MUSIC WEEK, FEBRUARY 24, 1979 CD Q C IV n World wide Inphasion EMI fires a broadside BEVERLY HILLS: Clancy Grass and Danny Kcssler have finalised international distribution deals for their newly formed Inphasion label, largely on the strength of its first single Nanu Nanu by Daddy Dewdrop which they featured at Midem. over HMV trademark Seven Records will handle the label in Australia, CNR Records in From PETER CONYNGHAM the Benelux countries, K-tel in Brazil, Walanabe's SMS Records in Japan and Pye in the UK. The pacts arc for three years and entail an annual release of five albums and eight singles. Columbia, His Master s Voice 'and the picture of a dog listening to a --K! gramophone". with new' wave product. It has just The company points out that, as it released Public Image by Public docs not have the sole rights in all Image Lid. featuring John Lydon, countries of the world, some alias Johnny Rouen. The band's UK imported records bear ihese top 10 single Public Image is trademarks - in particular, CBS included in the LP which has been and RCA product from the US, bMi pressed on clear vinyl. Wizard has warns that any records other than also released I Am The Amazing i: those released by EMI which bear Buzzcocks as a 12" clear vinyl maxi these trademarks in Australia could single. be subject to legal action and that Queensland, with only 15 per cent retailers and importers are required of Australia's population, has 1 to obliterate totally and permanently notched up over 50,000 LP sales of iHH these trademarks whenever they the Rocky Horror Picture Show appear. soundtrack. B Bob Marley will tour here in April is. for Kevin Jacobsen Concert King Slim Promotions. It will be the first reggae tour in this country and is the 1 The Australian Country Music centre of much interest. cr Awards saw the Slim Dusty family scoop the pool. Slim got the Golden Guitar Award for best male vocalist, his daughter Anne Kirkpatrick won Aussie gigs as best female vocalist and his wife, Joy McKean, shared the best composition award. Slim Dusty has Concert promoters South Pacific sold more records than any other Entertainment Corporation has Australian performer, and is announced it is finalising details for LAGOS: Eddy Granl (second from right) is the first artist to receive three gold awards simultaneously for Nigerian regarded as the King of Country a mid-year tour of Australia and record sales. The gold trophies were for his solo albums Message Man, Walking In Sunshine and Love and there was a Music here. New Zealand by the Stylistics, the silver award for Mystic Sister by the Equals. Granl, voted artist of the year by the New Nigeria newspaper, is released on The Stranglers are louring here group's first Aussie gigs outside the Ice Records distributed here by EMI. Ice Records managing director Victor Olaku is second from lefi. through until next month and ACE, Hilton Hotel chain. Stylistics the promoting company, has manager Jack Bart flew in recently confirmed dates at Sydney State to negotiate the itinerary with the Theatre (February 25), Brisbane company, which is also planning to de Angels brothers sign to DG Queen's Hotel (28), Coolangatta tour the Coasters here. From MICHAEL HENKELS vehicle is a semi-documentary on usually confined to the pop Cabbage Patch (March 1), The Australian Elizabethan HAMBURG: Guido and Maurizio, motor racing featuring interviews market," as DG artist and repertoire Newcastle Civic Theatre (4), Theatre Trust has announced it will de Angelis, Italian film composers with James Hunt, Niki Lauda and manager Ossi Drechsler stated. Canberra Theatre (5) and promote a tour in coming weeks by who have written most of the others. Anne-Sophie's next recording will be Melbourne Dallas Brooks Hall (14). Count Basic, coinciding with the soundtracks for the Bud Spencer- The classical department of Bach partitas. Festival Records plans to release the Festival of Perth and the Melbourne Terence Hill movies, have signed a Deutsche Grammophon has scored Metronome Hamburg is handling band's fourth album during the Moomba Festival. long-term contract with Deutsche its quickest newcomer success with the new Infinity label as part of its tour. Grammophon as singers. In 15-year-old violinist Anne-Sophie deal with MCA. CBS Frankfurt has Festival is also releasing the Lord previous cases the de Angelis Mutter. Eight years ago she enlarged its distribution network Of The Rings soundtrack and three brothers have proved the best astonished the jury of the nation- with the addition of 600 bookshops. singles, one from the album, a 12" Berger single interpreters of their own work — wide contest Jugend Musizjprt — Bobby Bare, Charlie McCoy, Joe disco theme version and a 7" disco Verde from the film Orzowei was an and she played at the Lucerne Stampley and Many Bobbins are version. The first 1,000 copies of the Leon Berger, winner of the example — and have sold over seven international music week with great reported to be signed for the first 12" single will be in picture sleeves. Australian Popular Song Festival million singles in Europe under their success. Herbert von Karajan invited German country and western Wizard Records is still prripvcring (and a finalist in the World Popular recording name of Oliver Onions. her to the 1977 Salzburg festival and festival on April 21. Gudrun Song Festival), has a new self- Their first Polydor album is titled their first recording together, Rohrbach has been appointed Edited penned single on release entitled Bulldozer after another successful Mozart's third and fifth concertos classical Press manager for RCA in by Love Is Like A Rainbow, film for which they composed the for violin and orchestra, has sold Hamburg, reporting to classical Tours postponed — Lindisfarne music, and their latest movie music 30.000 in three months — "a figure product manager Kees Rutters. NIGEL HUNTER this month and lOcc in March. Japan keeping 'eyes mm* out' for Stiff label From ELISE KRENTZEL Musical Industries last month TOKYO: Stiff Records was following the conclusion of a deal by launched in Japan through Victor Stiff director Alan Cowdcroy with Victor last September. Elvis ' , d^Srij '-Iss. •V" Costello's My Aim Is True LP had Mountain home been released last November ahead VANCOUVER: A three-storey town of the main label debut. house is the latest addition to the list Stiff product is being billed here >• of client services which Little with slogans such as Be Stiff and Mountain Sound is offering to its Keep Your Eyes Out For The New customers here. The house has three Label Stiff. Victor international bedrooms, two bathrooms, a label manager Mr. Yokota is basement and patio and is confident of bridging the gap completely furnished with home between "underground" music and comforts. commercial success. "The international nature of our Victor has fixed a Stiff Day once a business warrants this," commented month with 15 clubs, whereby the general manager Bob Brooks. latter feature Stiff product "When a group comes to town for a exclusively for 24 hours as well as long session, hotel rooms and food selling the records and passing on can get pretty dull, not to mention repertoire information to customers. expensive. Our condominium makes This idea is being tested in Tokyo, them feel at home." but it is hoped to extend it to major Little Mountain has recently done clubs and coffee houses throughout recording work for CBS, GRT, Japan- Passport and Casablanca among Coloured vinyl is deemed loo other labels. The studio has just costly for mass marketing in this added a second 24-irack Studcr to its country, but some specially recording equipment, and will imported picture discs are Alan Mclnnes (third from right), marketing and A and R direct '"frk/t 'n" 000 "f'wr T''e K'ck '"side """""/f t shortly have a time-lock to facilitate spearheading a marketing effort to left) are EMI Internationafs marketing manager EltltZ. 0f South Africa. Others present (fi' 4<)-track capacity. establish Stiff this month. Walker and senior marketing and promotions manager Les^Hndge ke"e ma"aZer pa'il Walls, Kale's manager HtW PAGE 14 .