Clemson's Guide to Entertainment & the Arts Volume I, No. 10 Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina April 7, 1994 WSBF hits with Spring Concert ••••• by Larry Barthelemy IV and ]osh Kesterson senior staff photographer and acting assistant editor Eight bands, eight dollars. That's how it was last Friday night on the soccer intra- Jto mural fields. WSBF, our college radio station, put on a concert that hosted a wide range of music personalities. 1 missed the first band, whom I assume was Crux. I arrived in the middle of the next bands set. The second band to play was James Hall. I was looking forward to grooving with the Push, but they had to cancel; and actually Life in a Blender I am kind of glad. James Hall gave a great show of psychedelic vocals and medium rocking guitars, with trumpet sounds in the background. I really liked them, and Three Walls Down soon I think I will buy their album (if they have one). 6 String Drag staged up next. At first I did not get into their style, but towards the end of the set, I found myself Galliano liking them more and more. They had smooth vocals mixed with jamming gui- tars and fierce drums. And as if it was the main event of Wrestlemania VII, the crowd roared and rushed into the tent to hear the Bruce Tunkel sounds of Lay Quiet Awhile. They mixed fun female vocals with music that fit the vocals perfectly. Most fans that stood watch- Larry Barthelemy/ interim senior staff photographer ing in the tent, saw the dancing ability of Lay Quiet Awhile's Danielle Howie drew raves from the Tasmin Archer Danielle (vocals) throughout the show. This was probably the best band that audience. Her band's debut album is called Delicate Wire. played. They enjoyed mingling with the screaming thrash band one3four came on. When this band played, there was the first crowd between songs. And after their show, The first impression of them was of the sign of a mosh pit. One could tell that page 2 the fans bombarded them for band shirts nerds you always made fun of in high moshing was a must, because if you looked and CDs. I for one was one of the fans that school, but once the music started, that inside of the tent before the band went on, rushed the band for a CD. And Danielle idea was thrown out the window. only guys were in the front half. That even signed it for me, ahh. After the nice The music was hard and loud and the See WSBF, page 6 Stone House female vocaled band left the stage, the vocals were fierce and uninterpreting. Sigmapalooza at the Armory Brooks Center & Gala next week The Scene Dave Matthews Band Recently •••• from news services special to the Tiger by Sean Cook Clemson University's new performing interim editor arts complex, the Robert Howell Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, will be formally dedicated in festivities April 15 Recently is a four-song CD-5 single from one of the hottest up-and-coming and 16. Southern circuit acts. The sound is a fusion of world beat, jazz, folk and rock and the On Friday evening, student ensembles band has a reputation for high-energy, get-up-and-dance live sets. from the performing arts department will This is good news for Clemson students. The band is coming to Clemson this perform. Beginning at 10 a.m. on Satur- Friday as all of the "Sigma" fraternities(SAE, Sig-Ep, Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu) day, April 16, community arts organiza- sponsor Sigmapalooza, this year's guaranteed best end-of-the-year jam. The concert Grandfather tions and campus groups from outside the will be at the National Guard Armory on the field outside. Cover is $5, the fun begins performing arts department will offer free around 7 p.m. and there will be a beer truck with 50 kegs there, according to Dave Mountian performances throughout the building Bolton, one of the organizers of the event. There will also be police and other security during open house. personnel carding persons for confirmation of proper age. So students should be The celebration culminates Saturday prepared to present proper identification at the entrance. Jelly Roll and the evening with a gala event featuring a Nialdrivers will also play. performance by the Greenville Symphony page 4 For all-ages type entertainment, there will also be a Cravitron anti-gravity device Orchestra and the Greenville and Foothills and Human Bowling. Tickets are on sale in the Loggia today and tomorrow, as well chorales. as before the show. Go out and see what makes the Dave Matthews Band one of the Brooks Center Director Bruce Cook, a most interesting and enigmatic acts on the circuit today. Or kick yourself later when member of the Clemson music faculty And Much More!!! everyone else tells you how much fun you missed. See BROOKS, /xige 6 Page 2 xflP^oun April 7,1994 j Rating System: ***** Excellent **** Pretty Good *** Good ** Fair * Poor *Half leave you alone. It's gonna be the Galliano Bruce Tunkel Tasmin Archer true wackos that you'll have to What Colour Our Flag Last Chance Afternoon Shipbuilding worry about. •• ••• •••-& by Larry Barthelemy IV by Dan Winans {r> Brian Witbeck senior staff photographer staff critic staff critic By now all of you have heard Galliano is what you get when If Bruce Tunkel was not so the song "Sleeping Satellite." you let a bunch of Englishmen modest he probably would have You know, the one by Tasmin listen to too much rap. Then named his first solo album: Archer that hit number one on they think that anyone can do it, Bruce Tunkel, One Man Band. the UK charts and off the album Life In A so they go record an album. Nevertheless, former front that hit the top 10. Well she has The music isn't too terrible, man and lead singer of Jersey put out an acoustic mini-album Blender but British accents don't go real Band Redhouse releases his de- that includes three songs by Three Walls well with the wanna-be bad-ass but album under Last Chance Elvis Costello. The album also It Likes Me image that it seems these guys Afternoon. includes the title track, "Ship- •••• Down want to project. To give you a mere sliver of building," by Robert Wyatt and Building Our House It's not rap, it's not reggae, his musical talent Tunkel wrote three live songs that were previ- it sure ain't jazz, it's just pretty all 12 songs, played every in- ously unavailable in the U.S. It by Grant Gongloff •••• staff writer lame. Some of the tracks on the strument (except for 6-string also includes the song "Sleep- album are live, and it becomes acoustic and bass on "Believe in ing Satellite," but on this album If you prefer the darker side of by Sean Cook very apparent that they lack the Me," and 6-string and 12-string it is purely acoustical. humor and don't mind a little interim editor enthusiasm that live on "Wake Up Sleeping Heart,") "Shipbuilding" is probably demented lampooning then Life perfomances require. and he engineered and produced the best song on this album. In A Blender is just the ticket for Remember when college mu- England produced a lot of every track. The song was a hit for Wyatt in you. sic was called "progressive rock?" great bands like The Beatles, The material itself continues 1983, and if you listen the song Never mind those who find This Atlanta quintet taps into that The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd and to show Tunkel's broad scope sounds really familiar, but you you strange, just hide in your long-forgotten, folk-tinged, gui- many others. Galliano is not with a variety of soulful ballads, can't picture the real song. The room with the lights off and laugh tar-driven sound which was the one of them. rhythm and blues, and acoustic acoustical "Sleeping Satellite" at them from a safe distance be- hallmark of the young bands of Reading the press release for folk songs, not to mention a is the next best on the album, it cause you've got a friend in this the early and mid-80s, most nota- the album got me all excited, dash of rock 'n' roll along for sounds a lot different with out parodist rock band from New bly Athens' REM. and when I heard the music, the ride. all of the beats. But it really York. Not surprising, considering well, let down understates how Each track would make fel- shows Archer's talent vocally. The Splatter Effect describes keyboardist Mitch Mills has an I felt. low Jersey man and possible Her voice is very beautiful and the band's latest album, It Likes incredibly famous older brother, Apparently, Galliano did very influence Bruce Springsteen very smooth through out the Me, as, "Pop configurations bur- Mike, who happens to play bass well at the Glastonbury Festi- very proud. Still need a reason song. The three songs that were ied in wet adolescence with a for REM. The sound of the album val, a jazz festival in Montreal. to consider this other Bruce? originally done by Costello in- touch of the macabre." I say the repeatedly hearkens back to the What is this with those Canadi- Let's examine his back- clude: "Deep Dark Truthful Mir- songs are slightly more mature in sound of REM's early days.