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3 n^mrn Stratochief? Well, oil my hog! I guess now I have to jive to elevator-ready tapiocacore that sounds like mention the other guy, guitar player John Julie London jamming with Wes Montgomery. Terri­ Vancouver special Antonopoulos, who has a name with four o's in it. tory previously covered by the J.D.s, and the Anyway, they rock hard but not too hard, they don't Wildroot Orchestra before that, but the Lincoln wanna get hassled by the man, and they have songs Clarkes-named quartet concentrate less on the like "Tom Jones" ("I'm really proud of my voice"), mamba and more on the martini, less hully-gully "Withdrawal", "Am Not", and "She Shoots She and more hubba-hubba, less retro and more reefer Scores" that stick in your head like a Valiant in sec­ And Dino never said "fuck off" in any of his num­ ond gear. bers the way Lindsey Davis croons it. Perfect segue for my next pick, the two song Finally, also a bit of a throw-back are the tape from Bug, whose guitarist lain Ross drives a Molestics, whose second recording pleased the 'Cuda (I've seen "im). Mr. Ross has been in all sortsa band themselves so much they released it to the bands, going back to Civil Service in ihe early '80s, unsuspecting world. Alternating between Satchmo due to 'conflicting viewpoints' which seem to have and also including Curious George and The Young stylin's and Weillion warcries, the Mos rise out of a originated in KND's support of Music Waste, where Adults Other axeologistDave Badanic has been in dinosaurian ooze doing a tap dance on your whis­ they'll be playing this year, new cds are out now LOCAL DtRT a million bands himself, like Dirt and, at present, key-spinning pate Only the Jades remember some by Shindig semi-finalists Knockin' Dog as well as the Touch & Gos. Maybe you, dear reader, should of these tunes, and they ain't talkin'. They update It appears the rumours weren't true: Sister Lovers a compilation by the Scratch Record Label, entitled check your journal because even you might have the lyrics somewhat, like where "Now's the time to have not and will not be signed to Mint Records, Surreal Rest and including tracks by Pork Queen, even been in a bond with ot least one of Bug Like Fall in Love" becomes "Now's the Time to be a bum" contrary to reports ifiat surfaced here a few months Good Horsey, Thinking Fellers Union Local Stratochief, they have a fondness for motorized because "smack's a lot cheaper" Live they're a hoot, ago...word from the grapevine says thatNettwerk's 282 ond others. Sparkmarker's Sub Pop 7" is vehicles, probably working on them in their switching instruments they're too drunk to play any­ Rose Chronicles are presently without a drum­ set to be out on May 7th In related news, the band backyard when not cranking out the gritty rock that way, and singing in French not because it's an offi­ mer or bassist, and have been trying out replace­ will be performing a series of weekend shows Bug specialize in Skateboards are also on the cial language but because they know their ments... The Gate is a new venue that you'll un­ throughout the summer as part of the "No Glove, agenda, although I guess that's nothing new; I archaeological antics are wasted on us Wet Coast­ doubtedly start frequenting. It's run by the same No Love Tour". Conceived by local activist/scenester betcha any band playing live in town on a Welfare ers. This stuff is downbeat all the way, the kind that person who used to book for the Treehouse Lounge, Meegan Maultsaid, whose band Puncture will also Wednesday has a least a couple guys with decks keeps you swingin' silly until the Depression hits. and is located on Granville Street where the Maxi­ be playing, the aim of the tour is "to promote aware­ in the band. Brian and Joe of DOA (and, in the mum Blues Pub used to be.. As you read this, Mu­ ness and education around youth and HIV issues". latter case, the Green Party!) throw their two cents sic West '96 will have already started. Some in, giving their Punk Rock Daddy blessing to the ALL-AGCS SHOWS bands who've never played here before that I'd like Bug project. There! I've spent so much space on to recommend you see include Radioblaster and OiMO R&/t£WS the grotty details surrounding the band thot I don't Saturday, May 4th: Soldiers of Misfortune, Len from Toronto, as well as Download, who'll be even have to talk about the music. I'm getting good Pipebomb, the Insipids, Dog Eat Dogma & the Dunder­ performing at the Penthouse The most anticipated at this stuff. heads at the St. James Community Square performance will undoubtedly be Sloan's rumoured Not much time this month. Can only quickly jot down Saturday, May 4th: Trish Kelly, Amber Dawn, The other two bands I'm gonna talk about don't show at the Stereolab gig on May 4lh at the Com­ muddled thoughts with the inevitable result of creat­ Justin McGrail & Gary Ersatz at the Talking Stick (Spo­ fret about their wheels so much, opting instead to modore... Music Waste is also well underway by ing more confusion Too bad 'cause there's so much ken Word) spend their time blowing dust off their grandpar­ now, with shows at a growing number of venues. good shit out there these days. Like Stratochief, Saturday, May 4th: Slar ents' wax collections for inspiration The Colorifics, Perhaps one of their biggest coups was bringing the newest band to feature CiTR alumnus Paula Spurr Spiderbait & Hip Hop Mec who were mentioned several months ago as a band the Niagara onside after MusicWest shows had (nee Rempel) on guitar ond vocals. Lotsa motorcy­ who had sent a fucked-up tape in to CiTR, have already been scheduled there. Bands set for that cle references, obviously. And a surprising number Saturday, May 4th (hmm, I'm beginning been vindicated by getting the cassette repro tidied venue were subsequently re-booked elsewhere. The of songs with sweet (meaning on-key) harmonizing todetect a pattern here): Bad Religion, Dance up and revealing to the world that their silky smooth headaches continue for Music W°st as Waste grows between Paula and Naomi Sider, the other vocal­ Hall Crashers & Unwritten Law at the Plaza of lounge stylings don't resemble the mess that was Nations in popularity. Locals Knock Down Ginger and their ist, whose brother Mike plays bass. And speaking the first pressing of Guilty Pleasures Gosh durn this Sunday, May 5th: Slam City Jam w/Minorily, manager Dan Cimazoni (events coordinator at of brothers, isn't that ex-Cannon Heath Down gui­ new-fangled technology. They run, or should I say, North American Bison & ten days late at the Pla2 Musicwest) have parted ways for the time being tarist Jon Brotherton slapping the skins for fox-trot, the gamut between high-energy jitterbug of Nations

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there are places i refuse to go. places that are reflective of my past in one way or another, be it good or bad, but usually these places conjure up images of things gone wrong, certain areas of the city are off limits as far as i'm concerned, or at lesat for certain moments in time it's best to avoid these areas until the dust has settled, certain coffee shops and restaurants, ho­ tels and bars, even certain cities in the u.s. are now off limits, and it's all about my heart, an organ in my body that i sometimes feel was put there not to keep me alive but to cause me great pain, the heart is a strange place sometimes, the blood that courses through it has very little to do with the way we feel because of it. the way it can jump into our throats and choke us. the way it pounds, sometimes in the middle ofthe night we can hear it beat­ ing and the pounding in our ears is seemingly enough to break, the silence of the night as we lie in bed trying to sleep, and even if we try and want it to happen there's no stopping it. all the clutching of our chests won't make it go away, but this really isn't about my heart, really, it's not. it's about the hearts of others, the hearts buried deep in the chests of those i know, i wonder what's in some of them, some, i know are filled with a blackness that i could never help them get rid of. while others are so full of life that i can only wonder what it's like to have a heart that alive, and i wonder about the people i've had something to do with and how i've made their hearts feel, love and hate and sadness, your heart feels them all. i feel sometimes like my own heart is becoming blackened with time but i still hold out hope that there will be a turning point that will change all that, the light at the end of the tunnel is the carrot i'm chasing right now. i suppose the point to all of this is the way your happiness may affect someone else's heart, it's unfortunate when your happiness affects others in a negative way. but what can you do? live your life for the benefit of others or stay your own course? shit, i don't know, it could be that i'm listening to too much 'son volt' lately, damn that jay farrar. gth MYUBL byQ bye sophtel!

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S £8^°2K^ Nardwuar™: For years. Bill, I've heard the mine put some film in an oven and ran it up to 250°F Aah.I would say that's - you're pretty close to that. A tion. Now this tells you that there were some men of rumour that Disney faked the moon landing. and the film just curled up. If you notice, the fellow by the name of Gus Grissom was very disen­ integrity who would not go along with this scam. Now you're here, Mr. Kaysing, to prove it's true, Hasselblad camera is worn outside of the astronaut's chanted with the Apollo programme and he, on the day So you're working at the rocket place developing, aren't you? R.E.M. sang, "If you believe they put suit and it is not curled in any way. That camera would that he was burned to death, he hung a lemon on the working for the space programme. You eventually a man on the moon" - you're here to prove it, have heated up to the temperature to bake cookies in command capsule to let people know what he thought leave the space programme. At that point, did you aren't you, Mr. Kaysing? a very short time, because the sun on the moon is of it. Prior to that, he made many trips to the rocket know that the moon landings were going to be Bill Kaysing: I'm here to prove that no man has ever absolutely relentless, there's no atmosphere to miti­ down in Downey Plant to examine the equipment and faked. 'Cause you said in 1959 the U.S.A. realised landed on the moon. gate the heat of the sun. So it's obvious that the pic­ he realised that it wasn't going to work. A few min­ they couldn't put a man on the moon, so they Bill Kaysing, can you give your background of tures that they brought back were not taken on the utes before he was burned to death, he said, hey, you started faking stuff. Why didn't you spill the your involvement in the space programme and moon, nor could they have actually taken any pictures guys in the control centre, get with it. You expect me to beans right then? what the official government line is about people on the moon, even if they had gone there. go to the moon and you can't even maintain telephon- Well, I don't know. What motivated me to spill the landing on the moon? If the moon landing was faked, how come they did­ I was for seven years head of technical publications n't include stars in their studio? for the Rocketdyne Research Department at the They could not fake the stars and maps because there Propulsion Field Laboratory in the Sinn Hills, near are too many astronomy buffs - and I've talked to a lot Kenoga Park, California. During that time I had top- of them - who would have measured the angularity secret clearance and Atomic Energy Commission between stars and the position of stars behind, let's say. America never.• •• (A.E.C) clearance and I was in on all of the top secrets the earth. No way, even with the most advanced com­ three miles. But my theory beans was a young man from the Vietnam wars by the about the development of Mercury and Gemini and, of puters, could they have created star pictures that would about Gus Grissom was that he was about to blow the name of John Grant. He said that he was sent to course, Atlas, and, eventually, Apollo. And my experi­ have been acceptable to astronomy buffs. whistle on the entire project and that he was murdered. Vietnam to kill people with no good reason and he also ence as a technical writer led me to believe that a lot of Where was the moon landing faked? Somewhere If N.A.S.A. was faking the whole moon programme, got a heroin habit, and he says, "Bill," he says, "what the things that the aerospace industry and N.A.S.A. in the Nevada desert? What's the deal on that, what was going to happen to the astronauts, what want you to do is blow the whistle on this rotten, cor preferred to have done were never done. They were Bill Kaysing? was their mission? What was N.A.S.A. trying to nipt government." He says, "Why don't you say some­ not as successful as they pretended to be. [As to the It's said that there's an area near Quebec that looks just achieve or prove to the public? thing outrageous, like, we never went to the m< second question,] the government claims that the like the moon and that the astronauts spent some time Well, by simulating a trip to the moon they could eas­ So I attribute my interest in this project to John Grant. reports of astronauts and photographs and some rocks up there. They spent lots of time in the Nevada desert ily then justify the $30 billion that they spent. They If the moon landings were faked, why did they prove that we went to the moon. My feeling is that and it looks a great deal like the moon. But here's the intended to get Gus Grissom, and Chaffee and White, tinue faking the Apollo flights? some photos and some people who have been under kicker - there's an Air Force base near San Bernadino, to actually lie about their trips to the moon, just hke Well, the plan was to have something like eight or military pay or military jurisdiction all their lives and California, called Norton Air Force Base, and they Armstrong and Aldrin and all the other astronauts here ten Apollo flights to the moon and they had been some rocks don't prove a thing. In fact, there is so have the world's largest sound stages under tremen­ lied about their trips to the moon. I call astronauts who given the money to build all the vehicles to do it, much contrary evidence to going to the moon, such as dously efficient security. They could have easily cre­ allegedly landed on the moon bald-faced liars, and par­ and they felt obligated to carry on with the simula­ solar and cosmic radiation, micro meteorites, the tem­ ated all of the moon sets in those sound stages and ticularly Alan Shephard. tion. But remember this: by the end of Apollo 12 perature on the moon, the fact that the astronauts never filmed to their hearts' content. Why is that? people in America, possibly elsewhere, were com­ reported how magnificent the stars were or they never This was in the Nevada desert. Well, Alan Shephard is one of these particularly obnox­ pletely bored with the project. So what they thought showed a picture of the crater that should have been Well, this was in Norton Air Force Base in San ious people. After Grissom was murdered, he refused to they would do, and did, was they would create a Bernadino, but they could have done it in the Nevada help Grissom's wife, Betty Grissom, get a settlement cliffhanger. And Apollo 13, which didn't happen at desert in an area called 51, which is the north-east cor­ from N.A.S.A and from North American Aviation, all, despite the movie, was simply a simulation ner of the A.E.C. base there. which she held responsible. And Shephard didn't inside of a simulation to get people's interests back They have a lot of U.F.O. stuff going on around approve of this at all. He said that we should accept the into the space programme. Area SI. deaths of astronauts and you don't need any money. Apollo 13 was totally faked. Oh yeah, 51 is a place where you don't want to be found Did N.A.S.A. kill those astronauts in 1967, did they Totally faked. It never left the earth. at all. All the guards carry submachine guns and they kill them on purpose because they knew too much? The movie that was up for nine Oscars™ never are told to shoot to kill if anybody gets inside the base. Or was it actually an accident that happened? even happened. So continuing on, Mr. Bill Kaysing, author of We No, it was no accident, they murdered them. You see, It never even happened. Never Went to the Moon, to prove that the moon I found out just recently that whenever N.A.S.A. was Weil, why did they keep faking the Apollo flights, I landing was faked, you mentioned that there were in trouble they would call on the C.I.A. Now we all still don't understand. Did the Soviet Union know it no stars in the photos that the astronauts brought know that the C.I.A. back, but also you mentioned it was impossible has and can kill any­ for the United States of America to actually make body they want with­ it to the moon at that time, that there had been out any feeling of some problems, and that you were involved with : whatsoev- the programme at this time, so you knew about Nardwuar™ vs. those problems. Oh yes. One of the major problems, ot course, was try­ was faked? Why did they keep shut up if they knew ing to get things to work in essentially an alien envi­ it was faked? 'Cause a lot of people would think This photo of the moon was takan ronment. Outer space is no picnic. You've got the Van they kept the moon race going to prove the U.S. was Allen belt around the Earth, you know, about twenty better than the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union hy Apollo 16. If it was real, wouldn't miles up, and the Van Allen belt would probably have knew, why did they let the U.S. get away with this? cooked any astronauts who ventured into that area. Well, I'll tell you - at the highest levels there is a coali­ it be surrounded by stars? Then you've got outer space where there are billions of tion between governments. In other words, the Soviets micro meteorites zipping around at speeds up to said, if you won't tell on us - and they faked most of have hundreds of pieces of information that any really 60,000 miles per hour, and these would have gone their space exploration flights - we won't tell on you. intelligent person could review and then decide for right through the command capsule with the astronauts It's as simple as that. See, what Apollo is, is the begin­ themselves. in it and kept right on going. ning of the end of the ability of the government to Well, particularly, Mr. Kaysing, could you just Weren't there actual events, though, that happened hoodwink and bamboozle and manipulate the people. prove it here with some little points, that we actu­ to N.A.S.A. that made them realize they couldn't More and more people are becoming aware in the U.S. ally did not go to the moon. In your book you men­ send somebody to the moon? When did N.A.S.A. that the government is totally and completely public tion that there were no stars in the photos that realise that it was impossible for them to send enemy number one. N.A.S.A. took. somebody to the moon and that they would have to Let's get a little bit more into the proving part of That's right, and they had the most marvellous oppor­ fake the moon landing? We Never Went to the Moon, Bill. You mentioned tunity to take pictures of all the stars in the universe Well, initially, they realised it in 1959 when I was American lunar landing? that there was no crater beneath the lunar lander. visible from the moon. I've talked to a number of top- privy to a study made by the Russians. The Russians What's the significance of that? level astronauts, both locally and elsewhere, and they discovered that the radiation on the moon would er. So it's my feeling that the C.I.A. was hired by The significance is that the lunar lander engine devel­ say that the astronauts would have been overwhelmed require astronauts to be clothed in four feet of lead to N.A.S.A. to very adroitly kill Grissom, Chaffee and oped 10,000 pounds of thrust. I've seen many, many by the sight of trillions of stars, not to mention Jupiter avoid being killed. N.A.S.A. picked up on this study White. rocket engines of that capability in action and they are and Saturn and the other planets and so forth, but not and, of course, did some studies of their own about Let's get a timeline here, Bill Kaysing. You're work­ so powerful that they will move giant rocks across the one picture has ever come back from the alleged trip to all of the different hazards on the moon, particularly ing here with Rocketdyne, on the space pro­ canyon. A 10,000 pound thrust engine would have dug the moon showing the stars in all their magnificence, something as benign, you might think, as temperature. gramme... a hole right down to bedrock and it would have stirred nor do any of the astronauts comment on the stars. The temperature on the moon during a lunar day is I was working on the space programme from 1957 to up an enormous cloud of dust, and that never appeared They completely ignore it. It would be like going to 250°F. Now, trying to keep either the suits or the lunar 1963. in any of the so-called films that they took of the lunar Niagara Falls and talking about the hamburger you ate. lander cool during that tremendous heat from a blaz­ With probably a lot of ex-Nazis from the Ghelen landing. So, the absence of the crater in any photo­ Doesn't NA.S.A. say that the reason there were no ing sun would have been impossible because they did organisation, I bet graph of Apollo lunar landers is actually probably the stars is because their cameras weren't set for the not have enough air conditioning power. Oh, I met some of them. There were a lot of Nazis only real proof that you need. You don't need much proper exposure, isn't that their line? Well, Bill Kaysing, what I don't understand is, if including, of course, Werner von Braun. And an inter­ beyond that and the fact that there weren't any stars. That's their line and that's pure baloney. I've talked N.A.SA. realised they couldn't put a man on the esting sideline is that, after the Apollo project was What about the operation of the lunar module, in the to photographic experts who say that N.A.S.A. have moon in 1959, what about those astronauts who over, he completely lost interest in space travel, retired sense that it takes [dace thousands of miles above the all the money in the world to have a camera that died in 1967 on the launch pad? Did N.A.S.A. know and went to work for Grumman, then he died of can­ moon - this is what NA.S.A. says - the big explosion would have taken magnificent pictures of stars. But that those guys were gonna die on the launch pad? cer. This also evokes the recollection that, after Apollo that comes from the lunar module, when it lands on the there's a little problem, you know, the temperature on Were they sacrificed to make the space programme II allegedly returned to Earth, three of the leading moon, it happens way up above the moon, and that's the moon is 250°F during the lunar day. A friend of more realistic? N.A.S.A. investigators resigned without an explana- why there's no crater. What about that explanation?

6 ,MAY 1996 Well, you know yourself that the lunar lander eventu­ Atlantic, where all of the six that were launched now America, about the fact that all silver was taken out of Is there any way of going to the Smithsonian in ally had to, according to N.A.S.A., land on the moon. reside. There were no astronauts on board. They were circulation in 1963, the fact that Canada does not Washington and looking at the stuff and seeing that Well, as it approached the landing point, the engine hidden away carefully, to be returned, allegedly in their import our meat because it's so full of rotten chemicals. it is fake? still had to develop enough thrust to keep the lunar lan­ command capsule, by being dumped out of a C5A I'm sure you knew that. The Canadians are pretty Oh, yeah. One of my friends went to the Smithsonian and der, which weighs, in lunar gravity, about 3000 transport plane. It was easy to do all of this, because smart, because they don't import American meat. So, he measured the exit door of the lunar lander and found pounds, they had to develop enough thrust to keep it they had total control of everything. you see, in this country, we're at the short end of things out that astronauts wearing their life-support systems floating above the surface in order to let it gently land So they were not on the rocket when it took off, because of the corruption of the government. could not have gone out that door, they were too big. on the surface. But that obviously was not substantiat­ then? Are there any other points that we haven't [cov­ ed by any crater under the lunar lander engine. No, they were not. •:.• : S :•;. *••:. .*> .';<: •*:*. ,*:*:* ered] here today, Bill Kaysing, about not making to Furthermore, the radiation should have turned the And then they were picked up. Now, you talked to a the moon, more proof? astro-not.s into crispy space bacon. pilot who saw all this happen? Well, I think we've covered the very important general Yes, it would have. And it also would have pierced Yes, a pilot came on the air when I was doing a broadcast ones. There are a lot of details. For example, Edwin them with thousands of m and he says, "Bill, I agree with you 100%. I was flying Aldrin, when he came back from his alleged trip to the is not a place for human beings, e from San Francisco to Tokyo and I saw, along with sev­ SHIIA: moon, wrote a book called Return to Earth. Well, I've eral passengers, a command capsule dropped out of a read the book three times, and in it we find a man who is C5A and the red-and-white candy-striped parachutes trying desperately to tell the truth, but he's unable to. In opened and it descended to the surface of the ocean." other words, they put the wraps on him, they told him, And what happened then? don't ever talk about the moon as a fake. But an inter­ Well, they were picked up and put into biological suits esting thing happened to Aldrin when he was speaking at so they wouldn't afflict anybody with moon germs, but mm Edwards Air Force Base to some of his fellow pilots, he my theory on that is they couldn't tell these big bald- was asked by a TV interrogator, "What was it like to be faced lies this early. So they were actually kept from the mm mmm *,,A on the moon7' And Edwin Aldrin at that point could not press for approximately a month until they could sort of answer that question, he began shaking and trembling, he reconcile themselves with telling a lot of big lies. walked off the stage into an alley and later got drunk. How did they make the astronauts float, Bill M f Now, if you'd done something, honestly and truthfully, Kaysing, 'cause it seems pretty convincing when you you can talk about it without any problems. Well, it was seen them floating around there. Like, a lot of peo­ obvious that, here was an occasion when Aldrin could ple when you say, "Hey, you know, we never went to -mmm not tell that lie one more time. the moon", they went, "I saw it! I saw them floating Have you been threatened at all, Bill Kaysing?

there! I saw them on the moon right there!" ••?•••**::.• ••:.•¥••:*.;•: :*:• - '_'*;-•••• Oh, death threats and letters with skull and crossbones Well, that could have been done just like they did the \'"?mz:m '-/'A, a* on them. I've been called a Commie sympathiser, a Broadway play Peter Pan. In other words, [they] used traitor to the United States. Many things have hap­ Yuri Gargarin ai the Soviet Union wires and suspended the astronauts from an overhead ten pened to me. One time I was on KOME radio doing a crane and had them leap gaily across what actually was -mmmm > three-hour show, and half-way through the show Do you believe that rockets ever made orbit? Did a moon set. No, it's not difficult to show astronauts someone dropped napalm on the transmitter in the Surveyor or Pioneer actually happen? taking big leaps, nor is it difficult, for example, to put Hi-tech Sci-R??? Gilroy Hills. They wanted to cut our story off. Police Possibly. Possibly not. I'm not absolutely certain about them in a simulated command capsule and have them came, they offered us police protection, and KOME that. I will concede that certain unmanned vehicles go through an anti-gravity curve. How do you deal with people who you're trying to was off the air for three days until they could repair a might have made it to the moon. The Russians are sup­ Bill, has anybody ever seen the studio that this was convince? Isn't it like trying to convince people that quarter of a million dollars', damage. posed to have sent some unmanned vehicles to the faked in? 'Cause it's in Area 51, which you alluded the Earth is flat? How do you distinguish yourself Boy, Americans really care about the moon land­ moon. And possibly our Surveyor did land on the to. It was also alluded to in the films Diamonds are with these people, Bill Kaysing? ing, don't they? moon. But units with people in them, never. Forever and Capricorn Onel Well, it's easy. I've got the proof. I've got the pho­ Oh yeah. It's like Pearl Harbour - they managed to How 'bout any actual astronauts, like John Glenn, Yes, that's right. They did allude to the sound stage, or tographs, which are available to anybody. All it takes is cover up the truth at Pearl Harbour since December 7, Yuri Gargarin - were they actualloy in space? the hidden moon set. No, the reason no one has ever seen some study. If you look at the pictures taken of Aldrin 1941. Everybody that was in W.W.II, including me, I doubt it. it and come out alive is that they don't intend for any­ by Armstrong, you can find so many mistakes in those knows that the Japanese were set up to do it. In fact, body to see it and come out alive. You gotta remember So the Soviet Union faked that Yuri Gargarin was in photographs that anybody in his right mind would some people told me that two shiploads of gold were that N.A.S.A. is kind of a lethal organisation. Jim Irwin space, and that dog that died, Laika. really didn't die? realise, just by those photos alone, that they were faked. sent to Japan to finance Pearl Harbour, they were sent - Apollo 15 - was put up to blowing the whistle Mmm...I don't think he was up there. Well, how did the media fall for this? by the British. So the British wanted us involved in the whole project and he called rr sup, Well, the media doesn't fall for anything. The media is war and Pearl Harbour seemed like a good way to do it. stensibly to give me the facts. Few controlled by the government. The Dutch papers on So the Americans bribed the Japanese into bomb­ days later he died of a heart attack. July 21 [1969] said that the moon landing was a hoax, ing Pearl Harbour? Now what does that tell you? was a fake, and I have been unable to find any of those Yes, and Roosevelt not only knew about the attack, he Well, a lot of people died when Dutch papers, although it's well documented that they helped arrange it, and he suppressed the information Bill Kaysingdissin g N.A.S.A. What's the sig­ did publish information, with proof, that the U.S. was about the Japanese attacks from Kimmel and Short, Continuing on with reasons that we didn't make it nificance ofthe Barron Report? spoofing everybody. the naval and army commanders at Pearl Harbour. This to the moon here - there were various lighting Oh, that's profound. A man named Thomas Ronald Didn't the National Enquirer have stuff, too? was one ofthe biggest hoaxes perpetrated by the U.S. Barron was an inspector on Pad 34, where Grissom, Well, I did send some of my material to one of their government to get us involved in a deadly war. There's Oh, a lot of lighting anomalies. Some friends from Chaffee and White were murdered. He brought forth a subsidiaries, called The Weekly World News, and they no question that it was all set up. Europe came over recently and what they did, they're 500-page report on the mismanagement, the incompe­ did a marvellous job of presenting my material. It was If people want to get a hold of you, Bill Kaysing, very interested in this project, they analysed N.A.S.A. tence of N.AS.A. and North American [Aviation]. And extremely accurate. So, I've been in newspapers, I've what is your address? films supposedly taken on the moon, frame by frame. again, like Jim Irwin, a few days after he testified been on Oprah Winfrey's show, and quite a number of P.O. Box 832, Soquel, CA, 95073 and I would be And you know what they found out? before the Congressional Investigating Committee, he leading television shows. happy to correspond with Canadians about these sub­ What, Bill Kaysing, author of We Never Went to the was found dead in his car at a railroad crossing. Now Have you ever talked to any astronauts at all? jects at length. what does that tell you? Oh yes. I've talked to Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. I was Why should people care about the moon landing, Shadows diverged. In other words, if you have a point How much space stuff since 1959 has been real? invited to appear on CBS television in Los Angeles Bill Kaysing, why should people care that the moon source of light, like the sun, and you can see this any­ What space stuff is real today? Did the Challenger with Colonel Aldrin. And they called him up, and he landing was faked? time outdoors, all shadows will parallel - telephone blow up? Did N.A.S.A. know it would blow up? wouldn't appear with me. So I called him up, and I Well, I think we should care because it proves that the said, "Buzz, why don't you appear with me?" And his U.S. government is just a body politic of lies and false­ exact words were, "That is something I do not want to hoods. They have been for many, many years on all of do," and he hung up. Now if, in reality, they had gone the important subjects. Social Security is bankrupt, the to the moon, wouldn't they put me on the air with a food in America is all weak poisons, people are put genuine astronaut, and let me debate with him. You've under the thumb of the I.R.S. There are so many things went to the moon. got to remember, too, that Neil Armstrong has not wrong with the U.S. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't given more than three interviews since he allegedly dislike the people - it's the government that I call pub­ returned from the moon. A friend of mine went to see poles, trees, you name it - all the shadows will be par­ Yeah, and you know why it blew up? Because Christa lic enemy number one. him, to question him, and he not only refused to talk to allel. Well, these men found, in analysing frame by McAuliffe, the only civilian and only woman aboard, Anything else you'd like to add to the people out him, he said, "If you hang around my farm much frame movies, that there was more than one lighting refused to go along with the lie that you couldn't see there? longer, I'll call the police." Now, here's the most source for this film. Now that proves beyond any stars in space. So they blew her up, along with six Well, I'll say this - whether you believe my story or famous man ofthe twentieth century, Neil Armstrong, doubt, in my mind, that these pictures, these motion other people, to keep that lie under wraps. I claim that not, go to the library in your spare time and take a look allegedly set foot on the moon, July 21, 1969 - why pictures, were taken inside of a movie set, using gigan­ Christa McAuliffe was murdered. at some N.A.S.A books and study the photographs, use won't he talk about it? tic spotlights to simulate the sun. This, to me, is one of So, who else is gonna get murdered, what else is your own intelligence to analyse them and see that Maybe he's just tired of talking about it. the most significant breakthroughs, and I only learned coming up? What's the future? What is real that's they could not have been taken on the moon. That's No, he couldn't be tired of talking about it, because it about two months ago. in space that we can see out there, Bill Kaysing? the number one proof. it's his duty and obligation to be a national hero. He Did people see Apollo 11 take off? Well, I would say this, that the number of people that Alright, Bill, keep on rocking in the free world and took N.A.S.A.'s money, he was supported by the gov­ Well, yes, certainly. believe my version of Apollo are increasing in great doot doodle oot do- ernment for many, many years, and here he is in a posi­ So what happened, then, if they saw it take off? The numbers. So my feeling is that, within a short time, the What's that? tion of, let's say, talking about Apollo in a very rocket took off - if we didn't go to the moon, what Apollo hoax will be exposed and that will open Bill, doot doodle oot do - convincing way, but he won't talk at all. Now, he lives actually happened when Apollo 11 took off? Pandora's box. After that, the U.S. government is going Ha, ha - whatever. I'll take it easy. on a farm in Ohio, near Columbus. Anybody can find The Apollo 11 vehicle, or Saturn 5, was sent out of to be hard-pressed to keep the lies about the Federal No, doot doodle oot do - his address and go see him. people's sight, and then it was jettisoned into the South Reserve Bank, about the I.R.S. being the Gestapo of Doot do. Vancouver writer/ac tor/director/film-maker extraordinaire and all-round Great Guy Ken IIHHega n has won acclaim, the best short film award from the New York Underground Film Festival Ken Hegan _3£r and a new pair of shoes (from the N.Y.U.F.F. - and, no, he wasn't able to choose the style) for his first film, Farley Mowat Ate My Brother, which is eight writer minutes of audiovisual excellence. Hegan spent one Well, I have seen the film and I can guarantee that it's And how did you arrive year as a contributor to CBC Radio's Brand X most amusing. at Shatner as a subject? between 1993 and 1994, he has written two feature- It doesn't suck. Well, his hairpiece, first of all. length screenplays and he has been on CBC TV's It doesn't suck - I still chuckle over the ending with No, really - I chose Shatner as Farley turning into a protected species. Will there be my target because, first of all, Zero Avenue for two seasons. He has also won anywhere else for people to see the film? he's Canadian but, unlike awards for articles he's written for the Vancouver Yeah, ihe Knowledge Network is interested. I actually work part-time Farley, is recognized world­ Sun, particularly an affectionate piece on Douglas out at the Knowledge Network and I have friends in acquisitions wide. That was important. Coupland, and is on the verge of introducing the there. I've played this for ihem over and over and they go, that's Audiences immediately under­ great, you know, funny little thing. I give them constant updates on stand who the hell is lending world to his latest opus, fhe short filmW/7//am Shatner how I'm doing - I'm really annoying lhat way - plus I steal their ideas me his wig. Second, I get the Lent Me His Hairpiece. Hegan recently received for my next scripts, too. But, anyway, within an hour of telling every­ feeling Shatner takes himself notice in the New York Times for his flair for titles, one that I'd won this surprise award in New York, wilhin an hour I'd wayyyyyyyyy too seriously. Correct me if I'm wrong, but he and also for his talent, which is likely to take him to had an offer from Knowledge Network. So, I guess, if you make it in New York, you make it anywhere First we take Manhattan, then we has an actor's ego. And I have places no CBC alumnus has even been before. take Burnaby Oh, and as far as boosting Farley's sales, I actually met Farley Mowat when I went up to the Gemini Awards. It was perfect match. Third, as pretty cool. Farley, of course, has a game room, like a hunter's Captain Kirk, he was always room, but he cares so much about animals he doesn't have real getting in some kind of climac­ heads, he has a papier mache zebra head, a tiny little wooden ele­ tic punchup with some out­ phant head, and of course a little white wolf hand puppet, too. I matched alien and sometimenes eeve* n with his cloned self. My scrip think it's every Canadian's birthright to meet Farley Mowat; so if you required some Car :elebrity to stalk me (while I'm mindinc need an introduction, I'll be the man to get you in touch. my own business, naturally) oan d Shatner/Kirk is the ultimate man o Where did the idea for the film come from? How did action. He likes the ladies ai , hey, he loves to hump. So he's c you happen upon Farley as your subject? worthy foe. William Shatner i Well, I always come up with the titles for these first - title first, script So what's the story about? later, and then cheesy acting by me and whoever else I can con William Shatner Lent Me His Hairpiece is a pure 12 minutes of into acting it later. My master plan for this one was, at first, Pierre farce. Essentially, in flashback, I show images of Shatner before his DiSCORDER: What was it like to win the N.Y. Trudeau Ate My Brother But he was getting far too much press - it Star Trek days, as a struggling actor Disgusted with his anonymity, Underground Film Festival? just didn't seem right. So, I've got an e-mail list of about 50 hooli­ Shatner exchanges his soul to a wizard who gives Shatner a magi­ Ken Hegan: Well, when I first got o phone call, just to tell me lhat I gans, I call them, and I send out ideas and then shamelessly exploit cal, evil hairpiece which gives him fame and fortune. Years later, I wos in the festival, ihe festival director Ed Halter said, "Ken, we love them for theirs. It had to be a famous Canadian - I just wanted the run into Shatner, my childhood idol, outside a sold-out Star Trek your little movie, but none of us have any idea who the hell Farley Canadian content there - and we were bouncing around Robertson convention I help him escape from some fans and he offers me a Mowat is here - none of us." So, hopefully, I've helped his career out Davies and Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, of course, the usual reward. Cash, cars, women. I refuse them all, then ask to borrow a little bit. But it was cool, I got a mention two days in a row in the gang of suspects, and then Farley Mowat came up and I was sold. his hairpiece for two weeks. With it, I could be the greatest lover in New York Times, which is a big coup They spelled my name wrong­ Can you just imagine Farley's beard, my brother's bones and gristle the world. He agrees, hands me the hair, and later I realize he's ly, so then, of course, they had to do the correction the next day. hanging off his lips, and he's just this nutter - if you ever see Never handed me a dud, a fake, a decoy. Naturally, revenge will be Those corrections, they work well. Cry Wolf, the guy who plays him - well, I guess this actually hap­ mine. I break into his lair, steal the real hairpiece as he sleeps, and Oh, errata, I love ya. pened when Farley went north to be with the wolves, to understand suddenly I'm propelled to fame, fortune and a truckload of sexual For fhe people who may not have seen the film, Ken, the wolves - he took off all his clothes and ran around naked, pee­ attention. Sharner's hairpiece - The Love Rug! Shatner suffers with­ can you just take us through the storyline. ing and marking his territory. So I knew Farley was a natural. drawal, comes after me, and we have a climactic battle over this I'd be glad to It started off as radio play that I wrote for Brand X I wanted to tell everyone about your next venture, addictive, sinister hairpiece. I won't give away the ending, but one and essentially it's sort of a mockumentary in the grand Canadian which is in the - final editing stages? of us is destroyed. It's quite dramatic And bound to get me sued. tradition of documentaries. I find that a lot of the films that come out Early editing stages, but the production has all been shot and we just Shatner baldly goes where no man has gone before. Listen, Mr. of Canada are very serious, ponderously serious, so I thought it'd log into the tapes and we're laughing at the footage right now. Shatner, if you're hearing or reading this, and I know you are, I'm be fun to just have shots of me in a recording studio, very moody And it is called? just kidding, bud. lighting, as I relate this tale I'm dressed in a tuxedo or, sorry, a William Shatner Lent Me His Hairpiece. What was it like filming this veritable feast o' fun? funeral suit - I've just come from the funeral of my dear, departed A ton of work. And a ton of fun. One of my favourite stories hap­ brother Tony, who has perfect skin. And, in flashback, I tell the tale pened for a scene where a cop gives me a fifty-buck fine for looking of Farley Mowat - I basically talk about him as a young boy, how so good in the new hairpiece. So we needed a ticket, a parking tick­ he had a premature beard and all the other kids would mock him et. Couldn't find a blank one, couldn't really make one lhat looked and pull his beard. Over time, Farley becomes quite bitter and he any good, so we kinda 'borrowed' one from somebody's windshield moves north, to the northern tundra, where he writes book after bor­ downtown. I think it was an extremely expensive Range Rover. ing book - he won't stop So finally, my brother Tony - the one with Anyway, we shot the scene, it looks great. But filming takes time perfect skin - writes a letter to Farley saying, "Enough! You tortured and, hours later, we go back to look for the Range Rover to put ihe me as a child, you're torturing my child as a child, and we're just ticket back, but it was gone. So, if any of you own a Range Rover, tired of having to do book reports on your stupid books Don't write you might want to check to see if you owe $3000 in overdue park­ any more books!" So Farley hears about this, and he invites Tony ing fines. Sorry about that. The actor who played the cop took the north for a chat, and that's the last that I see of my brother. Naturally, ticket back to Toronto as a souvenir. And he refuses to give it back. I assume Farley Mowat ate my brother. I soon find out that indeed he So let's call that $3000 a donation to a worthy artistic cause. has: an Inuit boy goes through Farley's trash, steals the perfect skin of Tell us about your screenplays. my dead brother, tans it, and makes a drum out of it and ends up on Well, when I decided I wanted to be a pro writer I said, 'I'm MuchMusic. I discover this and decide, that's it Farley, enough! So, going to be a writer, what will make me the most money?'. And I of course, revenge will be mine. I assemble a dog sled team of rag­ thought, 'a screenplay', so I wrote a screenplay. It's called Dogs tag teddy bears led by this one dog and venture north [where] there's Eat Anything - sometimes it's also known as This is My a big climactic battle and Farley mutates into a wolf. Degeneration. It's about a sperm donor, a road trip and rock­ A protected species in Canada. 'n'roll suicide...There are some good moments, but I learned to And therefore I cannot kill him I think it's a protected species - I took write from doing it ond I got the gig with CBC Radio and a bunch a little liberty there. So, of course, Farley gets awoy and we're left in of articles in the Vancouver Sun as a result, ond that got me the ihe studio, me shivering as I say, "Yes, I'm still scared" - something deal with Zero Avenue. After that I thought, well, let's get serious like that. "Slill terrified and I still shudder at the sound of a far, distant about writing screenplays, so I wrote one called The Deadline, howl, however, I never cry wolf." It's just a big groaner at the end. which doesn't suck.

8 MAY 1996 his aim, to be taken as a : literary writer don't attack the man so IT i - well, maybe do - but I don't attack the i an arch review where I led his book led his I thoi t the tim pompous statements where he spoke about our disillusionment. I grew up pretty middle-class and he grew up in West Van and a lot of things he was writing about didn't speak for my generation or anyone I knew...Anyway, I took a two-page cheap shot at him, but I tried to be as funny as I could and of course, I was moving at the time, and it was the first time I decided, you know, if this article gets published, there could be some letters to ifie editor, there could be some rebuttals Would you mind outlining the story at three in the morning if people phone me up, so for us? I have an unlisted number as a result. And, actu­ Good practice for my pitching workshop in the ally, it worked out quite well, becouse I heard he Banff TV Festival coming up. Basically, ifie first was furious. The editor at the Sun who published few scenes start off with a guy, about my age, this article - ibis was in February of '94, you may about my socio-economic background. This guy recall, there was furor for about 3 or 4 weeks, let­ happens to be an embalmer, he works in a funer­ ters saying that I was evil - and anyway, the guy al home, and he's on his way to work one day who published it knows Coupland and Coupland when he gets mistaken for o serial killer. Earlier had invited him to the book launch on this boat, I that week he had volunteered - he just wanted to think it was. But he uninvited him as a result of do something for society - so he had volunteered publishing the article, so I sort of rippled the fab­ to portray a serial killer in a Crime Stoppers sort ric of his great success. But obviously he's gone of video, ond of course people think he's the seri­ al killer and they hound him and chase him - sort The thing that confuses me about of like Scorsese's After Hours, if I can make that Coupland is that he sort of decries his incredible creative leap. And so, he gets hound­ whole - the way the media portrays him ed into seclusion and there he decides to support himself by running a 1-900 phone line called the as the voice of his generation but he's Deadline. This is a phone line you can call if you quite happy to participate in numerous want to know if somebody famous is dead, and, photo shoots, be interviewed by the if so, how they died. So his ex-girlfriend and NME, I think, and I remember there was neighbour, Natalie, just happens to accidentally a photo where he's standing in this pond shoot a guy who's on the run from lovable yet with all these lotus flowers, I think... lethal goons who work for Lococola, this bottling I saw that one. It was painfully annoying. And I company, and it turns out lhat this guy they acci­ found it really pretentious. i&riimfeim. dentally shoot - 'cause it happens all the time, I Well, I think you hit the nail on the head accidentally shot two people this morning - any­ there, Ken. SHAKE YOUR ASS EVERY way, they drag him inside, he forces them not to But he's salt of the earth. Hell of a man. coll the police, he's got a gun at them. Of course. And a damn fine writer when SATURDAY NIGHT WITH DRU! Essentially, it's an action comedy with lots of sar- he chooses [to be]. Yeah, a very talented guy. I just find his writing kind of noodles around, he doesn't really have a sally accessible. It's a good, fun, tight low-budget strong spine like, say, Farley Mowat - there's a movie and I'm hoping to shoot it this summer if I vith spine. LIVE BANDS EVERY can scrape enough 5-cent refund cans together. Well, the thing about Life After God But it won't be called The Deadline .because I've seemed to be that he bought his press, in THURSDAY NIGHT! realised that a good titles is everything. a sense, he thought he was a messianic Well, The Deadline's not bad. It's snappy. COVER ONLY figure and should carry that on. But it's more of a Stallone-sounding. The $2.00 AT THE DOOR Like Tarantino, and it's just the Assassins, The Deadline. 8:30 COVER STARTS Or Steven Siegal. So, (Somebody Famous) Stole My Deadline. th Now, you won an award for an article AAAY V you did in the Vancouver Sun about a local literary luminary called Douglas Coupland. Salt of the earth. Hell of a man. He speaks for my generation and yours. I love you, Douglas Coupland, I love you, man, you're my best friend, man. I've never met him, and I loved [his] first two books, Generation X and - Shampoo Planet was hysterical. Shampoo Planet was great, it had really, really great ideas and I think he stole a lot of really good ideas from his friends, too. But the third one, MAY 223^ Life After Cod, I thought ihis is getting really...I just found that his books were getting shorter and the print was getting larger, and so I wrote this - And there were pictures in that book, AAAY 30*

There we re, lots of pi clures And 1 thou;jh t it was his aim t< 3 be taken (i s o s . A lot of comedy, or comedic, writers, and 1 thir, k he can be quite funny, 1 thir *k o 1o t of COme d ic writers BANDS START® 10:00 start belie jving what < slher people • say. 'Oh, you nedy, that's grec ,t, but v/he n are you going to write some thing serious .' comed y is l||liJllJ|:niHl!lil:ltim!ll.l*tllltl|l|ti!l|l|i1|.]i1:l|M,ai never taken seriously. And 1 think th as sort of a lot ofthe bands played for longer than they Why do the local Snojam shows have differ­ was like. okay, let's have a big stage diving should have, or didn't take their eguipment ent lineups? contest to try and get them off and instead off the stage right away. You've got to have When we got to the west coast there wasn't what happened was more people got on a tough guy to say at that point, okay guys, enough demand for just one big show, so we stage to join the contest. time to get off the stage. If there's nobody like split up into a bunch of small shows where No So do you have big crowds in Europe? that, some guys will just take advantage of Use For a Name would play at one show and In some places we're big and in some we're that and just fool around and chase women we'd play at another on the same date. It's a not. just like here and in Montreal. We're big and stuff rather than moving their eauipment. little tougher on the west coast - there just in Belgium and Holland, and some parts of Is being fan friendly Important to the band? aren't as many kids who go to shows here as Germany like us. A couple shows were pret­ No. we regularly beat up on our fans. on the east coast. In Montreal or Quebec City ty dead. It's hard to judge a show. It's nice Actually, we try to do our best. We usually we can play a show and 1200 people will when the crowd fits the venue. If you've got give out free stickers after the show, and show up. It's kinda weird, Pennywise and a small club and it's sold out, it's raging. It when people write us we give them stickers in NOFX can draw a crowd almost anywhere, also depends on how the kids are. One real­ the mail. It takes us a while to write back to but then there's, a lot-af in between bands like ly cool thing about Europe is that people people - we get stacks ofimaii' we have so us that can draw a crowcf ot 1200 in Montreal, have lower inhibitions. In the States, when much stuff to go through. but here it's like... well. I don't know how people come up they try to be tough guys, Ten Foot Pole play energetic punk It must have increased a lot since signing to many tickets have been solcKhere tonight whereas in Europe people really get funky. rock with sensitive lyrics that people Epitaph. To me, that's fun. when can relate to. They hit town on Oh yeah, everything's been a ibt more work/ people just hang out March 31, the tinal night ot the It's been positive, in that it medins more peo­ and don't try to be cool. SnoJam tour that teatured No Use ple are interested in the band. But it's boon'.* I It's pretty harsh in L.A. lot more work too, which is one ipf the reasdfis It's a ceer pressure thing For A Name, Ten Foot Pole, Trigger we kicked out the lead singer. He's a blill. too. When you've got Happy, Hi-Standard, Mock, and Ten player for the White Sox, so we only got jo two people slamming, it Days Late. That rainy afternoon, we play when he was off basebai which is life looks lame, but when settled into the plush surroundings of two months. Plus he was married: We were in you get like, five going, a position where we were working all fh<* then everybody jumps the Commodore Ballroom ladies' time, answering mail and doing all the ofhei in. It's the same with room with a congested Dennis things we do as a band. There's basically 2d' stage diving. We'll do a Jagged of Ten Foot Pole. We told or 30 hours of work to do a week, and toido show where no one will him we were interview virgins. He that and not get to play was just totally stage dive, and then destroying us. It just tore us apart. one person does and told us he is an interview whore. Now that you're singing the lyrics that you then everyone thinks, wrote, is playing live more emotional for you? 'oh, it's cool, the securi­ DiSCORDER: You were here in November Yeah, it's a lot better for me now. Before. I ty guards aren't beating when you played a show at a community was writing lyrics and just handing them over us up'. centre that got shut down - is that a common to the other singer. It really does make a dif­ Yeah, I think a lot of peo­ thing or is Canada just afraid of hardcore? ference. I used to just play the guitar and ple are intimidated by Dennis: I wouldn't say you're scared of hard­ jump around, but now I'm talking to people. security guards. core. The reason that show got shut down It's more coherent, I'm not just this secret The attitude of the secu­ was because it was ill-organised. There were songwriter who hands it over to someone else rity guards makes a huge who sings and does all the crowd control. about six bands playing and we got added difference. In some What did you guys do before Ten Foot Pole? on at the last minute. Since they didn't run a places, like the Spectrum tight ship, and there wasn't a stage manager. Steve Von Treetrunk likes to call himself a fibre maintenance engineer - he in Montreal, the security owned his own carpet clean­ guards have been pret­ ing business. We call him a rug ty cool. A lot of people sucker, but he likes fibre main­ will be crowd surfing and It's T-8hirt Time Again! tenance engineer. Tony getting dumped down worked with rocket scientists into the guards, ana Actually, he delivered the mail they actually take pride to rocket scientists. For a sec­ in protecting people. It's ond you thought he was a real different in Europe brilliant guy. eh? I was a sound because people will engineer. I'm actually a City of take turns stage diving. Thousand Oaks employee in People get the guards' the stage and theatre depart­ attention and then the ment. Also, I used to be a part­ security guards will be ner in two coffee houses that like, 'You. up!' It's really had punk rock bands playing cute. They have this there. We had a stage and organized system and everything. Unfortunately, punk people are like, 'Please kids don't spend a whole lot of let me up!' and the money on coffee, and people Are there any Scared Straight songs in the set guards will be like, 'Okay your turn!'. Eight who do spend a lot of money tonight? years ago, they didn't see that stuff that on fancy coffee don't like I don't know how many we're going to often. They'd see it and go apeshit - 'Oh hanging out with punk kids! So play tonight. Since we're opening for No my God, It's anarchy!'. They'd freak out. you can see why that project Use For a Name we have to play a short Nowadays it's like, 'Oh, it's a punk show.' was doomed from the start. I set. It's hard to pick which songs to play. Not even just punk, people are doing it at U YES I aw a pathetic little also work on a television show People mostly have Rev, so we play most Rod Stewart. And that was one of the cool So send me a CiTR t-shirti called Punk Uprisings. I'm going of the songs off Rev or the songs off our split things about punk, that egalitarian break­ to start a new segment on the CD with Satanic Surfers. ing down of the distinction between being show called 'Punk Bloopers'. If Is playing a short set a drawback to touring an audience member or part of the band. I 1 anyone has video tapes of with so many bands? When is Ten Foot Pole going to come out with NOT AVAILABLE IN ALL SIZES • PHONE 822-3017 (art. ©)-. their band screwing up, please It's a drawback because you don't get to a new album? send them to Punk Uprisings at play a lot of your songs that people want you We've been touring for five months, but • (a L) • (• XL) • (a XXL)- 2470 Stern Street. No. 237 Simi play, but it's nice because it's not as much we'll be home soon and writing the new Q Kelly Green Q Forest Green Q Grey Valley California 93063. It's a work. I can jump around and get just as album. We have a lot of ideas, it's kind of good way to get your band • Navy Blue • Black Q Red exhausted, but condense it into 45 minutes half written. We just need to go through it, seen sporadically across the instead of an hour. On a headlining show. I hammer it out and make these ideas into • Aspen • White Q Yellow, States and internationally. have to pace myself. If I get too crazy early on songs. It should be out in September or What about Canada? in the set, I'll faint later, depending on how hot October. I have no idea what we're going Name We're trying to get the show on it is on the stage and stuff like that. In Montreal, to call it yet. Address in Canada, but it's difficult we took a break and had a stage diving con­ Dennis wanted us to tell you to you to City because of the Canadian Content (regulations). We get test. If I need a break, we'll give away a free write them for info and stickers. Send a video tapes from all over the skateboard to whoever does the best dive. S.A.S.E. to: Ten Foot Pole, P.O. Box 3237, world and it's hard to make a Don't you get those guys who are so happy Simi Valley, CA, 93093. certain percentage of it to be on stage that they just won't get off? Canadian. Different things happen. Sometimes we'll get Picture by Suki Smith a big crowd on stage. In Belgium, there was a big crowd and we couldn't get them off. I Interview by Suki Smith & Kellie Ku

/0,MAY.1996 v For over ten years The {J • J. Bilan/writer LeI n Whistler/photo Wedding Present Kave functioned as on lyrics only to find that it doesn't suit the and featured several local female musicians music properly whereas now we're able to let singing back up. Jayne's role in the band one 0/ England's best kept secrets. the chords inspire the words." quickly escalated to what Gedge likened as a Indeed it would seem that singer David One point Gedge neglected to tell his "duo" and it appears this trend will continue Gedge has received more publicity for his audience at the Town Pump several weeks onto the next album. As time passes, the music marketing abilities than his songwriting skills, ago was the fact that he and his fellow band continues to stand on its own, with the group but then both avenues bear testament to his mates had just traveled over 26 hours straight shying away from the competition that seems creative genius. Teetering on the brink of com­ from North Dakota to make it in time for their to plague the majority of British bands. mercial popularity has not affected his ability Vancouver performance. If they were worn out Indeed, the friendly, confident air Gegde to influence the administrators at his record from the trip the band certainly didn't let it exudes seems far beyond the pettiness of the company, with his latest triumph being the per­ show as they performed a high energy set whole British ordeal. "It is very competitive in suasion of Cooking Vinyl records to buy and pleasing the crowded room full of admirers. "I Britain," he admits, "It's a big game, like foot­ offer the Austin mini that inspired the cover of wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it," he says, "I ball or something. I've never felt that music the new album as a prize in a local raffle. feel very inspired to do this and at the moment should be about competing, I don't care who's Along with this clear understanding of the if I don't get inspired I'll probably have to group is bigger. It's personal taste really, principles of promotion comes the ability to stop." you're either going to like it or you're not write catchy songs for anyone who's ever Stopping, however, is not anywhere in going to like it. At the end of the day I'd prob­ been confused and heartbroken. "I just make Gedge's immediate vision. With the current ably be doing this either way, I mean writing things up, really," Gedge explains, "I imagine line up including Jayne Lockey on bass, Simon songs and making records, because I enjoy myself in certain positions and think: what Smith on drums, and Darren Belk on guitar, doing it. It's |ustf)o#ering that people enjoy would happen, or what I would think if that Gedge is more confident than ever in the listening tasti," happened to me, or what if I was doing this to band's ability. When asked about the effect of As the days go by more Ond more listeners someone? I'm really interested in the way peo­ a female presence in the band, he gladly ate being turned on to the Wedding Present's ple speak to each other, in what they say and admits that the band is "more human" than unique musicol offering. Soon tHe secret will why they say it. I'm nosy, so I observe a lot of before. "It's great, I mean I wish we had done not be so well kept, but one thing does mHWfl things that happen and just write them in my it years ago to be honest. It seems that some­ certain: if the £wwt is any indication of wfeirY little book, and then regurgitate it into fantastic times men don't socially interact; it's kind of to come, the Wedding Present's musical WfOft pop songs I'm a charlatan really; in odd really, having all men in the group for all will remain a true one • essence I just use every one else's lyrics." these years. It's much more like real life now, From the early days of blinding guitar riffs we talk to one another. And also she's a really and William Shatner tribute numbers, to the good singer as well, cause I've got quite a moody and brooding Sea Monsters up to the deep voice, sort of like this massive growl, present motoring inspired Mini, the Wedding and she's got this beautiful voice, and it goes Present sound has remained consistent only in together quite well. At the moment I'd like to that it is always entertaining. "These days, the do every song with her." music tends to be written first," Gedge admits, Certainly the addition of Jayne to the band "and then I spend ages on lyrics until it all has shifted the musical focus in a new direc­ finally comes together properly. It's just a mat­ tion. The shift began with the band's previous ter of practicality really. You can spend ages album, Watusi, which was recorded in Seattle

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// ~mg«m>m Hashing out three-minute caoescarchers is hath their pleasure and speciakg. formed {from tusa-thiras at the wiu defunct Leather Uppers (R.LR), the Stinkier, sound mare chicken, fa&s feathers, they ride a u>ide rode shack' \tMoe tahich echoes the spirit aftlnk blray and The O&nfures, tahtle tipping their hat to tha recent cultural phe- \namenan knaun as /990s classic rack Anditith this 'groinafgrind, theg are headed far the top ofthe rackpife. •fief ready, Vancouver, because the Stinkies are on their usagt Prior to their departure on their first cross-Canada tout; OiS£GRD£R's runaway chicken, Sean Raggett, spake oiith head Stinkie, CJassy Craig Daniels in Toronto,iSM i

DtSCOROLR. Dho are the Btinkiee? Dell, there osere some mistakes, and certain people in the hand garage-y music. Things osere starting to happen. Craig: Classy Craig Daniels (guitar), Sernie Pleskatch (bass) thought it asas a farce that people actually thought ose osere good. Dhat klndofoan do the Btinkiee tour In? and Niki Pollard (drama). Lie had reached a plateau after the album (0r% Don't Soy f/i...) De 've got a neat van I haven V even seen yet, an "88. Sadly, our bid the 8tlnklee eoer think ae children that they mould came out, and some people osere happy osith it, but some people fast vehicle asas recently laid to rest, The Child of God'. Before ose he reck 'n' re/fere? aseren V. fi lot of it had to osith the impatience that happens ashen a drove it, ose alt had to be/ieoe it asould asork. It asas an old, gener­ I think our course asas set pretty earfy, although I remember; in first album comes out. De. had hit on a formula and people told us ic shit box from the 70s. grade nine, thinking rockers osere losers. The asord 'rocker'das syn­ ate osere the best rock n' roll band ever; and ose didn V see it. De Dhat le the Btinkiee' favourite thiny about lioiny in onymous osith loser', (tie Just never realised ashat fun it asas. So should have taken a break Like the Trashosomen, they took a really Canada, and about being Canadian? yeah, I'd say our course asas set. I alasays kneos. long break and they came back fresh. The Leather Uppers should The Upper Canada Sreosing Company. Dhat mere the Stinkies' favourite memories ae chil­ have done that. Dha ie your Canadian hero? dren? I u>as nig on Underdog. I asatched it tosice a day. fhe flintstones, and a shoos called Aatfint, done by the people asha did (dings of Steel. The main character Q "We know we're gonna rock everybody's ass oft"j asas a hat. In fact, if anyone has old videos of Baffin!, I'd love to osatch them. Beet part of your favourite era? Dhere did the Leather Uppers find their eutrayeoue / asould have to say my Dad. Dhy? Dell, it's a little knoosn The truthful nature and excesses ofthe songs ofthe 70s. (Starts etaye ceetumee? fact that he used to asork for Latons as a model. It asas in the singing) "Summer feeling rolls into my mind..." I listen to the Used clothes are a big business in Toronto, like in Kensington 'SOs, and there osas no such thing as agents. He asorked for oldies station. It's like a riff machine I pull from. Market. Greg asorked at a clothes osarehouse, a raghouse, osith a lot the store and osas featured on the back page of old Toronto Have the Stinkies eoer played a high-school dance? of 'bOs vintage clothes. There osere giant bundles of clothes, a Star ads. He's just a guy. He really shoosed, "no matter ashat No. haystack of material, threads, and clothes, and odd pieces of art. happens, keep on truckin "... " Craig, you mere part of the thiny called the Leather Niki just finished osarking there. Been any yood movies lately? Uppers. Oihat happened? Borne people eay you had Rny hope of a Leather Upper e reunion tour? Recent movie? I just saos Llottfe Rocket and I'll have to admit I the host thiny yoiny, eoer. Dhy did the Leather Hope is completely smothered. Not even an inkling. liked it a lot. Sut vintage? I'd have to got osith (Russ Meyer's) Uppers Site the duet? Dhat cltiee haoe the Btinkiee played, and mhere mould faster Pas&ycaH the Btinkiee like to play? Horn did the Btinkiee land a epot on the recent Bu-Ge- Chicago, Detroit, finn firbor Hamilton, around Ontario Go compilation (On Guard for Thee)? firet ehom? fictually, it asas done an a ashim. I osas feeling sorry for myself, DON'TWASTEYOUR BULLETS! Haflooseen 1991. That shoos osas significant because Toronto asas and I asas asondering, Dho is this Lance Rock guy?'. I thought, 'He ushering in a neos era... There osere bands happening like the probably doesn V knoas asho I am,' so I mailed him a letter, and he Knuckledusters, the Heatseekers, the Shuttlecocks...a bunch of phoned me back, all excited. So it goes to shoos you that if you make the effort... De are really happy to be on it. My favourite tracks, the highlights, are the Don Zippers, cub, the Parades, and the Tonics, find the Huevos Rancheros track is quite goad too. Dhen doee the Sympathy for the Record Induetry record come out? The 7" is out noas. The CD is out earfy dune. The hype osi/l be over soon. Dho ie Nardmaar™, and mhy ehould people care about him? He is my second Canadian hero. I care about him. He is a rock historian doing valid research all the time. He is invaluable, both GARBAGE TRICKY BLUR illuminating and preserving the value of Canadian rock. (dhat ehould me knom about Toronto that me don V OASIS MASSIVE ATTACK already knom? SMASHING PUMPKINS MEMS Dell, there aren If tons of cool 'old man' bars. 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http://www.matador.recs.cow FOR THOSE OF YOU LEFT OUT THERE WKO ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT WRITING FOR THIS MAGA­ I HAD ACTUALLY HEARD THEM PERFORM LIVE AT THE UNDER THE VOLCANO FESTIVAL A COUPLE OF ZINE REQUIRES EITHER A MODICUM OF INTELLIGENCE OR MUSICAL ACUMEN, ALLOW ME TO RELATE YEARS EARLIER. AND SO IT WAS A BIT OF A SHOCK - HENCE "SURPRISE DELIGHT" - TO DROP THE A TYPICAL TALE TERMINAL UNHIPNESS. TWO YEARS AGO, GIVE OR TAKE, I STARTED VOLUNTEER­ NEEDLE ON "KANSAS" AND BE ASSAULTED BY A SAVAGE BARRAGE OF SPEEDMETAL RIFFAGE. I DID­ ING MY SERVICES FOR THIS ESTEEMED PUBLICATION AND DECIDED THAT I SHOULD ACQUIRE A N'T REMEMBER THE BAND BEING A SPEEDMETAL OUTFIT, BUT HEY, IT WORKED FOR ME. IT WORKED PASSING FAMILIARITY WITH THE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE. AT THE VERY LEAST I WANTED TO BE ABLE SO WELL, IN FACT, THAT IT WAS A GOOD MONTH BEFORE I REALIZED THAT THE SONG HAD BEEN TO SMILE KNOWINGLY WHEN NAMES WERE DROPPED, TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THE TRUE HIPSTERS OF RECORDED AT IB1/!.. THIS TOWN A LOOK THAT SAID I KNEW EXACTLY WHO THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT - AND A WHOLE SPARKMARKER IS KIM (VOCALS 8 GUITAR), ROB (DRUMS), JASON (BASS) AND JORDAN (GUI­ LOT MORE. HAVING OPINIONS ON SUBJECTS I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HAS NEVER BEEN A PROBLEM, TAR), FOUR STYUN' HARDCORE BOYS WHO HAVE MADE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES AS MUCH FOR THE TRICK IS KNOWING WHICH SUBJECTS ARE WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION. THEIR POLITICS - OR AT LEAST PEOPLE'S (MIS)PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THEIR POLITICS - AS THEY HAVE SO, WITH THIS DUBIOUS OBJECTIVE IN MIND I TROTTED OFF TO SCRATCH RECORDS TO STOCK UP FOR THEIR MUSIC. OFTEN HERALDED AS THE CHAMPIONS OF THE DO-IHRSELF ALL-AGES SCENE, ON 7"S - THE ONLY FORMAT FOR REALLY COOL PEOPLE - AND CAME OUT SOMETIME LATER WITH THE BAND HAS RECENTLY STARTED PLAYING BAR SHOWS AND ARE SET TO RELEASE A SEVEN INCH ON A POT POURRI OF VINYL FRIGHTS AND DELIGHTS. I WON'T MENTION THE FRIGHTS, BUT ONE OF THE SUB POP RECORDS - JUST A PERCENTAGE POINT AWAY FROM MAJOR LABELDOM. SURPRISE DEUGHTS WAS THE THREE-SONG ATQMOS 7" BY LOCAL HEROES SPARKMARKER. NOW, MEETING WITH THE BAND ON A WET AND WINDY SPRING EVENING, DiSCORDER SET OUT TO GET THEl ROCK PHILISTINE I MAY HAVE BEEN, BUT EVEN I HAD HEARD OF THESE HIGHLY PRAISED INSDE SCOOP ON THE EVOLUTION OF THIS VENERABLE PUNK INSTITUTION (HEY, SIX YEARS IS A LIFE­ KINGS OF ALL-AGES, DIY HARDCORE BRILLIANCE. NOT ONLY HAD I HEARD OF THEM, IN FACT, BUT TIME WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG AND JADED), AND TO FIND OUT WHERE THEY PUN TO TAKE IT FROM HERE.

DiSCORDER: I'm going to start with a really boring band history question, just about the changes in the lineup and stuff like that. INTERVIEW Explain the changes in the lineup - intro­ duce yourselves. BY DYLAN I Jordan: I've been in Sparkmarker for about a year-and-a-half, almost two years. And I GRIFFITH kind of replaced Ryan, but I don't sing. But SPARKMARKER I took his place, so to speak. Did you entertain the idea of getting a new with, and blahblahblahblah.... We're just doing what we do Kim: It's kind of a weird experience of like - to mosh, or not to singer when Ryan left or did you, Kim, just sort of step into it? and some people want to, maybe, put some glamour around mosh. And there's nothing in between, there's no alterna­ Kim: Well, we entertained the idea of Sparkmarker being no it and make it seem like it's so special. There are a lot of people tive. I think (what) we're talking about creating was maybe longer, that that might be it. Even when Jordan became part who aren't getting recognition who are doing better things an alternative to this extreme violent moshing carelessness of the band it was in question about whether we were going than what we're doing. But, you know, the longer you've been for everybody's sake. We can respect each other, but still to maintain being Sparkmarker, whether we were going to around doing things, the more people are like, "OK, well we have fun. And I think it's still possible. play any old songs... It was nothing defined, it was like, let's could do an interview with Sparkmarker and then mention that How have people reacted to the fact that you're now playing just make music, and then we'll go (and) decide that later. they're doing this and then tie these things together.' And it's bar shows, and doing a single with Sub Pop, which is an We played a show without really, really deciding, even. nice, but there are limitations to it. People might think we're a almost-major label? Do people hold you to what you've said in Jordan: And we wanted to change the name, too. super-serious band, and (think) we're like Fugazi or something, the past, that you'd never play bar shows? Like, 'Sparkmarker To what, anything in particular? but it's like - no, not really. I don't think that's the reality of who - they're selling out, they've lied to us." Have people said any­ Kim: Dylan's Best Friend - but didn't ring that well, so... Sparkmarker are at all. lhat's just how someone else wants to thing to you about that at all, do people care? While we're on the subject of band history... (reaches into present us. That's going to happen - even in this interview, Rob: Not yet. No. I think a lot of the crowd that has been fol­ bag) you're going to present the way you see Sparkmarker, how lowing us for a few years now are old enough to get into the Kim: Do you have an incriminating photo? you want to present Sparkmarker. That's fine. bars, so... (laughing) But, no. I was afraid of that at first, kind I have a very incriminating photo, (shows photo) Rob: I think the topics are serious, but people just take it way of just having people say, 'Well, you guys would never play Kim: That girl's not even in the band, Our other guitar player too overboard sometimes, where it seems like people aren't bar shows and now you are', and, you know...I don't think it didn't make it to the photo shoot - he just didn't phone even having fun at our shows. (It's like) they're afraid to have really should - not that it doesn't matter, but -1 felt like -1 did­ back. So, like, there had to be a fifth member, and they're a good time or jump around or get into the songs or what­ n't want to feel that we were dissing people because we really small photos. But everyone's got long hair. ever because it's like, 'Well, they're playing, so we have to started playing a bar show or whatever. But so far there has­ You've sort of got a Milla Jovavich thing going there. pay attention and not move or anything.' I hate that 'we're n't been any backlash to it or anything. Kim: Who's Milla Jovavich? so serious' kind of crap, because it's not true. We're fun guys! She was in Dazed and Confused. And no one ever mentions your secret metal past in any inter­ Kim: But, hey, I'm smiling. Nobody else is. Everyone else is views. There it is, there (pointing at photo), and there (pointing at going (makes grimacing noise). I can't remember what her the rres stylee KISS patch on Rob's jacket). I didn't go to the name is. I went snowboarding with her a tonne of times, and Starfish Room show, but I did go to the Pit Pub show and it was like she was just in the neighbourhood, and I was like, come on, that: no one was moshing or dancing. And people said that at let's do the photo, we have to have a fifth person, and it the Starfish Room show everyone was just sort of standing there, was cool, 'cause no one wanted to be the middle person, watching the band play. READ ON... so she ended up there. And everyone was, like, 'Who is that?' That's awesome, I want a copy of that. That was your first DiSCORDER cover, too. I HATE THAT 'WERE SO SERIOUS KIND OF CRAP, BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE. WE RE FUN GUYSFROB Kim: We hadn't been around that long, even. Rob: That was when we were cool and had long hair. I think that interview was nine months into the band. Kim: And look how long it took to be on the cover of DISCORDER again. See, that's...Don't ever be on the cover like that, because it'll take another five years before they'll ever give you an opportunity to be in DiSCORDER again. You had to get haircuts before you were allowed to be MORE back on the cover. So, I wanted to bring out this picture because I wanted to start with a sorta jokey thing. Every other article I read about you always starts off with this seri­ ous, ponderous tone, like, "Sparkmarker, DIY, R-E-S-P-E-C- T". Lots of spelling and it's always realty grave and serious. ON NEXT Do you think people take you too seriousty, as far as the way you're presented in articles and interviews? Kim: I think people want to take somebody seriously, and if there's a band out there that has some issues that they deal

ts i^gsx^m together, 'cause we wanted to put a con­ have been a bit more diversity. This ONT NUED FROM PREVIOUS PAG dom and an information sheet in it. So we one I think you're either going to As far as doing bar shows and the evolu­ went down there and helped them put it really like it, maybe, or really hate tion of the band and the way you're pro­ together and insert all the goodies inside. it. And I think that also reflects the gressing now, is it something you came to So they were pretty open as far as letting fact that we recorded it not even out of frustration, like, you reached a point you pretty much do whatever you wanted being together for a year as this where you knew you you couldn't go any with rt. line-up, so we were a bit more like, further? 'Cause there was an interview Jordan: Yeah, but when it came to going 'Hey, let's really focus and get a where Kim said, "We've done everything over cost we had to put our own time into new record out,' and pressured we can. If someone wants to pay my god­ it and our own resources. Which was fine. ourselves into doing what we knew damn Visa bill, go ahead, because I'm And what about the new album? It's how to do well. I think only now we broke and I can't put any more records already been recorded? are maybe actually stretching out." Was it out of that frustration or was it Jordan: Yeah, it's all been recorded. those boundaries a bit again, something that you conceived of, in terms How long ago? which is what I liked about of not being able to stay at the level that Jordan: Last summer, in July. Something Products & Accessories, that there you were at forever? like that. We're going to remix it before it were various things in there and it gets released. did fuck around a bit. I love these Have you found a home for it yet? A little songs tremendously, but someone birdie in Montreal said Crisis Records... else might not. Jordan: Close. Do you feel, as a band, that you Kim: Wow, birdies talk a lot. can do whatever you want musi­ Is there any truth to that? cally, or do you feel that you Jordan: It's a well-informed birdie, but who should maintain a certain sound? knows, you know, anything can happen. Do you work within certain para­ We've talked to a lot of people. Nothing's meters when you're writing and solid, nothing's signed, so...whatever. recording, or do you sort of just do Was Sub Pop at all interested in putting out whatever you want to do? an album? Jordan: I don't think we really think Jordan: We talked with them and nothing about it that much as far as trying really came about. They talked to us, we to get a song together. I think we talked to one of their people - who is actu­ just fuck around and look for what- "• ally a friend of ours - and we gave them a ever sounds good - if it's a cool riff list of things that we would like to have had that we can work around. I don't think we being realty serious about you in the contract. It got sent back to them, really look at it that seriously, like, trying to again, but... You are a band that but talks sort of broke down and we write a song that sounds a little bit more stands up and you have things haven't really heard anything since. I think like this band. to say and things that you put not because our list of demands or any­ Kim: I don't think we're conscious of it hav­ forth. Is it pretty democratic as thing, but because there's just a lot of shuf­ ing to sound specifically like this, but I think far as what you choose to do fling of positions going on there right now you could pretty much put certain things and how you represent your­ and it sort of got pushed to the backburn- down - it's going to be loud and it's going selves as a band? er. So instead of just sitting around waiting to be heavy-ish sounding and there's Jordan: I guess it's democratic as far as for it we decided to talk to other people. going to be an edge, so to speak. Ryan, stuff that we actually release, but, as a Rob: It could have been the salaries and at some point, felt that he couldn't really whole, you know, we're four different the bus... express the views or the musical tastes that people and we all have different beliefs and we're into different things, all of us. But Kim: We never conceived it. (It was more (Laughter) he wanted to put in the band - it'd gotten Isn't it weird shopping around a record that to a point that we were so far in one direc­ as a band we usually consult each other like), 'We'll do this for as long as we can, and make sure everyone agrees on it. As until it gets unmanageable, until it's at the you recorded that long ago? tion that it was hard for us to incorporate Jason: I'm kind of used to it. Anything other influences that he might have had far as political issues, I think we all have dif­ point that.,.' So yeah, out of frustration, ferent views and...I don't know, we're a going, like, 'OK, let's give it a couple more we've ever recorded has taken a long and felt that he wanted to explore. It is a time to put out, so it's no big deal to me. I bit limiting. If we were all of a sudden to do band, but we're still different people and months. If things don't change, maybe we we can't really all agree on one idea. can think about booking (bar shows).,.' I mean, it's kind of frustrating but I expect a lo-fi, Sebadoh song it would really sound any record, once it's recorded, to take out of character for what we're doing oth­ Do you, Kim, feel like you have some sort think...I'm definitely a big critic, I'm one of of monopoly in that you're the singer, those people who wouldn't go out and about a year to come out. I don't know, erwise. So in that respect, yeah, but I don't it's just what I've been accustomed to. think we have this formula for how our you're the spokesperson, and I'm guess­ criticise any other band for playing a bar ing that you write most of the lyrics or all of show, but just by watching it, I'd be, like, Rob: We've always been about two years songs have to be. And if we get stuck in behind ourselves. We can never progress that I think we'd try to fuck that and go, the lyrics yourself. wow, that kind of sucks. I think that the fact Kim: Definitely. that we started playing bar shows, without and have something out right after it's let's write a song that won't get played on having to really talk about it, is a statement recorded and then start working on new the radio, you know, as much as we can, So do you try to represent the rest in itself, that there comes a point where material. It's always like - record, year-and- as fucked and noisy... of the band's views, or do you sort some people might have to compromise. a-half later it gets released, start working I'd like to talk now about the dynamic of the of take it as - you're the individual You don't have to, but that's where we're on new songs. band - not so much in terms of writing the singing and ifs your song, your at. So people may not be talking about How does the new material compare to songs and stuff, but the way you represent lyrics, so therefore you're going to the fact, 'Oh, you guys play bar shows and the stuff thafs on Products & Accessories! yourselves and the ideas and the values put in what you want? that sucks', but they probably know it Is it pretty similar in sound or is it radically you stand for. I don't want to get into this sucks, they probably know that we're not different - the new lounge Sparkmarker? happy. And it's like - is it a contradiction in Jason: Personally, I think it's a little bit more terms? In some ways, but at the same time focused. I love the Products & Accessories I don't think we ever said that...uhh...we album and everything, but the songs just were trying to say if you don't have to, you seem to be super choppy and just kind of don't have to. And it's come to a point, I all over the place at times. The new songs, think, where we believe we have to, I think, have way more flow to them and because no one's paying our Visa bills, they seem more like real songs to me. That you know what I mean? might sound weird, but I think that as this Let's talk about the Sub Pop single - ifs line-up right here we've got a good blend coming out in a few weeks? together where we can write songs and all Jordan: May 7th. go, 'Yeah, that sounds cool', instead of How many songs? before (where) it was one person who had Jordan: Two. an idea and another person had another And what was it like working with Sub Pop idea. I think it was a little mixed up before, - did you just give them the songs and in a way. I still love the songs, but... The they took care of the rest? new ones seem to be cooler to me now. Jordan: Almost that, I guess - we had to go Kim: I think someone could criticise it and down there 'cause we kind of went over say that it all sounds way toO similar, cost on the production of putting it all whereas on the last record there might

tS MAY 1996 H Kim: Very good question, and it's very most of the interviews and sings the songs Anyone else you'd like to send shouts out Rob: It was weird, too, playing that show at I true, in the sense that it's not like... Here I and stuff, it's 'cause he feels more com­ to, so to speak? the Starfish. Originally it was, like, well let's am, the most talkative person in the fortable with it and he likes voicing his Kim: There are a lot of good bands in play with bands we really like and are world probably, and people offer me the opinions more than any of the rest of us. Vancouver, you know, but sometimes I friends with, you know? And I thought it microphone and I take it, and the first He's the one with the biggest ego is what think people try to think everything sucks in would cooler, like, everyone hanging out thing I think about is what's on my mind. you're saying. Vancouver, There are a really a lot of great at the show together and everything, but it Being a very open person about a lot of (Laughter) Exactly. people in Vancouver, but somehow we just didn't turn out to be like that at all, which different issues, and having the micro­ This sort of leads into the No Glove No Love get separated into our own little cliques. kind of bummed me out. It was just a show. phone there, that's something that... It's tour that you're doing with Puncture, in a There's a little Sparkmarker world, and then It wasn't really fun. Personally I liked all the always been a problem from day one of very sort of roundabout way. maybe a Superconductor world... bands, I thought they were great and Sparkmarker of having an identity and Kim: Please don't label it like that. How was it playing with Superconductor - everything, but it wasn't like a fun show like my voice being already known, existing Thafs what the press release says. they haven't realty been doing very much I thought it would be. Especially with us before the band, and it continues forth. I Kim: When you're trying to appeal to the lately, have they? picking the bands that we wanted to play would love it if any of these three guys masses, it's amazing what you have to Kim: That was their first show in a year. I with and then it ended up being each said, 'Shut up' and punched me and come up with. don't know, it was just playing with band in their own corner kind of thing. It took the microphone and said, 'This is Those kids in Cranbrook need the catchy Superconductor. was just kind of a weird situation, I thought, what I want to talk about'. And I hope I name. OK, I won't call it that, I promise. Do Rob: It's not like we hung out with them. Anything happening with Final Notice, by make it feel comfortable that everyone you have another name, an alternate They played, they left after they finished the way? else can have a microphone and take it, name? Sparkmarker-Puncture tour? playing, you know, that kind of thing. There Kim: To tell you the truth, honestly, I really 'cause when Ryan was the singer, damn Kim: Just AIDS awareness tour. HIV/AIDS are a few guys (who) are really cool that want to sell off everything we have of it, I still took the microphone away from awareness. Whatever. You know, it could we know and actually like Sparkmarker Sparkmarker's and get rid of all the him and said, 'Here's my opinion'. I really be awareness of anything, that just hap­ and have our music and whatever. records I have on Final Notice so that I can hope that everybody in this band feels pens to be the thing. Maybe a bit more They're a pretty cool band, they're inter­ completely just not even attempt to say I'll comfortable that, if they have an opinion than just a show. esting. It was fun playing with them. do anything more with it and fail every­ that they want to express, that they can Have you done some shows for rt already? Kim: We didn't get down with every single body. I can't do anything I want to do with do it. But, I'm not going to speak for any- Kim: Yep. member of Superconductor and chat and that label -1 just don't have time. I thought have a big pow-wow session and all. It was... I could actually do it, but you can't do two Just a show. things at the same time and do a day job. Kim: We know a couple of the members Maybe one day, if I was a millionaire and I and that's all it really takes. It's not like we had free time and I didn't need to work a have to know everybody in the band. It's 9 to 5 job and I had money to burn and like when we did that Mystery Machine 7- time to spend on doing it, I would love to inch -1 mean, to this day, I've never really do it. I really love doing it, but physically I sat down and hung out with anybody in can't do that right now, so there's no Mystery Machine. sense. There's a record of the band Kittens that should have been be out two years AKIVMAIIII ago and I'm trying to see if I can have it out for when they play Music West next week. And they don't even know that. body unless they want to themselves. And how did they go? Did We've just kind of stopped talking to each Jason: I think the way it works, mostly, in you have information tables other. I think I'm just going to give them all this band is like Jordan said, everyone has set up or anything like that? the records, or a bunch of them, and just different ideals and different ways of look­ Kim: It's nothing more than go, 'Take 'em, 'cause I fucked you around ing at things. It's just that some people, going to YouthCO AIDS soci­ so much'. So...so much for that. certain people, are more outspoken ety and asking for condoms Finally, Rob, is there any connection about it than others and feel comfortable and lube and information so between the length of time that Products & about saying theirs. I mean, I'm a quiet, we can present it when we Accessories was #1 on the Sam's indie private person and whatever I believe is, sell our records and T-shirts. It's chart and your employment at Sam's? like, I don't vent it through the band. But not like a teaching thing, it's (laughter) Kim likes to and I've never really disagreed not like teaching AIDS 101. It's Jason: Yeah, I placed it there. Every month that much with anything he's ever said. I another way to get a con­ in fact. 'This band sold 20 more copies like to play the bass, that's why I'm in this dom, basically, because it's than we did, but oh well, who cares?' No, band and I just, you know, play music. If an issue that's always it actually sold really well there for some anything - if he ever went overboard or dragged up in schools, not reason. It sold incredibly well at that one over the top to a point where someone having condoms accessible store and it's pretty amazing that...I think disagreed, I'm sure something would get to youth, and it's one way of cub actually still sold more records than done about it. That's the reason Kim does making them accessible. we did, but...It was pretty cool. Do you think Vancouver's pretty bad in that sense, as far as, like you were saying, Sparkmarker's new 7" will be available on clique-y-ness and the way there are dif­ May 7th, on Sub Pop Records. Look for ferent scenes that are - given that ifs not their new full-length album sometime in that big a town, there seems to be a fair bit the late summer or early fall. of separation going on. Rob: I think a lot of people at shows don't Kim: I think there's a lot of separation, a lot Write to Sparkmarker c/o like to be preached at, and a lot of kids are of cliques. Final Notice Records embarrassed to go out and buy condoms, But now everyone's getting sucked up by P.O. Box 1457 Bentall Centre' so when it's presented to them at a show Mint, so... Vancouver, B.C., where they can look at records and there Kim: Yeah. (Laughs) I think the point is that V6C 2P7 are condoms just laying out on a table with there (aren't many) differences, there are information they won't be as embarrassed just cliques. It's very easy to get comfort­ to pick one up and read about HIV or able in Vancouver in your own little world. whatever. It makes it a little bit more of a It's kind of weird that we don't do more comfortable situation for a person. things with other bands and that people Kim: We'd like to thank Puncture for play­ think we're in our own little world. I think May 18- Nelson ing with us at those shows. It's not just us... what needs to be done, even on our part, You're playing with local bands in the is to actually try to get together more pro­ July 12-Vancouver areas, too, that you're going to, aren't you? ductive ways to do shows together. And July 25 - Salmon Arm Kim: Yeah. Meegan from Puncture is not just through the clubs, where the pro­ amazing at keeping that together. We just moter goes, 'It'd be good if we had you Juiy 26 - Vernon said that we'd like to do (the tour) and she and this band play together', but where July 27 - Kelowna said (she'd) do all the groundwork for it the bands actually say, 'Let's play togeth­ and set it up. So it wouldn't even be possi­ er and do this show together without, July 28 - Kamloops ble without her. They're really great peo­ maybe, the promoters, maybe do some August 23 - Saltspring Island ple. We like Puncture. all-ages shows together.' August 24- Nanaimo

t? Ef^SEga something to be proud of. fully enough and is therefore considered by some 35_J Og #.'! focuses mainly on the distances that to be a 'sell-out' or 'traitor'. He also examines the n,...nJu exist between people, starting with the segrega­ role his father played in making him a woman­ ••• aedmli tion of people in everyday life. Jo responds to this izer and realizes that the first step towards chang­ between i density urliforr phenomenon with guilt, confusion, and disappoint­ ing and having healthy relationships with women ment, emotions which also emerge in her writing is admitting that his father has influenced him. on her epileptic sister. Epilepsy and other disabili­ People like Razzle amaze me with their zines ties are rarely written about in zines, which is un­ and projects. It gives me hope and inspiration fortunate. I know my perspective on epilepsy has when I see that other people are questioning what I ^yandreg & amber dawnJ changed after reading Jo's zine. society has taught them to believe. Awesome zines lines Og# / ends with a letter to a friend exalting like this don't come around very often, so send a friendship, support, and communication - sort of buck or two to What Little Boys are Made of. c/ relief after sharing in all the author's frustration. o Christina, 249-1027 Davie St, Vancouver, BC, VER THE PAST MONTHS I'VE NOTICED you who may be unfamiliar with riot grrrl, it is a Send orders to Jo Banthatrax, PO Box 62023, V6E 4L2. O that the ratio of American zines to Cana­ non-profit organization that distributes girls' and Arbutus Postal Outlet, Vancouver, BC, V6J 1Z1. dian zines reviewed in this column is about three women's zines of a personal or political nature. to one. The reason for this may be that there are Send a flat zine (one without staples and ready to HeartattaCk #9 simply more American zinesters out there, but it be copied) to riot grrrl, PO Box 33, 345 E. Broad­ (8.5 X 1 1; 64 pgs) might also have something to do with the per­ way, Vancouver, B.C., V5T 1W5, and they will For any of you who are unfamiliar with this hard­ ceived inaccessibility of the zine scene to Cana­ include your zine in the catalogue and distribute core fanzine, I guess I have a little explaining dian independent authors and artists. In case of it for you, charging only what it costs to make the to do. HeartattaCk is a politi­ the latter, there a few local stores and resources copies. [Nofe: Zulu Records, Block Sheep Book: cal zine that focuses that can help get your zine or comic into circula- (W. 4th), Magpie Mogazines (Commercial Drive) on independent DIY Vert Skateshop and probably a few other ph punk and hardcore we've forgotten also carry zines and comics of (sons barcodes). It in­ There are two record stores that I know of in various types -Ed] cludes features, letters, Vancouver that carry zines. Scratch Records, Finally, I know of three compilation zines cur­ articles, music and zine which recently moved to Cordova Street, handles rently in the works, two of which are Canadian. reviews (and lots of ads), zines and comics on a variety of topics, although See the World, Chicken is requesting contribu­ and it is a good resource most are geared towards art or music I've bought tions from anyone who is surviving or has sur­ for those who wish to many a zine there and they appear quite respon­ vived the mental health system. Write to 406- learn more about hard­ sible as far as accurate bookkeeping and such 1701 Powell St., Vancouver, B.C., V5L 1H6. If core and for bands who are concerned Be warned, though: Scratch's book you have lost a parent to sudden death, Zanna seek exposure. shelves (zine shelves) tend to be messy, and your would like to include your story and opii precious zine could end up stuck behind a copy HeartattaCk is always hon­ in the compilation she is putting together. Send of In Hell's Belly (yikes). est and controversial, and your submission to PO Box 33, 345 E. Broad­ this issue's discussion of rape Track Records on Seymour Street also has a way, Vancouver, B.C., V5T 1W5. And, lastly, is sure provoke thought. Send zine table, and a very tidy, appealing-looking zine the girls from riot grrrl press Chicago are a dollar to HeartattaCk, PO table at that. They don't, however, stock personal working on a zine about growing up poor Box 848, Goleta, CA, or poetry zines, selling instead all the music-re­ or working-class called Where I Come 93116, USA. lated zines we don't review in this column. From. The address is 2501 Lincoln Ave , If you're looking for a bit more exposure than PO Box 261, Chicago, IL. 60657 a store shelf will give you, riot grrrl Canada is Alien Girl Catalogue #2 putting together a new catalogue. For those of And for goodness' sake, send your The second Alien Girl Catalogue zines here for re­ is out Full of new t-shirts, stick­ viewing! ers, patches, and stationery de­ signed by girls for girls and fea­ Chestlick #J turing strong pro-girl messages, Multimedia! (8 5 X 6 5, 26 the catalogue is meant to serve as P9S) a fund-raiser for the Seattle Girl con­ vention happening on July 5-7. Whenever I see Send a dollar to 1215 E. Spring, $l)otoa 8rt a new girl-writ- Box 36, Seattle, WA, 98122. hope that zines are Don't an effective form of Get Too Excited, It's Poker Face tt 1 nication and action. Chel­ Uprtcs. Just a Flip Book (quarter size; 20 pgs) sea, the author of Chestlick, (5.5X4.5; 14 pgs) Anyone named Andrea has to rock, has given me plenty of hope. For those of you who can't wait for Trish Kelly's as confirmed by Andrea - natch - in her first zine, Her zine is a mixture of her $oetrp Make Out Club #6, this mini-zine is just what you Poker Face. Andrea begins by telling of how she ind outside ma­ need. Think of it as MOC #5 1/2. Trish begins, was forced to choose sides when her parents di­ terial, including a message "I'm so mad/afraid that you can't be here for me vorced, and of the anger and hatred she was sur­ about women artists by the right now" and for the rest of her zine she exam­ rounded by while growing up. She also writes MUSIC Guerrilla Girls and some ines the anger and uncertainty associated with about the effects of growing up with a physically recent rape and domestic love It may sound rather depressing, but Trish's abusive brother and of her consequent associa­ violence statistics. In her own writing is actually quite poetic and beautiful. I tion of love with pain, something that was con­ from Step and a Half Records material, Chelsea reveals doubt Trish will print many of these mini zines, so firmed in her first two relationships with boys. her involvement in an abu­ write her now at PO Box 33, 3435 E. Broadway, Polcer Face is a successful zine because, in Uneuen Steps sive relationship and her Vancouver, BC, V5T 1W5. dealing with issues such as learning to break un­ struggle to free herself from healthy patterns in relationships, the writer takes it. I really enjoyed the won­ Angel #1 the first step towards healing: talking about the derfully illustrated three- (8.5X5; 16pgs) past. Send a dollar to Andrea, PO Box 62023, Pacified page comic about verbal Angel is Gina's first zine, a short and sweet at­ Arbutus Postal Outlet, Vancouver, B.C., V6J 1 Zl harassment. Write Chelsea tempt to express her feelings about her friends Vaughn, PO Box 40701, and her life Always sentimental and sweet and CD Rom/Music CD " (land, OR, 97240-0701 genuinely wanting to reach out to other people, This irgezin send Angel is a charming debut that left me feeling extra US postage. good Send a dollar to Gina, 52-1959 Purcell, Available at North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H4. The Secret World of Og til What Little Boys Are Made Of... Scratch/Track/Zulu (5.5 X6; 34 pgs) (quarter size; 68 pgs) june 6 @ guess?look? 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5IVE STYLE Sunday May 12 The Commodore )®uuu . May 22 The Town Pump :s at Track, Scratch, Black Swan & Highlife Record Stores All Ticketmaster Outlets or Charge By Phone 280-4444 powered songs compiled by Bos­ ton's emerging Villa ViHakula la­ bel. Led Byrd, which is com­ prised of Mary Timony (Helium) and Ash Bowie (Helium, Polvo), give us a taste of their ominously EBB ambient sounds, in "Fantastic Castle", a distorted, dark, moody combination of feedback guitar, ^"ite^SRmn.-.-.tt bass, and keyboards. Kore is a sister team who create sparsely arranged, sinister tunes with a bluesy, wailing vocal style remi- Jad Fair & Phono-Comb E'LL START OFF WITH SOMETHING SURE TO BRIGHTEN niscent of PJ Harvey. DQE (either the Dairy Queen Experience or Monsters. LuDabtes ._and tho occasional flying saucer. W your day: the latest issues of Yakuza and Runt zines, the Empire, we're not sure - take your pick!) are back after their hiatus Written by Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet wtTJri Jad creators of which have joined together for a split zine and bonus from releasing new material. If the:i r songs are any indication of a and recorded by The Thrilling new combo Phono-Comb, one-sided record. Lara from Runt and her friend Mark are Nilc-L- >. are going in, they're more folk- new direction Grace Broun and co. v/hich seems To be comprised of S.Men Don & Reid. and Nip, and together they recorded "Roseville" onto their one-track oriented: strummy acoustic guitars id strong, charming singing, tape recorder. A very impressive song considering it was written on Last up is Denise Monahan, a spoken word istfrom Sommerville, Dallas of The Sadies. the spot - fun and unassuming, it made us smile. Just drums and MA. Youthful, witty and entertaining, her eight short pieci guitar and pretty boy/girl harmonies, Nik-L-Nip will satisfy any Beat times over-the-top funky, '20s music - comprise her quorter of this Happening fan. The second track is "Phone Message" by Dave from package. (Villa ViHakula, PO Box 1929, Boston, MA, 02205) Yakuza's Nana B. Literally. His issue of Yakuza focusses on the The other vinyl compilation we'd like to share with you comes world of grandparents, so instead of including a song he decided to courtesy of the folks at Cher Doll Records, who seem to have a share some of his grandmother's love with us. She gives us o run­ knack for finding new, neato bands from all over the place. On the down of the care package she pre­ seven-bond Champagne Dancing Party 7", pared for him, only the way a grand­ Beanpole play a poppy little number with parent can. (Runt, PO Box 261, Merion guitar, violin, ond double girl vocals. Sno PA, 19066/ Yakuza, PO Box 26039, Boy contribute a fuzzy mix on "Something Wilmington DE, 19899) Special", which is your typical three-chord In the new trend of Merge Records •y/Beat Happeningy guitar and signees like Neutral Milk Hotel ond drums combo with Colvi Butterglory, Alabama's Verbena play Names for Pebbles hove written the pop fuzzy feel-good pop with lovely guitar hit of this release: catchy riffs 'n' smooth, soft and vocal melodies. The songs on their boy vocals. Orange Cake Mix start off the "I Say So" b/w "Silver Queen" single B-side with their "2CU", o mellow, muddled and Everyday Shoes EP seem to be in­ song, with vocals a la John Lennon Portland's fluenced by Pavement (and all their in­ New Bad Things' "Rasputin Lover" is fluences), classic rock and the down- strange, spooky rawk done party-style (watch home twang of the South. Indie rock, country stylel (Merge Records, PO Box 1235, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514) Bis are apparently the 'next big thing' from Great Britain. They hail from Glasgow, Scotland and who knows if this'll impress you, but they first indie band ever to play on Top of the Pops The brothers Sci-Fi On Guard For Thee and John Disco are joined by Manda Rin, and together they make A Collection of Canada's Youth Cone Sad music somewhere Put together by the fine folk at Lance Rock for Australia s in the middle of Au-go-go Records. Features uiirealeased tracks by Huevos the spectrum be­ Rancheros. Punchbuggy. Cub. Smugglers. McRackins. Crash] ?. tween the Mad­ ness-influenced Sum. Chixdiggit. Evaporators. Stupes. Parkades. Pluto. The side of Blur and sttnktes. Pussy Monster. Tonics. Forbidden Dimension, and The the punky DIY Von Zippers/ Can't n

2t ii%&zmz cuse 1 7 Together with drummer rapport with the teenaged audi­ Engine, which, she tells the Lora MacFarlane, Sleater-Kinney ence. Poignant in simplicity, rich ence with school-girl eager weave a luxuriously harsh in imagery, delivered with Big 'When this [record] comes birdsong, playing almost exclu­ City spice, the performance is a sively tonight from their recent pleasure because of its honesty. Chainsaw release, Call the Doc­ Jane H. recorded last year wilh orking on this!' tor. And while their former Vitapup, and is soon releasing 5ean Raggett projects were lumped horribly her first fulHength entitled Spook amongst (he pap lhat past years' media labelled ihe 'riot grrl revo­ lution', Sleater-Kinney s realhveaction Xlfa of lyrics like "You wanna try THE SUPER FRIENDZ combination, exquisite song - he's just so damn happy to be her?/l think I wanna", and "I'm MOLLY'S REACH writing and exceptional musi­ alive and playing music al that not waiting/Till I grow up". The BACKROOM SHAG cians Guitarists Matt Murphy point in time, and this feeling is lack of playmanship criticised on Saturday, April 6 and Drew Yamada and bass transmitted to the audience He their first self-titled 10" record is The Starfish Room player Charles Austin all share rules, they oil rule, they're an nowhere tonight Sleater-Kinney A fairly big crowd was on hand the singing, which would cause excellent, excellent band - if you feel strong, composed and in con­ early enough to catch the youth­ some bands lo lack a focus for don't catch them next time they're trol. ful, enthusiastic Backroom Shag, their set, but it works well forthe m out here, your life will never be Thev .sible becaus who played garage rock in a because they're all good at it The charmingly rough-hewn fashion, band was tight, but not slickly so, Sophie Hamley outh. While experienced which would probably have lost working their way through rockin' leater-Kinney will reach thoi ifs appeol if it had been more renditions of "Come Clean" and SLEATER-KINNEY jnds because they c polished. They looked like Ben "Rescue Us From Boredom", and JANE HOHENBERGER I fo. The off­ Lee's secret cousins and played that most perfect of songs, "10 Student Hall, Yale University handed smiles which mark up a half-hour storm. lbs", as well as other tracks from New haven, Connecticut Corin's face between songs, and Edmonton's Molly's Reach are Mock Up, Scale Down. The four April 16, J 996 the finesse of Carrie's movements a tight, five-piece band who spe­ or so new songs they played Two things make Sleater-Kinney in mid-melody signal a nod to cialise in head-nodding, rumbling bode extremely well for the qual­ so vital to the contemporary un­ both aging ond experience, but rawk'n'roll. The crowd was, un­ ity of their anticipated new al­ derground: their power and their also stand ond face the years fortunately, not sufficiently appre­ bum. Their predilection for coun­ accessibility. Since never-this-year which have pushed them there in ciative of what was a pretty fine, try music came through in o lot has a rock band moved like this the first place. solid set of the sel, and most especially via Sleater-Kinney cry, skip, run, Jane Hohenberger opened, a Could the Super Friendz pos­ the guitar of Matt, who must Rood like a landslide. confident, charismatic colo artist, sibly be ony better than they al­ surely be elevated to the pon- They are powerful, because native to nearby New York City. ready are? lis hard to imagine iheon of Eternal Rock Gods (o they are true. Certainly fhe most During her set she switched anyone being more entertaining good ihing!) in honour of his al­ notable aspect of Sleater-Kinney backup musicians three times; or belter live than these three ways mesmerizing onstage an­ are its members: Corin Tucker, the they provide a rain of jazzy, Haligonians and their new-ish tics, musical and otherwise. His woman responsible for the tank- freely-formed occompanimentfor Toronlonion drummer, Lonnie Pete Townshendisms would look strong screams of Heavens to both her songs and spoken word James. The Super Friendz' sel cliche'd on anyone else, but the Betsy, and the fantastic guitar nim- pieces. She is witty, sensuous, was the beautiful result of that fine impression Murphy gives is that bleness of Carrie Kinney, ex-Ex- quickly developing a comfortable

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STAY TUNED... SEE KITTENS LIVE MAY 1 « VANCOUVER and boring. Perhaps the CD was the vocals aren't always distinct, name is Ben Lee. Lee is the last impressive for 1992, but my sev­ but vocalists Scott McCloud and word in well-tooled pop songs enty five dollar Casio keyboard Eli Janney's voices are a perfect with exquisitely memorable melo­ can produce nearly all of these complement to the music on this dies and lyrics everyone can sounds today. As far as atmos­ dark, somewhat nightmarish lit­ love. He has copped the best of pheric ambience goes, I am tle wonder. his heroes Tom Morgon (of afraid Experimental Audio Re­ Sophie Hamley Smudge) and Evan Dando and search is not even as good as ihe shown them up as virtual has- New Age mood CDs I picked up THE GRIFTERS for four bucks each at the Nature A/n'f My Lookout From one of the greatest al­ store. Listening to this EP is like (Sub Pop) bums of all time, last year's being trapped inside an endless The Grifters have a sound thot is Grandpaw Would, "Away With THE AUTEURS that, despite Calvin's out of tune, ning jusl under a quarter of an B-grade science fiction movie unique and yet difficult to de­ the Pixies" was lifted as a single After Murder Park (or lack thereof?) spoken vocals, hour, lhisCD-EP/10" ends wilh scene where the hapless humans scribe. It's definitely notyour con­ and laid down as ihe first of eight (Virgin) managed to just stick, uncontrol- the upbeat number of the release, have been dropped onto a ventional rock. In fact, it's defi­ tracks on its eponymous EP. There The Auteurs ore o band lhat se- lably. You can still hear Calvin in "Any Life", which sounds similar swampy planet. They lift their nitely not your conventional 'in­ is a lower-fi version of "Ductile" the Halo Benders and Dub Nar­ to their previous four-song EP in stunned faces out of the mud and die rock' either. Many of the (the original track is also on group concerned with 'serious' cotic, but for all the hot happenin' its obvious Velvet Underground in- squint their eyes to moke sense songs hove a soulhernish mellow Grandpaw Would], and a cover songwriting. To yours truly they poop, check out this 23 track col­ of the dork outlines of the trees quality but often they erupt into song - "Gidgel Goes to Rome" are simply a seriously good lection. Buy it if just for the first song. and brush around them, and then much more intensity os it Then...there are five amazing lit­ band. Guitarist and singer Luke Both Beat Happening and miko they do this over and over and progresses. The Sub Pop website tle original songs: "Red Slurpee" Haines has written atmospheric, Talulah Gosh were loved or hated over again while nothing else describes the Grifters' vocal styles ("In the 71 1 of my soul, you're happens. richly textured, and moody songs for the same reasons Accused by THE CANNANES as 'multi-layered' and that's ex­ my red slurpee"); the incredible which are led by his sometimes media folk of being too cute, too The Cannanes actly what it is like. Strong lead "Shirtless"; a rather solemn tune raspy and sometimes soft voice. (Ajax) vocals at some times and at olher called "Happy Hand" ("I'd lend I am assuming lhat it wos no ac­ cent, it can't be denied that both Last year Rebecca from the GAS HUFFER you my life story but it's missing cident that After Murder Park was possessed a charm and down-to- Spinanes told me thot they were The Inhuman Ordeal of voices interchanging with each a page"); a paean to altars of recorded at Abbey Road studios, earthiness rarely found in rock thinking of doing a split 7-inch Special Agent Gas Huffer other vinyl and their undeniable, ongo­ as several of ihe tracks, complete stars Despite popular opinion, with the Cannanes, since she and (Epitaph) "Parting Shot" and "Last Man ing merit in "My Turntable"; and with strings and French horn, Talulah Gosh, whose existence Scott thought the Cannanes were So the jig is up, the secret's out: Alive" are really catchy and were the truly funny, and not at all were no doubt inspired by the goes back ten years ago, could a pretty good band and ihe rhym­ Gas Huffer are no longer the jani­ my favourites upon my initial lis­ cutesy, "Be a Kid", recorded wilh Beatles' Abbey Road and White play their instruments and could ing would make a fun theme. This tors of tomorrow, but instead the tening. However, every time I lis­ his much younger nephew. I was Album. Helped by the Hammond sing, but the important thing is was all I knew about the saviours of the future, and their ten lo the album I find a new fa­ staggered by the high quality of organ of James Banbury, how­ lhal they had fun and so do we Cannanes when I agreed to re­ modus operandi is reveoled vourite. A couple of days ago it songwriting on these tracks - the ever, Haines manages to create listening to their brand of fast, view this CD. within their second release for wos "Return to Cinder". Right lyrics are so revealing and well- phrased, the true voice of a teen­ a sound that is unique despite its punky-pop ditties ond lush, '60s- From the sound of their Epitaph Records. In the next now it's "Day Shift", which has age boy who just happens to nagging fomiliarity. On some of styled harmonies Often com­ voices, it seems lhat ihis band "Sixty Three Hours" villainy will an incredibly addictive chorus have enough talent to commit his the songs he creates eerie, un­ pared to bands like the Primitives hails from either New Zealand or "Smile No More" os the four Gas about drinking too much. The thoughts to artful song. comfortable moods which are and the Marine Girls and often Ireland, but I am shamelessly un­ Huffers pummel evil-doers with cool thing about this album is the suddenly liberated by sweet melo­ described as 'twee' and 'girlie', able to distinguish these accents. their bouncy backwoods punk depth and diversity of the songs. Lee is also the singer and dies that carry one to wherever Talulah Gosh cannot be solely de­ Either way, I wish the CD came leaving them to ponder "The Sin You can play it over and over songwriter for Australian outfit one is carried when such o thing fined, or dismissed, by the fact with liner notes, because I often of Sloth". Are Gas Huffer inhu­ again and you find new things Noise Addict, who formed oboul befalls a person. It is kind of like that there were women in the can't understand what the band man in their methods? Certainly to love each time four years ago when they were when you take a short-cut through group Both feminine and tough is saying, although I did make out not. Rather, they mark their cause GQ not yet teens, and received an a downlown back alley and the (a headline once wrote: "Talulah a reference to "Melrose Place" with a simple "Carolina Hot early boost from one Thurston stench of rotting garbage and Gosh - wimpy men and strong in "Ordinarily", which certainly Foot". A trademark known to KINNIE STARR LOVES B.K. Moore. The 'classic' track of Meet urine soaks into your clothes and women?"), they write sometimes makes the content of their lyrics those who enjoy a little feistiness LOUNGE the Real You is "16", on which as you turn onto the sidewalk you sweet ("I'm in love for the very a little suspect. with their musical frolic, some­ Learning 2 Cook Lee warbles, in his distinctive, rub up against a cold, greasy thing that team Huffer execute first time/Could it be true?/Do I There is nothing eilher offen­ (Violet Inch Records) almost off-key voice, "I thought drainpipe while, suddenly, a quite nicely with this crime-bust­ want you?") and sometimes bit­ sive or fabulous about this CD. Eclecticism is generally not a bad my life would be a John Hughes beautiful stranger walks past and ing disc. ter, angry lyrics ("Some of my Not much energy in the music. It thing and it makes strategic sense film...I thought that 1 6 had a girl, seductively makes eye contact best friends are bastards like is mellow and pretty lo-fi and the Bryce Dunn on the first album of an unsigned 1 6 had a car", and the great re­ you/ At least they're not neurot­ vocals tend to be either somewhat hopeful. I find that quality of frain, "Where's my spirit, where's ics too") about daydreams and flat or annoyingly high-pitched GIRLS AGAINST BOYS Learning 2 Cook frustrating, pri­ my teen?/ I can't be jaded yel the Pastels. And if you like this (and yet somehow still flat). A House of GVSB marily because I was so im­ 'cause I'm only 16". The album assortment of Talulah Gosh sin­ BEAT HAPPENING major exception is "3-Way Re­ (Touch and Go) pressed wilh the solo Kinnie I also contains the beautiful sad­ gles, Peel Sessions tracks, and Bear Happening lease", which features one of the This album has some of the most have seen around town that I was ness of "Boyfriendship", the rau­ live recordings, don't forget the cous rock of "Poison 1080", the (K) guys talking over fuzzy guitar explosive opening bars of music sorry I didn't get to hear more of band thai three of the original TG infectious "Brinsley", and another TALULAH GOSH feedback and off-key girl hum­ you're ever likely to find, land­ lhat on her album. But all these members formed, the heavenly stand-out track, "My Pathetic Backwash ming and kind of reminded me ing the hook in your head and songs are worth listening to, if Heavenly, which is still alive to­ Friend": "She told me I'm o lot (K) of "Hey Baby", the anti-jerk rant reeling you in for eleven songs' only for the poetry of the way this day, thank gosh. like a late-night talk show/ If you Olympia, Washington's quintes­ produced by Chia Pet, a project worth of sonic exploration that girl mixes around her words. miko wait long enough, everything's sential pop label, K Records, is of the original A-Sassy magazine defies definite categorisation. Im­ The rawer stuff works the best revealed, and then it's gone" eilher getting sentimental in their editors (back when Sassy was mediate reference points are for me "Ophelia" has that loud, Noise Addict is Ben Lee's band, old age, or they're coming to their BEDHEAD pro-girl). When it finally ended Shudder to Think and a little bit warm and pared-down guitar- but it's not just him - as a full bond, senses and have realized that Tho Dark Ages the first time I played it I didn't of Monster Magnet. GvsB are driven sound of PJ. Harvey's ear­ they enable him to record songs they have some pretty importanl distinctive because they have two lier albums, and on "Buttons" (Trance Syndicate) somewhat different to those on India ally a bad sign. But then again, I bass players, and remarkable Kinnie proves her vocal range by tting II Breathtaking. Mesmerizing. the lo-fi Grandpaw Would, while vaults and it's high time they Trance-inducing might have busy atthe time, and because they use them to such slipping slyly between song, spo­ good effect - they could so easily also just being a great band. This shared 'em with the rest of us. By The Dallas, Texas fivesome I did play it again later on. ken word and scream. On "Bock- nave ended up being ludicrously bone", she moves from English album is a progression from their now, you may have decided that that is Bedhead offers up a deli­ Krista James bass-heavy, but instead the to French to Spanish with such earlier stuff, and it's a classic in the simple pop times of Beat Hap­ cious appetizer which will hope­ basses root the songs in firm grace that the transitions are its own right- fhe definitive sound­ pening and Talulah Gosh belong fully precede a full-course album EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RE­ track of youth, by youths, and in the past (after all, most of the SEARCH hooks and solid rhythms, and barely perceptible, and, like ani in the very near future. The first give them a brooding quality to youths who can, happily, write members are still making music Betyond the Pale difranco, she raps so well you for­ and title track makes me want to match the lyrics. They in no way amazing songs and play their in olher bands), but once you've (Big Cat) get she's a while girl. But when cry every time I hear it - it's com­ overpower the sole guitar; in fact, the horns and percussion show hearts out. It is a CD you'll play heard these yummy reissues, When I picked up this CD I was pletely melancholy and beautiful the balance between the instru­ up on "Jobslyle" and "Copshow", over and over ond never tire of you'll be hooked again. expecting to hear something without being overly sappy. ments is quite delicate. The mu­ the music gets too big and fast listening to, because the lyrics are The Beat Happening album is along the lines of Stereolab or ihe Unassuming. Atmospheric. sic itself is strong, pounding and and cabaret-esque for me. amusing and wistful and true, sort of strange in that it seems to Orb. I was grossly mistaken. Be­ Brooding. captivating. The band uses all and the melodies are sweet and yond the Pole is a six "song" EP Krista James In the same camp as Seam, sorts of rhythms and styles, includ­ hummable and representative of / 983-/ 985 record which was a which was recorded in England Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo, and ing a suitably dance-y beat in a bona fide musical genius just compilation of their very first full- in 1992 by Sonic Boom and BEN LEE Low, Bedhead combines quiet, "Disco Six Six Six" to the hard- as he's hitting his stride. length, their first 7" single, com­ Kevin Martin. It was re-released Away With the Pixies EP Sophie Hamley soft vocals with slow, driving driving beats of o lot of the olher pilation contributions, and some this year by New York's Big Cat (Fellaheen) drums and intricate, warm, gui­ songs. You can Iry to put this al­ live radio tracks The combo of Records for reasons I do not un­ NOISE ADDICT tar melodies "Inhume" is an in­ bum on in the background but it Bret, Heather, and ihe now-rock derstand. The Iracks are all inslru- Meet the Real You woven sounds with a momentum will draw you in, every time. Lyr­ god Calvin had a knack for writ­ mentals, which in itself is no (Grand Royal) ( Hey, there's more ^ that builds magnificently Span­ ics are provided (and needed) as ing simple, poppy, crush songs crime, but they're also pointless The future of pop is now and its reviews on the next

24 MAY 1996 fish Room. All in all, Marion are is great to put on in ihe wee hours Ethel, whose claim to fame is win­ which includes such artists as DJ of the morning as the memories Told ya so- not the cream of the so-called VARIOUS ARTISTS ning a Manchester battle of the Krush, Laika, Tomanandy, Skylab, New-Waveof-New-Wave crop, of your evening's activities swirl European Future Soundz bands, beoting out "the best DJ Spooky, Moby, Meat Beat but listening to their album can around your brain and your body (Hypnotic) fuckin' rock'n'roll band in the Manifesto and many, many oth­ certainly satisfy that yearning to slowly drifts into a state of tool This CD is a four-part beat trance world". Oasis! But unfortunately, ers. Offbeat is a journey into feel energized, melodramatic, relaxation. Long live digi-dub. excursion of the most mediocre very few of the songs on this CD sound collage - exploring the in­ LIFE GARDEN and chic when alcohol alone Snan Wright kind There are lots of build-ups excite me much. In fact, I think I finite possibilities of improvisation Ahitanaman won't do the trick. and break downs and spacey actually do prefer Oasis and electronic experimentation. (Agni Music) SPECTRE synlh riffs wilh samples like "Hey Popfactory, 143 E.22 St. #214, Also included on the CD is a short Life Garden is a group of musi­ the illness baby!" or "Extacy!" in between. New York, NY, 10010, USA film accessible wilh a CD-ROM cians who for several years now THE MOTARDS (WordSound Recordings) As for the tempo of this compila­ Fred derF called Sextoy, which is erotic in have been creating imaginalve ...rock kids Best described as dubby ambi­ tion, most of the tracks move be­ nature - inspired by the beat gen­ music that defies classification. (Empty Records) ent trip-hop, fhe /7/ness is as dark tween 1 30 and 150 BPMs. Art­ eration's investigation of sexual­ Ahitanaman, their fourth CD, is VARIOUS ARTISTS as the genre gets. The sound is a ists include Norman, Happy Rav­ ity. Overall, a weird ond wonder­ a dark improvisafional journey This five-piece from Austin, Texas Master Cuts Classic Acid sparse and unsettling funeral ers, Urban Trance Plant, ful headtrip. into the realm of the spirits, an share a lot in common with some (Beechwood Music) funk, almost spooky enough to Semisphere, Sunbeam and many experimental sound collage of the of the other great combos from In ihe late eighties a little silver Brian Wright justify Spectre's Crowleyan pre­ others. Hypnotic releases have future and the past. Electronic the Lone Star State (Inhalants, box forever altered the face of tensions. Bass lumbers over stran­ been improving lately but this instruments are combined with Cryin' Out Louds, Sugar Shack), dance music. This silver box was VITAPUP gled rhythms, stabs of orches­ compilation was a disappoint- more traditional wind, siring, and and that is a love for no-fi rock the tbr 303 and created the trade­ An Hour v/ith Vitapup trated dissononce, altered voices, percusssion instruments to form and roll. Eighteen tracks of just mark squelch sound so easily rec­ (Plump Records) and defective electronics punctu­ an incredibly unique musical ex­ enough punk snarl, crunchy gui­ Brian Wright ognizable in what is known and Wow, this is a really neat album: ate the beats. Granted, there is perience. Percolating throughout tars and crashing drums to make loved as acid house. Master Cuts co-ed emo-core with scatterings a bit of claustrophobic monotony the instrumentation is the incred­ any fan of this two-chord tyranny VARIOUS ARTISTS Classic Acid is exactly what the of hip-hop, jazz, and poetry. I like to the whole thing, but perhaps ibly haunting and exotic vocals happy. Just pick this up and you'll A Gift from Sing-Sing title suggests - its eleven classics the moody prettiness of ihe songs, that's the idea. The only real fail­ of Su Ling, who sings in her own see what I mean. (Popfactory) include: Phufure's 303 epic "Acid the crunchy beats (as laid down ing is the thankfully brief vocals unique language. Ahitanaman is Bryce Dunn A Gift from Sing-Sing is a compi­ Tracks", Fast Eddie's "Acid Thun­ by Melissa, who's also in Team on two of the tracks. It's hard to a world of very ancient rituals in lation of fifteen pop songs from der", Mike Dunn's amazing Dresch), and fhe boy singer's talk about evil without sounding which spontaneity is the basis for PAPA BRITTLE nine different bands, such as Sat­ "Magic Feel", Kevin beautiful voice. I also like the al- silly, ihough the low mix level on all creativity. The album is 70 Polemic Beat Poetry urnine, Pullover and Shapiros. Saunderson's "The Groove That len/space/umverse motif as dis- the vocals helps. minutes long and flows (Nettwerk) Released by the small indie label Won't Stop", Armando's "Land played in the lyrics to "Freedom seamlessly from one track to the I guess I've enjoyed this British Despite minor quibbles. Spec­ Popfactory, I was hoping to find of Confusion" etc... If you're long­ For Saturn" ("We come frm dirt, next, lulling the listener into a foursome in the past, but this, their tre shows that his genre has lots an obscure pop gem or two. ing for the roots of acid ho we come from clay/the city one ceremonial trance. Find this al­ second album, takes a new tack of room to grow Trip-hop is of­ Sadly, I didn't discover anything ,1 for :ol- day will be bones and rocks and/ bum and return to your tribal wilh a type of music ihey describe ten seen as laid-back, but ihe ill­ too exciting. The compilation sticks and stones and as "polemic beat poetry" (i.e. ness is better suited to a dose of focusses mainly on lo-fi pop Brian Wright skeletons...freedom for Saturn, gripe to a beat). Does the fact thorazine lhan a puff of ganja. revolution of the soul/must come firion Wright that my two favourite tracks on Jovian Francey jangly, some slow and dreamy, VARIOUS ARTISTS first") and "City Soul" ("I love the album ore merely sample edit and some are punky, but they all outer space because thai is where MCRACKINS Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound fillers indicate anything? TRIBE 8 fall somewhere beneath the Trip I learned to go before I learned In On The Yolk Snarkism broad pop umbrella. (Waxtrax/TVT) to cross Ihe street"). This is music (Shredder) (Alternative Tentacles) The compilation features for early mornings and late eve­ Does counting to four excite your An eclectic jazzy blend of spo­ POSSUM DIXON I think Tribe 8 are probably the Heartworms, a group including nings, hopeful and inspiring. adrenal? Does that same numeral ken word, hip hop beats, beat Star Maps only feminist punk band with gui­ Archie Moore of Velocity Girl, poetry and electro-ambi-experi- also represent the maximum (Interscope Records) tar wanking. Enough said. and Trish Roy from Belmondo. It mentation. Twenty-six new tracks number of chord changes your I enjoy a brilliant album, and can Barbara also features the UK's Blessed are contained on ihis compilation attention span will tolerate? Then even appreciate a terrible album, chances are you will appreciate but I truly cannot stand a medio­ this, the Mcrackins' cretinrific new cre one. And Possum Dixon's Star release (this album will also be Maps fits perfectly into the latter big with those of you with egg category. Produced and engi­ fetishes). The production is a bit neered by Tim O'Heir (Cold bland, but wilh 14 songs about Water Flat, Come), Possum Dixon eggs, junk food, pressed ham and spud guns you can't really band, complete wilh cheezy or­ go too far wrong. Besides, they're gan, and the quirky Camper van local, so instead of buying that Beethoven. In fact, 'quirky' is a Offspring album you can buy very apt word to describe Pos­ something good instead while sum Dixon's music and lyrics. Star supporting your own scene at the Maps is chock-full of nonsensical same time. Wow. ' s like "If $36 would make you JDS lappy, I -.uldg box", and "I'm falling all MARION like a bad jacket" But alas, thi This World and Body songs are mediocre. And tha (London) bothers me. This album was available in Fred derF Canada several months ago but, hey, better late than never. SOUNDS FROM THE Marion is one of the heavy-on- GROUND ihe-crunchy guitars/heavy-on-the- Kin eye-make-up new bands on the (Waveform) London scene. They combine the One of my favourite tracks from high energy of These Animal Men Waveform's Two A.D. compila­ with the high emotion of Gene. tion was the chilly-digi-dubbed- Unlike the latter, however, they out rambling cut called "Triangle" do not consider themselves to be by Sounds From the Ground contemplative types. In a recent (SFTG). I've been looking for­ interview I saw on MuchMusic ward to the domestic release of they confessed that their lyrics for some time now. Considering were not the kind that reflect any their organic sounding name, the deep thought on their part and 8 tracks on this laid back jour­ their album was not one which ney are very warm and soulful, "you play to yourself in your bed­ but have a distinctly synthetic room". Instead, they consider pulse permeating throughout. I themselves mainly a performing really dig the dreamish female band and most of the songs on stroytelling of "Pearl". It is unmis­ the album do, in fact, manage to takable that SFTG s creative mas­ capture the intensity and dramat­ ters Elliot Morgan-Jones and Nick ics of their live set which they re­ Woolfson are strongly influenced cently put on display at the Star­ by the world of dub. This album

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Iribal, elc... Guest DJ's, interviews, Shorter, pianist McCoy Tyner and THE UNHEARD MUSIC 7:00-9:OOPM Meat AND SOMETIMES WHY 7:30-9:00PM retrospectives, giveaways, and more kirn & helen in their quest for krupnik. 1 Live bandz from 10. drummer 'Philly Joe Jones. the unherd where the unheard and the swirlies, go sailor, doormouse, the HEAlHER'SSHOW6:00-8:00PM Dedicated are pari of the flavor of homebass May 13: A rare sel recorded for hordes of hardly herd are heard, cour­ shebrews, sonora pine... these are a few to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and FRIDAYS UMP SINK 12KX)AM-2:42AM Hosted by Japanese I v , by Thelonious Monk and tesy of host and demo director Dale of our fave-oh-wnl things, la la lal theG42 players. "The showlhatdoesn't transsexual communities of Vancouver VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 8:30- Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Bulch Sawyer. Herd up! TROPICAL DAIQUIRI 9:00-10:00PM Zouk, hate you." with your friendly pals Friar and listened to by everyone Lots of 10:00AM Greg here. Join me in the love Warren on bass and the dynamic Frankie RITMO LATINO 9:00-10:00PM Gel on Soukous, Samba, Salsa. Yes! Even Soca. Fritter Abfaclceln and Postman Pat. human interest features, background on den for a cocktail. We'll hear retro stuff, Dunlop of drums. board Vancouver's only tropical fiesta Enjoy this Tropical Daiquiri with El Doctor Alternating with Dr. Killdare on "The current issues and great music from groovy jazz, and thicker stuff too See May 20: "The Futuristic Sounds of express with your loco hosts Rolando, del Ritmo. Doctor Killdare Show." Contact: musicians of all sexual preferences and you here ... and bring some ice. XOXX Sun Ra" is self-explanatory! Recorded in Romy, and Paulo as they shake il and STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUNDHAR 10:00PM- [email protected] gender identities. TELESIS 10:00-11:00AM Tune in for 1961 with stalwarts John Gilmore (tenor wiggle it lo the latest in Salsa, Merengue, 12*00 AM Let DJ's Jindwa and Bindwa GEETANJAU 9.O0-10:00PM Geelanjali fea­ 1 discussions, interviews & information saxophone, bass clan net), Marshall Allen Cumbia and other fiery fiesta favourites immerse you in radioactive Bhungra SATURDAYS tures a wide range of music from India, relating to people who live with physical (reeds and alto sax.) and many others. Latin music so hoi it'll give you a Ian! "Chakkh de phutay" Listen lo all our THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM- including classical music, both Hindustani & mental challenges. May 27: "Captain Marvel." Tenor jjRADIO SABROSA!! favorite Punjabi tunes - remixes and 12:00PM Music you won't hear any­ and Carnalic, popular music from In­ 1 SKAT'S SCENE-IK DRIVE! 11:00AM- saxophone gianl Stan Getz meets electric AURAL TENTACLES MIDNITE - VERY LATE originals. Brraaaah where else, studio guests, new dian movies from the 1930's lo the 12:00PM SkaPunkSkaS-wingSka Polka piano genius Chick Corea in an historic Warning: This show is moody and un­ releases, Brinsh comedy sketches, folk 1990's, Semi-classical music such as SkaCoreSkalanicSkaJazz etc.etc.etc. 1971 recording, also with bassist Stanley predictable Il encourages insomnia and THURSDAYS music calendar, ticket giveaways, plus Ghazals and Bha|ans, and also SOLID STATE ALTERNATING 12:00-2:OOPM Clarke, Airto and Tony Williams may prove lo be hazardous lo your RADIO FREE WOMEN 10:00-11:30AM It's Wor/d Cup Reporf at 11 30 AM. 8-9 Quawwalis, Folk Songs, elc Featuring the latest in techno, trance, health Listener discretion is advised not a free cunlry. And we're demanding AM: African/World roots. 9-12 noon: RADIO FREE AMERICA 10:00PM-12:00AM TUESDAYS acuntability. Wake up with our collective acid and progressive house. 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28 MAY 1996 at Pacific Cinematheque... Freeloader at Picadilly Pub; Slam City Jam w/ Seaweed, Spiderbait SUN 26 Miroslava and Married Life at Pacific Cinematheque... and Hip Hop Mecanix at noon at Plaza of Nations(ALL-AGES)/Bad MON 27 BANDIDOS AND PUEBLO DE MADERA AT PACIFIC Religion, Dance Hall Crashers and Unwritten Law at Plaza of Na­ CINEMATHEQUE... tions (ALL-AGES)/Veal, Stephen Cummings, Rita Ghent, Dan Bryk MAY TUES 28 Gavin Walker Jazz Trio at Malcolm Lowry Room...Kino and Mark Reeves at the Railway Club/Hollowbody, the Violets, and Bandidos at Pacific Cinematheque... WED 1 Coal, the Molestics and the Messytones at the Niagara Dorothy Missing and Brent Mason at Route 66/54-40 and Coco WED 29 Gertrudis and Miroslava at Pacific Cine latheque... (Music Waste)... Damnhait Doyle w/Kinnie Starr at the Starfish Love Alcorn atthe Starfish Room/The Smalls, Punched Unconscious, THURS 30 Bartolome de las Casas and Ular a at Pacific Room. Margaret's Museum and Raining Stones at the Pacific She Stole My Beer, Lode and the Spirit Merchants at the Town Pump/ Cinematheque... Cinematheque... Soucretes, Mastermind, Turntable Bay, Hip Hop Mecanix, Stinkin' FRI 31 Hellenkeller, BED and Sleeve at Samoc *> Pub.Curtis's THURS 2 MUSIC WASTE: Something Ska, the Hounds of Buskerville Rich and At Random at Mars.. .Garbage w/ Polara at the Vogue.. The Charm and Vive L'Amour at Pacific Cinematheque and the Tonics at the Niagara/Sister Lovers, Celestial Magenta, Joke and Witchhammer at Pacific Cinematheque... vico, the Spiders and Hissy Fit at Samoos/The Beauticians, Lux In­ SUN 5 MUSIC WASTE: Punkaoke/Wrap-Up Party at Niagara/ digo, Sick Sick Yeah, Lonesome Canadians and Quonset at Cafe Stick Shift, Smak, the Cowards, Submission Hold and Scum Element Deux Soleils/Coma Toast, Cirkus Mind and Catz Jammer at Van­ at the Source (4p.m.). MUSIC WEST: Seaweed, SNFU and couver Press Club/Waiting for God, Helen Keller, Pigs in Space Spiderbait at the Commodore/Pal Joey, 1000 Stamps, Pete Krebs and Fishburger at Old American/Potters Field, Crave, Shrug and and the Papillomas at Gastown Music Hall/Speedbuggy, Ringpiece EVERYTHING YOU 80UT EVERYWHERE Pockerface atthe Source/Diesel Candy, Latex, Feedbag, Free Load­ and the Readymade at the Gate/Technicians of the Sacred, Atomic mmWiX ers Ball, Duel at Columbia...MUSIC WEST: Guided by Voices, Spoon 61 and Furious George at the Hungry Eye/Sound Pressure Mani­ The Abyss 3 15 E. Broodwoy (side entrance) 4886219 and V3 atthe Commodore/The Daisychain, Zuckerbaby, the Emptys fest, Creek and Micky Christ at Phunky Toad/Stinkin' Rich, Turnta­ Alma Streel Cafe 2505 Alma (ot Broodwoy) 222 2244 ble Bay and Hip Hop Mecanix at Picadilly Pub/Slam City Jam w/ Anza Club 3 W. 8th (Mount Pleosant) 876 7128 and Mr Jones & the Previous at the Gastown Music Hall/Smokin' Arts Hotline 684 2787 Frogs, Nickelback, Highway Freak Ticket and Line Up in Paris at Minority, North American Bison and ten days late at Plaza of Bossix 217 W Hastings (ot Combie) 689 7734 the Gate/Nancy Weisler Band, Inflatable Soule, Danielle French Nations(ALL-AGES)/A Few Roosters, the New E-Z Devils and the Bockstage lounge 1585 Johnston (Granville Island) 687 1354 and Cathode Ray at the Hungry Eye/Blisterene, Another Joe, Mean Reds at the Unicorn...Kerosene Lamps and Lemonade Joe at Block Sheep Books 2742 W. 4th (ot MacDonald) 732 5087 Cafe Deux Soleils 2096 Commerciol (the Drive) 254 1195 Pacific Cinematheque... Plnwheel and Queazy at Phunky Toad/Kristia Jeanne Sheffield, Tone Cafe Vieux Montreol 317 E. Broadway (Mount Pleoso 873 1331 Indbryn, Sans John Henry, Ventilator and Annette Ducharme at Rail­ MON 6 Cowboy Junkies at the Commodore Kerosene Lamps and Coprice Theatre 965 Granville (Gronville Moll) 683 6099 Celebrities 1022 Davie (ol Burrard) 689 3180 way Club/Texture, Ondine, Phenotone and mk noomi at Richard's Lemonade Joe at Pacific Cinematheque CNImax Theatre 999 Canada Place 682 4629 on Richards/Space Kid, On a Llama, Vav Jungle and Peking Butter­ TUES 7 Boss Hog and Supernova at the Starfish Room Gavin Commodore Bollroom 870 Gronville (Granville Moll) 681 7838 fly at Route 66/Pluto, Fluffy, the Wheat Chiefs and Torcher at the Walker Jazz Trio at Malcolm Lowry Room... Commodore Lanes 838 Gronville (Granville Mall) 681 1531 Starfish Room/The Real McKenzies, Sex with Nixon, Ottoman Big­ WED 8 40 Years of French Animation at the Pacific Cinematheque Cordova Core 307 Cordovo (Gastown) 683 5637 wigs and Lame at the Town Pump/Last Harvest and Devil's Dream Crosstown Traffic 316 W Hastings (downlown) 669 7573 THURS 9 Girls Against Boys w/Therapy? and guests at the Star­ Denmon Ploce Cinema 1030 Denman (West Enrrrd) 683 2201 at Pacific Cinematheque. fish Room...Primus w/Weapon of Choice at UBC Rec DV8 515Davle (downlown) 682 4388 FRI 3 CiTR 101.9 fM PRESENTS A MINT/LOOKOUT! RECORDS Centre...Flaming Lips w/Richard Davies at the Town Pump Art Edison Eleclric Gallery/Cafe 916 Commercial (the Driv. 255 4162 Firehall Arts Centre 80 E.Cordova (at Mom) 689 0926 Bergmann w/Stick Monkey Bonesaw at the Gate. Dak Attack and SHOWCASE FOR MUSIC WEST: THE SMUGGLERS, PANSY DIVI­ Food Not Bombs Voncouver 872 6719 SION, GROOVIE GHOULIES, DUOTANG AND MAOW AT guests at Samoo Pub...Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negro at the Frederic Wood Theotre UBC) 822 2678 GASTOWN MUSIC HALL.. MUSIC WASTE: Smak, Zolty Cracker, Vogue...40 Years of French Animation at Pacific Cinemotheque... Garage Pub 2889 Eost Ho 822 9364 FRI 10 Daytona at the Starfish Room Knockin' Dog and Liquid n Theatre 36 Powell (Gos.ownj 684 MASK the Cowards and the Sweaters at Niagara/Darkest of the Hillside Glass Slipper 2714 Prin, Edward (Mount Pleason 877 0066 Thickets, the Loved One, S.P.M., Black Market Beans and Fon Fon Amber at the Press Club...Hog w/My Head and guests at the Town celand 1250 Richards (dov 688 2648 at Samoos/An: Kyd, Load and Wretched Ethyl at Malcolm Lowry Pump... Forget Your Face, Pinwheel and guests at Samoo Pub ...Ottmar 795 3334 322 6057 Room/Bughouse Five, Coal, the Surfdusters and Lunar Marmots at Liebert and Luna Negra at the Vogue...Lois Lane at the Gate Au Hastings Community Centre 2096 E. Hastings 255 2606 Cafe Deux Soleils/Aimless James, Stark Raving Chandler, Prof. Zio, Revoir Les Enfants and Elevator to the Gallows at Pacific Hemp B.C. 324 W. Hastings (downlown) 681 4620 Amanda Stark, Relish and Ben Mahone at Vancouver Press Club/ Cinematheque... Hollywood Theotre 31 23 W. Broadway (Kitsili 738 3211 Scum Element, Stervus, Screen Cleaner, Nagasaki Fondue and Vi­ SAT 1 1 never never land w/dj Buck, Mark Farina, Mike Stevens, Hot Jazz Society 2120 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 8734131 688 5351 tamins at Old American/RTA, Third Eye Tribe, DJ Renrok and DJ Minute Maid, dj Noah and others; info (604) 451 3033...Cathode Jericho Arts Centre 1600 Discovery (Pt. Grey) 224-8007 Shortfuse at the Source (early show)/Touch & Gos and Punkaoke at Ray, Hookers of Fire and Lunar Marmots at Samoo Pub Lois Lane La Quena 1111 Commerciol (the Drive) 251 6626 the Source/Swarm and Down to Earth at the Cultch/Big Tall Gar­ at the Gate. Au Revoir Les Enfants and Elevator to the Gallows at The Lotus Club 455 Abbott (Gostown) 685 7777 Lucky's 3934 Mom 875 9858 den, Five Star General, Six Million Dollar Band and Swollen GLobe Pacific Cinematheque... Luv-A-Foir 1 275 Seymour (downtown) 685 3288 at Columbia... MUSIC WEST: Big Sugar, Rattled Roosters, Mike SUN 12 Afghan Whigs and Howling Maggle at the Molcolm Lowry Room 4 1 25 E. Hastings (N Burn 685 0143 Keneally & Beer for Dolphins and Bobby Cameron at the Commo­ Commodore...Don Ross at the Cultch. The Jester and Like a Bride Mars 1320 Richords (downtown) 230 MARS Maximum Blues Pub 1 176 Gronville (downtown) 8 8701 dore/Kittens, Noise Therapy, Jackie on Acid and Made atthe Gate/ at Pacific Cinematheque New York Theotre 639 Commerciol (the Drive) 254 3545 J.J.Cale and Tom Wilson at the Vogue at 8pm and the Hard Rock MON 13 My Knees Were Jumping and The Jester at Pacific Niagara Hotel Pub 435 W Pender (downtown) 688 7574 Cafe at midnight/Rhythm Pigs, the Muscle Bitches, Difference En­ Cinematheque Odyssey Imports 534 Seymour (downtown) 669 6644 Old American Pub 928 Main (downtown) 682 3291 gine and Gleam at the Hungry Eye/Lloyds Rocket, Gern Blanston, TUES 14 Gavin Walker Jazz Trio at Malcolm Lowry Room... Orpheum Theatre Smithe & Seymour (downlown) 665 3050 DSK and Tone at Phunky Toad/Dick V Jane, Chuck is Dead, Amy WED 15 Jawbreaker at the Town Pump...Dave Matthews Band at Pacific Cinemotheque 11 3 1 Howe (downtown) 731 3456 Brun and Shatterday at Picadilly Pub/DDT and Stinkin' Rich at the the Commodore...The Flying Camel and Sh'chur at Pacific Paradise 27 Church (New West) 525 0371 Plaza of Nations/Blue Lizard Trio, the Molestics, Zso Zsa Velvet, Cinematheque.. Porodise Cinema 919 Gronville (Gronville Moll) 681 1732 Scat Schroedinger and Cass King at the Polynesian Lounge/Tarni Pork Theatre 3440 Cambie (South Vancouver) 876 2747 THURS 16 Wall of Shame Records showcase night at Samoo Picadilly Pub 630 W. Pender (at Seymour) 682 3221 Geer, Kinnie Starr, Veda Hille, Oh Susanne and Chris Field at the Pub...Sh'chur and My Knees Were Jumping at Pacific Pit Pub basement, Student Union Building (UBC) 822 6273 Railway Club/The Workshop, One Step Beyond, Kilgore Trout and Cinematheque... Pitl Gallery 317 W Hostings (downtown) 681 6740 Load at Route 66/The Meices, Rust, Gut Sonic and Len at the Star­ Plozo Theatre 881Gronvilfe (Gronville Moll) 685 7050 FRI 17 CiTR 101.9 fM PRESENTS THE GERALDINE FIBBERS WITH Roffels Lounge 1 22 1 Gronville (downlown) 473 1593 fish Room/Bif Naked, Matthew Good, Holly McNarland, Sylvanna GUESTS AT THE STARFISH ROOM. ..Revulva, Gradient Profile and The Rage 750 Pocific Blvd. South (Plaza of Nation 685 5585 and Tariq at the Town Pump/The Paperboys, Mad Pudding, Fon Fon at Samoo Pub...Odds at the Commodore. Murmur of the Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir (at Seymour) 681 1625 Insterstellar Root Cellar and Soul Candy at the Unicorn...The joke Richard's On Richords 1036 Richards (downtown) 687 6794 Heart and The Lovers at Pacific Cinematheque Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus (at 16lh Ave.) 738 6311 and Witchhammer at Pacific Cinemotheque... 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Starlight Cinemo 935 Denman (West End] 689 0096 UNICORN (MUSIC WEST)...MUSIC WASTE: Green Room, Big Station Streel Arts Centre 930 Station (off Main) SUN 19 Song of the Siren and Carpati at Pacific C lathequc 688 3312 Cookie, Silicone Soul and Bona-Fly at Niagara/Terror of Tiny Town, St. RegIS Hotel 602 Dunsmiur (downtown) MON 20 Havana Nagila and Song of the Si Theotre E 254 E. Hostings (Chinatown) knock-down-ginger, Daytona, Spiritual Heroine, 100% Peanuts and 681 8915 Cinematheque... Town Pump 66 Water Street (Gaslown) 683 6695 Guppy at Samoos/Cinnamon, the Floor and Underwater Sunshine Track Records 552 Seymour (downlown) TUES 21 Ministry and the Jesus Lizard with Laika c ,nd the Cosmo- 682 7976 at Malcolm Lowry Room/Cozy Bones, Drum Heads, Family Tree, Tree House lounge 602 Dunsmuir St. (downtown) 871 3090 nauts at the Pacific Coliseum. Joan Osborne, G. L TwilighlZone 7 Alexander (Gastown) Bonnie Pit Laddie, Toast and Elliot at Cafe Duex Soleils/10 Foot 682 8550 Sauce (huh?) at the Commodore... Gavin Walkc r Jazz Trio UBC CINEMA (located in the SUB) 822 3697 Henry, Plum Vine and Sarah Biggs at Vancouver Press Club/Bug, UBC Grod Centre Gale 4 (UBC) Malcolm Lowry Ro ..Carpati and Havana Nagila at Pacific 822 0999 Superfly, Rooter, Dead Head Miles and Screaming for Lou at Old The Underground 1082 Gronville (downtown) American/Belter, Reggie and St Someone at the Source/Soldiers Voncouver Eost Cultural Centre i 895 Venables (ot 254 9578 WED 22 Tortoise, the Sea and Cake and 5 ive Style at the Town Vancouver Little Theatre 3102 Moin (Ml. 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J0 MAY 1996 The waiting is over... the KILLJOYS have returned with a brilliant follow-up to their debut album, Starry. Filled with perfect pop gems and a touch of punk for good measure, Gimme Five is destined for I? success. To sample a taste... just check out their new single Rave & Drool. I HMV i THE KILLJOYS

1160 Robson Street • Park Royal Shopping Centre (North Mall) Eaton Centre - Metrotown • Sevenoaks Shopping Centre / Abbotsford Guildford Town Centre • Willowbrook Shopping Centre 'HiW Richmond Centre • Coquitlam Centre Bob Mould Palace Music Self-Titled co Arise Therefore CD/LP A new, tasty full-length morsel from the man that just Through the exploratory (re)creation of his own to stop making great albums. More r i (remaining equivocal throughout, nonetheless), cent of the electric intensity of Sugar than his ear­ Will Oldham has managed to evoke many dif­ lier solo work, but regardless, Bob's tunes just seem ferent accents. Although Arise Therefore is a to be getting "sweeter"... and better (we think!). Enjoy. return to more sombre images and sounds there is 16s* CD enough to distinguish it from his earlier recordings, and enough that is representative of his continued Strung Out dark, idiosyncratic vision. Oldham's (transcen­ Suburban Teenage Wasteland dent) existentialism is still very present: "condition is Blues CD/LP uncertain and likely to go," he states in one song, while offering that "we die many times, and each new Strung Out welcome you to American living circa infancy is a surprise" in another. As well as his intelli­ 1996, with all the amenities of solid punk rock action. gent observations about the interconnectivity, fragili­ Here it is from the West Hills of California, thirteen ty and partiality of social bonds and private relation­ songs capturing the new sound of the suburbs as it pul­ ships. The music itself, done with a drum machine for sates for every repoboy or -girl looking for a way out. this recording, is supportive of the evocative imagery: This is Strung Out! mini narratives of a renewed tragic sublime. Arise 14s* CD 12* LP Therefore is another significant Palace recording. An explosion may seem disordered, but it i Built To Spill 14* CD 12* LP fact a highly complex and structured < The Normal Years co minute details of order combining and intercon­ The Normal Years offers a tantalizing taste necting to complete a total definition or integri­ of some of the best gems from the recent past, cour­ Sammy ty (of structure or form, however loose it may tesy of these infamous Boise boy s of indie rock, led Tales Of Great Neck Glory co/cs m). As such, no small part if unnecessary to, by singer/guitarist Doug Martsch (also of the Sliding down the street & packin' a double-barrelled or disconnected from, the whole. Polvo have Halo Benders). K Records has compiled arsenal of smarts and style, the Sammy boys gone to a considerable length (two LPs worth) to Built To Spill's various 7" tracks and compilation slick back some well-greased riffs and talk the talk. ie just such a thesis. Thankfully, Polvo's contributions, and have added a couple previously Can they walk the walk? Damn straight they can my chosen form/forum for conducting dialogue is Various Artists Richard Davies unreleased recordings. Anything but normal, BtS man. Just wotch as they pop you off with o potent bar­ through rock, finally, a Polvo release that know how to rock - in a melodic, intelligent, and rage of hooks that spin and meander then strike hard, The Lounge Ax Defense & There's Never Been A Crowd gives them opportunity enough to explore the humourous fashion. leavin' you dazed and so pleasantly confused. Relocation Compact Disc co This Big Before CD/LP eclectic reinvention of the pop song - as such 14* CD 9* CD 6* Cassette they do. Bravo, boys. What! The MAN wants to close the Lounge Ax? Poired with Eric Matthews (now of 16* CD 14s8 2LP What's Lounge Ax, you might ask. Why, it's Sub Pop fame), Richard Davies a much loved venue in Chicago; one that is now spent his formative songwriting years in the EXTRA MENTIONABLES Husikesqie Various - Booby Tropdouble-7" Pet Shop Boys - Before Parts I Ash- GoldfmgerCD-EP being treated to the benevolent goodwill of orchestrated pop combo Cardinal. (features Saturnine, Starbeam + 2 CD EP Touch & Go and a host of your favourite Davies, the recluse who championed a styl­ Green Blue Fire CD Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Lodybuy, Transistor, Blaise Pascal) Various - Estrus Cocktail alternative music talents (such high quality as ized balance of harmony with soul, further Make contact with Lida Husik and I Hope It Lands CD/LP Propagandhi - Less Talk More Companion (now on CD) Tortoise, Coctails, Shellac, honed his introspective vision with a brief Beaumont Hannant on this, their lat­ Mark Stewart - Control Data CD/LP Rock CD/LP Scud Mountain Boys - Superchunk, Jesus Lizard and more). stint os a Mole(s). All accolades aside, est outing through the electronic countryside. Various - On Guard For Thee: Various - School House Rock CD Massachussetts CD/LP Remember you are the scene, or it's all one big Davies' modestly titled solo debut features This much travelled duo here insert a more A Collection Of Youth Gone Bad Nearly God - Nearly God CD scene, or... whatever, this compilation is worth a unique melodic touch within today's expatri­ dreamy pastoral vision into their spacey trip- Various - Whore: 4 Tribute To CD (features Bum, cub, Pluto, J Mascis-Martin And Me CD your attention (and the Lounge Ax your ated pop music. Come drink from this much hop mix. Stand by the Green Blue Fire Wire CD and more) - Various -10% fife Under indirect support). Fight the power. exalted cupl and hear the eire nightingale's call. D.J. Krush - Metso CD-EP/12" Superconductor - Bastardsong ,J s s Burroughs CD CD/2LP 16* CD 16 CD 12 LP 16 * CD Sportsguitar - / Fade CSche CD

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