ok otHat MAgaZjNe fROm-C4T-R<- fM 102- CaBLe 100° mARch 1987 ( •'•'•') $noRrjur - @*4® C.JM, THE ON GRANVILLE Sunday March 1 RHYTHM MISSION going away party Mon., Tues. Mar. 2-3 TERMINAL CITY with INNOCENT 3 Wed. March 4 HUNTING PARTY Thurs. March 5 B-SIDE BAND & guests Fri., Sat. Mar. 6-7 AMANDA HUGHES Sunday March 8 SCRAMBLERS & guests X Mon. March 9 GREEN RIVER with WUNDER BRED Tues. March 10 VEXED with guests Wed. March 11 FRED with RED HERRING Thurs. March 12 ROOM 9 with DISAPPEARING 4 *X&*<* 0 Fri., Sat. Mar. 13-14 MT VESSELS Sun. March 15 SCRAMBLERS with guests Mon. March 16 NO FUN IN LOVE Tues. March 17 ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY Wed., Thur. Mar. 18-19 THE CRIMPOLINES «/£%.* - ire Fri., Sat. Mar. 20-21 POISONED with guests Sunday March 22 T.B.A. < Mon. March 23 JONNE KROM Tues. March 24 T.B.A. • Wed. March 25 FAITH NO MORE with guests Thurs. March 26 FAITH NO MORE & SOUND GARDEN & IRON GYPSY Fri., Sat. Mar. 27-28 SNAKE FINGER & RHYTHM MISSION & 2 BAMFF Sunday Mar. 29 NO MEANS NO record release party Mon., Tues. Mar. 30-31 UNIT E with guests ^zttizw Open Sundaywmmm^s mm 7 to 9 PRE-MOVIE SPECIALS • NO COVER 7 to 9 UNLESS POSTED 932 GRANVILLE ST • OPEN 7 pm TIL 2 am • 684-VFNii I i • * ' DffcORDER That Magazine from CITR fml02 cablelOO MARCH 1987 • Vol. V. No. 2 * Issue #50 EDITOR Michael Shea WRITERS Iain Bowman, Steve Edge, R. Filbrandt, M. Grimshaw, Marsha Harris, Mark Quail, Janis McKenzie, Mark Mushet, Afshin Rattansi, Kevin S., Robert Shea ILLUSTRATORS R. Filbrandt, M. Grimshaw, Lawrence McCarthy, William Thompson Michael Fisher ART DIRECTOR Karen Shea DESIGN IN THIS ISSUE Harry Hertscheg LAYOUT Dana Angus, Flicka Blades, Pat Carroll, 50 ISSUES, AND IT STILL MAKES NO CENTS! Lucy Crowther, Sandra Dametto, Discorder takes a loving look at its first four years Randy Iwata, Bill Mullan, Shedo Ollek, of publication .And we love you too 8 Paulus T. Scholten GOING MADLY UP THE MAINSTREAM PROGRAM GUIDE Don Chow and Robert Shea follow Louis Jantzen Shriekback without paddles LI TYPESETTING BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL Dena Corby, Ammo Fuzztone, y Maja Grip,Lorna Mulligan Why Isn t It Politically Correct? asks Marsha Harris 20 OH MY GOD! IT'S ERNEST ANGELY COVER M. Grimshaw and R. Filbrandt take Jan Wade a walk on the wild side 22 BUSINESS MANAGER Randy Iwata HAIL! DISCORDIA y ADVERTISING We don t know who wrote this, but they mean business 2A Lucy Crowther THE ROVING EAR DISTRIBUTION This month, a letter from London 26 Michael Shea A STREAM OF VITRIOLIC CONTEMPT SUBSCRIPTIONS Mark Mushet is actually a very nice person, Randy Iwata he just likes to think he isn yt 32 PUBLISHER Harry Hertscheg IN EVERY ISSUE Discorder Magazine, c/o CITR - UBC Radio 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 2A4 S (604) 228-3017 UP FRONT Discorder Magazine is published monthly by the Hard news told straight 4 Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia (CITR-FM) and is printed in the far-away AIRHEAD reaches of Surrey, Canada. Praise, pitfalls, and something in between 6 That Magazine from CITR fm102 cable 100 cir­ culates 1 7.500 free copies by the first of each VINYL VERDICT month. Twelve-issue subscriptions: $10 in The Men They Couldn V Hang, Grace Jones, Go Four 3, Canada. US$10 in the USA, $15 elsewhere. Husker Du, and Motorhead 28 Make money order or certified cheque payable to 'CITR Publications'. ON THE DIAL CITR-FM broadcasts a 49-watt stereo signal throughout Vancouver on 101.9 FM. But for best re­ A new way of looking at CITR 34 ception, you're far better off hooking up your stereo to FM cable. CITR is available at 100.1 FM on SPIN LIST Rogers Cable (Lower Mainland) and Shaw Cable What's hot, and what will be 36 (North Shore), but not yet on Western Cable (New Westminster and the Fraser Valley). Call your cable LOCAL MOTION company if you're having reception problems; call Janis McKenzie takes a look in her own backyard 38 us if you're having trouble hooking up. All inquiries concerning CITR, Discorder or the Mobile Sound System can be directed to station manager Harry Hertscheg. The business line is 228-3017 The CITR request line is 228-2487 or 228-CITR MARCH 1987 UP FRONT Everything You Wanted To Know, But... •_• HIS MONTH MARKS the 50th con­ again in an essay of personal perspectives secutive issue of Discorder. Es called Black is Beautiful; Why Isn't It Politi­ Ttablished in February 1983 as a pro­ cally Correct? gramme guide to CITR Radio, Discorder All of this, and more in Discorder's 50th has grown to encompass a broad range of issue. So read on! r • • • topics that we feel reflect the interests and concerns of those individuals who want • • • i more in a monthly music and culture publi­ i • • • BEHIND THE DIAL • • • i cation than what most media sources are • CITR is celebrating the 50th issue of • • . willing to offer. Admittedly, there have Discorder by presenting a Bzzr and •V, been many hits and misses, vehement let­ Garden Party, Tuesday March 3rd in the • • ters, angry local musicians, sleepless Student Union Building, rooms 207- nights and nervous breakdowns as Dis­ 209, at UBC from 2:45pm to 6pm. Free corder gives birth each month to a new entertainment provided by special '• a • _ « issue that we hope will serve to entertain, guests Omnisquid, Sleepy Boy Floyd, -••••• inform, amuse, and provoke the reader. Abnormally High Operating Tempera­ Discorder sincerely hopes that it has been ture, and The Evaporators. •l as much of a stimulating experience for • On Friday, March 6th, CITR is opening m•-•Wl you, and you know who you are, as it has its doors to the public from 10am to 3pm been for us, and we know who we are. as part of the UBC Open House. Come The featured article this month is a com­ and see what really goes on behind the C//, pilation of quotes and excerpts from inter­ dials. W" i Off ' views, articles, and letters from the past • That very same day starting at 8pm, fifty issues. We felt that this would give the CITR presents Go Four 3 with special reader a much better idea of what Dis­ guests Stubborn Blood and The Rain- corder is all about rather than a detailed walkers at the UBC SUB Ballroom. This history of the why's, and what for's of its will be Go Four 3's last local ap­ CJBS Presents raison d'etre. After all, it has been only fifty pearance before heaading to Los Contemporary Jazz Legend issues and what with the Georgia Straight Angeles for a short tour. It's an all ages over one thousand and C-FOX radio gig and advance tickets are available at twenty years old, we've still got a long way Zulu, Odyssey, and the AMS Box to go! Office. • You know those plastic floppy one play DAVE Shriekback is one music group whose only records found in some guitar career Discorder has followed with avid magazines? Well, Discorder's doing interest. The first Shriekback feature ap­ one better. Four better in fact. In the peared in March 1983, and this month they April issue of Discorder will be four Do- HOLLAND are on our pages for the third time. CITR It-Yourself tape releases. The only: music director Don Chow interviewed catch is that you have to record them steve ^\ III M^^t Coleman Barry Andrews when the group played in yourself off CITR, mastered on your \{Ullllvl Kenny Wheeler Vancouver late last year, and Robert Shea home cassette decks, as the local * * * * * Marvin "Smitty" Smith wrote the story that follows them as they go bands play their one take albums live in madly up the mainstream. the studio. The show is on April 1st with * * * * Robin Eubanks Also featured this month is a very funny four Do-It Yourself tape releases on the * * * 'That Dave, he's a bitch." expose on the visit to Vancouver of that same night. Red Herring, Stubborn -Miles Davis crazy TV preacher Ernest Angely, with text Blood, The Hip Type, and Terminal City and illustrations by M. Grimshaw and R. will be broadcasting from 6pm to mid­ Mon. Apri. 6 • 8 pm Filbrandt. On an irreligious note is an night live at the fifth anniversary party of introduction to the Church of Our Lady of CITR. Each band will do 25-minute sets Vancouver East Discord and the upcoming visit of Robert with a break for the next band to set up: Cultural Centre Anton Wilson, Discordian philosopher and a recording project every hour and one co-author of the llluminatus! Trilogy. This half. Distributing the cassette covers of $ month also sees the return of The Roving these bands free with Discorder and Tickets: 12 Advance/*14 Door Ear, where London freelance writer Afshin the music through the radio creates an Available: V.E.C.C., Black Swan, Rattansi diagnoses the local music scene alternative recording, manufacturing High Life, Sikora's in that city of cities. Mark Mushet also once and distribution system affordable to again graces these pages with his stream any musician and accessible to any Reservations: 254-9578 of vitriolic contempt - yes, that right, he listener. Listen to CITR for more in­ Information: 682-0706 has his own column, so watch out Doug formation.