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^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. Collins! Finally, Marsha Harris writes to us The Editor DISCORDER CITR-FM & DISCORDER in association with CJIV-FM ARE PROUD TO PRESENT •A BRITISH SHOWCASE* THE CHAMELEONS UK WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS the mighty lemon
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Friday March 13 • 1987 Advance Tickets •CBO/VTC 501 W. Georgia St. Most Major Malls, Odyssey Imports, Zulu Records, Track Records, Highlife Records, Black Swan Records as well as A RCH 7 , C m T H- -E MARCH «&, TOWN PUMP -r M 20/21 DELBERT P t 0 T 0 Ul U D 0 0 D D 0 K featuring MCCLINTON h R o I U n n 0 0 0 0 o S U JOSENETO just a bunch of stale, stupid, dying robot have pronounced it "dangerous - corro dinosaurs. Obviously, as your magazine sive to moral fibre." They go on to point out points out, there are some redeeming vir that Wilson encourages people to think for tues of life on your little mudball, but they themselves, which is extremely unde are sometimes rather hard to find. sirable in a society where many people are According to reliable sources, there is already unemployable as a result of this apparently reason for hope. One of those kind of activity. sources will be coming to your town soon. Please pass on this most urgent warning His basic message, on which he will elabo to your readers, that they may be saved rate considerably, is THINK FOR YOUR from this peril. SELF, QUESTION AUTHORITY. Only God bless America, through commitment to this difficult pro Flat Earth Society Executive cess is it possible to begin to perceive reason or unreason for hope in your troubled world, where most people are not Discorder, being a god-fearing publica very different from sheep or monkeys. tion that purports to uphold the morals and Do not believe any system which tells ethics as decreed by the divine right of the you it has the answer; it is sterile, dead and leaders of the world, does take responsibi dangerous. Do not even believe this letter, lity for not having anything to do with the but DO come to hear Robert Anton Wil fabrication of the letters published in the son's presentation The New Inquisition at Airhead column, but does claim a com the New York Theatre, 639 Commercial plete lack of irresponsibility in printing Drive, March 20 at 8pm. Unless you want them. to become premature compost in the dras tic renovations that your planet is about to PATRON GRATITUDE undergo, that is. Dear Airhead, While Wilson purports to be a middle LETTER OF THE MONTH To the person or persons involved with the aged White Anglo Saxon Pagan, he is Airhead, bringing out of such acts as The Chame actually a time travelling anthropologist What a rag Discorder is. Each article leons, Mighty Lemon Drops, and pre from the 23rd century. Do not believe any sounds so much like all the others, each viously, The Jazz Butcher and Gene Loves thing he says until you can prove it to your page so much like the other pages. "See Jezebel: we are grateful to you. It seems own satisfaction. the Discorder writers; admire their hip hu we've waited so long for The Chameleons a public service announcement mour; enjoy their acidic raillery." One can and were about to give up. The fact that from the Doggiez of Sirius only be impressed by such fine, angry they're performing at the Town Pump is young men, such winsome, flighty young even more preferable because of its size. women. Your January issue cultivates a visionary In the future, perhaps you could persuade COUNTERPOINT The Monochrome Set? portrait of the time (see modish Mark Dear Airhead, Anxious Mushet) and of the people in it (lain The Vancouver Flat Earth Society urges Bowman's Everyman struggle with the your readers to boycott the March 20 and Sunday a.m. DTs). Your collective reviews You may thank the people at Timbre Pro 21 Vancouver appearances of Robert of the year, in which you each contribute ductions for bringing these and many oth Anton Wilson, since it may be dangerous personal slices of the best music styles, er fine groups to Vancouver. As for The to their mental health to do otherwise. sounds, gigs, clothes, events, artists, and Monochrome Set, alas, they are no longer. Wilson himself has admitted that he was bands, that together make up the perfect hired by the CIA in the late sixties to write a picture of what is right and wrong in the POINT series of books undermining the morals world, are interchangeable and dispos Dear Airhead, and sanity of America's young people. able. All your detached but passionate Reading your synopsis of 1986 from my Jari Fellwall and Reynald Reagent, two trampling of old styles, and detached but extraterrestrial perspective, I had to eminent local authorities on these matters passionless exulting of the new, is patheti wonder, IS THERE LIFE ON EARTH?, or have investigated this man's work and cally the same - and from people who pre-
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//TvXA ^oc^ AV x i %• / / \ r^J0* w^u° ^ A LS v Af ViNfl XVT^^S^0""^ to'Ak Y™T ^^Wmfy irm&zk DISCORDER tend to have such original taste. The fairs, overweight, VCR-buying parents), the blue sky over Florida is the most trendies who you despise pursue their they can attack you similarly by destroying powerful image of the year and decade. trends, oddly enough, because they like their image of you in their eyes. You both The earth is a floor mat. Our stepping off it the latest fashions. What difference is have access to the same tactics. But the is our best effort, the realisation of our there between their like of something, for ease with which you mutually tear at each grandest dreams, our highest skill and its being fashionable, and your hate of other is no measure of your respective dedication. The annihilation, with it, of the something, for the same reason? And if worth, ability, creativity, enthusiasm, dis seven astronauts who were some of the you discredit something for its popularity cernment, or fulfillment of your principles. scientist and engineers involved in design- (all PEM-sounding bands), of what value is The facility with which you handle destruc ing it, applying it, and building it, was your crediting something? You are all too tive criticism is evidence of your lack of terrible because the shuttle was the work busy looking around you, to see who of the purpose, appreciation, and original ideas. of their own hands. It was also the will of crowd is watching, to have any true My message then is to suggest you quit our dreams. opinion of anything. your rigid pose; abandon your self-de Our best efforts are often doomed. In the There is, then, a common problem, or forming self-consciousness. See all case of the shuttle, the failings were pe grievance, with the general tone of some of things, mundane or great, without consid culiarly human: too much ambition, lack of your more prominent articles. I feel that ering the valuation of society. Do not let preparation, lapse of precaution, and the you have not learned an important fact that your society's judgement force you into inevitable insufficient foresight. If our the poorest decoration you can award any immediate and opposite reaction. Try greatest resolves are subject to these, are yourself is the bloody strip you have torn asserting to yourself this principle. There pulled down and blasted by these, should off someone else. That the attitude others are some good things in the world, and we not forgive, or look beyond them, when will appreciate most in you is your dedica these things stay good regardless of their we detect such failings in the petty and tion to improving the expression and origi source. In fact, predicting a source of forced efforts of our local and everyday nality of your own thoughts and ideas. Be good is a difficult and treacherous activity. life? You forced me to write. sensitive to the goals, ideas, and inten Difficult because good can come from the T. Crutch tions of others. Believe that others are act most unlikely sources. And treacherous ing - just as you are - by following the because dogmatic decisions about what Thanks, we needed that. Growing up is values and principles that they have is an acceptable - and what is not an ac hard to do, especially when under the weighed and found worthy and which they ceptable - source of good can be wrong scrutiny of so many people. Hopefully we intend to live consistently with. No and cause one to miss much. won't become too self-conscious about it appreciation of art, or even fashion (from For instance, I, with great exertion, apply though and still offer readers such as which art sometimes springs) is objective. these principles to the Discorder. I keep an yourself the opportunity to compose such One opinion counts for as much as any open mind and respect your intentions. articulate and passionate letters about other. No matter how much you denigrate And I do find something to appreciate. In Discorder's shortcomings. Now, you seem and attack the 'other side' (represented by Armchair Eye I agree that the sight of the to have all the answers, would you care to uncaring governments, overblown world space shuttle challenger effervescing in write for this rag? MARCH 1987 7 50 issues, and it still makes no cents
nd perhaps that is why Discorder remains after four years of publication the irreverent rag that readers love to hate. Like CITR, the UBC radio station that established Discorder as its program guide, the magazine's only mandate is to offer an alternative to what the intrepid investigator A might otherwise find in the local media. To Discorder, nothing is sacred except for the freedom and the will of the individual to express him or herself. And sometimes not even that. The following is a collection of quotes and excerpts from interviews, articles, and letters printed in Discorder over its last fifty issues. It is not an attempt to define Discorder, it is merely an opportunity to show that these people, like you and me, are trying to think for themselves and in doing so are en deavouring to make some sense out of this nonsensical, wonderful world we live in. And you can't put a price on that!
IN THE BEGINNING WHAT'S IN A NAME? February 1983: Discorder hits the streets. We were going over all these names, Several people injured. and we said "Let's put all our names to All of us at Point Grey's finest radio sta gether" and we laughed; but then we did it tion are pleased to present Discorder. and it sounded like "Bolero Lava", so we Caution, though! Discorder is not meant to kept it. Plus with "Bolero" you have your be taken on its own. Chances are that if this classical romantic piece by Ravel, you mag is read in its entirety by a non-listener, have your dance and you have the bolero terrible things might happen: bewilder jacket, so you have romance, music, and ment, nausea, or even death. For this rea clothes. What more could you want out of son we advise that Discorder be cut with life? 100% pure CITR. Simple... so what is Dis Vanessa Richards corder? Why does a radio station put out a May 1984 program guide? Essentially to improve We're the Zealots. Thousands of years communication, and isn't that what radio is ago, there was a group of people at a all about? By improving communication, place called Masada who committed everyone benefits. mass suicide rather than be captured by Mike Mines the invading Roman army. They were the Discorder editor original Zealots, or religious fanatics, and we admire them. So don't fuck with us, or ...AND THIS IS WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY we'll kill ourselves. •CITR is killing music. Peter Mitchell *• play some normal music, assholes. OH, SO THAT'S WHAT IT IS! January 1986 • sack all your DJs. What we do is not music. There is too SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL • do something about those few un- much music in the world. What we are go dynamic DJs - use whoopee cushions! ing to do tonight is not fashion. It's not We just looked at each other one day • you hate more than you love, product. It is the language of the heart and while rehearsing and said to ourselves, •get this shit off the air. it is the beauty of ordinary things. we'd rather be working on our bikes. We CITR Listener Survey David Thomas at The Town Pump couldn't do the amount of drugs we want June 1983 May 1986 ed and be a band, so we ended up doing the drugs. SICK OF SHIT? What we are is a mixture of punk ideals, Paul McKenzie on The Enigmas December 1986 Overheard on CJOR's The Dave Barrett hi-tech music, and dance-groove a la Show", July 26,1985 Kraftwerk, Suicide; all of those things put The thing that holds this band together is The Host: Dave Abbott together and played on very simple instru that we're basically all goofs. The Topic: Music ments. It's very pounding and repetitive Andy Kerr of NoMeansNo and schizophrenic: one minute it's seduc August 1984 ing you and the next minute it's freaking Caller: Now I know there's other factors, Like all great bands7we were really aw you out. but this CITR is sick. It is... I can't believe ful sometimes. it... is this a UBC station? The Woodentops Art Bergmann on Los Popularos Abbott: Yes. August 1986 July 1984 Caller: / cannot believe that UBC would al The music itself involves stealing from Judas Priest are great... everyone low something like that to come over their blues, punk, country, R&B, garage rock, should see them live. It's hilarious watch airwaves. Have you ever listened to CITR? stuff, things, whatever we can pick up. It's ing all those heavy metal greaseballs Abbott: / have not. No. not even a collage; it's a gumbo sort of punching air to Hellbent on Leather. Espe Caller: You haven't lived until you have... I thing where you just throw in everything, cially when you consider that they'd freak mean, if you could stomach it, you should cook it up, and hope it tastes better than it out if they knew half the band was homo listen to it. did separately. sexual. Abbott: Okay love. I'll try to make a point of Deja Voodoo Jay of My Three Sons doing so. November 1984 January 1985 8 DISCORDER JUST SEX NUKE THE POLITICIANS DOOMSDAY PROPHETS The misogyny that is so evident in Dis I found Reagan's ranch house to be What do you think I can do to alleviate my corder only serves to turn people away similar to any expensive summer cottage, fears about the coming nuclear devasta from CITR - people who otherwise might except that midget wrestling photos tion? Do you think drugs would help or is be interested in alternative music. Almost adorned the walls. the answer in religion or maybe in going all of the albums mentioned in Discorder Roving Ear out and shooting some of the bastards that are from all-male bands. Most of the writ October 1986 keep us living on the razor edge of sanity? ing is by men and about men. Females are As long as that bastard's alive, he is on Airhead rarely mentioned and if they are it's usually December 1983 a put-down to build up the ego of the the wall. He has long claws. Because no body else cares, and he does care. You writer. Airhead ...the imminence of Armageddon, the see a man who cares? George Bush is December 1984 imminence of the apocalypse, the immi nothing. He doesn't care about anything at nence of the final conflict, the imminence all. He's just a lizard who got too fat in the ...Sisters, if you present yourselves to of the fucking end. I think people have got sun. Reagan's an actor and they're evil the world as "Woman," subjugating self to prepare themselves for this conflict, for people, you've got Meese in there, but no and basing decisions on genitalia, you're this finality. If they don't, they're dead. body else cares like Richard Nixon cares. simply perpetuating the very bondage that They're probably dead already and maybe You laugh now, but you'll see - the mother has been used to separate, classify and they don't care. Maybe they'd rather not will be with us. I'd make him a winter book contain women and men for thousands of live in the world that's going to come. But 18-1 favourite, despite all the laws. years... when will we grow beyond divi whatever the truth is, they should start sion? Airhead Hunter S. Thompson July 1986 thinking about it now... that's immediately January 1985 - because there isn't much time left, and there's no hiding from the black bird. ...obviously the whole world is dom People work. Not democracy. Demo inated by 'male' attitudes, including the cracy is ideology, just like religion, just like David Tibet of Current 93 music community. There is definitely a communism, just like theocracy, just like September 1986 larger percentage of men working in the anarchy. music community; I know of only two fe Mutabaruka male sound technicians in Vancouver, and August 1985 SPRAYING THE TOWN GLUE most band members are male as well. I / can only use a little hairspray tonight, don't let all of this 'male' attitude dominate And the issues are much bigger than the cos I've got to use the whole can for Nina me or my life by not playing the role of the individual people and individual issues Hagen on Monday night. helpless little girl, but by being, acting, brought up in this case. We're defending overheard in the ladies room looking and thinking the way I want. Soci and campaigning for a lifestyle that we of the Railway Club ety is still saying, "Women, shave your think offers some kind of future for every February 1984 legs, look like this image of woman, beauty body in the world as opposed to the future only looks like this, you want to be beau that is presented by someone that would Besides the usual soft drinks, the snack tiful, get a man before it's too late!" All of actively engage in manufacturing wea bar sells Winstons (yea) and poppers that is harming the way men and women pons. There's no future in that. People (boo). Poppers are little legal bottles of a deal with each other and themselves. We have got to realize that. Either human life is liquid a lot like paint thinner. Poppers are have to stop checking who has a penis going to be the most important factor in the the moral equivalent of sniffing glue. The and who has a vagina and maybe we can future or profit is going to be, no matter people who frequent The Edge think they just be people and stop segregating our what the human costs. are decadent. selves from each other and stop creating Dave Gregg of D.O.A. Dave Watson on The Edge differences where there aren't any. November 1983 December 1985 Emily September 1985 •
If men and women were abolished to morrow, I'd be joyfully happy. 'Cause the fact that you have a penis or a vulva as be ing intrinsic to your identity is weird to me. It's like having black or blonde hair as be ing intrinsic to your identity. It's depressing because it's so primitive. And it's the basis of a lot of political things that happen. The politics of a man and a woman, when I come down on a woman, when instead of dealing with her as a person, treat her as a thing to be controlled, and dominated, and owned, I'm doing the same thing as Rea gan, and the leaders in Russia, or dictators around the world are doing with everyone. It's the same spirit. And if people don't deal with that in their own lives, you could talk for years about political solutions and it wouldn't mean a thing. If you're a fascist in your own life, you can vote Democrat, call yourself a socialist, but you're still a fuckin' fascist. Rob Wr.ght 0fNoMeansNo August 1984 MARCH 1987 TEN YEARS AFTER PUNK these so-called "punks" get off on letting I don't extend any credibility to punk What made me scratch my head and some poor bastard hit the floor and crack rockers whose biggest problem is catch wonder what was wrong with Vancouver's his skull? Maybe pain is hip; I don't know. I ing the right bus to be home by 12:30. Hardcore Scene was not DOA's perform think the whole underground scene had a Dave Watson ance, but the crowd's reflexes. Some guy lot more credibility when it was socially December 1985 stage-dove into what appeared to be a unacceptable to sport short hair and torn t- fairly thick group of people. In the middle shirts. Julia of his free fall, the crowd neatly parted October 1984 MY KIND OF TOWN down the middle and let this dude sail to the floor. You could hear the smack of his There appears to be a lot of dead weight The audience was full of jerks, a bunch head hitting the floor over the top of the in the American punk scene; the people of drugged-out assholes. Every time we band. The people surrounding him looked that genuinely care and make things hap play Vancouver, we run into the same at his twisted figure on the floor, then back pen are often outnumbered by bored un problem with jerks in the crowd. at the Rock Stars. I think my cat would have imaginative kids, punks in the traditional Henry Rollins of Black Flag shown more concern. sense of the word. CandaceBatycki April 1984 What I would like to know is where do October 1984 I think it's interesting. Most of the time we have like five hundred maniacs hammer ing nails into their foreheads when we play, 4I II < Ifc but when we come here they just sit in the corner and clap. -M I • * THEATRE ••'!•= Charlie Ryan of U-Men 16th & Arbutus 738-6311 March 1986
Beyond her home I have not seen so many people smiling was the land of MARCH 6-12 since the last time Vancouver was inun million dreams. dated by MDA. "An experience you Chris Dafoe at Jonathon Richman should not miss." —Judith Crist April 1984 "Profoundly haunting. Audiences are sure to AND THE WINNER IS...? be rivited." —D. Davis "In fourth place, winners of $250... Red SHOWTIMES Rum. In third place, winners of a photo 7:30 & 9:30 session with Dee Lippingwell... Ground Zero." At this point Ground Zero guitarist Brad Kent began screaming obscenities "EXTRAORDINARY! at the crowd and the judges. Several spec Scene after scene tators reported seeing Neal Hall, music in "Soldier Girts" critic for the Vancouver Sun and one of the SHOWTIMES shows the truth judges, grab Kent by the lapels and tell to be much, much 7:30 & 9:15 him to keep his opinions to himself (or stronger than fiction. words to that effect). A scuffle ensued and "A MUST SEE., MARCH 13-19 —NY TIMES the bouncers had to separate the two men truly memorable." "VIVID AND COMPELLING" before Hall, who stands about six feet, and —LA HERALD EXAMINER Kent, considerably smaller, trashed the HEAVENLY PURSUITS judges' table and spilled the last round of drinks. "A THOROUGHLY Unaware of the fracas, Mines continued WINNING MOVIE." with the results. Pausing briefly, Mines an —Kevin Thomas, L.A. TIMES nounced the second place band. "And in "A consistently intelligent, second place in the year's Hot Air Show often very funny, tenderly Finals... the Beverly Sisters." romantic and thoughtful The shocked silence of the crowd was movie." —Rick Kogan, CHICAGO TRIBUNE broken by four of the Actionauts, twitching and writhing on the floor, kicking their legs SHOWTIMES 7:30 & 9:30 and shouting. Hot Air Show TOM CONTI • HELEN MIRREN MARCH 20-26 April 1983
SHOWTIMES A MAN AND Q: So what did you guys think of the whole 7:15 & 9:30 A WOMAN Shindig thing? A: "I feel completely ripped off." *********** 20 Years Later j "I thought we should have come in sec TWENTY YEARS AGO A YOUNG DIRECTOR MADE A LOVE STORY "A MAN AND A WOMAN." THE ond..." HIGHLY ACCLAIMED, ACADEMY AWARD WINNING "We'll never play in competition again." FILM WAS CLEARLY AHEAD OF ITS TIME. "It's just like a beauty contest. Some NOW THE SAME DIRECTOR AND STARS ARE girls do different songs better." REUNITED AND THE SPARK FLARES AGAIN. NG3 . ****************** MAR. 27 - APR. 2 May 1985 W 10 DISCORDER ©YAMAHA
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"Buy a Blackbook" All the major label has done for us is, we seem to have spent lots more time and lots more money for a product that maybe it's a Available at all unusual lacations little more professional, but to me it's not A CITR DISCORDER FUNDRAISER any more entertaining than the first one was. They have a real knack of spending lots of time and money doing lots of things. John Poe of Guadalcanal Diary November 1986 Niko for one, agrees. "I think everyone should go through it. If you don't, you lose track of what's going on. It's good to know what it takes to get things going. I hope we don't always have to do this, putting up posters and stuff..." "I really want a manager at this point," Don pipes in, "someone with lots of time and interest." "And money," Niko laughs. Beverly Sisters December 1984
EXPO EATS F.I.R.A. The whole thing raises some nasty issues. Is compliance complicity? Or is it the time to take the Expo money and run? For some people this is the one chance to make good bucks and get some expo sure. For others, it's nothing more than be ing slotted into a Social Credit re-election campaign. Is being in the back pocket of the beast the same as being in its belly? Kandace Ken- August 1986 The fun was cut short when Xerox organ izers pulled the plug on the band. Slow bassist Steve Hamm responded to the power cut by unveiling his considerable bulk as Expo security attempted to clear the stage. F.I.R.A. September 1986 Once Jimmy heard about nudity and profanity and people calling Bill Bennett a fascist, the festival was as good as over. F.I.R.A. September 1986 12 DISCORDER F**K ART AND POLITICS, LET'S DANCE Airhead response: Sorry, Peter, it just isn't that much fun Then there were the can-can girls. They anymore. Do you know that is has been were in Grace McCarthy's tent. One of over six months since you people last them sat in a raised chair with one leg threatened us with a lawsuit? C'mon, pointed straight out, her skirt hiked up high you've got to make it worth our while. By enough so you could see the Grace garter the way, how many CFOX DJs does it take invitingly wrapped around her net-clad to do a radio show? The answer is two - thigh. Her partner stood smiling on the one to push the buttons and read the cue floor, holding eight-inch bamboo hoops, cards and one to fire the other if he dares to encouraging delegates to toss them on the utter something of even rudimentary intel aforementioned extended limb. ligence. PS: We'll take a speed-crazed Oral Dave at the Socred Convention gerbil over a candle in a bottle any day. September 1986 March 1985
I mean, does politics mix with pop music? Perhaps. Does politics mix with art? I have great difficulty with art. It's al ways spelt with a capital F where I come from. Billy Bragg February 1987
I guess there's a lot of bands out there that like to get up on stage and say, "Well, I'm a politician. I'm using music as a back drop, I'm going to get up here and I'm go ing to spew out all this political rhetoric and I expect you all to believe it." Kids that come to shows are really impressionable, they come to have a good time. I'm not go ing to sit up here and tell somebody "I'm a neo-socialist, I read a lot of post-war Jap anese fiction and non-fiction, so this is my political stance and you should all follow it because I'm in Husker DO and you like our music." We just want people to like our music, we don't want people to be like us. CITR LIFESTYLES Bob Mould of Husker Du FUCK! December 1985 Now that I have your attention, I'm get ting sick and tired of all the asshole jocks GARBAGE, GUNS AND GERBILS around campus! I went down to the Pit downstairs of the SUB and you wouldn't Your rag smells worse than the garbage believe all the jerks down there! Football that's been sitting in our kitchen for the last jocks, by the hundreds! And they got the month and a half. The only thing Discorder IQ of a piece of furniture. They all got their Is good for is killing flies and starting fires. cutesy little fag bags! And t-shirts advertis Airhead ing some faggot football or hockey team. December 1984 And the worst thing about it, these macho shits look like they had a tire pump shoved So I hear CITR is going high power. up their asses and been blown up. I "Here, little boy. Take this .44 Magnum and walked in there wearing my punk outfit and go play." at least twenty eyes gawk at me for about Airhead five minutes. Why can't they just grow up February 1985 and accept the fact that we are here if they like it or not! Dear Airhead: Airhead I am perplexed! I picked up the June March 1984 issue of Discorder and find, to my chagrin, no gratuitous slags levelled at the Foxoids. The reason I'm pissed is because where What are we doing wrong? How many al were these teeny-twits when Depeche ternative radio types does it take to screw Mode wasn't famous???!! Now these bop in a light bulb? The question is immaterial pers are rampaging through record stores as alternative radio types spend all their gawking and screaming about Depeche... money on expensive import records and These boppers are doing so as if Depeche can't afford to pay their BC Hydro tab. is Duran Duran. Isn't it bad enough they How many alternative radio types does it did it to Duran Duran? I once had pride in take to jam a candle into an empty mus saying I liked Depeche when someone . . opr7 noif2 catel bottle.... asked of my favourite group. But now guys |14o Commercial * ^B 9*^SjN L .*&& iaH Bite *ZZT*t£'' Hn if i^il W URBAN Wfrmm INNOVATIONS ^w4TH AVE. (AT YEW) 736-3112 Edited by Harry Hertscheg, Bill Mullan, and Michael Shea. 14 DISCORDER EXCLUSIVE 1ST RUN ENGAGEMENT BASED ON THE NOVEL BY RICHARD WRIGHT TOWinn, N Native Son PUMP ' Amidst the Christmastime tinsel Monday March 2 and fluff, a few serious films do KYLE STEIN manage to slip onto the screen. Tuesday March 3 Native Son is one of them. Bas ed on the 1940 classic by Richard RADIO EUROPE Wright, the film stars newcomer Wednesday March 4 Victor Love as Bigger Thomas a FOURTH FLOOR young black chauffeur who acci Thurs. - Sat. March 5, 6, 7 dentally kills the daughter (Eliz BARNEY BENTALL & abeth McGovern) of his wealthy THE LEGENDARY HEARTS white employers. Also starring also on the 7th CBS recording artists UNTIL DECEMBER are Oprah Winfrey and Akosua Metal Monday March 9 Busia (Both of The Color Pur HARLOTS WEB ple '). Matt Dillon, and Geraldine Tuesday March 10 Page. Jerrold Fredman directed BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO Richard Wesley (Uptown Satur Wednesday March 11 day Night') adapted the book, and PAPER CRANES Thursday March 12 the critical response. Native Son INVADERS will almost certainly reopen the Friday March 13 debate over the portrayal of black men in film that The Color Pur CHAMELEONS UK with ple began last year. THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS OPENS FRIDAY -AMERICA FILM MAGAZINE Saturday March 14 MARCH 6TH AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE INVADERS Sunday March 15 NATIVE SON STUDENTS $4.50 W/CARDS P.M.I.A. SHOWCASE INC. UBC, SF, BCIT etc Metal Monday March 16 ASSAULT Tuesday March 17 Cast: Victor Love. Oprah Winfrey. Geraldine Page. Elizabeth McGovern. Matt Dillon. Carroll Baker, Akosua Busia. John McMartin, Art Evans, John Karlen. BIG ELECTRIC CAT Wednesday March 18 Credits: Directed by Jerrold Freedman. Produced by Diane Silver. Screenplay by Richard Wesley, based on the novel by Richard Wright. Executive producer: Lindsay VOX PHANTOM Law. Production designer: Stephen Marsh. Director of photography: Thomas Burstyn. Thursday March 19 Music by James Mtume. SAVOY BROWN Powerful film treatment of Richard Wright's 1940 novel Fri. Sat. March 20. 21 exploring racial relations in America. A movie to chew on DELBERT McCLINTON amid the holiday cotton candy releases. 87-08 Sunday March 22 MARTIN CARTHY Freedman, who has directed several made-for-television mov Monday March 23 ies, keeps the drama moving, making each scene count. He never FLORA PURIM lets the pathos of the story fall into sentimentality. Native Son Tuesday March 24 presents a bleak picture of American life: a nation divided by race STUBBORN BLOOD and class, with ignorance and fear on both sides. The poverty, Wednesday March 25 racism and economic limitations that spawned Bigger Thomas are DANGEROUS FARM ANIMALS as prevalent today as in 1940. This film, with its chilling plot, fine Thursday March 26 performances and brilliant score (by James Mtume), deserves to LOS DURANGOS reach a wide audience. Fri. Sat. March 27. 28 —Wendy Weinstein T.B.A. —The Film Journal (Trade Publication) Sunday March 29 P.M.I.A. SHOWCASE FRIDAY • SATURDAY Metal Monday March 30 IRON GYPSY Tuesday March 31 POISONED YEARS 66 Water Street 919 GRANVILLE Gastown • 683-6695 DOWNTOWN Studio (?inema 681-1732*24 HRS. I 11 f * BEAT WEDNESDAY CONCERTS March 4 March 5th Take a Sentimental THE THIEVES Journey with AL MISTY and the April 1st MISTY RTVER BAND ANIMAL SLAVES through the music of your life & FAMILY PLOT March 11 A Mght of Poetry JUDYRADUL JEFFDERKSEN MAXINEGADD DOUG CHOMYJS JOEMEJSABJSEY JONNY T.PAYNE GRACELAND March 18 1250, RICHARDS ST FRANK VANCOUVER from the Marine Club TEL 688 2648 ^fe-^/v OW DOES ONE BEGIN AN AR- Ultimately I think that too many ticle about a group whose sound cooks were in the kitchen. And now I has been described in the local feel like, oh god, I've got a lot more rags as "Primal music, deep and room to move, and a lot more things H to do, and I don't have to worry about dark" and "High Art Has Rhythm"? How about "the guarantors of a gusty guide treading on Carl's toes, and he through the gamut of groovy," or maybe doesn't have to worry about treading "sinuously suave innovators of the innate"? on mine. It's like planting out a plant No? Well, then let Barry Andrews himself that's got too big for the pot, that was throw you a quote: "Warm, moody, burn the ultimate reason for his leaving. ing, dark, aquiline, melts in the mouth, suc Nevertheless, times change and the culent, insidious, vile and electric, as full of groove must continue to move. Shriekback love as can be found in a jaguar's fang." is now under the creative control of There is as apt a description of the sound Andrews. of Shriekback as can be found. We're in the business of Barry Andrews (voice, keys) has been communication to people, and by through such experiences as XTC and people I don't mean people who Robert Fripp's League of Gentlemen; co- have the right haircut, or who have core person Dave Allen (bass) was taken the right drugs, or who have weaned in the rhythm section of the Gang the same frame of reference, or have of Four, who really couldn't cut it without read the same slim volumes as us. him. Together with Martin Barker, drums There's nothing we want to put in our and percussion, they form the Shriekroot, music that would be a bar to people, a collection of individuals, individually col and on the other hand what we have lected, divided yet united. In other words, to say is quite a personal expres they get along. And quite well; in fact, a sion, and isn't necessarily going to real "family atmosphere", as Martin calls it. appeal instantly to a lot of people It was not always like that, though. Carl who haven't done the same things Marsh, a relatively creative sort of chap, as us. So it's a balance to strike; our was with the band until the previous re way of approaching it is to just lease Oil and Gold, and even then he was present what we do as effectively obviously on the way out. Barry knows and straightforwardly as possible. why: There's a limit to how you can MARCH 1987 17 compromise your music, and I just Black Light Trap is trying to conjure form. Barry Andrews has another explana need to know that I'm proud of what I up some huge cavernous place with tion, one that justifies the paradox, or, do. On a personal level I need to flame and blackness and big fat rather, explains it away. know that a record is as good as I men on space hoppers bouncing / think that a rock'n'roll concert could have made it, and that there's around seas of burning oil, and that should be a real good clean-out, no lie in it. So long as it's that, I want sort of nonsense. when you're doing a low-energy job everyone to hear it that possibly can that involves a certain amount of get to hear it. I am real happy with ARRY ANDREWS THINKS about his compromise, all week, this thing the new record Big Night Music, / work, a lot. The process and its re called rock'n'roll can actually be think it's the most coherent record Bsults, the sound, are very developed, something where no-one tells you we've made yet, and it's a record yet very spontaneous. This started when what to do and you just burn off all that's closest in its result to how I he worked with Robert Fripp: the "aarrruummmfff!!!" that's been envisioned it before we started ...an education, definitely! Some of building up. I think that if people like recording it. Which is quite a novel the techniques he uses, like not ever us have a function in society, it's experience to me. You have a vision doing anything more than twice, the that, to be some kind of catharsis of how the thing should end up and combination of a lot of preparation machine. Certainly it helps me in my inevitably it gets mangled up in the and a lot of practise, and then just own life, the fact that I can get on process and doesn't quite come out complete spontaneity, seemed to stage and behave like a completely how you thought. Big Night Music me to be quite effective. There's raving lunatic, for an hour and a half does actually sound the way I something about the self-contained, every night. There's something that I thought it should sound. So it makes gathered, centred quality of Fripp really like about that over-the-edge me think that we're beginning to get that I found quite an inspiration. I quite destructive approach to a bit of a handle on what it takes to thought it would be quite good to be things. There's something really do this music stuff. like that instead of charging around natural and good, like a sort of crashing into the walls all the time! healthy anger against all the boring, Crashing into the walls is not an un crusty, stupid bloody things there ...I think it was a familiar concept to those who really feel the are in the world. That's what I liked conscious decision to effect of Shriekback's music, a sound that about punks, and the Pistols. And I has on occasion induced rhythmic pande think that Shriekback, even though make a mellow, dark monium, frenzied dissipation, euphoric we're not a band that's happening in melee, and even outright rude reactions: that historical time and space, we sort of album In fact, there was some doubtful still have that energy and spirit to do morality going on during Faded it as well. I think that you deal in a lot The new album is definitely not a dis Flowers the other night. Some girl of high energy kind of pursuits, you appointment, but to many diehard Shriek was actually writhing in the grasp of deal with a lot of communication with back fans it may be a surprise. Not quite her lover, who was standing behind people, you deal with a lot of gone, but suspiciously limited, is the out her, and I actually thought that pene people's strongest feelings,, as a right 'shriek' of many of the songs on Oil tration had taken place at one point. musician in rock'n'roll. And you've and Gold. Instead the listener is offered a We encourage people to smooch, got to deal with that energy in an in more subtle selection of sounds, a actually, on Underwater Boys, a telligent sort of way. progression of original intent, one that is track from the new album, but really! not new to the group's concept. One aspect of the Shriekback concept There's been this theme in Shriek- that appears to be a paradox is the live There's something that I back's music for a long time. It really presentation, the world-touring "personal really like about that started with Evaporation on Care, representation" of what they are, or want to this dark, tenebrous area of our stuff. be. Not that they don't work on the stage (wer-the-edge quite And since there was always another image: destructive approach to singer/songwriter in the band up to Quite a lot of work goes into it, really. this album, I didn't have very much I'd like to be larger than life, sort of things room to explore it. So since this was huge and glamorous, extraordinary, the first record where I actually had that's pretty much how I'd like to be Rarely do performers, artists or musi both sides to stretch out, that area perceived. cians turn out to resemble even slightly the got explored more thoroughly than This is the paradox. The sound of Shriek image that we create for them. This is, of anything else. So effectively I think it back, for many, does not conjure up the course, our own fault alone, a fault that we was a conscious decision to make a thought of a larger-than-life glamour. One even learn to accept. But in the expec mellow, dark sort of album. may think of an all-out party machine tation of the Shriekback 'real thing', Barry There is a lot of decisive consciousness banzai dance-situation, occasionally, but Andrews himself is certainly quite re in Shriekback's music, inspiring a quan in the live show one would expect more of freshing, reminding us that there are tum of various interpretations and reac that subtle creativity evident in the music. people in the music world who think deep tions. Barry Andrews has a charmingly Not so. Shriekback live is exactly the way ly about what they do, who put into their defined attitude about what music is and that Barry Andrews wants it to be, to the work quite a lot of themselves. And it's nice what it does for him, and his group. Listen chagrin of certain expectations. Possibly a to have it confirmed in print, in a form that to him, on producing perspectives: more "warm, moody, burning, dark..." at we can learn from, adapt to, and recon On Shining Path Thave a huge bass titude could also be reflected when play sider individually, indefinitely, as long as it in the foreground, and little tiny ing for an audience, one that would fulfil holds true. Until, that is, the inevitable bright things coming from way in the the expectations of interested and aware question about, gasp, the next album: distance, like stars or something. So individuals. But, I repeat, not so. As usual, / don't know what it's going to be, but it's kind of like a landscape. On especially here in the outermost reaches of I do fancy something a bit noisier, Pretty Little Things everything is very civilization, we receive a watered-down, though, a big bloody dance thing. I close, and it's like little tiny pointy more mainstream version of what we im think that it might be quite a things jabbing into your face. And agine to be superbly subtle in its natural laugh!! ft 18 DISCORDER Monday March 2 • $12.00 VTC DAVE EDMONDS & BARNEY BENTALL A CFOX Production Wed. Thurs. March 4*5 IDLE EYES with SMALL TIME HOODS Fri. Sat. March 6«7 TROOPER & SMALL TIME HOODS Sunday March 8 WANG CHUNG with 8 SECONDS Wed. Thurs. March 11«12 METEORS & DETROIT Friday March 13 LOUIE LOUIE, PART II Saturday March 14 METEORS & DETROIT Fri. Sat. March 14*15 METEORS & DETROIT Monday March 16 WEST COAST MUSIC AWARDS Wednesday March 18 MADELINE MORRIS WORLD SERVICE & GO FOUR 3 Thurs. - Sat. March 19-21 R&B ALLSTARS witmumxh KIRSTON NASH MARCH 1987 19 Why Black Isn't It Is Politically Beautiful Correct? man, which for some reason I find gratify sionate, bemused - but more often stinks ing, comes as a shock to campus-bred of a spiteful righteousness that would look by Marsha Harris activists who venture into field work. It more appropriate on Grace McCarthy. does a great many of them in immed Verily, it is sick-making to hear, as I have iately.) heard, young people who pretend to social HE OTHER DAY I saw a kid in reg consciousness and are first out of the gate ulation anorexic blacks trying to make to declare for Indians and Africans, vomit Ta purchase in an east end drug store. ing out merciless judgements on kids with He offered the clerk a Visa card - his own the oppressed can be hair-dos like a pack of Presbyterian minis Visa card, not a stolen one. And the clerk, ters during the reign of Victoria. Meanwhile knowing somehow or other that he was on just as nasty as the victims of their scorn have the boot put social assistance, bellowed at her asso to them by welfare officials, not to mention ciate, "Are the ones on welfare allowed to anyone else drug store clerks, on a regular basis, and have Visa cards?" Now this was not only walk the streets without jobs, without grossly rude but moreover betrayed a education, and, worst of all, without any staggering lack of understanding of the But it is not only the bigoted working inner sense of worth beyond that conferred concepts of personal legal capacity and poor who seem to feel the need to trash the by their membership in the fashion subcul private contract. (Those who may be con kids. I have noticed the same sort of right ture. fused on this point please note that per eous venom seeping from that narrow sonal juridic capacity is not in any way strata of the under-25 set that could, by diminished or impaired by being on wel considerable stretch and using the words a spiteful righteousness fare - at least, not yet.) After receiving as very loosely, be called their politically con surance from her colleague that the young scious intelligentsia. This politically con that would look more man's circumstances provided no ground scious intelligentsia of the late '80s is, with to impute fraud, the clerk resentfully com all due respect, a relatively infantile, appropriate on Grace pleted the sale. And then, as the boy largely unread, very underground (read scuttled mortified out of the store, she socially irrelevant), vague derivative of the McCarthy treated the rest of us to an angry exposition old new-left. It's nobody's fault. It is simply of her views on young people who draw the inexorable march of history. The left of sustenance from the state trough while af today is precisely that. It is of today, which The salon radicals could put their great fecting what is known to the cognoscenti of course makes it not too seriously left. er knowledge and sophistication to some as an 'alternative' look. She of course re The leitmotif of the era is petty narcissism, use in teaching these young people how to ferred to it as 'punk', but the working class and those pretending to social conscience stand up for themselves and deal with the cannot be expected to keep up with these are as likely to radiate self-obsession as system; how to develop a sense of being nuances. After all, they do have the advan the rest of us. They merely have their own and confidence from assets other than tage, especially in the east end, of being variation on the vanity theme. From a lofty their admittedly dashing sense of style. inherently politically correct. However, that position of mental superiority, the young But the grey puritans prefer the view from does not entitle them in my view to indulge left-leaning rebel of today does not deign above. So they sit on their lofty perches in humiliating those who are weaker still. to descend into the streets to organize and dripping acid on growing flocks of the But the incident does serve to illustrate that lead his silly siblings. No, he prefers to stupidly pretty that, for lack of resources to the oppressed can be just as nasty as any gaze down on them with an ego-gratifying do anything else, paddle meaninglessly one else. (This aspect of the equality of air of contempt that is at its most compas- up and down Granville and Robson. ft 20 DISCORDER • • Ho $ a tHe OaNCe 1 p/lrtN<2R ' ' . OR CpL tfat's 4- MARCH 1987 21 around the mouths of people possessed hurry and lack of interest. "I can't walk," Text and Illustrations by by the demon of tobacco. He professes to moaned an elderly man who was assured M. Grimshaw andR. Filbrandt be a channel through which heavenly God would help. A man at our table told energy can actually rebuild damaged Ernie: "There's a wild child here, he limbs, replace eardrums, and possibly stabbed his grandmother in the hand a grow hair on a zucchini. Maybe I'm a little half hour ago." We began to look forward E LISTENED AS HIS VOICE narrow-minded, but it sounded to me like it to the 'miracle service'. rose and fell continuously in might be bullshit. Ernie pressed on, meeting all 380 part-, pitch and tone. We watched as On January 18 we got to see for our ners, then proceeded into a rambling W his face contorted unpredict selves. We met at the pad of our amigo parable about his Munich bust for faith ably from grimace to frown, from Huggy, whom we needed to take because healing (he was acquitted) and a crusade righteousness to wrath. We laughed as he he's the most unbalanced individual we to India where he asked for and claimed he hawked icons and shamelessly solicited know. We proceeded to get possessed by got one thousand rupees from a group of funds. We decided we could not miss his a few demons and rolled down to the businessmen. Strangely enough, one upcoming Vancouver appearance. For Ramada. That's where the plan fell into ser thousand happened to be the number of $12 we could not only actually see this man ious disrepair. The lobby and foyer were dollars he then requested from the glory- and his rabid minions in person, but we awash with lip-pursing fundamentalists, bound in attendance. In return for a cool could feast while doing so. many of whom were on crutches, in wheel grand, he was willing to part with a Yes, Sunday, January 18 was the date of chairs, or using walkers. Polyester, bell- 'Wanted in Heaven' diploma, upon which a the Partner Banquet at the Ramada bottoms, hush-puppies, and cardigans photo of YOU could share space with Ernie Renaissance Inn! Some enquiries led Fil were abundantly obvious. and a decidedly Caucasian Jesus. brandt on a plaid-clad quest to an icon-en Our furtive behaviour might have tipped After the cash-grab subsided, the 'mir crusted high-rise apartment to purchase us off as infidels. Then again, it might have acle service' loomed. We saw the afore the tickets for the affair from a woman been my leather jacket and four-day mentioned wild-child being dragged in by named Gail, Ernest's perky and porky stubble. We were seated at a round, linen- his frantic grandmother. "Help me," she local gal Friday. Gail made certain Rod left covered table with six upright zealots. begged. Two morally staunch goons with a large armload of wild Ernest litera Ernie entered during the salad. He strode helped subdue the unrepentant waif while ture. in, arms upraised, already spewing the Reverend Ernie unleashed the power It was through these tracts that we first righteousness through a remote mike of God on the demons possessing his came to realise that we might be going to clipped to his tie. He urged the willing young mind. "Do you know who I am?" see a serious psycho. Ernest can fairly be crowd into cries and whimpers of "Praise asked Ernie. "You're the devil," the described as the Mr. Rogers of fundamen the Lord!" and "God loves ME", gushed his frightened little voice replied. The next talist telepreachers. His demeanour and greetings and promptly started moving minute we saw the boy running out of the delivery are gentler, more 'down homey' methodically through the room clutching room crying, armed with a dinner fork. than his sometimes fiery counterparts. the hands of his adoring flock. We stayed to see at least a hundred Just as with Mr. Rogers, however, there is The elderly man next to me told me that people flop to the floor at a touch from the a suspicion of something badly twisted the chicken we were served was the best Reverend Ernie, then bolted to a beer par lurking beneath the aw-shucks exterior. turkey he had ever tasted. WOW! A miracle lour to restore some sense of reality. We're Ernest claims to chat with God and/or already! "What's this on my head?" all right now, except maybe for Huggy. Jesus. He reports the ability to actually see pleaded a rather senile woman at our table He's not talking to us any more, and we're demons. He says he can see black hoops who broke down crying at Ernie's apparent worried about him. ft 22 DISCORDER MADELEINE GRAND RE-OPENING y fW~L_ s Buy your jeans for under $20.00 V and broken in too! f ""Pre-owned clothing for men & women I, f 224-5711 x \ 2565 ALMA Z ^XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXV Hail! Discordia HE POPE IS INFALLIBLE ON MAT- ly serious about their religion, are required ters of faith, right? Right says to partake of a hotdog without a hotdog Tstandup philosopher Robert Anton bun every Friday, among other things. Wilson, and furthermore, every man, However, we are also reminded of the woman and child on earth is a genuine, words of the great sage Sri Syadasti, certified Pope. "there are no rules unless we choose to in This is a fundamental catma (as op vent rules." Of course, all Discordians are posed to dogma) of Discordianism, the welcome to write their own bibles. first TRUE, TRUE religion in the world. Perhaps the greatest benefit of Discor Discordians worship Eris, the Greek God dianism is the awareness that chaos is just dess of Discord, and belong to organ as important and necessary as order. The izations like the Legion of Dynamic Dis predilection of the Western world in recent cord. "We Discordians stick apart," as the years has been to worship order as good, saying goes, with the result that churches and abhor chaos as bad. As Bill Vander or sects are many and far between, some Zalm said, "it wasn't so bad during the times consisting of one member or less. second world war. At least there was One such entity is the Paratheo Ana- order." Fortunately, Eris has returned to metamystikhood of Eris Esoteric, a non- remind us that not all order is good, and prophet irreligious disorganization dedi not all chaos is bad, and that it mights be cated to the dissemination of creative preferable to work with creative order and chaos. The POEE head temple is located creative chaos, while working against both in San Francisco, "on the beautiful site of destructive order and destructive chaos. future San Andreas Canyon." As an Erisian If Discordianism does not yet "make pontificated, the only way not to take sense" to you, be of good faith, for if you yourself too seriously is to know that the contemplate it long enough, and spend ground under your feet is pure void. enough time in the company of other Dis Dr. Wilson, a.k.a. Mordecai the Foul, is cordians, it will begin to make as much the self-acclaimed toenail of an Erisian sense as Catholicism or any other belief sect known as the Bavarian llluminati, a system. In fact, it will begin to seem conspiracy against law, ordure, good NORMAL. This is THE way to see the ar taste and common sense. As part of this bitrary nature of all belief, language, conspiracy, he has authored a series of symbology, thought, and the cosmic books, all of which incorporate Erisianism giggle factor itself. Oh, I forgot to mention, in one guise or another. As stated in his anybody who does not join this most won recent novel The Widow's Son "what we drous religion is liable to be turned into a wish to encourage is uncertainty. People Precious Mao button and distributed to the 0 poor in the region of Thud. must be convinced not just that the priest may be a humbug and thejudge a thief, Finally, the curious should be aware that but that all systems of philosophy are although Erisianism started out as a com equally dubious, that all papal bulls are as plex joke at the expense of any inflexible absurd as picaresque novels, that the la religion or philosophy, it quickly evolved test scientific theories are no more infal into more than that. As Bob Anton Wilson <$£$) lible than papal bulls etc.; in short, that all says, "unlike the usual hoax, which is fic books are works of fiction whether they are tion presented as fact, this hoax is fact so labelled or not." presented as fiction." Or as Kerry Thorn- If this seems confusing, that is neces ley, a founding Discordian, said before he sary. We all need a little pandemonium to went into the great Confusion: "if I'd known break out of the straight jacket in which our Eris was real, I would have chosen Venus society is currently lockstepping towards instead." destruction. According to Wilson, the Erisian religion Other works which elucidate the work has a built in check against dogma, since ings of Erisianism include Robert Anton •i every time you go back and read the scrip Wilson's Prometheus Rising, Cosmic tures, you can't help but laugh. "The whole Trigger and llluminatus\ (co-authored with language would have to change to lose the Robert Shea), Camden Benares' Zen humour of it - it would take a thousand Without Zen Masters, and Christopher years." Hyatt's Undoing Yourself With Energized Those who would like to partake of the Meditation And Other Devices. If this in sublime faith are invited to read the Erisian trigues you, be sure to catch Robert Anton bible Principia Discordia: How I Found Wilson's presentation "The New Inquisi Goddess And What I Did To Her After I tion: A Skeptical Look At Skepticism" at the Found Her, written by Eris through her New York Theatre, 639 Commercial Drive, prophet Malaclypse the Younger. Therein March 20 at 8 pm. Call 254-5833 for in it is stated that Discordians, if they are real formation, ft 24 DISCORDER ;<-—jc T^I= <*EEK fAVEfcNA "Lamb on a Spit our Specialty " DAILY SPECIALS FOR LUNCH AND DINNER Try our unique menu, including •Tzanziki, Melitzano, Houmos •Spanakotiropita, Saganaki, Lukaniko •Souvlakia, Mousaka, Kalamaria •And much, much more! •Plus... pizza • Pasta also a specialty Mon. - Sat. 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday to Midnight TAKE OUT • CATERING • WEDDINGS ANNIVERSARIES • BIRTHDAYS FREE DELIVERY Every Wed. is 99er nite! 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While there are probably more clubs in London than anywhere else, most tend to have stringent door policies, requiring you to have emptied your can of hair-spray and have your wardrobe filled with black chic. Boys and girls spend their West Ends nights perched on cold, rainy pavements, waiting for the doormen to pick them - some spend the whole night catching pneumonia, never to get in. For those who do get in, it's the pleasure of warm beer at inflated prices, good music and a preten sion that greets and deadens their senses. Though jazz clubs are beginning to thrive, it's another type of music entirely that's playing out of both the expensive wine bars and brasseries and the sub urban parties and pubs. It is left to Sade and Dire Straits to brighten up all these venues and areas such as North London - Open to the public (E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T) xr Tuesday T HE EAT E RY Step Over Thurs. Fri. 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The yuppies, with their new-found consumer power buy what they're told; a cassette for the GTI or rofr'anL wactv Porsche, the video-cassette for the VCR, HuskerDu Warehouse: Songs and Stories Warner Brothers Husker Du crashed on to the hard core scene a few years back as one of many bands on California's SST label. They had a trademark piledriving sound with loud, white-noise power-chording and existen tialist howls that seemed to emanate from deep within guitarist Bob Mould's and drummer Grant Hart's respective psy ches. Through a combination of intelli gence and brute force they became the critics' darlings. Yet, because of their pun ishing approach to black vinyl, only the college DJs took the bait, and so they re mained part of a growing underground music scene. MARCH 1987 29 Go Four 3 you work...well, the phrase 'conflict of in and even a snippet of sitar. ~i Six Friends terest' may spring to some minds. On this, their first LP, Go Four 3 show I don't care. If it's okay for most of the that: a) Steve Quinn knows how to write Zulu Records B.C. cabinet, then it's okay for this re great pop songs, b) time in the studio is Reviewing a local band can be fraught with viewer. I like this record, and I like Go Four always well spent, and c) they have pro danger. For instance, if you pan their 3, because they play music that reminds gressed greatly since their eponymous record, they may come around and pelt me of late '60s garage bands and late 70s 1985 EP. Quinn appears to be one of those you with bricks. Conversely, if you like the power pop. They use guitar, bass, and rare people who can consistently write disc, and their bassist just happens to be drum, and occasionally throw in Man- stuff that sticks irresistibly in your head: an ex-president of the radio station where zarek-like organ riffs, feedback, strings, every tune here is hummable, even if the GET OUR SPRING CATALOGUE & **********************! 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Ironically, though, the best track here is a cover: their 00 version of the Passions' Africa Mine "•"W a is...fab. I mean, like, rea'lyfab. All of this benefits from a first-class production by Rick Arboit and Ron Ob vious. Reportedly, the Gophers spent con siderable time in the studio, and it shows: gone is the somewhat rough edge present on their earlier vinyl, to be replaced by the kind of polished, clean sound that glows with professionalism. Some may not like it, but you've got to believe that multitracked guitars are going to be hip again pretty soon. (There's even a real, honest-to- Gawd guitar solo on Colour of Money.) In addition, overdubbing fills out Roxanne Heichert's voice, which can still sound a bit frail on occasion. Nonetheless, it's evident that the band, both individually and as a whole, are more confident and accomplished here than on their debut. (Mind you, finally having a full- time drummer in Ian Noble, ex-Modern- ettes, ex-half-the-bands-in Vancouver, must be a big relief.) What with the video to Save Me in rotation on MuchMusic, and their hard-working, professional attitude, they would appear to have a brighter fu ture than many a Vancouver band, and I, for one, hope that Go Four 3 won't need their six friends for some time to come. Now, when are they going to commit to vinyl their covers of Nazareth's This Flight Tonight and Sweet's Ballroom Blitz? And where's that all-expense paid trip to the Bahamas that the band promised me? I'm waiting. Iain Bowman MARCH 1987 31 A Stream of Vitriolic Contempt those who don't appreciate their dry ing that has a similar effect not unlike Paul though deliberate sense of humour. Not re Dolden's Veils, though strictly on a superfi by Mark Mushet commended. The two more recent Hafler cial, direct level. Prolific and consistent, Trio discs, on the other hand, are def- Canadian trumpeter Jon Hassell has inately a worthwhile investigation for those another lush and beautiful album out on IVEN THAT THERE ARE ONLY SO who've not heard Seven Hours Sleep or ECM Germany entitled Power Spot. His ex- many column inches to devote to their earlier works of equal quality. Both are otic "Fourth World" sound is virtually Gvinyl verdicts, and considering the released by the London based Touch formulaic these days but it is always mes number of obscure releases receiving little label. The first is a 10" e.p. entitled The Seamerizing . Power Spot involves more mu or no attention in the "alternative" press, Org. It is best described as an accessible sicians than on past projects and the over the editorial junta here at Discorder has introduction to the analog sound exper all sound possesses a much denser and decided, in their infinite wisdom, to bless iments that the group so often presents in more conventional rhythmic base. Pro me with my very own monthly column with an all too serious light. To a trained ear, the duced by Eno and Daniel Lanois, and fea which to inform our dear readers of a pleth sound sources are quite obvious and are turing Michael Brook, this LP is predictably ora of sadly neglected though readily mostly analog in origin or manipulation. gorgeous and a must for fans and an ex available contemporary music recordings Nonetheless, The Hafler Trio, with founder cellent introduction for newcomers. and bombard them with truly exhausting member and Cabaret Voltaire expatriate Speaking of Eno, his Thursday After run-on sentences and reactionary anti- Chris Watson no doubt having a heavy noon video has just recently become avail janglyguitar diatribe. It will occasionally hand in the proceedings, manage to keep able for rent at Videomatica. While his am touch on relevant video and film news as the interest level very high. There is even a bient music obsession is far beyond a well as inciting a healthy exchange of booklet of Sonic Paintings, by Trio member joke, he is still able to seduce a viewer with views and information in the letters column Dr. Edward Molenbeek, though the merits video. Incorrectly described as a video of Discorder (it would certainly be better of this form would require an essay in itself. painting, Thursday Afternoon is a collec than the pathetic yammerings of illiterate As far as the record goes, things change tion of several short segments showing a ignorami we've been publishing in Airhead quickly and without warning. Common woman in several states of recline, relaxa lately). And so... place sounds, when recontextualized in tion, and obscure sensual abandon, this manner, never cease to amaze in their sometimes partially submerged in water. In the last six months, The Hafler Trio surprising richness of colour and texture. All footage is given the slowscan treatment have released no less than four records of This is further exemplified by the most re and some pieces use some very decora their sonic experiments via three different cent addition to the Trio's catalogue, a 12" tive video mattes producing a layered ef labels. Seven Hours Sleep, a double 12" 45 called Brain Song that is also released fect. The extreme slow motion tends to em- 45 on Belgium's LAYLAH label, came out on Touch. It is a limited edition of 1000 and phasize the grace of subtle physical late Summer and was reviewed in these was apparently put together for a Camden movement. Even smoking a cigarette be pages a couple of months back. Then Arts Exhibition called Interaction which comes something more than inhaling the came Three Ways of Saying Two, a tedioutoos k place last month. While the disc in smoke from a burning weed through a document of a series of poorly recorded cludes a version of the lovely Blanket Level paper tube. And all this is set to a typical and irritating "lectures", pseudo-aca Approach (having originally appeared on Enoesque brand of aural wallpaper. demic dissertations conducted by the Trio the LAYLAH compilation album The Fight That is all. See you next month with in Holland at the beginning of 1986. The LP Is On), Brain Song is a little more "difficult" something different to dissect. Fast For came out on Charm Records and the en than previous work. It is comparatively dis ward is heard every Sunday night from closed booklet gives away the joke to sonant and involves an offset sense of tun 9pm to 12am. Don't forget to write, ft 32 DISCORDER CITR MOBILE SOUND 3OTJ What You Want, When You Want It! From Neanderthal cave stomps cha-cha, CUR can deliver of Igagd? 'Safe It right to your next party with Its Mobile Sound System. And the rates are great! roflfsayrartrv: AtAfc.3 >TU£s _&<:.> s.u.g. ROOMS A>7/ao«\ CITR MOBILE SOUND 228-3017 JUST THERE Linda Scholten. 12:30 am-4:00 am 11 Mar. Special features on the 'Midnight' Hosted by AI Thurgood. label (includes Fuzztones, Plan 9, etc.). TUESDAYS 25 Mar. Special feature on Seattle's 'Etiquette' label (includes Sonics, RECTAL RECTITUDE Wailers, Kinetics, etc.). 5:30 pm-8:00 pm ON Dislodge those constipated valves—shake it THE AFRICAN SHOW up—tune in and expose yourself to music 8:00-9:30 pm guaranteed to make you flow. Your host: The latest in modern African dance music Renato. plus/minus a few oldie but greats and extras. THE THE EDGE ON FOLK Your way we come every Wednesday, 8-9:30. Possible special features at 9:00 pm. Infor 8:00-9:30 pm mation—News as they come at 8:30 pm. Vancouver's only prime time Folk Show, Your hosts: Umerah P. Onukwulu and Todd featuring new releases, classic recordings, Langmuir. Tune in for a new and exciting news, interviews and mystery guests in a twist on music roots, African Children style. determined bid to smash all those ridiculous pre-conceptions about "Folk" music. March Welcome. highlights: ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? DIAL 03 Mar. English singer Vin Garbutt in a 9:30 pm-midnight CITR FM102 CABLE100 preview of his show with Alberta's CITR's only gourmet cooking show, Travis B. MONDAYS Bill Bourne, which takes place at the plays soothing, mellow music for nice people Savoy, Sunday March 8th. and gives hints on appropriate dress and MORE DINOSAURS 10 Mar. Rob Menzies, Pipe Major of the behavior while teaching you how to impress 8:00-9:00 pm Triumph Street Pipe Band, and oc your friends with culinary delights. Songs of the Sixties behemoths and the casional performer at Spirit Of The THE KNIGHT AFTER West gigs, brings some musical teenage garage triceratops. Archeology by Midnight to 4:00 am offerings to the studio. Marc Coulavin. Hosted by Patrick Mokrane. 17 Mar. St. Patrick's Day. All-Irish THE JAZZ SHOW pandemonium! 9:00 pm-12:30 am 24 Mar. Holly Arntzen. Her new album, and THURSDAYS Vancouver's longest-running prime time Jazz some interesting insight into one of WHAKAWERAWERA THERMAL program, featuring all the classic players, the Vancouver's finest voices. RESERVE occasional interview, and local music news. 31 Mar. All Fool's Eve. Slightly silly sounds... 10:05 am-1:00 pm Hosted by the ever-suave Gavin Walker. The expected visit of The Pogues Change your socks and change your mind 02 Mar. "Scratch" is the name of pianist will probably disrupt this schedule, if Kenny Barron's best recording to not the entire Universe! during the sunny W.T.R. extravaganza. C'est date. Barron, despite his presence tout! TUESDAY WELD in so many great bands, has been THE JACK CADE SHOW overlooked. This is one of the best 9:30-1:00 am 1:20 pm-3:00 pm Jazz records of the '80s. Barron What the hell are you doing reading this? Hosted by Ross Crockford. with Dave Holland (bass) and Daniel Grow up. Read something that will get you Humair (drums). out of that horrible hole your parents put you PARTY WITH ME, PUNKER! 09 Mar. Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean did 3:05-5:00 pm some great playing on this date Join Rock Action for cool tunes and special (done in 1966). It wasn't released WEDNESDAYS guests and features. until 10 years later. Jackie at his ANOTHER KIND OF WEDNESDAY THE VINYL FRONTIER driving best walking the fence bet 7:30 am to 10:30 am 5:30 pm-8:00 pm ween bebop and free-form Jazz. Start your Wednesday mornings with Sidney McLean with Larry Willis (piano), Sonic explorers Mike Mines and Robin Killpigge, as he plays whatever the fuck he Razzell test the outer limits of the Spinlist. Don Moore (bass) and the great wants. Jack Dejohnette (drums). Psychedelic. Progressive. New. Beam us in, WE BE BOTANISTS Scottie! 76 Mar. Miles Davis in Stockholm. Recorded in concert just two weeks before 10:30 am-1:00 pm TOP OF THE BOPS John Coltrane was to leave to form Join Florists Grant, Dave and Byron as they 8:00-9:00 pm his own band. Miles and "Trane" unearth toxic tunes that will surely decimate The boogie disease, that great shaking fever, and a great rhythm section playing all plant life in the Lower Mainland. the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie as they never have on commercial woogie 'flu... and other afflictions: their NERVOUS NORBERT recordings. Plus a recorded inter symptoms and their causes. Rock therapy by view with John Coltrane. (A Jazz 1:20 pm-2:30 pm Marc Coulavin. 33s at 45. On-air cue-ups. Mic-fright. And— Feature repeat). TEENAGE TORPOR urn, other, urn, good, clean, fun things like 23 Mar. A legendary record session done in that. New members try out dee-jaying on the 9:00-11:00 pm 1945 by only three people. Lester Possibly the only show in the western world Young on tenor sex (known as the air. Give us a call at 228-3017 and you could be next! to be named after a T-shirt. So tune in, lie second messiah of Jazz), the great back, and listen to records being spun by a Nat 'King' Cole on piano (before he LOUIS LOUIS student who's had to compare and contrast became a pop singer) and Buddy 2:30 pm-5:00 pm the rise of fascism in pre-WWII Japan with Rich on drums. An historical master Jodete y muerete de asco, jopushi. Aupa Tor- the common uses of Cartiesian geometry piece! roles! Espitingli, guiri? Danza Invisible rules, once too often. 30 Mar. The Modern Jazz Quartet was the O.K.! only Jazz group to be signed to the MEL BREWER PRESENTS Beatle's then-new record label THE UNDERWORLD 77:00 pm-Midnight Apple. They did two albums for Ap 5:30-8:00 pm Join Pat, Jay and Ian, three people with ple and "Under The Jasmine Tree" The ultimate in far-out and groovy alternative three letters in their names, for interviews, was the best. Hearing this long out- music from CITR's vast record vault. news, reviews and bugaboos about the local of-print record by one of Jazz's Anything we consider "ripper," we play. For music scene. This month a special 50th premier groups will be a treat for hipsters and squids. Your hosts: Mikey "Likes issue of Discorder retrospective episode. ^ sore ears. It," Carbuncle Kaputnik and the exquisite Tune in for details. 34 DISCORDER Ft FM102 CABLE lOO MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY ERIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 7:30 8:00 BREAKFAST REPORT: INEWS , SPORTS, GENERII C REVIEW, INSIGHT THE MORNING AFTER THE ANOTHER FRIDAY 9:00 H Matteo NIGHT BEFORE Johanna Block Jennifer Chan KIND OF MORNING Caratozzolo SHOW MUSIC WEDNESDAY MAGAZINE 10:00 OF OUR BRITS TIME TRIBES AND 11:00 GO SHADOWS WE Ian Mollenhaver HOME 55454797 BE 12:00 Dale Sawyer BOTANISTS Joanna Graystone SUNDAY FOCUS 1:00 LUNCH REPORT: BBC NEWS, CITR NEWS, SPORTS POWER THE NERVOUS THE CHORD ROCKERS 2:00 Julia Keith Watson NORBERT JACK CADE THE SHOW Steele SHOW ED.D.j. 3:00 LOUIS PARTY SHOW EVERYTHING MICHAEL 4:00 Dan Mulligan LOUIS WITH ME, CLOCK CONNECTS WILLMORE'S PUNKER! THE ROCK 5:00 BEAT DINNER REPORT: NEWS, SPORTS, GENERIC REVIEW, INSIGHT, DAILY FEATURE TALK CRAPSHOOT 6:00 HARSH REALITIES THE SAT. MAGAZINE SUNDAY MAG. RECTAL THE OF THE UNDER SUNDAY FOCUS 7:00 RECTITUDE VINYL FRONTIER RANDOM WORLD PROPAGANDA! GENERATION NEOFILE JUST 8:00 LIKE MORE THE TOP OF WOMEN THE EDGE DINOSAURS AFRICAN THE BOPS ON FOLK 9:00 SHOW Paul TEENAGE Clarke 10:00 THE ARE YOU TORPOR FAST THE BIG TALKING FORWARD JAZZ SHOW 11:00 TUESDAY SHOW TOME? MEL BREWER WELD PRESENTS ACROSS THE 12:00 MERIDIAN LIFE 1:00 AFTER THE THE ANTHRO BED VISITING POLOGY 2:00 H JUST KNIGHT TUNES PENGUIN FLOYD'S THERE David Minuk AFTER H' SHOW CORNER 3:00 US 4:00 WEEKDAY REPORTS SATURDAY REPORTS SUNDAY REPORTS 8:00 BREAKFAST REPORT Noon BRUNCH REPORT 10:00 VAN. NEW MUSIC CALENDAR 10:00 MORNING NEWSBRIEF 6:00 SATURDAY MAGAZINE Noon BRUNCH REPORT/SUNDAY FOCUS 7:00 LUNCH REPORT w. BBC NEWS 6:00 SUNDAY MAGAZINE 3:00 AFTERNOON NEWSBRIEF 6:30 SUNDAY FOCUS/BLUE SOCKS 5:00 DINNER REPORT MARCH 1987 35 Off The BOTTOM ifiSj- by Kevin S. s?y\ \MmtmMmmmmi>ijyui4r\&^\>\;/>jmmmummm* OOK WHAT WE'VE found here. Yes, ARTIST TITLE LABEL it's the second goddamn installment Lin the series that began last month, •The Beastie Boys Licensed To III DEF JAM/CBS wherein certain hitherto little-known ele •Los Lobos By the Light of the Moon WEA ments of the CITR SpinList beg to be heard •Go Four 3 Six Friends Zulu from. Just relax and nobody will get ser •Frightwig Faster, Frightwig, Kill, Kill Caroline iously injured. •Husker Du Warehouse WEA Ok, gimme a beat. So, you're saying, •Condition Red Hot & Blue AMOK "Kevin, I'm weary of all the same old stuff; •The The Infected CBS just like Iggy Pop, I need more. My exis •Various Artists Fuck Your Dreams This Is Heaven Crammed tence would have some meaning if only I •Shop Assistants Shop Assistants Chrysalis could hear some music involving a 19- string cello and improvised vocals." Well, •Firehouse Ragin' Full-On SST lookee here, out on Australia's Hot label: •Various Artists Sounds Of Now Dionysus the LP A Room With a View, featuring •Love Tractor This Ain't No Outerspace Ship Big Time Shelley Hirsch, voice, and Jon Ross, 19- •Culturcide Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Rev... ** string cello. Things become even more •Shriekback Big Night Music Island/MCA deliciously strange on the new record Per •Chris Spedding Enemy Within New Rose fect Worlds, by Chris Cutler's band Cas- •Holger Czukay Rome Remains Rome Virgin siber. Out on Cutler's Recommended •Jon Hassell Power Spot ECM/Polygram Records, the disc highlights the working •Golden Palominos Blast of Silence Celluloid imaginations of Cutler and the other band •African Head Charge Off The Beaten Track On-U Sound members, Christopher Anders and Heiner Goebbels. I picked out at least three •Julian Cope World Shut Your Mouth Island/MCA different languages. The Glitch Sampler Vol. II features TOP AIRPLAY SINGLES bands from Austin, Texas. Essentially, all ARTIST TITLE LABEL the groups are of the rough-and-ready guitar rock type with a little bit of country •The Hip Type Let Me In Life After Bed thrown in here and there. Also in the south •Front 242 Interception Nettwerk/Cap. ern tradition is Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom. •Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Cut Down Homestead Ron has played keyboards for the likes of •Heavy D. & The Boyz Mr. Big Stuff MCA (UK) Albert King, B.B. King and Roomful of •E.J. Brule I Love Laurie Transmission Blues. Now we've got his own album. Half •Danielle Dax Where The Flies Are Awsome the tunes feature members of Roomful of •DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince Girls Ain't Nothin' But... Champion Blues and the other half feature Kim •The Smiths Ask WEA Wilson, Jimmie Vaughn, and Fran Chris •Current 93 Laylah tina from the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Out Happy Birthday Pigface Christus on Demon. You say you've never heard of Dossier Records. Well, how 'bout artists such as Controlled Bleeding, Chrome, Elliott Sharp and Minimal Man? If'n you have or if'n you haven't, here's a chance to sample those mentioned and more on Dossiers in the form of previously unreleased material. Certainly some intriguing, adventurous stuff. For an adventure into jazz, Courtney Pine is the name and Journey to the Urge Within the disc. The 22-year-old British saxophonist has been making a name for himself in the proverbial jazz circles. It's on Island records. One more album. Maybe .you thought he was dead or maybe you've never even heard of the man. Ginger Baker. Ya, that's right, the drummer from one of the original power trios, Cream, is back. Word is that he played on the last PIL LP, and now he has his own Horses and Trees on Celluloid. Listen. ^V 36 DISCORDER ANTHROPOLOGY spontaneous instrumentation and views, news and music for anyone interested Midnight to 3:30 am convivial conversation. Live re in women's issues or learning more about quests and mucho carino. Robert them. Radio waves, broadcast omnidirectionally, Shea and guests are there to make leave the Earth at the speed of light. Due to FAST FORWARD it happen. the curvature of space, they will return to the 9:00 pm-Midnight point of origin; far in the future we will redis THE VISITING PENGUIN SHOW Mark Mushet searches the world over for cover our past. The signal may not be strong Midnight-4:00 am experimental, minimalist, avant-garde, elec but it will still be better than commercial Hosted by Paula Rempel and Sheri Walton. tronic, and other non-mainstream sounds. radio. Inserting the needle: Matt Richards. SATURDAYS LIFE AFTER BED FRIDAYS Midnight-Until Barry gets out of hand THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT Trini Lopez, the current L.A.B. wrestling god, FRIDAY MORNING MAGAZINE BEFORE SHOW joins forces with Frank Sinatra for full bone- 7:30-10:30 am 7:30-10:00 am crushing, face-raking, tag team action... Regular features include multi-dimensional AKA: Morning Mayhem. known collectively as BLUE MEXICO, this profiles of wilderness issues, feminist AKA: Living With The Brain Dead. month they take on all comers: ideologies, children's culture, and what's hap 01 Mar. Trini and Frank battle JOHNNY pening around Vancouver. Kirby Hill oversees BRITS GO HOME THUNDER AND NICK CAVE the whole operation. 10:00-Noon 08 Mar. Trini and Frank put the grits to 06 Mar. A mise-en-scene of the 1987 Saturday mornings are for a gentle waking IGGY POP AND LOU REED Children's Festival. process, right? Wrong. In this show get a 75 Mar. Trini and Frank ad Flat'ner steam- 73 Mar. What the hell are we going to do rude awakening as Steve Edge is turned roll BAUHAUS AND JOY DIVISION about Vander Zalm, anyways? loose on CITR's entire SPINLIST and dishes 22 Mar. Tournequit Trini and Frank da Rank 20 Mar. Rita McNeill Jazz/Blues update, up a startling breakfast mix of comedy, music bulldoze through D.O.A. AND PATTI etc. and U.K. soccer reports. Now Brits can go SMITH 27 Mar. Art Therapists discuss the creative home for two hours every Saturday. Cana 29 Mar. Trini and Frank pull out all the rituals of Spring (and their dians can tune in and see why Brits should stops against PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. techniques). have been sent home years ago! AND X. POWER CHORD TRIBES AND SHADOWS FLOYD'S CORNER WITH JEFF G. 12:10 pm-3 pm 10:30-11:30 am 2:00 am-3:00 am Vancouver's only true metal show, featuring A program that explores "New Conscious Real "cowshit caught in your boots" country. the underground alternative to mainstream ness." Dreams, Myths, Cultures and Rituals all take context, bridging the gap between metal: local demo tapes, imports and other Dark and Light. Lots of music from other rarities, plus album give-aways. PROGRAM NOTES CLOCK THE BEAT cultures: Asian, African and Indian, plus NEWS PROGRAM NOTE guest musicians such as Harold Henkel, 3:00 pm-6 pm THE BBC NEWS Randy Raine Reausch and Katari Taiko pre 'Art sunk so low doesn't even deserve sent new works. This show features the inno reproach." CITR in conjunction with the UBC Amateur vative, the eclectic and the stirring diversities —P. de Saint-Victor, La Presse, 7565 Radio Society is proud to present THE BBC inherent in the musical fabric of our world. NEWS... "The" authoritative voice for world PROPAGANDA! news. This special added feature airs Mon Hosted by Kirby Scott Hill. 6:30-8:00 pm 06 Mar. Digital Soundscapes profile. day through Friday at 1:00 pm as part of our An eclectic mix of interviews, reviews, music, 13 Mar. Heinz Hollinger's new music for expanded Lunch Report, which also features humour, High Profiles, and other features national, regional and local news as well as oboe. ACROSS THE MERIDIAN 20 Mar. Takeo Yamashiro live! sports and weather. 27 Mar. Egypt and surprises! 11:Q0 pm-1:00 am Remember "Dog's Breakfast?" ...Paul Funk PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM NOTES THE ED. D. J. SHOW regurgitates that "goulash of aural surprises" GREEK WEEKLY REPORT 1:20 pm-5:00 pm for your midnight snack...from ambient to Friday 5:00 pm Dinner Report From 2:00 to 4:00, Deded spins the playlist, obnoxious, obscure to obvious... Call for your Brothers Pi and Gamma report on the weekly and from 4:00 to 5:00, Deded and the Can favorite dishes. happenings at UBC's fraternities, sororities Con Job. TUNES 'R' US and phrateraes. Fun times for fun people. CRAPSHOOT 1:00 am-4:00 am SUNDAY FOCUS 5:30-6:00 pm Sunday 2:05 pm (repeated at 6:30 pm) Members of UBC's Progressive Conservative, SUNDAYS Sunday Focus features hosts Libbi Davies Liberal and N.D.R clubs discuss federal MUSIC OF OUR TIME and Brad Newcombe exploring public affairs political issues. Alternately moderated by 8:00 am-Noon issues of interest to University listeners. Also Stephen Gold and Betsy Goldberg. Modern 20th Century classical music ranging featured is a weekly story by writer Robert Stalmach called Blue Socks. NEOFILE from the tonal to the avant-garde. Instrumen SUNDAY MAGAZINE 6:00 pm-9:00 pm tation in all spheres with commentary on the Sunday 6:00 Dm A rundown of the newest, most exciting and newest techniques and fashions. With your insipid releases raked in during the week at host Wolfgang Ehebald. Join hosts Colin Lloyd and Stefan Ellis for CITR. Join music directors and charismalep- ROCKERS SHOW this half-hour news magazine which includes tic hosts Don Chow and Kevin Smith for an 12:30 pm-3:00 pm commentary, reviews and a weekend wrap-up of sports events and scores. eclectic musical pig-out, with occasional Reggae, Rock Steady and Ska. At 1:30 to interviews, live mixes, and peripheral 2:30, Reggae Beat International Hour; news SPORTS PROGRAM NOTES relevance. and interviews about Reggae music world No sports broadcasts are scheduled for wide. Host: George Barrett. THE BIG SHOW March. Yet, do not fear, sport fans, as play MICHAEL WILLMORE'S ROCK TALK 9:00 pm-midnight offs are pending in both men's basketball 3:00-6:00 pm 13 Mar.... Special Presentation: and hockey. Stay tuned. Saludando a Latinoamerica! Authentic Rock 'N' Roll from the 1950s and ORNOTHOLOGY SHOW Presentando la noche de la 1960s featuring many collectors' items and Wednesday 5:00 pm Dinner Report cumbia y salsa con el servicio de rock rarities you'd never hear anywhere else. Join CITR's famous sports personality— Alfredo Chavez. JUST LIKE WOMEN Alastair Sutherland—and his guests for live Enjoy an evening of fresh and 6:30-9:00 pm in-studio interviews with all those Thunder funky Latin American music with Tune in for invigorating and stimulating inter bird celebrities you know and appreciate. MARCH 1987 37 Z^^c^ei^ TH&ffifrnty- ties - who knows what really marks the end Crash Dummies - Everyday. Yes, this by Janis McKenzie of a fuck band's existence? Kraft Dinner is the old Buddy Holly song, electronically resurfaced at the Savoy, opening for Chris mutilated almost beyond recognition. But Houston a few weeks ago, playing the deadpan vocals are really funny - a (among other things) their old demo hit good joke, unless you take dead rock and Dewdney Trunk Road. (Could the roll heroes too seriously. Flunkees reappear next?) I just hope that the "Good-bye Groove Party" at Grace- 5 On A Date - Never Fear. Unlike most land really was only an au revoir, at least of this commercially available (in Victoria) until DOA has another somewhat lengthy cassette, this song is not fast-paced hiatus in town. How can Vancouver survive garage-type original '60s-flavoured punk. without a a band whose answer to Shake In fact, it's uncannily similar to Bauhaus's Your Booty (and Sheik Yerbouti?) is Shake Bela Lugosi's Dead, a song I still feel a cer Your Penis? tain shameful affection for. Quasi Moto, the Half of Lost Durangos' line-up is brand band's version of Mr. Moto, actually got new - original members Greg and Paul played on "Shake It Up" (a Victoria teen have been joined by fellow North Shore dance show),so they must have some kind natives Shellene Patience (vocals) and of a local following. My only problem with Richard Voisin (bass), and by the time you this tape (besides some hiss) is that it's of read this the group should have com ten hard to tell where one song ends and pleted a four-song demo tape for WEA the next begins, which makes it better- Records. suited for home listening than cueing up by deejays. You can order it for $4 from A Merry Cow has replaced the depart 624 Raynor Avenue, Victoria, B.C. V9A ing Eric Von Fill-in-the-blank with guitarist 3B1. Danny Oliver. Before Eric left, the band fin ished recording five songs at Aragon, in The Highliners - Henry the Wasp and cluding Bed on the Beach and Who Is This Wild Thing. If you like The Shuffle Demons Elvis Guy Anyhow?, which the band is hop you'll love The Highliners, who combine ing to commit to vinyl some time soon. 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