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That Magazine from CITR fml02 cablelOO THE ON GRANVILLE JUNE 1986 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2 3 4 5 6 . 7 The Velveteens Tex & The with The T.B.A. HERALD NIX Horseheads Belgianiques w/Spores & Roots Roundup 9 10 11 12 13 14 Animal T.B.A. Slaves The B-Sides Family Plot w/guests w/guests 16 17 18 19 20 21 Industrial Duke St. Recording Artists Waste Banned Chalk Circle THE PRIDE w/Harry & w/guests the Hackjobs 23 24 25 26 27 28 From Toronto: Lost Durangos The Dub Brilliant Orange T.B.A. w/guests Poets 7 to S PRE-MOVIE SPECIALS • NO COVER 7 to 9 UNLESS POSTED 932 GRANVILLE ST • OPEN 7 pm TIL 2 am • 684-VENU DfcORlfeR That Magazine from CITR fml02 cablelOO June 1986 • Vol. 4/No. 5 EDITOR Chris Dafoe CONTRIBUTORS Don Chow, Janis MacKenzie, Pat Carroll, Terry Walker, Ken Jackson, Bill Mullan, Kevin Smith, Steve Robertson, CD PHOTOS Bill Jans, Jim Main, Ross Cameron IN THIS ISSUE CARTOONS Chris Pearson, Rod Filbrandt Natasha M. 54-40: THE MAKING OF A DEAL Into the belly of the beast (the Great Horned Iguana, to be precise) COVER Bill Jans with Vancouver's latest major label signing. By CD. 6 PLASTICLAND PRODUCTION MANAGERS No, you idiot, not Expo...the band...from Milwaukee. Karen Shea, Pat Carroll Psychedelia from the home of Schlitz. By Janis MacKenzie. .... 10 DESIGN Harreson Atley LAYOUT IN EVERY ISSUE Pat Carroll, Randy Iwata, Vic Bonderoff, Karen Shea, Ken Jackson, Beverly Demchuk, AIRHEAD Dorothy Cameron, David Hart, Robin Razzell Dept. Dept. Dept. Letters to the new Airhead bureaucracy. ..... 4 TYPESETTING Dena Corby, Sheila Haldane BEHIND THE DIAL Volunteer Opportunities, early retirement, and more. 12 PUBLISHER ON THE DIAL Harreson Atley The essential guide to CITR's programming. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Tape it to your fridge, or the cat. 14 David Hart, Robin Razzell SPIN LIST DISTRIBUTION Bill Mullan, Steve Robertson Still no Whitney Houston in the Top 20? 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V6T 2A5 Another Head Rolls hair much like a wig I have, and E in the Factual one presumably having fairly 2 I recently injected a large amount Verification Dept. of heroin. Dear Airhead, Imagine my shock when I at­ s Thank you for your coverage tended their next concert on 3 of Moev in the February Discor­ March 30! As the lineup grew, I der. However, for clarification it began to wonder if perhaps I had should be noted that credit for inadvertantly found a mini-pops support vocals on the Alibis EP benefit for Johnny Thunder. No goes to Christine Janes. I joined such luck, I soon discovered. As Moev after that record was re­ the kiddies became progressive­ leased. ly more inane, I saw the differ­ Thanks anyways. ences between Skinny Puppy ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Michela Arrichiello and Duran Duran begin to thin. (of Moev) The commercialism-run-amuck which I saw before and after the show only further served to con­ $6.99 Subscription Dept. vince me that there is no going home. I will not replace the Bites L/? or Cassette Oh No Not Another cassette which was recently Seymour store only. Letter About stolen from me (along with the 592 SEYMOUR ST. Skinny Puppy Dept. Walkman it was in). 682-7976 Yours sincerely, Dear life forms: Lee Howe I! I wish to obtain a one-year subscription to your monthly magazine, Discorder. Please find MCM & Associates enclosed my money order for ten Street Beef Dept. SOUNDPROOF and CITR dollars ($10.00) (Can.). Dear Airhead, Let me take the opportunity to I figure Discorder is the ideal present thank you at CITR for bringing place to air my frustrations regar­ Siousxie and the Banshees to ding the 1986 Peace March. Vancouver. I have been to four of the five In regards to the ongoing Skin­ marches that have taken place in ny Puppy credibility debate, per­ Vancouver, and where the others ncert haps I can contribute a some­ have had an exciting, almost what different viewpoint. radical feel to them, this one Being so far removed from the could only be described as too alternative music scene in Van­ damn sucky. couver, Skinny Puppy came to I realize how bad it was at the my attention only a year ago. rally at B.C. Place. Some lady What initially captured my atten­ tearfully lip-synched a song to a tion was the distortion of voice child. I retched when she finish­ which had appealed to me pre­ ed and tearfully hugged the viously in Nana Hagan and Jim child, much to the pleasure/cha­ Thirlwell. grin of the audience. Sickened to the point of phy­ Why on earth would they hold sical nausea by the vanilla pud­ a rally at B.C. Place? Where are ding, technically perfect voices the Hare Krishnas to dance? in pop music, Kevin's distorted, Certainly the hippies wouldn't be demonic screams which substi­ allowed into the stadium. tuted for vocals were very ap­ It was fortunate, however, that pealing. Image was of no consi­ the march was less Pro-Russian deration. I did not even see a pic­ Anti-American and more Every- ture of the band until last Nov­ one-For-Peace. But yech. How ember, and that one had a Boy sucky can you get? FRIDAY • JUNE 27th • 8 pm George face taped over Kevin As a friend suggested, it was Key's face. almost as if it was a Peace March UBC THUNDERBIRD ARENA When I attended their Boxing sponsored by Coke. Tickets at all VTC/CBO outlets - 280-4444, Odyssey Day concert, I saw no reason to Yech, doubt their sincerity. Three Bruce Arnold Imports - 866 Granville, and Zulu Records -1869 W. 4th rather average looking boys with Burger King actually. DISCORDER Eg du MAURIER jc3^ZZ FESTIVAL VANCOUVER EXPO THEATRE Miles Davis Wynton Ma UNE 23-291986 HYATT REGENCY BALLROOM 7th Birthday Tribute to NEW YORK THEATRE ENNY GOODMAN Jan Garbarek Group WESTERN FRONT Ornette Coleman and Prime Time Bill Frisell Tim Berne/Alex Cline June 24 Roscoe Mitchell and Sound Ensemble Ran Blake June 25 Abdullah Ibrahim <Dollar Brand; Jay Clayton Trio with Kenny Wheeler June 26 Bill Smith Ensemble June 27 Steve Lacy Sextet June 28 Tickets at VTC/CBO 280-4444 and Black Swan Records. 736-2897 information. ROBSON SQUARE CINEMA More Than 400 Musicians! Over 150 Performances! Bill Frisell Kaiser West Maksymenko June 23 8 pr Wondeur Brass/VEJI with Kenny June 24 8 Dr Wheeler Tim Berne Trio June 25 8 pr : senes THE MAJOR WEST COAST JAZZ FESTIVAL Obrador Paul Plimley Octet June 26 8 pn Ceslo and Carhnho Machado June 27 8 pn ) Ser'ie^ Nightclub performances at The Town Pump, Savoy. Pauhnho Ramos (Brazil) Arts Club Lounge, Hot Jazz Club, Classical Joint, Charlies, Mal Waldron Quartet June 28 2 pn Series Tne Yale and Basm Street. Jane Ira Bloom and Kent McLagan June 29 2 pn > series 4 free bandstands plus Canada Pavilion and Expo Bandstands ) Senes *Ticket prices subject to outlet service charges. Single Tickets $13 Series C or D $40 PRODUCED BY THE COASTAL JAZZ AND BLUES SOCIETY PRESENTED BY straighJkT Hi. S £ O KG I A • t^ COURTING THE BEAST CD follows 54-40 in pursuit of the Great Homed Iguana— ARCH 29, 1986. MARK THAT clippings. Things look a little better at Nett­ are still the muscle in the music industry. date on your calendar with a dol­ werk Records, although perhaps not as sunny lar sign. On one side of the dollar as their press releases would have you be­ HE PROCESS that took 54-40 from sign put the letters W and B.