MUSIC WEEK, MARCH 3, 1979 D CID C D Q C 11 r n nii^in n generally frequents The Venue. Days, the stage is set for her re- around £50 and the crowd's Surrender To Me, another new emergencc as an important anticipation is as keen as their BUSINESS MERCHANDISING Joey Loren: one, followed and although singer and songwriter. enthusiasm. After all, they these beatier numbers augur Howe, performing with an have wailed almost 12 years to OPPORTUNITY well for their recording future, extremely tight backing band, sec Belfast's famous son The it was inevitable the old Byrds impressed with a selection of performing on home soil again. SHOWSHIRTS hits the audience was longing to songs which included Move On Short, stocky, thinning on DERBY Custom printed T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Quaglinos hear on the night. They got Over. It Isn't Really Loneli- lop and unsmiling, there is Record andFOR Electrical SALE Business Paper Jackets, Badges Car Stickers & them in plenty — the unique ness, Quietly And Softly, and nothing to suggest superstar, Hats cult status until he starts to Turnover C120.000. Town Centre Compotitivo Prices ALMOST FIVE years ago McGuinn guitar and vocal Dragonfly Days, the title track Shop.Excellent For opportunity lease at tof4.000 purchase pa- a Any quantity undertaken Detroil-born, but of Sicilian- sound on Chestnut Mare, the of her LP. sing. The change from long established and successful descent, singer Joey Loren rocking rhythm of So You All in all, an excellent show someone who looks as though business. CIO.OOO plus SAV. 659Telephone: FULHAM ROAD,731-5056 or 731-4986 SW6 appeared in a couple of short Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star highlighting the talents of two he would prefer to be singing WardMaynard wick. & Derby.Co, Jacobean Tel (0332 House, ) 361 seasons at the London and the infectious singalong of the UK's most promising from behind a screen to one of 621. Palladium and made an style of Dylan's You Ain't artists. the top white soul singers takes which sold moderately well. Going Nowhere. CHRIS WHITE the breath away. Since then little has been heard With the audience baying for The songs come thick and of him, but he recently proved more of their favourites at the fast with Morrison keeping a SERVICES that he is alive and well, via end, McGuinn, Clark and tight control, not allowing the cabaret appearances at Hillman duly provided Eight : band to stray into meandering Quaglinos, Piccadilly. Miles High and Tambourine solos, but giving them plenty of Loren is one of those singers Man as encores and, realising it Hammersmith scope to go through their For all specialised catering, parties, JWartin Studios paces. Particularly striking was receptions, fine wines and gift packs —i^ oi-sbo ay at who follows in the tradition of was the only way to get off for the music business. a Mario Lanza, Sinatra, stage, closed the show with a Toni Marcus whose vivacious Bennett or Como — he has the new low-key ballad, Bye Bye Odeon violin playing was infectious, ARTWORK'DESIGN Baby. Pete Bardens, the keyboard PHOTOGRAPHY ability to choose quality songs STUNNING IS the only word and invest them with an DAVID DALTON to describe Zappa's recent player who was with Morrison & PRINTING enthusiasm befitting a cabaret Saturday show. The man who back in the Them days, and 77' Harlowbury. BROCHURE AVAILABLE ^-5% audience. Where Or When, brought us the mudshark, gave Kate Kissoon, whose solo, Old Harlow. Phono: Bad Leroy Brown, Billic Chris us an obsession with ponchos Crazy Love, earlier in the set 0279-416721 Essex. 01-550 4701 / #7n Holliday's Don't Explain, and warned us not to eat the provided a pleasant contrast. Caterine (which he performed De Burgh: yellow snow, gave an By the end of the third without the aid of microphone impressive three hour set that encore, inevitably it was or band) and the closing Just A spanned a decade from Brown Gloria, Morrison fell charged Gigolo were all ample evidence The Dominion up enough to lose his immobil- PROBLEM SOLVED of his vocal talents. Shoes through to his current ity and stalk the stage making CHRIS WHITE AFTER FOUR years of hard Sheik Yerbouti album. funny kicks at his camera crew SHRINK WRAPPING slog, both on the pan of the Although he controlled the who were filming the concert, record company and the artist, music with machine-like which seemed a bit cliched McGuinn, 1979 must be the year that efficiency, Zappa was relaxed because for most of the concert A&M's Chris de Burgh finally as he ambled up and down the Fastest in Town stage sneering the lyrics at the the only time he left the Clark and establishes himself as one microphone was to wander up — Best in the Country of this country's top audience or sitting on a stool, stage to wipe away singer/songwriters. His latest smoking a king-size and perspiration. Hillman: album, Crusader, produced by drinking while Ike Willis look KEVIN TEA Stickering * Inserts * Specials AN OPPORTUNITY to see Andrew Powell ought to do the over on vocals. and hear the near legends of trick — combined with the Manipulation seems to be a rock comes but rarely, so it was success of his current tour preoccupation with Zappa. which included a gig at the With the band tight behind slightly surprising that him, it's the audience who he THE EXPERIENCED WRAPPERS McGuinn, Clark and Hillman London Dominion Theatre on The — founder members of the Friday. turns his attention to, getting Byrds — were not greeted in De Burgh, for the them up on their feel to him the UK with more hoo-ha and uninformed, is a modern-day pounce on a fur trapper who Jacksons: If you want THE WRAP talk of the Albert Hall or troubadour. His lyrics paint had the unmitigated audacity Wembley. vivid pictures and he has just to whap on his baby seal with a Rainbow call Steve Sparks As it was, The Venue the right amount of lead filled snow shoe. The set provided just the right romanticism to succeed in was broken up by a member of SECOND HOUSE at the atmosphere for these pedigree winning over his audiences the audience handing Zappa a Rainbow, with a sound system 01-961-2919 (24 hours) without alienating the rock book which the keyboard man which was making no efforts to performers and they responded music fans. read an extract from — clinical put on things, a demanding with one of the best concerts I And with only a couple of hints on canine birth with the audience and inevitably tired have seen in London for some exceptions — George use of surgical scissors as performers — but the Jacksons time. They are back together Harrison's Here Comes The opposed to zircon encrusted delivered. They knew what was not only for live gigs, but also Sun and Pete Ham's Without tweezers. expected of them, and did it IMPORT SERVICES for recording purposes with a You — De Burgh features his For an encore the band like the professionals they have new self-titled album on own material throughout. played an excerpt from the been almost since the cradle. Capitol. Patricia The Stripper Uncle Meat album, that If there were moments when The band opened with Sad remains a firm favourite in his showed that Zappa was it all seemed a little too slick WALKER FREIGHT SERVICES LTD Boy, a strong cut from the act, but the addition of songs experimenting with jazz and predictable, rather like album, and continued with new from Crusader proved that the influences back in the early painting by numbers, it's fair London Heathrow Airport material, the lively Don't You seventies. to say no-one was complaining. 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