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Editor In This Issue Chris Dafoe Contributors Don Chow, Kandace Kern BUI Mullan, Greg Potter, Larry Thiessen, 8 Love And Rockets CD, Jerry King, Kevin Smith, Don Chow sifts through the cosmic debris Michael Riches, lain Bowman, with David J. Robin Razzell, Kirby Hill Photos Moev Bill Jans, Steve Wasney Cartoons Colouring the world purple; by CD. Chris Pearson, R. Filbrant CIT"RyDiscorder Listener/ Production Manager Reader Survey Pat Carroll We ask you embarassing personal questions Design about your habits, tastes, and desires. You Harreson Atley can't help but answer. You are under our Layout Randy Iwata, Pat Carroll, power. Beverley Demchuck, Toby Thiersch, Karen Shea, David Hart, Robin Razzell Program Guide CD, PC typesetting Dena Corby

Advertising Representative David Hart, Robin Razzell Distribution Manager In Every Issue Mike Johal Business Manager Airhead Mike Dennis Marsha Brady Fan Club, Punk Rawk Horror and more. DISCORDER, c/o CITR Radio, 6138 SUB Blvd., 6 Behind the Dial Vancouver, B.C, V6T2A5. Phone (604) 228-3017. Upcoming concerts, CITR conflict of interest DISCORDER Magazine is published monthly by the Student Radio Society of the University of guidelines, and other vital signs from behind the British Columbia (CITR-UBC Radio). doors of CITR. CITR f ml01.9 cablelOO.l broadcasts a 49-watt signal in stereo throughout Vancouver from Gage Towers on the UBC campus. CITR is aJso avail­ 14 Program Guide able via FM cable in Vancouver, West Vancouver, An easy guide to difficult listening. North Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquit­ lam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Maple Ridge and Mission. 17 Vinyl Verdict DISCORDER circulates 15,000 free copies. For New Vinyl from Slow, Psychic TV, Moev, Shanghai advertising and circulation inquiries call 228-3017 and ask for station manager Nancy Smith. Dog, Thin White Rope. Twelve-month subscriptions available: $10 in Canada, $10 U.S. in the U.S.A., $15 overseas. 20 Armchair Eye Send cheque or money order payable to CITR Publications. A couch potato's view of the best of '85 film. Unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, car­ toons and graphics are welcome but they can be returned only if accompanied by a self-addressed, 22 Demo Derby stamped envelope. DISCORDER does not assume Surprise! responsibility for unsolicited material. The offices of CITR and DISCORDER are located in room 233 of the UBC's Student Union Building. For general business inquiries or to book the CITR Mobile Sound System call 228-3017 and ask for station manager Nancy Smith. The Music Request line is 228-CITR. UNDERGROWTH RECORDS PRESENTS SATURDAY MARCH 1st DEATH SENTENCE NOT A PRETTY SIGHT TOUR '86.

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Dear Airhead: Dead Airhead RH8AJ5 I think you people are aiming I are a old fart what bought Sex your waves at the wrong audience. Pistols & Ramones records way The rockers out this way (and when back nine/ten years ago. All my c/o CITR Radio I say rockers, I mean greasy scum­ university friends slagged on Sex 6138 S.U.B. Blvd. bags) are not interested at all and Pistols & Ramones & Dead Ken­ in fact have no clue as to the ways nedys & bands like those. When Vancouver, B.C. of hip music. So what I'm trying to D.O.A. & Pointed Sticks & K-Tels V6T2A5 say is GO HIGH POWER. You got­ played they stayed away. They was You certainly have become a a request? I'd love to hear from the ta. Otherwise people like myself all superior, elitist, opinionated, groovy girl! Even my pet rabbit, Marvellettes (especially "Too Many will start aquiring a taste for a cer­ smug oafs (like CITR types I meet Thornton, says Marsha Brady is Fish In The Sea") or the Ronettes. tain rival campus station that has at parties) that liked Fleetwood one hip bunny. Keep those hot tdnes comin'! I'll recently gone cable. Now that Mac & 70's puke muzak. Now it's All the old gang tunes in to your be listening. would be a shame. another generation and all the show, even Alice. By the way, if you Love, Jamie university types slag Skinny Pup­ get time someday, could you play Greg Brady (Stuck in) Coquitlam py, but everybody (even the Fleet­ wood Mackies) remember the Sex Pistols. NQ wonder they never graduate, now or then. BABY, mi BANKW hVRAltfQ, Advid Opko • leutiLS, chii cotJoTUiiJf u/hftf,

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the Vancouver Theatresports League presents DESTINY in one year, out the other OPENING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7th SHOWS TUESDAY - FRIDAY 8 pm LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS Montreal's revolutionary dance company! SATURDAY 5 AND 8 pm Triumphant return tour of HUMAN SEX SUNDAY 7 pm "A spectacular vision of the avant garde" FEB. 6-7-8 • 8:30 PM CITY STAGE 751 THURLOW VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE 1895 Venables At Victoria Dr. TICKETS VTC/CBO. RESERVATIONS 688-1436 TIX: VECC 254-9578 • VTC/CBO 280-4444 "There's not a ghost of a chance Front Row Centre 683-2017 With the assistance of the you 11 see your own name in the the Canada Council COMING UP: DrumHeat«0±* — a 3 day festiva l of drums annals of history...or is there?" The Wallflower Order presents the DANCE BRIGADE DISCORDER February 1986 *1j£ WW*,* If^PWi^ BEHIND •^ EKOftS.*. J#W/>- HWCT-F »6. THE DIAL Discorders Around the World TORONTO—THE CITY THAT FUN FORGOT— is forgotten no longer. Discorder is now available at four locations in T.O.: Music World in Eaton Centre, Records on Wheels on Yonge Street, Cheapies on Yonge Street, and The Record Ped­ live appearance, and Rhythm Mission, whose dler on Carlton Street. An official Discorder Day Concerts debut LP, Wild Mood Swings is much bigger than is, of course, being contemplated by Toronto City UBC'S SUB BALLROOM PLAYS HOST to some anyone (including our reviewer) could possibly Council. of the best local music in Vancouver in February imagine. Minors are politely requested to stay And the rest of Canada, indeed the world? and March as CITR presents two local showcase home, since certain vile substances will be Well, Discorder subscriptions are still available. concerts in cooperation with AMS Concerts. served. Annual rates are $10 in Canada, $10 (U.S. funds) February 14 features a Valentine's Day fete Minors will, however, be welcome on March 7th in the U.S.A. and $15 overseas. d'amour featuring Bolero Lava in an infrequent when Grapes of Wrath, Moev, and Fourth Floor will thrill one and all at the venerable SUB Ballroom. Tickets are available at the AMS ticket office, VTC/CBO, and all usual outlets (ever wonder where those are?) TALKING HEADS CITR Conflict-Of-lnterest Crackdown (MAKING IT SEEMS THAT the Tom Waterland/Steven Rogers Western Pulp affair has had repercus­ sions beyond the provincial cabinet. CITR Sta­ tion Manager Nancy Smith today announced new conflict of interest guidelines for all CITR LATE NIGHT FRIDAYS! DJ's involved in musical activities. In addition to requiring all musically inclined announcers to Feb. 7th • 11:45 pm place their talent in a blind trust, the guidelines require a full disclosure of all musical activities. Feb. 21st • 11:30 pm Among those affected are Gord Badanic March 7th • 11:30 pm (Tuesdays 6:30-9:00 p.m.) of Go Four 3 and the Lou Cooper Band, Dale Sawyer (Wednesdays March 21st • 11:30 pm 3:30-6:00 p.m.) of The Belgianiques, Lou Cooper Band, Psychobunnys, and sundry other projects, Gavin Walker (Mondays 9:30 p.m. - 1 a.m.) of the Gavin Walker Jazz Quartet, Garnet Harry (Fridays 6:30-9:30 p.m.) of The Lou Cooper Band and I, Weedeater, Julia Steele (Wednesdays 7:30-10:00 a.m.) and Janice McKenzie (Wednes­ days 7:30-9:30 p.m.) of the Psychobunnies, Paul Funk (Tuesdays 7:30-10:00 a.m.) of Excited First Daughter, and Bill Mullan (Tuesday 11:00-Mid- night) of Chartwell Inc. Listeners are asked to report any suspicious on-air activities by these individuals, including gratuitous self-promotion, playing sets of their own music, and interviewing themselves on-air. Those judged to be in a conflict of interest situation will be asked to a) resign or b) demon­ strate sufficient assets to buy the station a high power licence. CITR fm 102 cable 100

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Don Chow discusses life, the universe and everything and discovers the transcendant world of David J. - High Priest, Prophet and Bass Player of LOVE AND ROCKETS up—because from that point of view, there D: What has Love and Rockets got going is a kind of sense to events, which, on the for them that Bauhaus didn't? surface, appear to be nonsensical...and it's DJ: A more positive attitude, a serenity of just a peace that comes from that belief. mind which comes from obtaining a few D: Do you believe in God? It's my birthday. My answers to the perennial question of 'why DJ: 'God' in inverted commas; I believe are we here?' and 'what's it all about?', etc. that we are all God and that everything out head is stuffed up in a etc. But we're still searching, because there there is God. I think it's a very primal are a lot of unanswered questions. knowledge that everybody has, but it's hotel room, with a man D: What answers have you found so far? somewhat clouded and blinkered. And cer­ wearing sunglasses. DJ: I can't really speak for the group. I tain experiences and influences lift those mean, we do have a unified attitude which blinkers. I think that, in the future, every­ Underneath bright red comes out in the group's music and our body will have the blinkers taken away. brows are eyes I will ideas, but we also have our own individual Perhaps we're not ready for that yet, so philosophies, so I can only expand on my that's why we're blinkered to a certain ex­ not see; on the table is own views—which is just the belief that tent, because we couldn't deal with it; it a comic book called everything is unified, and part of the same wouldn't aid survival. thing and that this world here is just a D: What are some of these blinkers? Love and Rockets. microcosm of the macrocosm. If you see DJ: It's just a neurological condition—a Meet David J. world events in the context of the univer­ sort of shutdown, so that we function on a sal, then it's not going to get you screwed level, first of survival, so that we can get CITR fm 102 cable 100

through the day-to-day business of living in this world. If we were all turned on to the easiness of being, then there wouldn't be much functioning. I mean, there are a few SPECIAL SALE people who sustain this level of conscious­ valentine's Day TO February 28 ness, like Zen masters—but if we were all Zen masters, then... At the moment, the 1/3 OFF world isn't at the right level for us to all Regular Recording Rates obtain that level of consciousness, so that's Plus Fantastic Savings on why it's suppressed. Real Time Cassette Duplication D: Do you see that state of consciousness being attained in the future? ^H Hv • 2 BULLFROG DJ: Yeah, I think it will, I don't know how RECORDING. STUDIOS —probably by intervention from extraterres­ 0Mf fm- trials—but that's where we're headed. And 734-4617 if we don't blow ourselves up, we'll get there. And maybe if we blow ourselves up, we'll ——— get there anyway. D: So you're using music as a means of transcending to a higher state of conscious­ ness. Is that why you're musicians? DJ: It's why we're still musicians—or why I am still. That wasn't the reason to get into fROCODOR - it in the beginning. It was just that...I don't ^^ An Original Cabaret know why, it just felt good. Feb. 14 - March 8 Tues. - Sun. 8:30 pm D: Who is Mr. Smith in 'If There's a Heaven Above?' II Vi price previews: Feb. 12 & 13, with 2 for 1 every Tues. and Sun. I believe that we are 10th FIREHALL THEATRE all God and that 280 E. CORDOVA SEASON 689-0926 everything out there ?Ol3<£f88 $ is God. I think its a very primal knowledge CITR & REVOLUTIONS RECORDS PRESENT that everybody has...

DJ: The man in the street—although the origin of that is a character in an obscure film. As the song stands on the record, it's RHYTHM MISSION about you and me. Originally it was a refer­ ence to suicide—but it came to be about liberation. So the theme evolved from a negative to a positive. D: What do you mean by, 'shut up unless we want to pray?' DJ: i hate explaining...talking about the words, because they just exist as words, in their own right. I mean, if we have to explain it, then we've failed. Does it mean anything to you? D: No. DJ: (laughs) At least you're honest... there's just so much yappin' and bullshit talk that goes on. It's just saying, look, let's all shut up, unless what we're going to talk about is transcendence, i.e. praying. Let's forget all this 'yap, yap, yap, yap' polit­ icians...let's just forget it all. Most of the songs are songs of transcendence, in one AND SPECIAL GUESTS way or another. I think it's most elequently expressed by the one that hasn't got any words at all, which is "Saudade." It's just SUB BALLROOM the feeling that comes from that, and we DOORS 8PM • TICKETS: AMS/ZULU/ODYSSEY /REVOLUTIONS were trying to get it onto a tape recorder as NO MINORS TICKET INFO: 228-2711 pure(ly) and undiluted as we could. f 'A

OEV, IT SEEMS, HAVE BE- Canada. All in all it stands as a tidy refuta­ tion of Moev. A tiny, almost elfin woman with come a success. And they tion of all those who had written Moev off a silken voice and a manner recalling Bar­ have done so with surprising­ two years ago as a band who had a shot bara Streisand in punk drag, she provided Mly little fanfare. A new album, at the big7time and blew it. the lyrical focus for the band's music. Her Dusk and Desire, has been released on Pro­ It was two years ago that Moev played musings on the claustrophobia and restric­ file Records, the New York independent their last live show, New Year's Eve at the tion of growing up among the well-to-do— that handles Run D.M.C. and Paul Hardcas- Luv-A-Fair. Vocalist and lyricist Madeliene "I always find myself in a jar of mayonnaise" tle. The first video from the album, "Took Morris had already said she was leaving the was the way she succinctly put it in "M.T.M. Out the Lace," is receiving airplay on MTV. band; the split was reportedly not amicable. T.N.M.E. '—brought life to the band's pretty, And plans are afoot to tour the U.S. and Morris was the focal point of the first edi­ con*, p. 12 1 PROGRESSIVE 0% 1 CLOTHING & j& ACCESSORIES WjiB INTERPRETATIONS /TtF-MS^ FOR K\\ MEN & WOMEN /JLl, ^^^ • BY \\m ' \ . VANCOUVER ^M 4f /W/do Framers our exacting craftsmanship DESIGNERS || 1 7 m\ ') and knowledge have enabled us to establish the iffl'Un'wl M/ highest standards in custom picture framing. J We take the extra time, make the extra effort that SALE 30% OFF ] \wm- j distinguishes truly impeccable work from the WINTERSTOCK Ii I merely acceptable. Specializing in aluminum, T'&N wood and plexiglas framing and conservation OPEN MONDAY II matting. TO SATURDAY f-JB TTK^ «* • URBAN J^ W^ MIDO FRAMERS 2952 West 4th Avenue 341 West Pender Street INNOVATIONS Vancouver, B.C. V6K 1R4 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1T3 • 2229 GRANVILLE 736-1321 681-4566 736-3112

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if sometimes sterile, compositions. Her voice, sometimes clear and ethereal, DEEP READING sometimes coarse and sneering, added an edge of unpredictability to the band's necessarily structured sound. Live, it was Inexpensive quality books Morris, dressed black, an ever-present cigarette burning to an ash between her Hard to get art, social & literary fingers, doing a vigorous version of the Luv- A-Fair two-step, who provided the visual in­ magazines and journals terest while the rest of the band hunched workmanlike over their instruments. Morris's departure left Moev not only without a vocalist, but with a serious image OCTOPUS BOOKS problem. Although keyboardist Cal Steph­ enson, Tom Ferris and Mark Jowett were 2250 West Fourth 732-8721 • 1146 Commercial 253-0913 responsible for most of the band's music, they had been cast in supporting roles in the public eye. There was, however, no To ERR is Human . . . To SIN, question as to whether they would continue on, only whether they would continue on as Moev. Stephenson and Ferris reasoned that since the band was Moev before Morris joined, there was no reason to change the moniker with her departure. *7Q^2c2 i Looking back two years later, none of the band members is too enthusiastic about talking of the reasons for the split. Stephen­ son, however, traces the band's problems back to their early success. "The problem right off was that we were extremely naive," he explains. Tom and I started the band because there was noth­ ing to do. I had a synthesizer, so we just huddled around it and freaked out." 'And then everything happened so quick­ ly. Go Records signed us after our first release, on the strength of the Cracked Mir­ ror EP," adds Jowett, "and I think we really didn't know what we were doing, and the label didn't know what they were doing. CAT PRODUCTIONS PRESENT There were a lot of problems, and it ended up two years later..." He hesitates. "I just think it would have been different if things A VERY SPECIAL PERFORMANCE had moved more slowly." WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 191986 AT THE LUV-A-FAIR OEV LAID LOW for five months CAT TICKETS AT VTC/CBO AND ALL USUAL OUTLETS CUT following the split with Morris, Plus Divine Videos All Evening! Mthen returned to the studio to i i record Toulyev, a hesitant testing of the waters both for the revamped band, now with Cal on vocals, and for their new label, Nettwerk Records. It wasn't a strong re­ CONTINENTAL lease—Stephenson's singing was flat and fOL lifeless—but it returned the band to the f ^\ public eye. Another 12", Alibis, with Cal's BREAKFAST SPECIAL $2.65 / • J vocals supported by new vocalist Michela —caffe latte, croissant Arrichiello, fared better, Michela's har­ or toast, juice monies sweetened what might otherwise l ZEA N have been a cold, sterile effort. Open Mon.-Thurs. 8 am-10:30 pm "Michela's voice adds another element Friday 8 am-Midnight to our sound," says Jowett of the former Saturday 11 am-Midnight Mike Club vocalist. "Both Cal and I, and Michela sing on the new album, so it's Sunday noon-7 pm pretty varied." Arrichiello's vocals give Moev a lighter, 820 HOWE STREET 683-5122 playful, almost sassy sound, a sharp con- CITR fm 102 cable 100 trast to the harsh seriousness of Cal's sing­ ing. With her slight build, dark hair, and clean, pure voice, Michela also draws in­ evitable comparisons with Morris. It is, how­ ever, a very different situation from the first edition of Moev according to the band's manager, Terry McBride: "With Michela Moev works more like a band, with all the members contributing. That wasn't always the case with Madeliene."

"Torn or Cal will come up Fix I FUNK hra 8 SHOES In. 152 GRJUIVUE STRET, WmianvBi Bmnsii CINJMBM V6K1K3 888-2828 with something and put it down on a four-track and then pass it over to Michela and me. It's sort of like writing by mail."

"Michela joined the band after most of the music was written for Dusk and Desire," explains Jowett, "so she didn't have that much input this time. But she contributes to the material we're working on now. Gen­ erally, what will happen is Tom or Cal wil come up with something and put it down on a four-track and then pass it over to Michela and me. Then we'll add something and give it back, and so on. It's sort of like writing by mail. I guess it's a pretty unusual way of writing music." The results, however, seem to support the band's methods. The music on Dusk and Desire is more sophisticated than any of Moev's earlier work. The band no longer seems so tied to the insistent pulse of their drum machine, a situation that had earned the band a reputation for being stiff and soulless. They've developed a harder edge as well, evidence perhaps of the influence of industrial music on their essentially pop sound. These changes, along with the changing face of North American radio, have given Moev a second chance at success. "The success of a lot of the British bands who play this type of music has opened the door for a band like Moev," says Jowett. "And I think we've grown as songwriters and musicians. A lot of people seemed to think that electronic music had to be cold Aet and calculated; I think that we've shown & West vc^ that it can also have a lot of warmth and 685-5524 emotion." —CD 11:30-11 Mon. - Thurs 11:30-1 Friday Moev will be appearing March 7 at the 12-1 Saturday S.U.B. Ballroom at U.B.C. with Grapes of Wrath and Fourth Floor, presented by CITR 5-10 Sunday Eve and AMS Concerts. DISCORDER

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D.R.I, and anything in between. With your WEEKDAY REGULARS TUESDAYS hosts Mike Dennis and Andrea Gamier. 06 Feb. Montreal and Ottawa bands 7:30 am Sign-Oil VANCOUVER INSTITUTE LECTURES 13 Feb. Toronto Bands and Valentine's 8:00 am WAKE-UP REPORT 10:30- 11:30 am dedications News, sports and weather. Lectures from the Vancouver Institute's Satur­ 20 Feb. The sound of the prairies-music from Winnipeg, Calgary and Wm am BREAKFAST REPORT day night lecture series. Edmonton News, sports and weather followed 05 Feb. Reforming Parliament: The Case of 27 Feb. Homecoming-the best of B.C. punk by GENERIC REVIEW and INSIGHT. New Zealand TOP OF THE BOPS PM pm LUNCH REPORT 12 Feb. The News from Halloy's Comet 8:00-9:00 pm News, sports and weather. 19 Feb. Orangutans: People of the Forest 26 Feb. Why Economists Disagree 4:30 pm AFTERNOON SPORTSBREAK PLAYLOUD 6:00 pm DINNER MAGAZINE MEL BREWER PRESENTS News, sports and weather followed Late night 1:00-4:00 am 11:00 pm-Midnight by GENERIC REVIEWS, INSIGHT The fascination of horror and degradation. We speak with our eyes closed. You should and a DAILY FEATURE. Music with teeth. Aural surgery performed by listen with your mouth open. It's a gabfest Larry Thiessen. This month's afflictions: 4:00 am Sign-Off presented by Mel, man. Know what's going 04 Feb. The Culling—the newest and worst on locally without leaving home, especially from CITR's Spinlist combined with you agoraphobics. Watch out for black ice. WEEKDAY HIGHLIGHTS recent exhumations from friends and Win things. Get happy. Find out why J is the record stores. most congenial letter in the English language. 11 Feb. The Prisoner of Love—musical bon­ Tune in, 'cause Mel loves you. Tune in, 'cause MONDAYS dage for the imminent Valentine you love Mel. Call us, 'cause we love you festivities. Playloud violates the too. too too 8-too for 87. ARTZMONDAY MAGAZINE airspace of fellow DJs Norm van 7:15-10:00 am Rassel and Bill Mullan. Radiocinema: dedicated to creative sound, 18 Feb. The Negative Woman—Diamanda FRIDAYS music and words, Canadian music, announce­ Galas, Annie Anxiety, Lydia Lunch, ments. Conceptual art audio directed by ESI. Chrystale and all those other FRIDAY MORNING MAGAZINE 7:15-8:00 Cancon Music Made in Canada Wednesday morning girls. 7:30-10:30 am 8:15-9:00 Happenings/ short announcements, 25 Feb. The Da Da movement in music. 60 STIRRINGS: A breakfast and coffee warmer, short features. years of insurrection. with in-depth profiles, news, reviews, and 9:00-10:00 RadioCinema/ Words, Music and unexpected occurances. This month: Sounds, directed by Essy. WEDNESDAYS 07 Feb. Reggae in Vancouver: "Avoiding the blood-clot." Who and where the THE JAZZ SHOW UBC WEEKLY Dreads are. With guest hosts 11:00 pm-12:00 am 9:00-9:30 Redemption. Vancouver's longest-running prime time Jazz A new show dealing with issues of concern 14 Feb. A Valentine's Day special. Music for program, featuring all the classic players, the to students at UBC. lovers. Seriously. occasional interview, and local music news. 21 Feb. South Africa. CITR DJs Kirby Hill and Hosted by the ever-suave Gavin Walker. JUST LIKE WOMEN Mike Johal unite against Apartheid. 03 Feb. Eberhard Weber's Colours, a pictures­ 6:20-7:30 pm An ethnographic study. que, moody, and sensuous album Woman, heal thyself with Ann and Lil's 28 Feb. Post-Punk Tribalism. In Vancouver, from this German musician and remedy for the Old Boys' Network: an hour yes. Guest hosts TBA. photographer. of news, interviews, and music. A shot in the 10 Feb. One of the best TV shows on jazz arm for all women, and for any man who POWER CHORD was 1957's The Sound of Jazz, featur­ likes them. 5:00-6:00 pm ing Count Basie, Thelonious Monk Vancouver's only true metal show, featuring THE KNIGHT AFTER and Billie Holiday. The soundtrack to the underground alternative to mainstream Midnight to 4:00 am that show, entitled The Real Sound metal: local demo tapes, imports and other of Jazz has just been released and Music to clobber Yuppies by—featuring radio rarities, plus album give-aways. will be featured in its entirety. shows traded with alternative stations in 17 Feb. Miles Davis and his most influential Europe and the U.S. This show will really FRIDAY NIGHT FETISH quintet, featuring Herbie Hancock, mess up your BMW! 6:20-9:00 pm Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Word salad and cooking tips from habitual Williams. Recorded live at the Plug THURSDAYS guest Beverly and delinquent trends and Nickle in Chicago. revelations from that Annoying Guy...Radio 24 Feb. The 1st Esquire Magazine All PARTY WITH ME, PUNKER! for people striving for less than adequacy in American Jazz Concert, recorded 4:00-6:00 pm their lives. January 18, 1944. A concert that A new time slot for this two-hour show THE BIG SHOW sums up where jazz was before the which specializes in music described, for the 9:00 pm-midnight be-bop revolution. Featuring Louis lack of a better word, as "punk rock." But it Why pay money to get into a nightclub on a Armstrong, Billie Holliday, Benny can mean anything from the alcohol-rock of Friday night? If Big InternationAl can't get you Goodman and Art Tatum. the Replacements to the brutal thrash of dancing, no-one can. CITR fm 102 cable 100 U D

THE VISITING PENGUIN SHOW 22 Feb. The Meaning of Life Onukwulu and Dido. Tune in for the latest Late night 1:00-4:00 am news from Africa, plus special features at Interviews with local musicians and artists, PROPAGANDA! 5:00 pm. the newest sounds at CITR, your personal re­ 6:30-9:00 pm quests and even golden oldies. What more An eclectic mix of interviews, reviews, music, SPECULUM-REFLECTIONS ON could you want? Hosted by Andreas Kitz- humour, High Profiles, and other features mann and Sheri Walton. with Mike Johal. SITUATIONS 6:30-7:00 pm PYJAMA PARTY News; RET. (Pesimists Endurance Training); WEEKEND REGULARS 9:00 pm-1:00 am and "Forward From the Past." 7:30 am Sign-On (Saturdays) Your hosts Mike Mines and Robin Razzell present everything from ambient music for SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE 8-00 am Sign-On (Sundays) snoozing to upbeat tunes for popcorn and 8:00-9:00 pm Noon BRUNCH REPORT pillow fights. 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Mark Mushet searches the Host Steve Edge presents a wide range of the misnomer of "classical" (i.e. pedantic) world over for experimental, minimalist, folk music, extending from the latest U.K. music. Paul Smith continues his musical lexi­ avant-garde, electronic, and other non- Rogue-Folk through to all kinds of traditional con of the twentieth century, and is joined mainstream sounds. music from Canada, U.S.A., the British Isles by Tylor Cutforth, with his favorite remedies 02 Feb. Down to the bone...with Skeleton and just about anywhere else. Plus the latest for Sunday morning complacency. Crew: Fred Frith, Tom Cora and U.K. soccer results at 11 a.m. 02 Feb. Stravinsky Concertino Zeena Parkins. An interview and ex­ 01 Feb. Christy Moore. Famed Irish singer 09 Feb. Love 20th Century Style cerpts from their Jan. 30th perform­ and former member of Planxty as 16 Feb. Messaien—Quatour put le fin de ance at the Savoy. well as Moving Hearts. His new LP temps 09 Feb. This Way...please. Music by Bruce Ordinary Man will be featured today. 23 Feb. The (now) regular end-of-month Gilbert, commissioned for a dance 08 Feb. Stan Rogers. One of Canada's finest. opera feature; Phillip Glass' Einstein piece by Michael Clark called "Do Composer of our 2nd National on the Beach You Me? I Did." Anthem "Barrett's Privateers." 16 Feb. Gyromancy. A 45-minute electro- 15 Feb. TBA ROCKERS SHOW acoustic piece by the Mnemonists, a 22 Feb. Richard Thompson. A must for all Noon-3:00 pm group of highly accomplished sound sculptors from Fort Collins, Colorado. Thommo's fans. The whole show The best in Roots, Rock, Reggae, DJ and These are the people that brought devoted to the master guitarist/ Dub. With your hosts George Family Man us such classics as "Horde" and the singer/songwriter. Barrett, Collin Hepburn and Bruce James. ever popular "Biota." 02 Feb. Lee (Scratch) Perry (the upsetter) 23 Feb. There is always time for surprises NEOFILE 09 Feb. Sugar Minott: The dance hall man depending on what the month's dig­ Noon-4:00 pm 16 Feb. Judy Mowatt: Best Reggae Album of ging turns up. This will be a night of Join CITR's music directors as they take you 1985 Working Wonders. those surprises. Four Aces...HONEST!! through the station's new and exciting Spin 23 Feb. Ijahman Levi: Irie Reggae he said, breaking into a cold sweat List. SOUL GALORE knowing full well the bluff wouldn't wash. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO 3:00-4:30 pm Focusing on Black-American popular music of GILUGAN'S ISLAND? THE EARLY MUSIC SHOW 4:00-6:00 pm this century, this program takes you from the birth of the blues through doo-wop, soul and Late night 1:00-3:35 am The queM tor ultimate truth continues... Join host Ken Jackson for music from the More metaphysics of the airwaves. This funk, from Massachusetts to California and everywhere in between. Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, month, an offer you can't refuse from the presented at an appropriately early hour. Oxbridge Mafia: 02 Feb. TBA THE AFRICAN SHOW 01 Feb. Beyond the Fringe 09 Feb. Early music from Exotic and/or 08 Feb. Parodies Lost: The music of Neil 4:30-6:00 pm unlikely countries. Innes A program featuring African music and 16 Feb. Bach's sons, round two. 15 Feb. Rutland Weekend Television culture with hosts Todd Langmuir, Patrick 23 Feb. Spotlight on H.I. Franz von Biber DISCORDER February 1986 Listener/Reader Survey DISORDER

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ES KIDS, YOU CAN HELP CITR and Discorder and improve your record collection—simply scrawl your name Y and telephone number on your survey when you drop it off and you become eligible to win a complete collec­ tion of Zulu, Nettwerk, or Undergrowth releases, plus a copy of the 1986 BLACKBOOK, featuring savings amounting to more money than you have in your bank account! Remember, one entry per person. EflaEH-aaaaE VINYL VERDICT can be no excuse for trying it again. weave a tapestry of topical footnotes on Middle Psychic TV Be that as it may, one of the reasons I have America. Everpresent at the centre of these nar­ always admired Genesis P. Orrige is that from ratives is a young nomad perpetually drifting the very beginning he has been on the extreme back and forth across a defeated landscape and edge of things and has steadfastly remained arriving at little more than a healthy and inspiring there. While innumerable electronically-based sense of optimism. groups have searched (mostly in vain) for celes­ The nomad is, of course, analagous with the tial beauty in their music, PTV are decidedly band itself, as is apparent from the opening earthbound. The sounds aren't the silver lining track, "Looking for Lewis and Clark:" like the of clouds—rather, one might expect to find them legendary expeditioners before them, the Long on the underside of rocks. Squawking birds, Ryders are also searching out and mapping new delirious adenoidal giggling, dogs (wolves?) territories. Once this becomes obvious, all other growling, masturbatory bedroom groans, guitars elements of this thematically adventuresome played with dirty nail files, some of the earliest work fall into place: the impassioned honesty of (and best) use of chanting monks—this is the Sid Griffin's and Steve McCarthy's vocals (guar­ gothic library of sounds from Thee Temple. anteed to make Bruce Springsteen's guts Even the purchase of a PTV album becomes wrench); the hammer-on acoustics and back-to- a human experience if you haven't already heard the-bone Telecasters that are complemented by it. PTV's individual efforts have been called medi­ heartfelt harmonies and a rhythm section that ocre, inspired, ugly, etc. Until you've lived awhile pounds in a straight-four like a Pullman rolling Mouth of the Night with the record, you can't decide which one of down the tracks; even the nostalgic yearnings more terms apply. Many of their taped sounds Temple—UK for obsolete politics are saved from becoming are duplicated from work to work, the same cliched and maudlin by the wit and verve of the songs are used on more than one album, they INCE THROBBING GRISTLE DISBANDED band's songwriting abilities. put out entire albums that duplicate material in 1981, Genesis P. Orridge and Psychic TV Though the album contains several standout S which might better have been left buried, and have been a major influence in the musical songs (both "Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times sometimes it all works and sometimes none of underground. A glance at the roster of members Today" and "Just Can't Ride the Boxcars Any­ it does. and former members of PTV include people from more" are Guthrie-like anthems to the economic Their newest release, Mouth of the Night, Coil, Test Dept., 23 Skidoo, Nurse With Wound, dustbowls of the '80's midwest—complete with definitely works. It's a nicely balanced mixture Current 93, etc. Many of them have gone on to shades of Steinbeck and Faulkner—while "Look­ of dark and faintly sinister ambience and upbeat, limited commercial success while their parental ing for Lewis and Clark" is a raunch-toned rocker powerful and even silly rhythm tracks. Many of roots have stayed in relative and occasionally in which Griffin justifiably pairs himself with his them sort of melt into one another making it easy deserved obscurity. heroes Tim Hardin and Gram Parsons), it is the to put the record on and leave it. The use of tapes This may be due to the fact that PTV is an closing track that encapsulates all of the album's lends itself well to the repetition involved in most intensely human experience. Consider the homi­ best intentions. "State of My Union" is laced with forms of ritual and they are far more noticeable ly "to err is human—to forgive divine". . ."Err" images of America that race past like Kerouac in this release than previous ones. The drummy is a derivative of the Latin "Errare— literally to on benzedrine. Football, barrooms, and the back cuts make fairly obvious the dance origins of the travel or wander. English literature abounds with seat of Dad's car all summed up as, "Maybe it record (it was commissioned by Micha Bergese colourful usages—'errant knight" for example. ain't exactly Heaven, but it's certainly part of our and the Mantis Dance Company). It summons up visions of people in slightly tar­ dream." An optimistic ending to an ambitious and Surprisingly absent is a lengthy philosophical nished armour looking for windmills to tilt at and significant work that bares its bones and shows discourse on the Psychick credo. . .a note on the occasionally falling into sin. In much the same its teeth. influence of Alexander Scrabin excepted. It is manner, PTV has in the past subjected their lis­ —Greg Potter tempting to wonder if this absence is due to a teners to various amounts of sadism, boredom, realization on Thee Temple's part that this is a horror, garbage, comedy and even beauty. Part fine album and needs no inner understanding of their genius is that they achieve quintessen­ The Jesus and Mary Chain or forgiveness. tial sadism, boredom, etc. Entire albums have Psychocandy Mouth of the Night provides the buyer with a been devoted to these subjects and have been Blancho Y Negro accompanied by outrageous explanations of how rare opportunity to peruse all that is admirable, challenging, but ultimately very listenable in the mission of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth HEN GIVEN AN EXOTIC SWEET, DOES is made manifest through them. Psychic TV without any of the lapses. In short, your ears don't have to be divine. A must listen W one suck it slowly to savour every minute- Not surprisingly, ritual performs a major role for anyone. of its delight, or does one chew it ravenously to in the bulk of PTV's work, with somewhat eccen­ enjoy an explosion of flavour? Personally I'll never —Larry Thiessen tric results—notably a sequence of rituals per­ tell, the the JMC have given the world another formed in Iceland and United States involving the The Long Ryders opportunity to ponder such a dilemman. Physco- piercing of bodily parts. It really is hard to know candy— qu'est-ce que c'est? how seriously to take some of what is reproduc­ State of Our Union Psychocandy is a long-awaited album, after ed on vinyl. AILROADS, ROOSEVELT, AND RENEWED what has seemed like years of publicity and hype. With sufficient repetition I haye learned to en­ R remissions for the pitfalls of the American In 1985 JMC released a string of singles to whet joy all of it on one level or another; but there are Dream: the Long Ryders' new album has got 'em the appetite of the faithful, and to provide fuel times when you probably had to be there. In a all. Their first release for a major label, State of to the critical fire. Reports of outrageous gigs, way, the music is the antithesis of so-called "new Our Union is a departure from the band's earlier of chaotic sets that end in toppling amps and age" music. Where one is assumed to have heal­ efforts, 10-5-60 and Native Sons. Though the crazed, frenzied fans have only added to the ing or reviving effects, the other purports to break trademark jangly guitars and infectious melodies myth. First we had the myth. Praise Jesus! Now down environmentally or civilization-induced bar­ are still present, the arrangements have been we have the album. Praise Mary! riers to the true consciousness necessary to stripped down and the lyrics evoke strong poli­ Admist walls of feedback emanate simplistic destroy the status quo. Thee Temple ov Psychick tical connotations only hinted at on previous lyrics, melodies and musicianship. Absolutely Youth does not offer any alternative to the pre­ releases. refreshing to listen to when the rest of the music sent state of affairs—presumably because every­ By transposing F.D.R.'s depression-era men­ biz has been caught standing in a stagnant pool. thing humanity has done so far has been so tality of "we have nothing to fear but fear itself" These boys are quite clever, too, providing a lyric abominably awful the first time around that there into a contemporary context, the Long Ryders sheet that is dissassembled and scattered in DISCORDER February 1986 1 ly, while my roommate stares at a blank orange rfv* * wall, saying nothing, small translucent beads of "in** sweat on her upper lip. I keep telling her Davis is not in the desert, but she won't listen. —Travis Shanghai Dog This Evolution Undergrowth Records

'V ALWAYS THOUGHT OF SHANGHAI DOG pieces all over the sleeve. Frankly I didn't notice Davis is frighteningly clonish with an abundance as one of Vancouver's more underrated bands. nor care until after I indulged in the bonbon box 1 of girls who sound like a Frank Zappa song, and Live, they've always been great. Musician for of music guys who are seriously into agri-business and musician, they can match Vancouver's best. The sound of the future? Some people vehem­ look like they have brazil nuts in their cheeks. Their debut EP two years ago was no slouch ently disagree, calling it garbage, a scam, a Graduates of this university most often take a either. But their "following," especially during the clever publicity hype. After all, these brash Glas­ moderately successful, if uneventful, journey last year, was virtually non-existent. And can you wegian boys have declared themselves the big­ down the road to quiet oblivion in the netherlands remember the last time you opened up one of gest thing since creation (. . .yeah, yeah, yeah), of consciousness. the "major" rags and found a piece on Shanghai and have predicted that in the year 1990 Psycho­ Surrounded by trillions of acres of prime farm Dog? Right. Maybe it was their lack of an "im­ candy will be so cool, so hip, that everyone will land, Davis has also been home to some of the age," or maybe because they never went to be claiming they've had theirs for years. I have best neo-lysergic bands to emerge in the past enough of the right parties. Or maybe it was mine. five years. Thin White Rope now joins the Davis because they didn't care if they looked like truck Indulge yourself. Cheat on your diet. Get the music hall of fame (along with True West, Game drivers onstage. I don't know. habit. It's so delicious it'll simply drive you Theory) with the issue of its first vinyl effort. Pro­ This Evolution is a good record. No, that's psycho. duced by Jeff Eyrich (Plimsouls, Gun Club), this —Beverly Demchuk wrong; it's DAMN good! Most of the songs are is a thick brooding sound suitable for post acid mid-tempo rock 'n' roll with the inevitable (the party introspection and drug induced teeth grin­ members are offspring of some of Vancouver's Thin White Rope ding. Persons searching for easy listening bop- legendary punk groups) punk influences surfac­ a-billy should avoid this record at all costs. ing here and there. There are a couple of slower, Exploring the Axis But aficionados of tortured guitar, deep lyrics, more contemplative tunes such as "Hiroshima," droning rhythms and discordant backgrounds and a couple of speedy numbers approaching will love this record. It's got everything from ob­ hardcore like "Siren'—a number 1—highly AVIS, CALIFORNIA IS A STRANGE lique drug references to songs about genetically recommended. place. A university just dropped out of the D perfect pre-destined mates and suburban axe Mike Graham's distinctive, driving guitar work sky one day and landed smack in the centre of murderers. What more could anyone ask for? propels much of the Shanghai Dog sound on this middle-class farming U.S.A. The population of I play it over and over, endlessly and endless- record. Vocalist Doug Andrew sings with an

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angst-ridden urgency like there's no tomorrow, excessive minimalism. Listening to his last LP Stephen Hamm's bass and Terry Russell's which is pretty well what most of the lyrics point Buddhist on Fire, it did strike me that much of drums hold together some of the most frenetic to as well. They have utilized keyboards, courtesy the background babblings and assorted special guitar work to ever emerge from the Wet Coast, of Rodney Graham (Corsage), for some of the effects could have been eliminated without being while Tom Anselmi screams above the din. intros, and they add a neat twist. missed. Has Blinded Horses gone too far in the The aforementioned guitars come courtesy Overall, I am impressed by this piece of vinyl. other direction? Trimming the fat is one thing, but Ziggy Sigmund and Christian, who attack their The production is top-notch, the songs, more this time around Bryn may have left himself with instruments with a zeal worthy of Moslem suicide often than not, feature infectious melodies and more bone than meat. It's not much to gnaw on. bombers. The wall of noise thus created reaches pertinent, intelligent lyrics to boot. The cover art —Robin Razzell a triumphant peak on "Bad Man," a song which and liner shows some creative and fresh ideas must surely have the good ladies of the PMRC as well. Slow scurring for their warning stickers. 77MS Evolution is a logical, well-executed pro­ Not for the faint of heart, Slow show great gression for Shanghai Dog, who have moved Against The Glass promise on Against The Glass, even if the pro­ beyond their punk roots by just the right extent. Zulu duction is somewhat erratic. Having released a Vancouver should be proud of this record- great EP to go with their superb 45 ("I Broke the —Mike Dennis LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CALLING Circle"), their next challenge is to conquer the A Slow the local band of 1985; this record LP while avoiding the fate of the oozoo bird. (The Muslimgauze shows why. The six songs on this, their first EP, oozoo bird is born in a blaze of glory and then leap off the grooves and smack you in the face flies in ever-decreasing circles until it disappears Blinded Horses with the force of a MAC-10 on full auto at six-inch up its own jack.) range. Will Slow triumph on the airwaves of the world? This aural onslaught drives the record for most Will they become rich and famous and go to the OT A GOOD SIGN: WHEN THE RECORD of its twenty-minute length (there is a brief Betty Ford Centre and have highly publicized N skips for five minutes before you notice. Bad breather for a Morricone—like the intro to "In fights over "musical differences?" Or will they tidings for Bryn Jones a.k.a. Muslimgauze, who Deep") and it quickly becomes apparent that this end up busking on Granville? Stay tuned. has now surpassed his previous efforts at bone- is no talentless thrash outfit. —lain Bowman numbing repetition. There's more bad news. Not only is the music more repetitious than ever, it's less infectious. Gone, for the most part, are the rhythmic hooks and general continuity that have saved past releases from complete tedium. Bryn has been drumming himself into a frenzy over his previous two LPs, so maybe his excuse is sheer exhaus­ tion. It certainly sounds as if he got the tape loop going at the start of Blinded Horses and then went out and walked the dog. On the other hand, perhaps it's a case of February 1986 Armchair Eye

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AY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT OTHER Yes, this did all happen (other box office cham­ get to Vancouver until '85) and Company of fields, as far as moving pictures are pions included Goonies, Police Academy II and Wolves split the honors, the former an epic concerned, 1985 was a very, very bad Teen Wolfe). It was not just a mass shared delu­ historical drama, the latter a Freudian (or is it S Jungian?) dreamscape. Both spin a fine tale. But year. Can you say "worst in memory"? Can you sion. I could go on at great length, pondering the say "worse?" 1985—the year in which Rambo twisted socio-political implications of Rambo, or take big chances and come through shining. I (the touching yet ultra-violent tale of a sensitive delving into the horrific absurdity of a populus could go on for pages, but that wouldn't be the Vietnam veteran's nostalgic return to the mythical hung up on the supposed magnetism of Michael point. Just see them if you haven't already, and land of his youth) destroyed all comers at the box J. Fox. But that would be depressing, possibly if you have, then see them again. They're worth office; 1985—the year in which Back to the Future dangerous and probably boring. a second look. (an average TV movie at best) was roundedly Instead, why not cast a more optomistic glow praised, sometimes by reputedly intelligent peo­ and concentrate on the admittedly few rewarding A five-way tie for third ple, as (get this!) a good movie (the best of the visual experiences I had in 1985. Not even the In other words, to try and break them into some year according to some)—and its star, Michael worst year in memory can be all bad. specific order would give me a headache, and J. Fox, a gnome from Burnaby, actually became would serve nobody anyway but neurotic facists North America's number one box office attrac­ The best film of the year! with a compulsion for imposed order. Suffice to tion (insert forced and desperately concerned Actually, it's not that simple. Killing Fields (yes, say, all five are strong, worthy samples of quality attempt at ironic laughter here). I know it's technically an '84 release, but it didn't Get Outa Town SKI BIG WHITE

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The result demons from the East, check out a new com- "Surf, Skate, Ski and Skank" is a well thought out„ textured sound §J§JMT\\ Qilation album entitled It Came from Canada put As the title suggest, the theme **" Montreal's OG Records. latest release is plain old-fashione£'f-u:n. The" You"just wait! We re Dmelning trial Waste Banned Bill of Rights have a lot in cormmbn with the Replacements. Both bands rely on a|ferd-edged Still wsvs wife Goes Insane" guitar-based sound, borrow "riffs" |rom other noid You Should Be" to argue with a guv who's liable to head-butt your bands, and both keep the value of br| her our reference points date from the high. On a thirty-minute cassette, TtjB.O.R. play ;ion, the Vietnam era, or the feminist and their way through 13 surfing, couBry, blues lovements of today, progressive artists tinged rockers guaranteed to make GOi me along inspiring us with their words, acid for life. exceptions (the Slits, the Au Pairs, the Surf, Skate, Ski, and Skank was r^orded live ^mmmflmmm^ • Condo Girls), the music accompanying the on Co-Op Radio on September 7, ifc, as part andjiisfive-piece band are from Montreal; a town f anger, frustration and change has for of a local music program—Rough Outs. Craig more noted as the home ot Les Canadiens than been the twangy, faded-out, and wimpy Burner, who recently did sound on R0$j Herring's of acoustic instruments. Although that cross-Canada tour, should be commanded for a swing bands Their four-song demo tape contains und like an insult, the point to be made clean, well-mixed recording which shci.ic; eaten l|ngry lyrics deserve fiery music, not mush. on with Canada's network of camp . aside, the warm, passive sound of folk munity radio stations. A limited ™*has served to internalize the spiritual settes were issued commercially, bu" of dissention. ter look hard as most of them have been quick­ sessions. Suddenly, along comes the Industrial Waste ly picked up. , On the other hand, "Pocketful of Rainbows" Banned. There's nothing warm and non-agres- is a slow ballad with subtle Hank Williams over­ sive in the IW.B.'s music. They don't ask for a Antemortem (formerly NG3) tones. Ray Condo et al can best be compared change—they demand it. While feminist artists "Armed Forces" "Poor Animal" to our own Herald Nix and Los Angeles' Blasters. like Holly Near, Rita MacNeil or Ferron seek to As NG3, Nev Burns, Odd Noxious, and Jaime Complete with stand-up bass, banjo and coun­ melt the icy hearts of their oppressors, the In­ Nicholson established themselves as one of Van­ try fiddle, the Hardrock Gonners promise to deliver dustrial Waste Banned seeks to pierce it. The six- couver's vanguard hardcore bands. With the toe-tapping, hand-clapping music for the Railway song I.W.B. demo is currently being shopped change of name comes a change in direction. Club set. Last May, the band opened up for k.d. around to record companies, but they'd better While they haven't exactly become a funk-rap lang in Montreal and received high marks from put on their oven mitts, otherwise they're likely disco band, they have slowed down the beat- that city's notoriously hard-to-please media. 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