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THAT MAGAZINE FROM CITR FM102 CABLE100 OCTOBER 1985 • FREE CHRIS AND COSEY TOUCHE BRILLIANT ORANGE CD HOT SPOTS CO CORDOVA STREET I PETER FOX SHOES / 662-3040 / PETER FOX SHOES / 662-3040 / PETER FOX 662- MORNINGSTAR/BOYSTOWN/681-0531/MORNINGSTAR/BOYSTOWN/681-053 THE BLOCK/685-8885/THE BLOCK/685-8885/THE BLOCK/685-8885/THE BLO SISSYBOY/683-0787/SISSYBOY/683-0787/SISSYBOY/683-0787/SISSYBOY CUE HAIR STUDIO / 687-8680 / CUE HAIR STUDIO / 687-8680 / CUE HAIR STUDI POW-WOW/682-3270/POW-WOW/682-3270/POW-WOW/682-3270/POW-WO DISCOPDER Contributors THAT MAGAZINE FROM CITR FM102 CABLE100 OCTOBER 1985 • VOL 3 NO. 9 Jason Grant, Larry Thiessen, Mark Mushet, Don Chow, Pat Carroll, Bill Mullan, David Firman, Jay Scott Photos Ross Cameron Cartoons R. Fi lb rant, Susan Catherine, Chris Pearson, William Thompson Cover IN THIS ISSUE Lincoln Clarkes 11 Chris & Cosey Production Manager Larry Thiessen snuggles up to Chris & Cosey. Pat Carroll 14 Touche Design Harry Hertscheg Jason Grant crosses epees.... Layout Pat Carroll, Bev Demchuk, Kathy Johnston, 18 Brilliant Orange Bev Best, Toby Tiersch, Brent Lymer, Pat Carroll puts the squeeze on. Program Guide H.H., CD., PC, J. Mc. IN EVERY ISSUE Typesetting Dena Corby, Kathie Wraight 4 Airhead The revenge of Canada Post II: the story continues. 6 Behind the Dial Business Manager How to get your requests played, and much, much Mike Dennis more...(What's Wombat doing here?). Advertising and Circulation Harry Hertscheg 8 Shindig! A preview of this month's competitors. DISCORDER, c/o CITR Radio, 6138 SUB Blvd., 20 Program Guide Vancouver, B.C, V6T 2A5. Phone (604) 228-3017. What's on and when. Indespensible. DISCORDER Magazine is published monthly by the Student Radio Society of the University of British Col umbia (CITR-UBC Radio). 22 Vinyl Verdict CITR fml01.9 cablelOO.l broadcasts a 49-watt signal in Flat round things from Skinny Puppy, Hugh stereo throughout Vancouver from Gage Towers on the UBC campus. CITR is also available via FM cable in Masekela et al. Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Maple Ridge and Mission. 23 Spin List DISCORDER circulates 15,000 free copies. For advertis What's hot, what's merely lukewarm. ing and circulation inquiries call 228-3017 and ask for Harry Hertscheg or Nancy Smith. Twelve-month subscriptions available: $10 in Canada, $10 26 Demo Derby U.S. in the U.S.A., $15 overseas. Send cheque or money order payable to CITR Publications. More from the tape file. Unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, cartoons and graphics are welcome but they can be returned only if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. 28 Armchair Eye DISCORDER does not assume responsibility for unsol Bill Mullan looks at music vids, sort of. icited material. The offices of CITR and DISCORDER are located in room 233 of the UBC's Student Union Building. For 30 Roving Ear general business inquiries or to book the CITR Mobile Sound System call 228-3017 and ask for station manager This month from Hawaii. Nancy Smith. The Music Request line is 228-CITR. DISCORDER October 1985 First outrage, now sarcasm. Wheatfield Soul What delight awaits the Airhead Dear Airhead: RH6A£ next? In either case, I think you've Received your renewal notice missed the boat on this one. about two weeks ago. I took it for Dub poets like Mutabaruka have, granted that I was the only subscri in their poetry, attempted to give ber "on the prairies" (hate that ter c/o CITR Radio written form to a language that pre minology, by the way—just as easy 6138 S.U.B. Blvd. viously only existed verbally. We to say 'Alberta, Saskatchewan and Vancouver, B.C. view the notation used in their Manitoba"). It seems that the V6T2A5 poetry not as an artistic device but mountains and/or the wide-open as a real and successful attempt to spaces present an isolation theor ments in eye-dialect offended my August regarding the Mutabaruka achieve this end. Mutabaruka's em here. Anyway, very first subscri deepest sensibilities. interview in the July issue of Dis comments were transcribed as they ber to Discorder...very proud of that Let's face it. Nobody speaks corder. Since writing that letter, I were in simple recognition of this actually, hope there are a fair num Standard English, and even Stan have been informed that my com effort, not as a "homage" nor with ber in Vancouver suburbs, and dard English is not written the way ments were "out of line," since the the intent of portraying his speech Washington state. it sounds. I cannot speculate why poet's speech was written in eye- as some "quaint but imperfect" I have also subbed to the Geor it was decided to use eye-dialect dialect for the honourable intention form of English. gia Straight since before Bobby for the artist and not for the inter of paying homage to the patios of And why weren't Turpin and Ren Geldof was music critic, and have viewers, but the effect is a com Mutabaruka's speech and poetry. nie's questions delivered in Patois? supported CFRO for years, have ment on the relative literacy of the It only follows, then, that since the Simply because they neither speak subscribed to NME since 1969, and parties. It is implied that Mutaba interviewers felt competent to tran nor write it. Simple. Therein may lie Now from Toronto, which makes ruka speaks some quaint but im scribe the poet's speech thusly, the rub, and the source of your out the Straight, at times, appear a perfect sort of English. greater honour would be given had rage. I allow that the rendering of comic. Yes, this is no sap you're Whether this expression of rac they also attempted to mimic the Patois in the article may have been dealing with in Regina, and at 34 ism was intentional or not is not the Patois in their own speech and flawed because of the writers' un- could probably double-whammy point. I hope not to see any more transcribe it accordingly. I hope familiarity with the language. If this you a few times—but won't. of this sort of material in your other that should Discorder ever again was the case, I'm sorry it spoiled In closing, enclosed is enough wise fine publication. have the opportunity to pay such the article for you. for 12 more Discorders, and a new Sincerely, tribute to this accomplished dub As for the charges of racism, per CITR T-shirt in medium—send a Ann Pollak poet, the moment will not be allow haps you should consider your own radical color. J'accuse (2) ed to slip by. prejudices. Where did the implica Regards, With new understanding, tion that Patois is "quaint but imper The Lone Subscriber, Dear Airhead: Ann Pollak fect" come from? Mi cyaan believe Saskatchewan This is further to my letter of late it. Terry J. Gibson J'accuse (1) Dear Airhead, Turpin and Rennie's interview with Mutabaruka in the August 1985 Discorder quite possibly had some important things to say about the current state of affairs in South Africa, but I for one was so outrag ed by the presentation that the message was lost on me. Your choice to print the artist's com GERMAN L FIELD PANTS in grey E 100% cotton A ONLY T 1690 H E R JACKETS INTERNATIONAL MILITARY $189 (limited time offer) CLOTHING *> Ltd. ARMY ijffff* 9 West Hastings BOOTS Gastown, Vancouver 15oo 684-2657 -/ PERM BODYWAVE SALE (includes perm, cut, styling) until 31 Oct. 85 3621 W. 4th Ave. (near Alma) 733-3831 DISCORDER October 1985 quest, after all, it is a business number. 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