June 1984 Kansas City's Free Music and Entertainment Newspaper Issue 42 Modern English: from Punk to Classical
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All the Bulk rate news US Postage that's fH paid permit to pitch no. 2419 C PITCtI KCMO June 1984 Kansas City's free music and entertainment newspaper Issue 42 Modern English: From punk to classical is time and is at Worlds of Fun on June 8. Bassist Conroy talked with KC Pitch about the band. how it began and the hard-to-define Modern sound. all met in Culchester, England, 50 miles outside London. We thought it would be a real good to be in a band, so we all went out and thought we After two That British band Modern English performs at Worlds of Fun on music. It's something we've always wanted to do and we really got the chance on this his own words, "Ever- record." changing. Very hard to I wouldn't really are quite con These distinct of touring on the mind like to what we are like because tomorrow way we write our songs. We English and and loss of love ("Heart") I'd we were absolutely like it." don't want to do two songs the same, describe, and last year's "I Melt Listen to their new album and for sound like a young man struck with yourself. Modern English. with all of it's diver of fever. Lead vocalist sify and different dimensions. is a band that lyrics "He's the deserves to heard Trivial pursuits with Rhino Records Annette, the Monkees and "the world's only senior citizen Jewish rock band" words are the By Steve Walker the soundtracks to Blood Feast and 2000 surmise, platinum records do not crowd the eccentric in Maniacs with music by Herschell Gordon walls of Rhino's Santa Monica offices. How Any company with a rhino- the backbone of America," (Rhino 305, $8.98 list) and an Annette ever, respectable sales are not foreign to ceros decked out in leather as its fighting genericism." retrospective of songs from those infamous Rhino demands to be taken only Some recent Rhino releases include the American International films, Beach Temple City Kazoo Or Rhino Records' young, dedicated president. soundtrack to Little Shop of Horrors with (Rhino 204, $8.98 list) and Muscle (Rhino 501, $4.98 list) Harold Bronson, has hinted that eccentricity, music by Fred Katz (Rhino 304, $8.98 list), Party (Rhino 205, $8.98 list) As one might (continued on page 4) JUNE IS SOUL MONTH ALL SOUL MUSIC 20% OFF 4128 BROADWAY 41L~I~INE_ 817 VERMONT KANSAS CITY LAWRENCE ,June 191'14 KC PITCtI 4128 BROADWAY, KANSAS CITY, MO 64111 (816) 561-2744 PUBLISHER. KC PITCH is by PennyLane EDITOR Records at 4121'1 Kansas City. MO ADVERTISING . Marc Olson 64111. 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