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Information: 6820706 Produced by DffcORPER That Magazine from CITR Radio 102 JUNE 1987 Vol V No 5 Issue #53
EDITOR Michael Shea WRITERS Iain Bowman, Robin Fross, Mike Harding, Janis McKenzie, Mark Mushet, Judy Radul, Robert Shea, Kevin S. ILLUSTRATORS Rod Filbrandt, William Thompson COVER Bill Mullan
ART DIRECTOR Karen Shea DESIGN Harry Hertscheg LAYOUT Pat Carroll, Lucy Crowther, Sandra Dametto, Shedo Ollek, Marina PROGRAM GUIDE Louis Jantzen TYPESETTING Ammo Fuzztone, Maja Grip, Don Schuetze
BUSINESS MANAGER Randy Iwata ADVERTISING Lucy Crowther IN THIS ISSUE DISTRIBUTION Bill Mullan • MAFFIA BIRTHDAY HELL SUBSCRIPTIONS any excuse for a party 9 Randy Iwata PUBLISHER • ROCK THE BODY Harry Hertscheg feel the beat and release the heat 10 Discorder Magazine, c/o CITR - UBC Radio IN EVERY ISSUE 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 2A4 S (604) 228-3017 • UP FRONT Discorder is That Magazine from CITR -Radio 102 and is published monthly by the between the lines and behind the dial 4 Student Radio Society of the University-of British Columbia, although it winds up being printed • AIRHEAD deep from within Surrey, Canada. Discorder Magazine prints what it wants to, readers who write 6 but pledges to put the CITR On The Dial pro gram schedule and SpinList record chart in every • VINYL VERDICT issue. Discorder also vows to circulate 17,500 copies by the first of each month. Subscrip Mark Stewart & The Maffia, Bamff, Oversoul Seven 14 tions are encouraged. Twelve issues: $12 in Canada, $12(US) in the States, $18 else where. Make money orders or certified che • STREAMING VITRIOL ques payable to 'CITR Publications'. CITR - Radio 102 broadcasts a 49-watt stereo Mark Mushet spews forth 16 signal throughout the Vancouver area at 101.9 FM. But for best reception, hook up to the FM • ON THE DIAL cable network. CITR is at 101.9 cable FM on Rogers (Lower Mainland) and Shaw (North The CITR Program Guide 18 Shore) cable systems, but is still at 100.1 on Rogers (Fraser Valley). • SPIN LIST Inquiries about CITR, Discorder or the Mobile Sound System-can be directed to station man platters that matter 20 ager Harry Hertscheg at 228-3017, between 10 am - 4 pm, Monday to Friday. If you want • LOCAL MOTION to talk to the deejay, call 228-2487 or 228- CITR. Janis McKenzie gets around 22 JUNE 1987 3 UP FRONT NCE AGAIN IT'S THAT TIME OF BEHIND THE DIAL YEAR when cool urbanites feel the For those of you who listen to CITR on O beat from the heat - it's summer cable FM, you might have noticed that our in the city. And this city is off to a sizzling signal has been moved jrom 100.1 to 101.9 start. If you haven't clicked into mode yet, on the radio dial. This was as much of a this June issue of Discorder is a hot intro surprise to the station as it was to one to helping you let off some of that physical listener who called in to ask why CFUN- steam. Read it, then use it to wipe the AM was now broadcasting on CITR's FM sweat off your brow. signal. THE BIG NEWS is that the BIG SOUND Effective May 1st, the CRTC directed is coming ON-U! Mark Stewart & The the cable companies to carry all the AM Maffia, Tackhead, Gary Clail Keith stations on FM cable, so you can hear LeBlanc, Doug Wimbish, Skip Mc that wonderful muzak in stereo. Of course', Donald, and Adrian Sherwood are CITR is always the last to be made aware coming to town Tuesday, June 9th to help of any CRTC changes - but, we know now CITR celebrate its BIG BIRTHDAY BENEFIT and we are telling you! BASH, and you are all invited too! This CITR is at 101.9 cable FM on Shaw organization, the first time they've toured Cable in West Vancouver and North Van in North America as such, specializes in couver, and is on Rogers Cable in Van "sci-fi dance hall classics", and to accom couver, Richmond, and Burnaby. CITR modate the magnitude of this five-hour is still at 100.1 on Rogers Cable in Port mutant funk extravaganza, the event has Moody, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Pitt been moved to everyone's favourite time Meadows, Maple Ridge, and Mission. They warp cabaret, the 86 Street Music Hall. are hoping to make the switch by July. This is a hot ticket, get yours before they CITR is not yet available on Delta Cable, melt. And if you still don't know what the which covers both Delta and Point Ro hell all the hullaballoo is about, turn to berts, Washington. They may add CITR page 9 for a preview of this upcoming 'to their service along with the local AM special event. stations. If you live in their area, call Delta Well, what do YOU expect from putting Cable at ©946-7676 and request that CITR out good money to see others strutting be added to their service. Writing a short their stuff on stage. A little performer- letter would be even more effective. If you audience repartee? A piece of the do, please send us a copy for our files. action? Blind eyes and deaf ears? Judy If you live in New Westminster, Surrey, Radul examines some aspects and symp or Langley, the future does not look so •pji toms of the effect technology has had on bright. Western Cable has no plans to add music, and how it has changed the way CITR to their network. If you live in these in which we related to our own physical areas and are starved for new sounds, being and to others. It's called Rock the call them at S588-9331, or again, write Hilarious Improv Comedy Body, and it is as emphatic and visceral a short letter asking that they consider <#*^THI THEATRE SPORTS GANGI, as the title suggests. Judy Radul is a adding CITR to the service. This is a busi well-known poet-performer about town, ness like any other, and the cable com and she writes as good as she raps. panies will act if enticed with the possibility This month's issue is stuffed with all the of a new customer. If you live in White tasty regulars that Discorder readers love Rock, call Shaw Cable at S531-2322. to eat. We've even got Mark Mushet back CITR is now, quite simply, FM 102 Radio dishing up a swell swill of streaming vitriol, no matter how you do it. so chew on. The Editor
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^^^^^•HH AN MAIL they reach prominence, I am sure others will agree with me. It was always nice to Dear Discorder, have a little bit of exclusivity with some Just wanted to write and say Tape-A- thing, a little bit of intimacy. CITR was Mania was great! I've only just discovered that. It was something that I had and maybe CITR and the alternative scene and taping the next person did not have. the bands was a nice addition to my li brary. Hope that there will be many more CITR and Discorder are growing up. I Tape-A-Mania sessions! just regret your sacrificing the faithful few, in favour of mass appeal. Yours truly, Yours sincerely, a Alexander Stonefield a recent convert
Rest assured, Alexander, CITR and Discor Hello Discordant Ones! der are not sacrificing the faithful few in favour of mass appeal. And if you want I need to subscribe to your fab mag. I'm exclusivity for its own sake, then go bury a masochist and just love to read about your head in the sand. And as far as Discor how great Vancouver is and how dull (by '-i • der is concerned, yes it is growing up. It comparison) the city of cowboys is. So, -. \ is inevitable. What you see now is the to quote the king of rock'n'roll hisself ... on-going result^ of many people working Thankoovermuch! many months learning, honing their skills, Greg Kishmer realizing their mistakes, and taking pride Calgary, Alberta in their efforts. If this wasn't the case, Discorder would look and read much as it did fifty issues ago. The trick is, of course, GROWING UP AND OUT to maintain the ideals that motivate one to engage in such an activity in the first place. Dear Airhead, And it certainly isn't for the money, be cause there is none! Those ideals are con Fifty issues of Discorder. Fifty years of tra, Arista, etc., etc., etc. It has been stantly put to the test through experience; UBC radio. Five years on FM. I feel I must said that Vancouver's music "scene" sometimes they fail, sometimes they rise write. I remember way back when, sitting (god how I hate that word) is one of the to the occasion. Still, experience is some in my parents' car in a parking lot at UBC, most thrilling in North America. Then why thing you'll never gain if you keep your I would be listening to their FM car radio, do you insist on not playing more of its head in the sand. Times do change, but set on CITR. The Teardrop Explodes were bands. I know of your Demo Derby in the the truth always remains. being played on the Saturday afternoon Discorder magazine; surely there are more playlist show. Even though I was only hun demos from aspiring artists than the piddly dreds of feet away from where the trans few who are mentioned. Granted, your mitter is supposed to be on top of Walter stance on new music is admirable, but Gage Tower, the signal was oh-so-weak, why put an upper limit on it? Also, any like a flute in a symphony, but smelling other city must have a similar "under AL BIG, ART THOU A COVER? and heaving and belching and spewing ground" (I hate that word too), which I forth so everyone would take notice. That find there is woefully little representation so discorderr is once again up to its old was in 1983, if I remember correctly. You of. Maybe they don't sound professionally antics of propagandizing the youth of this were brash and precocious and obstinate. made because that is their intent. area into thinking that its covers contain art, or something like it, with constantly I turned on the radio today (Tuesday), I fear the future of CITR. What will happen and pathetically undertaken representa and thanks to the wonders of cable, I can if you get high power? Assuming it will tions of vague and in fact meaningless get you quite well. The fellow dj guy on be extraordinarily costly to implement, I concepts, such as urban landscapes, was fluent and articulate and even a bit guess you WILL have to recover your costs bones and televisions with distorted pic humorous in a bland sort of way. But -and to at least some extent, or else sink. You tures on them!! Black and red really are I mean a BIG "but" - aside from his will have become, and I hesitate to say it, expressive colours, oh my! If you have mature pseudo-charisma charm, he was an alternative commercial non-commer no other work to display on your cover all also boring. He was just another voice on cial music radio station. Greed. over town, then how about a picture of AI the radio of any city. Big?!? Discorder, too. Way back when, it was regional rhonda This is a shame. Scary, too. I loved 8 pages of interesting stuff that, though it CITR when its dj's were inexperienced (or hurt the eyes as one tried to read and at least not that experienced), imperfect, follow along, it had character. Now you HUMAN insofar as their voices, etc. are have 20 to 30 pages of professional type To immortalize AI Big on a Discorder cover concerned. One almost expects them to setting, banners (if that's what those head would dash the dreams of countless young do a wonderful segue into a beer commer lines up top are called), by-lines, etc., girls who listen to The Big Show and who cial or something. And the music they etc., etc. The only thing that has stayed have convinced themselves that Mr. Big play... the same is the name, it seems. is a tall, dark, handsome hunk of deejay. No, we'll just stick to propagandizing the Yes, the music. An actual complaint I guess you can say it is a lot like those youth of this area into thinking other things, against it. As the Spinlist reveals every so Depeche Mode /Cure letters that protested thank you. Besides, Discorder only prints often, all of the "major" labels are there: against all of the trendy teeny-boppyoids all the news that fits, and AI Big will just A&M, Island, Columbia, Warner, Elec- attaching themselves to the bands after not fit! 6 DISCORDER Tues. Wed. June 2-3 VTC/CBO CFMI presents WEA recording artists LOS LOBOS with guests THE PALADANS Friday June 5 WIPE OUT featuring THE SURF KINGS & THE DAWN PATROL and special guests THE CFOX ELECTRIC LUNCH ORCHESTRA Wed. - Sat. June 10-13 Seattle's best rocker STEVE CARLSON Tues. June 16 VTC/CBO»2 Shows»7 pm & 10:30 pm JAMES BROWN Thurs. - Sat. June 18-20 R&B ALLSTARS with special guests
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ARK THIS DAY ON YOUR AGENDA - JUNE 9, 1987. CITR is celebrating 50 years of radio at UBC, with MARK STEWART & THE MAFFIA, TACKHEAD, and GARY CLAIL. This historic event also features rhythm masters KEITH LEBLANC, DOUG WIMBISH, SKIP MCDONALD, and Ma destructive live mix by the one and only ADRIAN SHERWOOD. This amazing five-hour performance is one of only 8 shows on their first North American tour, so don't miss this or you'll be history too. This eclectic collection of cohorts have been responsible for the hottest, brashest, freshest, and funkiest modern music in the past few years, but mainly from behind the scenes and unknown to many. A complete discography would approach encyclopedic proportions, to say the least. Keith LeBlanc (drums), Doug Wimbish (bass), and Skip McDonald (guitars, keys) were for many years the core-root members of SugarHill Records, creators and participants in such classics as The Message, Funk You Up, Unity{w\\h James Brown), and Malcolm X. They were also instrumental in the Sun City rhythm section, they worked with ABC on Zillionaire, and they have produced and/or backed innumerable artists, from Grandmaster Flash to Jeff Beck. Combined with Adrian Sherwood, they have given way to wild experimentation in TACKHEAD, THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF POWER (with GARY CLAIL), FATS COMET, and, of course, THE MAFFIA. Keith LeBlanc released a long-player last year, Major Malfunction, which was one of the most played albums on CITR in 1986. MARK STEWART has been a prolific underground music-maker since his school days in England. He invented The Pop Group in 1977, a sly amalgam of Beefheart- influenced jazz-rock and powerful politics. The Pop Group released three extraordinary albums Why?, For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, and the semi official bootleg We Are Time, before breaking up due to musical and political differences (they wanted to play jazz, really, says Stewart). ADRIAN SHERWOOD has produced music continuously since he was 18 years old. His output includes a steady stream of crafty and weird reggae, dub, hip-hop, and unclassified musical experiments for the past ten years - thirty-seven albums, numerous singles, and 10-inch dub plates. In addition to Mark Stewart, Sherwood produces records for his own ON-U SOUND label by such musicians as the late and great Prince Far I, Singers and Players, Creation Rebel, African Head Charge, and Dub Syndicate. He also handled the production of Keith LeBlanc's Major Malfunction album, and produces all the FATS COMET, GARY CLAIL and TACKHEAD singles. He has also remixed singles and albums for Depeche Mode, Ministry, Einsturzende Neubaten, Shriekback, Woodentops, and the Voice of Authority. "The Thompson Twins asked me to remix some things for them, but my wife said not to," Sherwood recalls fondly. He then met up with Mark Stewart in a record store where Sherwood was distributing some Jamaican dub records. This led to some recording sessions: Learning to Cope with Cowardice, As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade, Pay It All Back, and other equally cavernous non-sequiturs. These projects started to involve the aforemen tioned SugarHill musicians, and soon a number of live shows were presented. So, listen up, musical adventurer, this is what it all means: June 9, 1987, CITR brings the entire cacophonously euphoric melee to Vancouver for five hours of "science fiction dance hall entertainment", all for the purpose of celebrating CITR's 50th birthday!! Says Judge I Rankin (in Spin, April '87) of the show: "Sinister bass underpinnings threaten to usurp the repeater drum bursts every time the politically loaded vocals of Stewart's songs try to make themselves heard. For all its apparent impenetrability, Stewart's ironmongering funk (aided considerably by Adrian Sherwood) has a spellbinding effect on one's consciousness. Highly recommended for those looking to twitch to the beat of a different drum." All pretension aside, this show is the highlight of the year, an opportunity to forego conventional ideas about extremes, funk, effects and dancing. Some advice for the unwary: listen to CITR on Friday, June 5th, from 9 pm until midnight, for THE BIG FAT MAFIOSO SHOW, highlighting the musical output and collaborations of Mark Stewart, Tackhead, Fats Comet, Gary Clail, Keith LeBlanc, Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald and Adrian Sherwood. This show is designed to be a self-explanatory musical preview to the big birthday benefit bash, and guaranteed to put the beat in your feet.-A- has confused the relationship that exists the room through a number of speakers, by Judy Radul between the body of the performer and the each divided into BASS, MID, and HIGH sounds produced. As the body becomes ranges; disassembled into digital informa less directly important to the making of tion and reassembled as sound; trans music it takes on a more SYMBOLIC role. lated into electrical impulses on a video I want to jump out of my skin and be Traditionally, music is made by bodies, screen. ... this is the LIVE experience. Free, I want to kill the little thing that bodys that are vibrating on their own, sing How is all this held together? Why is this is me, I want to laugh and giggle, I want ing or clapping, or a body causing some performer more likely to be seen as an To scream, I want to wake up from this object, like a drum, to vibrate. Music example of SUPER-INDIVIDUALITY, rather Life crushing dream, I want to wash my helped to excite people to a state in which than a figure dissolved between a number body bare in the stream, I want to spirits could enter their body, causing them of apparatus or PROSTHESES. A media- Liberate this human machine, I want to to shake and contort uncontrollably. Much fueled PERSONA is constructed to fill the spit later came ELVIS' HIPS. The DEMON of gap left by the body, the body which is And grovel, I want to shit, I want to rock music has been making kids move no longer really banging the drum. It ap Make you wonder what is it? What is it? their bodies sexually and violently for some pears as if all the effects, musicai and - from Metronome by Nomeansno years now. visual, are a direct result of the super- being, super-talent of the performer rather THE BODY THE EXHALANT than vice versa. Furthermore such IM Today, the body is everywhere repre Rock relies on amplification, the sound PRESSIVE technology acts as proof of the sented and no where existent. Technology has become bigger and the audience to performer's STATUS. Not just anyone could has changed the function of the body. performer ratio smaller. HOW will that one command such as imposing system. Technology EXTERNALIZES the body func little body on stage satisfy us all? Talk tions. PHYSICAL ACTS are EXTENSIONS about PERFORMANCE ANXIETY. The tech VIDEOPLASM of the body. nology of music acts as body extenders, Videos have replaced concerts as a way computers as the externalization of PHALLIC and not. The speakers extend to prove the existence and abilities of per memory; in vitro fertilization asjhe alien lung capacity; amplification and effects formers. The first and absolute rule of rock ation of the womb; Sony Walkmans as simulate strength and dexterity. video is SHOW THE BAND. It doesn't ablated ears; computer generated imag matter if they are on a mountain or under ery as virtual perspective of the hyper- One little JERK, one small CONVULSION, water; no matter how ridiculous they look, modern kind; body scanners as the in one gesture per song is all we really need. the band must be seen. The BAND is tensive care unit of the exteriorization The body leaves town, gets wiped down easier to promote than the MUSIC. If the 1 of the central nervous system. and waits at the HOLIDAY INN. video is made as a series of images not ROCK MUSIC is one result of technology involving the physical image of the band, synthesizing body movement. Before AMPLI THE DISAPPEARED it does nothing to help package them. FICATION it was clear that music was a In a large concert, and to a lesser degree Video bands are bodiless. They are better product of some physical activity. Instru in smaller shows, the performer is frac once removed. ments did not play themselves. Technology tured into many pieces. S/he pans across The old urge was to rush the stage and 10 DISCORDER try to touch, your sweaty hero/ine. Now we are more likely to reach out and touch the screen than SOME BODY. Today there are many Gods but only one ALTAR, be it Sony, Toshiba or Quasar. Isn't the screen better than the skin anyway, so smooth and luminescent? The screen doesn't SWEAT and the speakers don't have BAD BREATH. SELF-INDUCED INJURY With every technological advance comes some kind of loss. With electronic ampli fication and effects it was a loss of RELATIV ITY. A widening of the GAP between per former and audience. Punk was a reaction toward this gap: sophisticated equipment and musical technique were rejected; stars were obsolete - the audience and per former disdained each other equally; the BOUNDARY of the stage was broken by people jumping on and off of it. People were searching for a REAL feeling, some thing that could confirm life even if it threat ened it. Isn't life also a matter of intensity?... Is the problem to live to be eighty, or is it to live until forty - but live intensely ... Life has been linked to its duration, its slow development ... generation, chil dren, wealth ... (BUT) Being alive means ... being-speed ... liveliness ... There is a struggle ... between the speed of the living, and technological speed, the speed of death which already exists in cars, telephones, the media, missiles2 Iggy Pop always attempted to prowl this edge; trying to GET DOWN with the audi ence but not be swallowed by it. I remember reading somewhere that IGGY had said that the night he first pulled out his COCK on stage was one of the most depressing. At that point he had gone as far as he could, taken his flesh to the limit, proving he was MORTAL, a MEAT MAN, by slashing, sweat ing, gyrating, finally exposing the MYTHIC SOURCE of power, denouncing his cock by demystifying it. Still (this is speculation) he felt no closer to the audience. Night after night they wanted to see his cock, his degrada tion. Iggy just couldn't EXPLODE his ego, FALL permanently and literally into the audi ence. It just doesn't work that way. The performer is always returned to the stage. THE HALLUCINATION Rock is a DRUG and it is concerned with drugs. Drugs extend/obliterate the body in ways similar to technology. The YUPPIE BODY needs COKE to compete with the speeding machine of the workplace. The SLUM BODY needs drugs to GET OUT of that place, at least temporarily. The ROCK BODY wants to loose its head, get INTO the music. Drugs are used to bypass the censorship of the brain and SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE IT THE MEAT The situation has become CONVO LUTED: on stage the band tries to sound as good as they did in the studio; to emu Pacifists today oppose the tendency and sometimes both these phenomena are late their mechanized selves. In the studio toward war, in other words the war for present in one performance. Yet, no matter the band tries to recapture the RAW preparation for war ... war as scientific how complex the sound is, people find it ENERGY of live performance. Neither and techonological preparation ... they difficult to deal with an absence of action method questions the way technology af oppose peace as war, as infinite prepara on the stage. fects the musical experience. Technology tion which exhausts and will eventually The audience confirms their own body is changing the way we perceive our eliminate societies. In any case, the apoc image or existence by watching other bodies selves. We are not OUTSIDE of technology, alypse is here ... the apocalypse is perform. When bodies are absent from the able to use it this way or that. hidden in ... the development of arms performance a CRISIS results. Subcon - that is, the non-development of socie sciously the viewers' confidence in the tan The ideology of science as progress 4 is fatal ...that doesn't mean I'm hoping ty gible existence of the rockstar is under mined. The question arises: where has my for an ecological regression, spending Of course, the technology of rock is not our days growing peas, sheep and ro- body gone?... the terrifying, inevitable the technology of war. Yet, a relationship answer?... TO GRANDMA'S HOUSE. This quefort - no, it means that the other exists in how technology manipulates the horizon is technical ... It's what is to be body question is being addressed con body, how it supersedes the body's func sciously and unconsciously in many types conquered. It's the moon. We must land tions, turns these functions inside out, bring on the technological continent, and stop of music. When I saw the BUTTHOLE SUR ing processes which once took place inside FERS I became convinced that the obscure believing it's a tool, an instrument for *the body to the outside. For instance, stor our use, which we can do with as we meanings I had been reading into rock music 3 ing information on computer disks rather did exist - at least at some level. like ... It's not neutral than in the memory, voices digitally repro Punk tried to speed up the impending duced rather than by the larynx. Another The Buttholes weren't trying to reproduce DEATH of our society. After years of at commonality between all technology is that SONGS from their ALBUMS on stage, they tempted overdose, and many INDIVIDUAL although it appears neutral, it carries within were more interested in creating an all- deaths, it became apparent that even where it the bias of its inventors be they scientists encompassing aural/visual environment. An death is concerned we aren't in control. The or audio technicians. INTENSE EXPERIENCE. The voice was lost machines keep us alive as sure as they hold Industrial or technological musics draw a in distortion, used as a way to generate us on the brink of death. ANNIHILATION is lot of their underlying impact from their rela sounds rather than a sound in itself. But the still a real threat but the psychological/ tionship to the body. There is great variety body was there, the body which the voice economic stress of continuously preparing within this genre of music but it is safe to WOULD spring from if it wasn't CHOKED. for our destruction has turned ours into a say that the body is often AGGRESSIVELY Remember? The body was everywhere: civilization of death. Life has no meaning present (pounding unyielding steel with a the healthy, strong, pleasure-seeking body except in relation to death. You are alive heavy mallet) or CONSPICUOUSLY absent of a nude dancer, the dumb meat of a because you're NOT DEAD. 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12 DISCORDER the perception of movement. The band was having their own experience, relinquishing some control and letting the situation play itself. Ironically, the show was halted due to a FLESH WOUND which made it neces SUMMER sary for one of the band to go to the BODY SHOP for repairs. YOUR BUTT HOLE OR MINE SOLSTICE Where POWER is concerned, the body has always been out of favour, the POOR and their DIRTY BODIES. The poor have more problems with their' bodies, how to feed them, house them, keep them healthy, stop them from reproducing. To be bodiless is to be OMNIPRESENT, eve JUNE 19*20*21 rywhere at once. Like the voice of God or a male voice-over in a documentary film. Women have long been portrayed as being more tied to their bodies than men - an other reason to be denied power. Women Jlllifk are to be looked at but the advantage is -M I * • THEATRE * * I Wk= in SURVEILLANCE, to see without being 16th & Arbutus 738-6311 seen. In the EAST it is possible to go beyond the body through meditation. Now €x5L FROM ERIC ROHMER, DIRECTOR OF in the WEST we are at the point of surpass PAULINE AT THE BEACH & M/**£2£ FULL MOON IN PARIS ing our bodies - through technology. We will astral travel by immersing ourselves in AN EXQUISITE NEW COMEDY...BRAVO! -NY Times a reality of self-generating video images. ROHMER'S ULTIMATE MASTERWORK... At this point, when we are about to go IDEAL ENTERTAINMENT -Village Voice beyond the PRISON OF OUR FLESH we • • • • V2 AN UTTERLY CAPTIVATING COMEDY realize the body has become imprisoned —NY Daily News by the SOUL. At least a FICTION of the ONE OF THE GLORIES OF THE YEAR -Vogue soul, a media-fueled sense of PERSON STARTS MAY 22 Showtimes 7:30 & 9:30 ALITY which POSSESSES us. Michael J. Fox is the Devil. We have begun to think wmm—M- of our body as a car in which we drive U% ^h& ^ t Starts ^ around. ^ N » \® t^U "THE BEST ROCK FILM OF (f Q *. —High Performai This article is based on the premise that ijP ^ ** One of the most absorbing and wt confusion is more fruitful than CONCLU 00 FUN AS crafted films ever made aboutRock ', SION but with respect for those readers Roll destined to rank as a classic!" ^ANPCOOU" who would like something concrete to put rtn9 beside the juice box in their lunch basket St3" INTRIGUING! -LATimes ... The body is an underlying subject/ AUDACIOUS! -LA Weekly object/theme/blab, in "rock" musics; the STUNNING! ~LA Daily News musics that I find most interesting engage Showtimes 7:30 & 9:1S this meaning in some way, through presenta tion, lyrics, etc. The bands that seek to The journey, the betrayal, BIG IN SCOPE and emotionally naturalize the relation of music technology the triumph... stimulating.. .satisfying to themselves and their musical products The legend. entertainment...a prestige item" help to keep technology on an uncon VARIETY scious, manipulative and uninteresting level. Musics on the fringe play with body Starts Friday Following concepts. Playing with body symbolisms Unheard Music is radical because through this play OUR FROM STATUS AS GHOSTS IS CONFIRMED.^ AUSTRALIA Showtimes 7:00 & 9:30 &^J± =5585=5
FOOTNOTES "RIVETING." 1. The Canadian Journal of Political and -N.Y. TIMES <* TRIUMPH." Social Theory. Body Digest, vol XI, —NY. DAILY NEWS Number 1-2, 1987, Concordia Univer "EXHILARATING." sity, Montreal, p.ii —LA. TIMES "IRRESTIBLE." 2. Pure War, Paul Virilio/Sylvere Lotringer, —SF. HERALD EXAMINER Semiotext(e) Inc. Columbia University, "WONDERFUL." New York, N.Y. 1983. p.140 —SISKEL & EBERT THE MOVIES "AN INSPIRATION." 3. Ibid., p. 138 Starts Friday Following Burke & Wills -MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE 4. Ibid., p. 139 %4k JUNE 1987 13 agpaws VERDICT Mark Stewart & The the churning cauldron of sound. Mark Ste have been the only stable core members wart was at one time vocalist for The Pop through occasional performances and fluc Maffia Group. (Being a recent convert to this tuating line-ups. They are joined on this Upside Records sound, I cannot give an erudite and acerbi- record by a mini who's who of local music; cally clever chronology of his career.) producer Ron Obvious, Andy Graffiti, Barry Technology works. Or, rather, tech Taylor, Nancy Nash, ex-Crimpolene Karen nology is put to work. The music is inhe Anderson, Payolas' Chris Taylor and A- rently dependent on technology. Unlike Train Boynton, Alex Varty and others. so much modern music which merely uses BAMFF's music is highly original, incor electronic wizardry as a substitute for tra porating many different styles and facets ditional musicianship, this record would - funk, pop, avant garde, folk, classical; not exist without technology. As with Keith melody, texture, groove, polyphony ... LeBlanc's Major Malfunction, the record the references here are specific, though is also about technology and how it may each song's character is fully developed affect music's structure, in this case post- so that none sound alike yet the album Clash political dub. The main challenge succeeds as a cohesive whole. of such an approach is to reproduce it in Beyond originality, sophisticated arrange a concert setting. Challenging but not impos ments and production, the band's most sible. striking aspect is its ability to convey a Iain Bowman genuine atmosphere through music so that one doesn't need words to instinctively know what the song's about. Little Bush Bamff begins as a kind of heavy, pounding Scot There are places where you could be in Come Outside tish funeral march, the violins imitating carcerated for listening to this music. It is droney bagpipes, alternating with a chorus subversive. It hums, it scratches, it pumps. of funky, playful rhythms and melodies It is difficult. It is not easy listening. Think that paint a picture of the playfulness of a of it as the aural equivalent of analytic kitten in life and the lament over its death. cubism. There is an obsession with form, It's not hard to imagine yourself gallop structure, collage and how they may be ing through the open fields to the loping manipulated, yet the essential foundation chords of Pony Hips. Breathy vocals, a of the beat never departs. tinkly-synth riff in a minor key, and a kind The record is not particularly new: it is of circular melody starkly re-create the an American 1986 release. Side one is feeling of a cold, dark, snowy night on- taken from the 1985 On-U LP Learning •Corne Outside with Danice imploring her To Cope With Cowardice; side two is taken mate to come where the "ice is right". The from the 1985 Mute LP As The Veneer of kinky and clumsy, yet intricate rhythms Democracy Starts To Fade and features and slinky guitar and keyboard beginnings current Maffiosi Keith LeBlanc, Doug Wim of Crevice Tool sound like the theme to a bish, and Skip McDonald. Both sides are corny spy movie whose subject is the search produced by Adrian Sherwood and Mark for the all-important vacuum accessory with Stewart. . out which one couldn't really reach be tween stove and sink. The music is dub-based, heavily elec On Crevice Tool, Danice's vocal deliv tronic and vocals fade in and out as on a Well the BAMFF album is finally here, and ery really makes the song - perfectly walk poorly-tuned radio. It is funk-influenced for a band that has been around this long ing the line between heavy sarcasm and in a way, but it is not dance music in a and always had aspirations of recording, complete seriousness. Danice's offbeat traditional sense. It would be a superb it certainly has taken them a while. But no sense of humour is the reason for the over soundtrack for an all-singing, all-dancing matter, it has been worth the wait. all lyrical freshness on songs such as Fee version of 1984. The aural collage effects BAMFF was formed in 1982 by Danice ders, wherein she relates the story of how can be heard on other Sherwood-con McLeod (principal songwriter, violin and her aunt Alice used to scare her with stories nected efforts such as Fats Comet, Tack vocals) with two other ex-members of that of power-hungry neighbours who will some head and African Head Charge. The sound semi-legendary Vancouver art-wave band day run out of food and come and eat has been called formulaic. It is a good U-J3RK5, Colin Griffiths and Rodney poor Danice. Definitely not your typical formula. At the bottom, bass and beat box Graham. They released a musically adven rock fare. lay down the essentials. Various tech turous and roughly produced 7" single All in all, BAMFF have come up with an nological squeals, blips and noises jump and weren't heard from again until their exceptionally strong and original pop/rock in and out, elbowed by tape pieces while first live gigs in late 1984 at which time album. The inventive songwriting and arrang Stewart shouts, croaks and whispers an Scott Harding (guitar, also of Rhythm Mis ing, excellent musicianship, zest for explora assortment of words and slogans above sion) joined and since then he and Danice tion of style and modern production savvy 14 DISCORDER definitely put them in a class of their own, internationally and needless to say locally. Here's looking forward to them coming up with a live show that will be just as good. Mike Harding Oversoul Seven Fool Revelation Edge Records
These four young locals have released an album of original material that is surpris ingly strong on musicianship and high- quality production, for a first effort put together so quickly. Out of the garage and into the studio by way of a few club dates, they mean business and fast! Although occasionally burdened by obs cure lyrics or mired in dreary emotions and conflicts, the six songs and two instru mental pieces are otherwise well-crafted, laced with riffs that click and rhythms that drive. The vinyl doesn't quite carry across their live-on-stage energy, but an inkling of that comes through in the punch of Over Mountain, whose chorus takes big steps up the hill as the guitar and bass climb together. A grinding Roy Orbison bass line greets you in St. Lee Lights, with lead singer Adam Gejdo's voice scratching out an echoing whisper and building to an exasperated edge (although I could do without the background "oooooo's"). And the concluding instrumental Catfight at Cre- puscule is great fun, with a ticking watch lead-in, a teasing of jazzy trumpet, and a resounding slam-bang metal-door beat. I hope that the boys fall in love or get high on chocolate or have great sex before they write their next songs; this album must have been written through some rotten relationships. Lighten up, guys! Gag ... Corey Hart, of all people, came to mind with Somebody Said; he would love it. Gejdo even evokes a Hart-esque, darkly building plaintive cry, accompanied by a "House of the Rising Sun" foreboding guitar rhythm. Great listening for those dark rainy days in the middle of June! Some lighter, wise-ass lyrics combined with the guitar playfulness hinted at in, say, Catfight and All the Say would be the ear-fun that I know these guys can make. Robin Fross JUNE 1987 15 A STREAMING VITRIOL
cussion). Though a bit on the noisy improv prove to be interesting as to tneir artistic by Mark Mushet side of things (Elliott's amp hum notwith maturity being re-introduced to the "rock- standing), the trio's leader, Ned Rothen- band" mode. Also, with considerable luck, berg, must surely rank as one of the world's we will have the chance to talk with them, OMETHING WAS DEFINITELY AS- finest exponents of extended techniques about their solo work, Dome, and their kew last month. However, with dead for reed playing. The evening's highlight views on the new Wire. And, while the S lines being as they are, we'll not was a bass clarinet duet between Ned and new Wire LP awaits release, it should be dwell on past oversights. After all, what Elliott, both using the somewhat awe inspir noted that Bruce Gilbert has just put out good is a semi-annual monthly column? ing technique of circular breathing. Multi- his second solo record on Mute. While his Well, seeing as it's been TWO MONTHS phonics galore! Be well aware that the last album, This Way, was a score to a since the latest permutation of Streaming Front often plays host to some of the best dance piece by Michael Clark, The Shiver Vitriol hit the news stands (did somebody new music concerts this city ever sees, ing Man strikes me as being a more eclec mention "dwelling"?) there seems to even though they're not well promoted. tic selection of pieces that reflect his dif be a need to catch up on some news. First For monthly concert information regarding ferent projects and collaborations. There off, listeners of Fast Forward were treated the Western Front, phone 876-9343 or is the minimalism of Dome, the harsh to only two editions of the show as hosted pick up a schedule at any number of arts- cutting rhythm of This Way, and rhyth-. by Peter Marter. The "Amazing" Pete oriented places around town. mic and entrancing quasi-pop of Duet was to act as co-host of the program on By now you are probably aware that the Emmo or He Said alternating weeks. As it turns out, work reformed Wire will be playing at the Com Closer to home, and directly related to schedules came into conflict and Mr. Marter modore on June 24th. While this may be Fast Forward...{he shooting of the 16mm is not able to continue on a regular basis. significant for fans of the old Wire sound, black and white film Watching the Burning So, until a suitable replacement is discov it is perhaps more important for the fact Bride will have been completed by the time ered, Fast Forward remains the same. that half of the group, namely Bruce Gil you read this. A Fast Forward/Suture pro In the way of truly outstanding but shame bert and Graham Lewis, have been respon duction, in association with Jet Produc fully neglected concerts, April 23rd saw sible for the most prolific, adventurous, tions, this film features an outstanding Semantics play an excellent set at the and successful solo work since the group soundtrack b,y Asmus Tietchens and Western Front. Semantics are Ned Ro- disbanded some seven years ago. Dome, Terry Burrows thenberg (sax, bass clarinet, tunesmith- Duet Emmo, Bruce Gilbert, and He ' Next month we will be featuring a column ing) Elliot Sharp (twin neck guitar, bass, Said (Graham Lewis) are all permutations in this space rather than a curious ab bass clarinet) and Samm Bennett (per of this duo. That they are in town could sence, -fr
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The great South you up. African pianist/composer leads his 23 June Religion Attack—We need to raise group to 'Water From An Ancient $8 million before we have fun and Well.' burn in Hell. (Was Christ really so evil?) TUESDAYS SOUL GALORE 8:00-9:30 pm DIAL ELECTRONIC SMOKE SIGNALS Steve and Anne spin soul platters conveying CITR FM102 10:00-11:00 am an extraordinarily intense sensitivity and Electronic Smoke signals will provide reviews, emotional fervour. Wipe away those lonely updates, commentaries, news and informa teardrops and twist the night away, you red- WEEKDAY HIGHLIGHTS tion, public educational programing produced blooded boys and girls. to bridge the gap between native, non-native, BUNKUM OBSCURA and natural people and to create awareness 9:30-1:00 am MONDAYS and forbearance in our attitude toward nature You have to be careful and the creation that we share perspective Especially at night RANDOM DESIGNS with. You never know what 7:3010:00 am BLOOD ON THE SADDLE You might be stepping into. JY/N Who invented Monday mornings anyways? 1:00-3:00 pm PLAYLOUD No answer to this or any other question as Every second Tuesday, music to scrape the 1:00-4:00 am host Melissa stumbles through early morning cowshit off your boots to. Miserere, miserere caffeine withdrawal, with no general direction whatsoever. Sleep doodling optional. co | Q wmniR OF DOG'S BREAKFAST A THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00-12:30 am LU Vancouver's longest-running prime time Jazz program, featuring all the classic players, the occasional interview, and local music news. Hosted by the ever-suave Gavin Walker. 01 June Phineas Newborn Jr. is possibly the least known of all the great virtuoso Jazz pianists (eg. Tatum, Peterson, CO Evans, etc.). That's who we hear to night...with Sam Jones and Louis Hayes. 08 June Billie Holiday...unquestionably Jazz' greatest vocalist returned to small groups and informal settings during 9 the last stages of her musical odys- sey. Tonight's feature is Miss Holi LU day with friends: Ben Webster, . 'Sweets' Edison, Ray Brown, etc. 75 June "If you can't play a ballad man, < BARGAIN MATINEES $3.50 y'all can't play Jazz." Whoever said BEFORE 6 DAILY that is right. More ballads by some CO •I'jyi'^YW^H'I'I'UM^WHW^Vfc— 18 DISCORDER Et in hora mortis THE LION'S DEN THE VINYL FRONTIER Nekrophilius uninterruptus 5:15-5:30 pm 5:30-8:00 pm Miserere, miserere. Neil Davis will interview players, coaches and TOP OF THE BOPS Auralsurgery with no anaesthetic by Larry special guests on The Lion's Den. There will 8:00-9:00 pm Thiessen. also be a trivia contest, the prizes being gift Would you believe rock'n'roll (and even rock WEDNESDAYS certificates for the Fogg 'n Suds Restaurant. abilly...) from these guys? Johnny Rivers, the THE UNDERWORLD king of the Whiskey-a-gogo, Gene Pitney, Ronnie Dove, Trini Lopez—Trini Lopez??? 5:30-8:00 pm ANOTHER KIND OF WEDNESDAY Listen in this month and you will! We'll also Charles Manson's favorite radio show. 7:30-10:30 am have a special show, including an interview, Anything twisted, psychotic, and loud, we Start your Wednesday mornings with Sidney with the man from Happy, Texas, Buddy Knox. play. No stupid requests. Just the cutting Killpigge, as he plays whatever the fuck he TEENAGE TORPOR wants. edge in new guitar music, be it rock, blues, 9:00-11:00 pm pop, noise, art-damage, Bohemian—Rag WE BE BOTANISTS School's out for summer time—Funk—Metal, or what have you. With School's out forever 10:30-1:00 pm your hosts: Mikey, Carbuncle Kaputnik, and School's blown to pieces... Morally disgraced plant evangelists Dave and that woman with the seductive voice. A. Cooper Grant serve up a potpourri of music to make THE AFRICAN SHOW MEL BREWER PRESENTS your cat use the litter box. We did not, 8:00-9:30 pm repeat, did NOT sleep with that conifer. 11:00-Midnight ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? EXHIBITIONISM LOUIS LOUIS Midnight-4:00 am Midnight-3:30 am 3:00-5:00 pm Sick and tired of all this punk, new wave, "Take off your panties and listen to the Nuevos discos de Danza, Golpes, Radio underground bullshit? Elevator music is window." (Langley Strood). Diamonds and Futura y los demas estan de camino...A ver where it's at... Travis B. lights up your life vinyl—Matt Richards. si Megan este mes, joder! and plays the best Montovani and Muzak. 24 June Phone Art 2. NERVOUS NORBERT FRIDAYS 1:00-3:00 pm THURSDAYS FRIDAY MORNING MAGAZINE D'ya see all those "THIS COULD BE YOU" EXCITED FIRST Dj 7:30-10:30 am thingees all over the chart??? Well, right 7:30-10:00 am 05 June New Music from Montreaux. Also: here is where it all starts. 228-3017 is the Yes. Strategy sessions on re-interpret number to BROADCASTING STARDOM! FINE LINES ing B.C.'s political climate, featur Don't delay—call today! Ask for Phil. 10:00-11:00 am ing personalities such as Lillian OlftOFAFRIC OUTOTAfMCA- . teak Dtnesen wrote about her life 2,MI i coffee farm in "Out of NASTASSIA KINSKI ^ Africa." her exquisite memoir wa5 I lgpwy most circumspect about details of PETER FIRTH •aL .* ft* difficult life with her husband • TESS w^ and with her British lover. The bmSSAGE^lNDIA Beautiful, chilling adaptation of the personal drama of that formidable Damsn woman has been recreated by director Syd A Passage To India (1984) &ww) Thomas Hardy classic—of rape and ney Pollack and writer Kurt Luedtke. Meryl David Lean's visually stunning drama of predjudice |&s redemption, of Tess and Angel Clare Streep is spiendtd. showing t^t strengths and weaknesses, while Robert Bedford com and tension in British-ruled India. Friendship between '"'" and the strictures and tragedy of Vic an Indian doctor and English visitors is shattered plements her well as the paramour — a torian England—by Roman Polanski hunter, pilot and music lover who was when he is accused of a shocking crime Judy Davis, (who seemed to some to be doing pen determined to maintain his own indepen Peggy Ashcroft, Vistor Banerjee and James Fox star. dence The haunting quality of the landscape, ance with it). Natassja Kinski and Peter wild animals and native peoples has been * A PASSAGE TO INDIA Thu Firth are the doomed lovers. eautifully captured in this movine tribute to DoctOfZhivago(1965) civilized, atfecting. humorous, surprising, iromc. m gent Mm Big in scope and location, it is at the same 1 n extraordinary woman— J. Stone. Omar Sharif. Julie Christie. Geraldine Chaplin, an intense six-character drama In this stunningly fine Guinness. Rod Steiger. Epic screen adaptation production, director David Lean has served novelist EM ROBERT , Boris Pasternak novel about turmoil of Russian"' Forster beautifully The casting is as nearly perfect as you could hope for Alec Guinness as Prof Godbole. Victor turn of century. 197 min. Banneriee as Dr Aziz. Judy Davis as Adela Quested. : Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs Moore. Nigel Havers as Ronny, REDFORD JUNE/ 'and James Fox as Fielding (Benson) MERYL [JUggf SI REEP—-TlMOHllTOa : BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID' ItlE STING Butch Casskty And The Sundance Kid (1969) Paul Newman, Robert Redford. Katharine Rosa. Classic Western comedy about the exploits of the most likeable outlaws the West has ever known. | Cleopatra (1963) 110 min. Possibly the most expensive film ever made, the story The SUng (1973) | of the beautiful Queen of the Nile is vividly captured. Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as two small 1 Elizabeth Taylor Is breathtaking In the title role. time con-men who put "the sting" on a big time con- • Richard Burton and Rex Harrison are her suitors. A man. One of the most popular films of the 70s. 129 I truly grand epic of war and romance. 243 mln. ^juNx[i9][2o|m!.iAj;>^ L^NLf2ill22lgio^^" ™ V^LJUNE[23][24lffl)M THE ORIGINAL STUDIO CINEMA DOWNTOWN ON THE MALL • 919 GRANVILLE INFORMATION (24 HOURS) CALL 681-1732 ?tcJu>LO LlLnemo. & VANCOUVER' S INDEPENDENT DOWNTOWN THEATRE JUNE 1987 19 BOTTOM UP by Kevin S. ONDAYS. THEY CAN BE BLUE, they can be stormy. However, M can mondays be happy? The TOP AIRPLAY ALBUMS natural, easy sounds of Happy Mondays indicates such a possibility. John Cale ARTIST TITLE LABEL produced their Squirrel and G-man/ •Kalahari Surfers Sleep Armed Recommended Twenty Four Hour/Party People Plastic Face/ •Prince Sign O' the Times WEA Carnt Smile (White Out) for Factory Re Nettwerk cords. Mondays. Get happy. If not, get •Various Artists Animal Liberation Def. As in Def Jam, Rick Rubin's record •Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technique Touch and Go label which possesses a decided propen •Husker Du Warehouse: Songs and Stories WEA sity for metal and rap, often in conjunction. •D.O.A. True North Strong and Free Profile Def Jam artists the Beasties get the noto •Mark Stewart & Mania Mark Stewart & Maffta Upside riety and a chance to hang with Joan •Bhundu Boys Shabini Discafrique Rivers but Public Enemy bum rush the •K.D. Lang Angel With a Lariat WEA show. As with any, music style, rap's sub ject matter can vary from the innocuous to •Go Four 3 Six Friends Zulu the gritty. If the Beasties occupy a position •Siouxsie & the Banshees Through the at the first end of the scale, Public Enemy Looking Glass Polygram resolutely carve out a slice of their gritty •Nomeansno Sex Mad Alternative Tentacles reality. Thankfully Rubin is not involved •Various Artists Nettwerk Sound Sampler Nettwerk as producer of the album Yo! Bum Rush •Coil Horse Rotorvator K.422 the Show. •The Washington Squares The Washington Square Gold Castle Words. A different kind of rap from the •Anne Clark Hopeless Cases A&M likes of Jean Cocteau, Jacques Der- •Problem Children The Future of the World Irate Faction rida and William S. Burroughs sur faces on the compilation Minutes. Not just •Mantronix Music Madness 10 words but music also inhabits this LTM •Mekons Honky Tonkin' Twin Tone release. Continuing in a similar mood if •Steve Tibbetts Exploded View ECM not vein is blood, women, roses by Mi chael Gira and Jarboe of the Swans. • TOP AIRPLAY SINGLES In this manifestation of their musical lives apart form their feathered friends Gira and ARTIST TITLE LABEL Jarboe deal in a much less abrasive sub •Saqqara Dogs World Crunch Pathfinder stance than the Swans. What we have is •Steinski We'll Be Right Back/The Motorcade 4th & Broadway a kind of foreboding, gloomy chamber •Amor Fati Econ 100 Flesh Yuck music. You get what you deserve. •The Residents Kaw-Liga (Dance Mix) Ralph Words from Africa. Well, we all know •Fats Comet Rockchester World what happened when Paul 'You can call Magick Defends Itself Temple me AI' Simon mosie.d on down to South •Psychic TV Africa. Fame, fortune and record label •Young Fresh Fellows Fillet of Sol Popllama interest in the commercial possibilities of •Wire Ahead Mute African music. The vocal group Ladys- •Hula Poison Red Rhino mith Black Mambazo appeared on •The Naturals Funky Rasta Cooltempo Simon's Graceland album and bingo they now have their own album, Shaka Zulu on Warner Brothers. A more difficult but worthy Allen, and various organization NEOFILE disc from Zimbabwe is Shabini by the members. Exclusive to CITR! 6:00-9:00 pm Bhundu Boys on Discafrique. A more 12 June More updates, music and events. More new records than you can shake a stick militant expression of Africa can be found We'll see what happens. at, while Kevin Smith suffers extreme on Remember Soweto 76-'86 which con 19 June Dolly DeLuxe photo session. Asia humiliation. tains cuts encompassing styles varying from Pacific Ideas; an overview. hardcore to reggae. Remember is an anti- 26 June Entering the world of CATS, and THE BIG SHOW apartheid record whose proceeds go to discovering new Jazz. (The Far 9:00-midnight Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military wing of Side.) TRIBES AND SHADOWS the African National Congress. So remem THE VISITING PENGUIN SHOW 10:30-11:30 am Midnight-4:00 am ber music, Africa and words, -fr 05 June Balinese music and Arabic voices. 12 June The eccentric side of guitar, with Alex Varty. WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS 19 June Music of the Asia Pacific. 26 June Sounds and structures of the SATURDAYS GAMELAN. CRAPSHOOT BRITS GO HOME 5:30-6:00 pm 8:00-10:00 am 20 DISCORDER SATURDAY EVENING MAGAZINE 6:00-6:30 pm . /^=l, Featuring news, sports, weather, Insight, Generic Review, Today in History, Across the S FM102 Atlantic. m PROPAGANDA! CI MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESD W THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 6:30-8:00 pm 7:30 - BREAKFAST REPORT: NFWS SPORTS WEATHER GENERIC KE V IEW, INSIGHT 8:00 - ACROSS THE MERIDIAN RANDOM ANOTHER EXCITED FRIDAY 9:00 DESIGNS Jennifer Chan KIND OF FIRST D| MORNING 11:00-1:00 am MUSIC WEDNESDAY MAGAZINE THE OF —Rapid little pulses beat twelve; and stop 10:00 - SATURDAY OUR ' ELECTRONIC TNT COMEDi SHOW EDGE ped. T'would be in vain to plead that the FINE LINES TIME SMOKE SIGNALS TRIBES AND weather and the hour were not adapted to 11:00 Trffi SHADOWS WE COtiD THS THS pedestrian purposes. "I am a mortal," COU.D BE COt4D 12:00 - Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall." BOTANISTS YOU BE W (oanna Graystone SUNDAY FOCUS YOU YOU "Bear but a touch of my hand there, and you 1:00 LL'NtH REPORT: CITR NEWS SPORTS. WEATHER shall be upheld in more than this!" POWER THE THE CHORD ROCKERS 2:00 - DOG'S NERVOUS Stacey Fruin ED.D.j. SHOW BREAKFAST NORBERT SHOW 3:00 SUNDAYS PARTY EVERYTHING GET LOUIS Peter MICHAEL 4:00 WITH ME. CLOCK MUSIC OF OUR TIME CONNECTS SERIOUS! LOUIS Coartemanche WILLMORE'S PUNKERJ THE ROCK 8:00-Noon BEAT 5:00 - TALK DINNER REPORT: NEWS. SPORTS. WEATHER GENERIC REVIEW INSIGHT. CAil Y FEATURE Modern 20th Century classical music ranging CRAPSHOOT from the tonal to the avant-garde. Instrumen 6:00 THE SAT. MAGAZINE SUNDAY MAG. tation in all spheres with commentary on the RECTAL THE Bruce Turpin UNDER SUNDAY FOCUS newest techniques and fashions. With your 7:00 - RECTITUDE VINYL FRONTIER WORLD PROPAGANDA: host Wolfgang Ehebald. 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JUST LIKE WOMEN 7:00-9:00 pm THE EDGE ON FOLK THE EDGE ON SOCCER 10:00-11:30 am 11:30-noon FAST FORWARD The latest and best in folk music for Including exclusive reports on the Vancouver 9:00Midnight unashamed folkies, and also for those tor 86ers in the new Canadian Soccer League. LIFE AFTER BED tured souls who think this sort of stuff is The Compleat Monty Python, adapted for dead. (Try telling Billy Bragg, Shane radio by nailing a pederast to the TV screen Midnight-Until Barry needs stiches... MacGowan or Spirit Of The West that their PLUS more music. 07 June The Bakker-Hart show. Love songs, drug songs and good lovin' music is dead and see where it gets you!) POWER CHORD gone bad. Tune in for further evidence that this is the Noon-3:00 pm most versatile and relevant music of the 80s, 14 June Hey who did that? Covers of and a whole bunch of other decades as well. CLOCK THE BEAT covers of covers. 21 June True Facts Nite—if you've got one, Features during the month include: 3:00-6:00 pm phone in—whether it's true or not. 06 June Some highlights from two years of Hip hop to pop, funk to junk, rock to schlock: 28 June Blood-Fest: 1 Hour of James The Edge On Folk. no categories, just tunes to shake your cock 13 June Christine Collister, a fine singer tails. Hosted by lain Bowman. Blood Ulmer. from the Isle of Man, singing with 06 June D-Day. Tune-in for the longest day FLOYD'S CORNER Richard Thompson, Clive Gregson, mix. 2:00 am-UntilJeff fades.. JUNE 1987 21 V&&&/ 7fPfr£p&nty I have one complaint, it's that audiences anyone was singing, or I could relate to tend to talk as loudly during a quiet band's the melody at all, to put on the air. The by Janis McKenzie set as if it were, say, Husker Du pounding thing is, when I've seen the band play it out on the stage. There just doesn't live, at least they've sounded like they're seem to be any way to ask people to quiet trying to have fun. This demo, unfortu UST WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE EVERY down without sounding like totally uncool. nately, tries to sound professional without musician I knew was leaving town Oh well, I wouldn't like to have to see the having much going for it in the way of J for a "real" job this summer, at Junkies from the back row of the balcony song-writing or enthusiasm. (Sorry, Tom.) least two local bands are regrouping in in a concert hall anyway, so I guess it's Guano Blitz — I'm a Duck. My first time for the warmer weather. Red Her the price you pay for "intimacy." impression was that this was one of the ring {Shindig champions of not 'so very Flammable Animal has a new demo dumbest songs I'd ever heard. (It kind of long ago) are back with their original lineup, at the station, called / Must Feed. Like reminds me of a date I went on once — an expanded sound, and a concept that'll their earlier offerings, what this song lacks my dinner companion made a joke like, include visuals by local artists such as Ken in the songwriting department (in my opin "It's great weather — if you're a duck!" Gerberick. they'll be playing June 11 to ion anyway — I'd personally prefer more and thought he was being original and 13 at the Savoy. hooks) it makes up for in impassioned witty.) And I have to admit, my second Forbidden Beat, who took a break vocals. I haven't managed to see them impression was also that it's pretty dumb. over the fall and winter to let various mem play yet so it's too soon to say how their But Guano Blitz are young (just finishing bers work and take classes, will return to sound translates into a live performance. up Grade 11) and have already been jam the Arts Club June 12 and 13. Made up Quite a few months ago, Bruno ming together for two years, and have only of former members of eight or more hard Gerussi's Medallion sent us a multi- played two gigs — one in the most recent core bands, the five veterans are going song demo, called In Search of the Fourth round of Shindig and the other a benefit. for a sound they describe as somewhere Chord. A promising enough title, / thought, So my third impression is, sure it's silly, between the Sonics and Howlin' Wolf, and but the songs (all originals) disappointed but it's a step in the right direction. even have a harmonica player, described me, even though I'd seen the band a Rixen and Borycki — Apocalypso in terms of his "rumoured" relation to couple of times, playing pretty bad covers Now. The collaboration of two long-time Charles Manson. of pretty good '60s songs. They didn't songwriters and studio types, this song The BAMFF album is out, as should be enclose any info about what the band was will sound more than familiar to anyone Family Plot's, by now. While most bands doing, or phone number, just the first who's listened to CITR for a couple of are crushed to have to play their record initials and last names of the members (of years, being strikingly similar to singles release parties without vinyl available at a course we all know who "T." Harrison is, The Apocalypso and (the one with the table by the door, Madeleine's philosophy anyway) and who played on which song tape loop that plays on Reagan's "joke") at theirs was that she didn't want to use and in what studio! Well, the Medallion are Five Minutes. But of course this just proves the band's gigs to sell, except of course persistent — they sent in another copy of what we've known all along (and I keep the performers themselves. the tape last month (thinking we'd lost the trying to explain to my. family), that fans So I finally got to see the fabulous first one, I suppose) and so I chose the of college radio really are years ahead of Cowboy Junkies at the Railway, and if only song, Tell Me What You Found, where the rest of the world. Right? ^r HEAVY WOM^T I im1. \ Mm£l:*Ws ^ l 22 DISCORDER HAPPY HOUR 7:30-9:00 P.M. 0° o d WFONCSOAY FRIDAY FROM 1 NOVA 2 SCOTIA 3 TERMINAL CITY JARVIS BENOIT QUARTET with guests M^OG*** FROM S.F. 9 2, THE 8 10 11 12 13 jfPNlG l 1 FINS RED HERRING * *'°** * KEV ,5 ASEXUALS 16 17 18 19 20 STUBBORN BLOOD HERALD NIX CHANGE! BOILER MAKERS W 22 24 26 i^L -to«°*«°' 25 27 D^HTV T.B.A. s»* AXE U«°* ROMANIACS 29 30 KATIE WEBSTER SPECIAL EVENTSJUN E SUNDAY SUNDAYS xl June 7 RIO BUMBA OPEN 7-12 P.M. June 14 SHOWCASE CABARET '\ CALL FOR INFORMATION June 21 ROGUE FOLK CLUB (Stephen Fearing) FOR SUNDAY SPECIAL EVENTS June 28 T M SQUAD (Jazz) The DuMaurier International Jazz Festival O JUNE 25 - JULYS QUALITY CONTROL ITH E SAVOY NIGHTCLUB 6 POWELL ST. 687-0418 ] THE 10th ANNUAL The Performers Lillian Allen and the Revolutionary Tea Party Band • Amauta • Frankie Armstrong • Mr. B. • Roy Bailey • Banco del Ruido • Berline, Crary and Hickman • Bim (AKA Roy Forbes) • Tony Bird and Morris Goldberg • Sandy Bradley & the Small Wonder String Band • Billy Bragg • Billy Brittain • Capercaillie • Eugene Chadbourne • Oscar Chavez and Los Morales • Clann Na Gael • Kate Clinton •Peppino d'Agostino • The Dance Brigade • Hazel Dickens • Ramblin' Jack Elliott • Ferron • Cathy Fink • Four the Moment • Susan Freundlich • Gaelic Cape Breton Show • Sheila Gostick • The Horseflies • Arthur Johnston • Clifton Joseph • Si Kahn • Connie Kaldor • Ian Kennedy • Kin Lalat • Dagmar Krause • Alison Krauss and Union Station • Eddy Lawrence • Laurie Lewis and the Grant Street String Band • Celso Machado • Mike Marshall's Modern Mandolin Quartet • John McCutcheon • Patsy Montana • Holly Near with John Bucchino • Nightnoise • The Original Balkan Jam • The Oyster Band • Rare Air • Ritmia • Leon Rosselson • Tom Russell • Michelle Shocked • Spirit of the West • Themba Tana and African Heritage • The Topp Twins • Shari Ulrich • Under the Moss • Winston Wuttunee and Rainbow Bridge • Takeo Yamashiro and Teresa Kobayashi C%)m July 17,18,19. 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