288 head, the coalition took the insti tute to court. Hard times hit: no longer did they have a place to do what they could not help doing. Three of the boys inflicted with syncopated speech could not control themselves during the long months it took before they could appear in court; they decid ed to go back and work for the in Books Records Games stitute. In the end the remaining victims gained freedom and won k 2297 West Broadway Vancouver B.C. V6K 2E4 J the rignt ic use the name of the coalition. The turntableitis victim is now leading a life as normal as any of ours (except for his disease). He can perform in public and he did just that in our city on Wednes day, May 23rd. The classic symp toms of turntableitis were in evidence: the hyperactivity, the touching of the turntables, the A small and very lean man "So I would get old junk equip preference for music by such Jazz, Rock, Import Rock, Folk, Blues and Used walked into CITR on Monday, ment and fix it up and use that. noted musicians as Herbie Han May 21st. He was wearing 30 It took a very long time for me to cock (himself a suspected victim 2936 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V6K 1R2, Phone 734-2828 pounds of black leather and be accepted by the people in the of the disease), the inexplicable studs, and amazing blue mirrored clubs. I really wanted to work the tendency to dress like Rick sunglasses from Texas that made clubs, but this disease. . . (cries of James. At several points during him look a little like a housefly. He anxiety). . .I just COULDN'T the show the small man's fits of comes from the South Bronx, not HELP IT!!!" turntableitis got the better of him; ADVERTISE IN DISCORDER a particularly affluent section of Luckily for the small man, he twice he touched the turntables the Metropolitan New York area. was able to form a coalition with too much and the coordination of He came to talk about a very persons suffering from a speech the syncopated orators was dis ofMwffOw « ClTR 228-3017 peculiar disease that he has; his defect that made them talk in syn turbed. Apparently one of the symptoms are very advanced, copation with recorded music. As more debilitating effects of the more advanced than the other a united front, they were able to disease is the sheer physical ex known victims of the ailment. make headway in overcoming the haustion it brings on after a very short while. Many were disappoin The disease is called "turn- initial prejudices against them. By ted by the length of the coalition's tableitis." The small man claims this time the small man was not set, but after the show they very that he was the first registered alone: many others were contrac politely said that they simply could case; he's had it for about 12 ting the disease in the clubs and were demanding fair and equit not continue. They sincerely years now. He never said exactly hoped that the audience under where he first contracted it, but able treatment by club owners and the general public. stood their message; they spoke apparently the symptoms increas fervently of the poor living condi A woman of great benevolence, ed in severity the more he visited tions in the Bronx, the fun that who was raised in the neighbor the night clubs and party spots in they have now that they're able to hood but had since moved to New his neighborhood. Here is his own perform again in public, and for Jersey, stepped in to help the account of how the disease an encore they spoke of a dan poor diseased boys. She had wreaked havoc on his life and the gerous white dust that people had founded an institution in New lives of those around him when he told them to take for relief from Jersey that promised aid to the first contracted it: their respective conditions. "You see, I'm a very fidgety young men if only they would sign person. When I went into a night contracts devoting their time to In recent years the coalition has club, I would hear the DJs letting working for the institute. She told devised a way to help those afflic songs play right through to the them that she could give them ted with turntableitis and synco end, and after a while I found I just meaningful careers in the industry pated speech impediments. The couldn't stand it any longer. I had they loved best, the music bus name "Grandmaster Flash" ap to touch those turntables. Owners iness. Their first project was to pears on any recording made by of the clubs would curse me out release their energies in the recor the coalition. If you would like to ding studio. The boys thought this ISSUE 'cause I'd wreck their equipment, aid people suffering from turn was wonderful. I was putting so much pressure tableitis you can buy these recor on it. I was ostracized by club But all was not well in New dings, and a healthy portion of ART IN VANCOUVER society 'cause people hated the Jersey. The woman, who the your contribution goes directly to sounds I was making when I small man refers to now only as the afflicted. Donations are not, Available at Galleries, touched the turntables all the SHE, was not motivated by a con however, tax deductible. time. cern for the man's turntableitis or —Fiona MacKay Newsstands, Bookstores...
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HOLGER import stored? What's he ^ CZUKAY doing collaborating with mere youths like Jah Wobble and The Edge? Is he a sicko? Take a close look at that album cover. Check out the Upon buying the album. other folks on the inner sleeve. Conny Plank, Jaki Lie- Who is this old guy? Holger bezeit, Gandhi --they're all Czukay (Hole-grrr Choo-kye). old, too. And German (pro One album listening later. Ater that though, it's pretty neat moods, too. You A He's German. Ya, that's ob bably). hardy country. Not rock'n roll. could fall asleep to t vious. Most of the writing on Hmmmmm. Maybe I was More just weirdness with a this album and the cover's in German. So's Let's not get paranoid or wrong. Maybe I was being beat (sometimes without a know your the name of the album: Der anything, but is this a plot? paranoid. I mean, hey, it's beat), lots of tapes and mach d reams'd Osten ist Rot (whatever that's They're a band of neo-Nazi good. I was a bit scared at ines, hisses and buzzes, with be interesting.^ supposed to mean). But who is hippies, aren't they? Holger's first. That opening cut Photo synthesizers, pianos, guitars, horns, drums. he? That's what I want to their leader and their mission graph sounded suspiciously Even later. know. He looks like Einstein is to infiltrate pop music the ancient. The kind "of tune The point is, don't worry. with straight hair --and not a world over, enter kids' minds, you'd figure your grandfather These old guys are okay (I Who was that c young Einstein either. Hol- twist them and subvert them sang to your grandmother on think). They make cool that said he hoped he'c ger's old. Older than Brian to some perverse end: make their first date, like one of sounds. And they probably die before he got o Mulrooney and Joe Clark. He them want to be arms man those old Presley-McCartney had fun doing it. The title obviously never heard makes Mick Jagger look like a ufacturers when they grow up, compositions that get played track Der osten ist Rot is a Holger Czukay and friends. snot nosed punk. or stockbrokers, or longshore on muzak stations all the time. military march put to a jazzy, I've listened to Der Osten ist re What's he doing putting out men. Nice, you understand, and calypso beat. Sort of like Kik twice now and I'm still not goii Creole and the Coconuts get albums that get filed in the This isn't stupid. This is happy. But maybe a little too be an arms manufacturer whe nice and happy. drafted. There's lots of other ROCK section of the local serious. I grow up. "|Noddy (Age 14) ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Ocean Rain
Act four, in which Our Hero continues his search for the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. eager anticipation. After have something to do with it. band. disintigrating under Indeed, more than ever it listening to Ocean Rain, the Thorn of Crowns (ha ha, Ian) Gone are the unique ar the strain of the appears that this band has anticipation for their next and My Kingdom are show rangements, the abrupt search. The Procul Harum^ become the vehicle for the album, although still there, is cases. changes of pace which lurked of the 80's. vocal and lyrical gyrations of no longer necessarily eager. For the most part, however, around the sharp edges of the Act Five may reveal all. Head Bunny Ian McCulloch. I Without wishing to sound (egomani) Mac and his Bun songs. Whereas before he no longer find it as intriguing like a dewy-eyed nostalgic, it nies have chosen to orches asked angry questions and -Sukhvinder johal as I used to; the insidious must be said that Ocean trate, with the help of a real confronted issues with ironic immediacy of earlier works Rain's strength lies in the orchestra (will the cello really humour, he's now merely air has given way to the cute Bunnies' rediscovery of a replace the synth as the Next ing his own private thoughts smart-ass word play of Mc couple of old reliables: Will Big Instrument, Ian?), a path with what seems to me to be Culloch, the Cryptic Mystic. Sergeant's guitarwork, while of meandering mini-epics a la an air of contrived ambiguity. Greater Merseyside's own not always spitting out (dis)- Killing Moon, which opens "Look at me, aren't I sur friendly neighbourhood chords and notes like shards side two. Barry Manilow real, maaan!" Ooh Ian, you Thinker. of broken glass, has reassert meets Jim Morrison. Close artiste, you! After their first two out ed itself as one of the most your eyes to the title track and Greatness. Regrettably, standing albums, Porcupine refreshingly innovative in imagine four Bunnies in tux unless they snap out of it, saw them scrambling to main contemporary rock, and Mac's edos providing lounge music Echo and the Bunnymen are tain that standard while trying undeniably impressive voice, while you eat your meal and in danger of becoming one of out fresh ideas. Although the no longer always soaring and discuss the presently unex those bands that had a strong end result was only partly swooping, but still forcing one ceptional nature of a once ex grasp on it, but let it slip and successful, I recall awaiting to listen to it. The lyrics too, at cellent (and, potentially, still a spent the rest of their ex the arrival of that album with the risk of self-contraciction, force to be reckoned with) rock istence looking for it before
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Puppets recordings BLOOD This version of Hank Williams were faster-than-light on speed is performed in dead noise with the vocals ON THE seriousness by Blood on the Saddle, Tex and the Horse- son of twenty-five years ago reeled off in such blurred (and that was scorching). She] SADDLE heads, and to a lesser extent, fashion, it was virtually im is featured on (/ Wish I was( a The Gun Club, the Meat possible to decipher them Blood on the Saddle Single Girl (Again) and Do without the aid of the lyrics Puppets, and X. You Wanna Dance. sheet and a linguistics pro , Through the desolate spirit Blood on the Saddle con The highlights of the album fessor. The Meat Pups have ual wasteland of Dead Loss sists of: Greg Davis, guitar are its moody pieces; Banks of done a complete 360° split- jAngeles rides the new cow- and vocals: Annette Zilinkas, fhe Ohio and / Ve Never Been reversal spin back to their Sjboy, the rugged individualist vocals; Ron Botelho, upright Married. The lyrics are roots: Arizona-style laidback Jflwho dreams of Injun fightin', bass; and Hermann Senec, thoughtful and introspective, jamming, combined it with Wcacti, the skulls of cattle and drums and vocals. They have and capture the feelings of the put together an album that is tsome tricks from up their Bjdead men, and the simple life. lonely loner, perhaps a high ^cowpunk" sleeve, and XjAnd benzadrine. These urban gritty, thoughtful and fairly plains drifter. The music is tight, with occasional flasjes iave come out with Wcowboys are making music traditional, and includes some of humour) for example, Car l^mat has to be one fflt°°- really biting slide guitar. Mechanic's Blues is a witty Ipv of thesleeping- jfi The term "cowpunk" had automotive sexual metaphor). My only reservation about jr dogs of the {5 been bandied about to de- the album is that some of the great American The album is reminiscent in faster tracks are far too rem underground sound its slower parts to the slower iniscent fo Led Zep's Hot Dag, songs on the Gun Club's for 1984. Wand File who verge on tradit but this feeling goes away Miami album. In this case, ional C & W, to bands like with a bit of concentration. however, an encompassing W, Jason and the Scorchers, who Kudos to New Alliance Rec sense of melancholy replaces There are some superlative are an updated version of The ords (which is the Minute- tracks on this disc; in fact, out much of the violence found on men's Label) for releasing this j Flying Burrito Brothers and Miami. Greg Davis's slightly of the 12 tracks on it, there are record. It deserves a listening Mother very good but ignored out of tune voice enhances this only a couple of weak ones. (or several). Wcountry rock bands of the feeling, as it is in the tradit The rest are sheer pleasurable ffl1970's. ion of all great country voices; RobSimms listening material; for me, w This term can be more not pretty, but full of emotion. anyways. Magic Toy Mis inadequately applied to bands Annette's voice, on the other sing, I'm A Mindless Id Los Angeles which hand, is as bright, sprightly, iot, and Aurora Borealis, and vigourous as Wanda Jack^, all instrumentals, were es pecially delightful. The ^ssssssssssssssssss latter song, which utilizes Spanish-sounding gui r, has almost a trance-like power to it; I listened to it over and over and over... Two, and New Gods sound We buy & sell used & collectable records The songs sung by anything close to the firs one or both of the Meat Pups LP: rapid, skank- SOUTH VANCOUVER: 5766 Fraser Street. multi-talented Kirk- ing stuff. The cool song titles Vancouver, B.C. V5W 2Z5 wood brothers were no are matched by just as hip (604) 324-1229 slouches either. lyrics: KITSIIANO: Climbing and Plateau "I've grown tired of 1520 Yew Street, are slow but very pleasing to livin9 Nixon's mess Vancouver, B.C. V6K 3E4 listen to, and like much of the walkin'the breezeways (604) 731-1013 material, draw from various again." late '60s-early '70s influences Probably the best cut on this such as the Grateful Dead and record is The Whistling Rock Videos available Allman Brothers; sort of a Song,' a real catchy tune Af Country and Western blended complete with a whistling solo • southern rock and the in tne midst °nt- psychedelic '60s sound. This disc is a real pleasure MUSICFOM Curt Kirkwood's vocals to listen to, a nice surprise, For the best in remind me very much Some hardcore types may k of Neil Young's, yearn for the Meat Puppets of H REGGAE,ROCK,AFRICAN, rjk, Strange com yesteryear , but most are FUNK, WOMENS, FOLK, ecstatic about this new sound. ^ parisons, per Hi NEW, USED, REQUESTS Y'all git yer arses down to yer haps, but you get local vinyl pusher and pick Hi INSTRUMENTS SOLD the idea. Only a few yerselves one of dese Meat cuts on this platter, Pupl's vinyl slabs up, ye hear! 251-6964 TUES—SAT. like Split Myself In Mike A.R. Dennis EEEI J=MHifT*Hi,23ia Commodore* Ballroom ff rcu &££ fi 0Pc$ ATSP June 28 Jickets at -T\\6k) rvs-^nivie^^ VTC, CBO, * f$P Woodwards iQ Eatons, AMS Box Office . . . t)C.mhY6e" star" Zulu, Odyssey J &QIS5&&& *\
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On the Waterfront Final Vinyl
Heard nightly at 11 p.m. The Waterfront record com playing at the cabaret. Their pilation, released locally in being selected had nothing to April, is a unique example of do with aesthetic criteria; it MON DA Y - Jazz Albums co-operation between music was based more pragmatically June 04 Terence Blanchard & ians and their promoters and on who simply could afford the Donald Harrison - New York is indicative of the healthy and time and money. One individ Second Line diverse music scene currently ual is responsible for coordin operating in Vancouver. A ating the entire effort -- AI 11 Wilbur Ware Quintet professionally produced and Hyland. - The Chicago Sound (Riverside) packaged double album, The Hyland, a Toronto native 18 Lester Bowie - Waterfront features demo who released the compilation Numbers One & Two (Nessa) tracks recorded by 16 groups of T.O. sounds in 1982, arriv who have yet to release any ed in Vancouver less than one 25 Freddie Redd - thing of their own on vinyl or year ago and was instrumental Shades of Redd (Blue Note) cassette. in changing The Waterfront's \TUESDA Y & WEDNESDA Y - From the jazz-rock-folk- policy. Since becoming book flew Playlist Albums blues-classical fusion (gasp!) ing agent there (a position he of Melchizedek to the polished recently vacated), Hyland has [THURSDAY - "Mel Brewer pop sounds of Rubber Biscuit acted as a catalyst in the Presents": all the dirt on local and One Fell Swoop, The cultivation of a healthy local noise: new releases, inter Waterfront offers a credible music scene. His work at The views, demo tapes, exposes ... mainstream selection of music Waterfront and the release of from bands who obviously the album on his own label are FRIDAY - 1-2-3 Funk Rock 'n hope to achieve some com integral steps toward a goal Soul Albums mercial success on their own. Hyland hopes to achieve in June01 Parliament - hunKen- The album is as much for the 1986. telechy vs. The Placebo musicians themselves as it is The Waterfront record, re cord, and, dur to the circum Syndrome an offering to cater to public Yes, of course ... Vancou tailing at around $10, is un stances that dictated its exec 08 The Ike & Tina tastes. ver's centenary celebrations likely to appeal to any one ution, The Waterfront does Turner Show-- Live! The album takes its name ... the World's Exposition ... individual in its entirety. A not pretend to represent the 15 Sex, Sweat & Blood from The Waterfront Corral, the year this city will finally common criticism of the entire Vancouver scene, The New Danceability an established country and establish its claim to interna album, and the club itself, is under- or over-ground. 22 War - The World is a western cabaret which opened tional stardom. Hyland, like that in trying to accomodate Regardless of its strengths Ghetto its doors to a younger and many others, is excited about too many styles and direc and weaknesses, the fact that 29 Wilson Pickett - more diverse group of music the prospects. tions, the result is a mish The Waterfront album is a Don't Knock My Love ians last summer. Since then, mash that lacks a strong physical reality rather than a the125-seat cabaret has play Hyland hopes to put focus. Also, many feel it is a SATURDAY - #7 Playlist half-baked notion is com Album ed host to a multitude of local together a Canadian compila poor representation of the mendable enough. Oddly acts, many of whom made tion designed for international Vancouver scene as it does not enough, it has taken an out- their public debut there. The distribution. With that under even hint at the eclecticism SUNDAY- "Fast Forward's of-towner to prove that the Neglected Album: whatever 16 bands included on the his belt, Hyland feels he will and innovation evident in the interest and energy is there to compilation helped to raise have learned enough about his so-called "underground." Mark Mushet gets in the mail undertake such an adventure. the alternative to alternative the funds needed to record trade to actually make some But, as Hyland claims, it is Thanks, AI. their respective tracks by money out of it. primarily the musicians' re -Michael Shea
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1 Iggy Pop [and the Stooges] 2. Echo and the Bunnymen 3. The Cure ^ 4. Violent Femmes 5. Laurie Anderson 6. Brian Eno [and friends] r t»ifhairun- nwHe*/>riiemin{gr\iiewihnc{ tSSiUSDmK» ,. Tbufcu/arMuscular w*tvjc 7. DOA i/VwiSr Itfcafioirrkrmf' fifths with 8. Roxy Music 9. King Crimson rise*. . 10. Linton Kwesi Johnson 11. The Cramps 12 Siouxsie and the Banshees ut&fer-Hie 13.R-E.M. 14. Special AKA 15. Talking Heads 77 16. New Order - - A7£H$- - 17 David Bowie 18. Killing Joke 72 19.The Jam 4 JJtf^OfrBtflUH LUNCH FErofT'.l ft.-f\ev& and infanotiw +0 munch by 20.Trevor Jones 21. Elvis Costello and the At nffiWfa tractions 22. Jason and the Scorchers 23. Meat Puppets SHOW 24. Emily 25. Spear of Destiny 4rdccifw>n& 26. Beverly Sisters t'KlE tAO*T 27. Psychedelic Furs 1 2 0 28. Shanghai Dog > NSNSMSAK J ? /?^-a4**f irrkmi»>tr\ioWie* Hit music.. 29. Jon and the Nightriders 3_ 30. Style Council tfomulfe 31. True West 32.X 33. Holger Czukay 4 34. The Smiths 35. Kate Bush H$ s 36. Frank Chickens 37. Fad Gadget VlNN&k K£Ft*?T: (ofw\r iet*s ifnfofo dtjerf*rid dharst WL 38Buzzcocks 39.The Stranglers 40.Naz Nomad and the Night mares [aka the Damned] 41. Shriekback 42. Dead Kennedys 43. Chris and Cosey 44. Grace Jones 45. Kraftwerk 46. U2 47. The 3 O'Clock 48. Nina Hagen 49. Simple Minds 50. Lou Reed
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Contact Ken Jackson or Diane Brownstein at 228-3017. CITR LIVE CONCERT SPECIAL ^Illl^ MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION /, BRAINEATER, In a dark and steamy room, the best and most exciting in ACTIONAUTS, BOLERO somewhere in East Vancou alternative broadcasting, sup NAME AGE LAVA, THE ENIGMAS ver . . . porting music, news and in Q: I listen to CITR all the time formation programming that One evening last month, ... How can I get involved? you can't hear anywhere else ADDRESS these four great bands played A: First, you have to become a — you know, normal radio. together at UBC for a live member of the station ... Q: What's the damage? POSTAL CODE in-studio concert. We'll be Q: Oh ... there's a financial A: If you join now, the mem airing the live recordings of •catch? bership fee is $12.50, until PHONE the event, one a week, for the A: If you want to look at it like September. Then it's $25.00 next four weeks. Tune in each that. Your membership allows from September until the Sunday in June at 8 p.m. for a you to come to our studios to same month next year. CANADIAN CITIZEN special series in our "Sunday programme. It also brings you Q: Do I have to be a UBC Night Live" programme. two buttons, plus a CITR student to join? OTHER \please specify] sticker for your favorite sur A: No. June 3 I, Braineater face. Q: Can I come down and play SEND TO: CITR 6138 SUB June 10 Actionauts Q: Sounds good. What else my entire library of all-time BLVD. VANCOUVER, B.C. June 17 Bolero Lava does my membership do? pogo polka hits? V6T 2A5 June 24 The Enigmas A: It shows that you support A: We'll talk ... Page 7 GO
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