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Mrr /< SCRATCH!/ YBT SOMEHOW r Feseu* OlFFBfi&tTl // flflrrjs - 2NDSKI DISORDER That Magazine from CITR FM 102 NOVEMBER 1988 * ISSUE # 70 6 FILM FEAST EDITOR Kevin Smith Movies! Free Flicks! Aces Man! EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Viola Funk, Barb Wilson, Miss Finch 8 BILLY BRAGG WRITERS Pat Carroll, Chris Buchanan, Norm Just An Unassuming Guy Van Rassel, John Ruskin, Dave Watson, Viola Funk, Janis McKenzie 10 THE FAMOUS LEONARD ART DIRECTOR Marty George ARTISTS Alan George, Julia Schenck COHEN VOICE PHOTOGRAPHER Mandel Ngan And It's No. 1 In Norway COVER 12 Midnite PRODUCTION MANAGER Michael Grigg 12 ONE HOUR WITH A LYRES' LAYOUT BY Martin Richards, Shirley Soo, Laura GROUPIE Corobotiuc PROGRAM GUIDE BY Kathryn Hayashi How Much Abuse Can One Interviewer TYPESETTING AMS Desktop Publishing Take? ADVERTISING AND DISTRIBUTION MAN AGER Matt Richards 14 I LIVE IN SURREY BY FORCE ACCOUNTS AND DISTRIBUTION GUY Randy Just What Are The 88 Great Things Iwata About Surrey? PUBLISHER Harry Hertscheg
Discorder is That Magazine from CiTR 101.9 Fm. It's published monthly by the Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia. It's printed I 4 AIRHEAD in Surrey, Canada. Discorder Magazine prints what readers who write it wants to, but pledges to (try and) put the CiTR On The Dial program guide and Spin List record chart in every issue. We also vow to circulate 17,500 copies 13 VIDEO EYE to over 200 locations by the first of each month. watching out for your best entertainment Twelve-month subscriptions are $12 in Canada, interests $12(US) in the States, $20 elsewhere. Make money orders or certified cheques payable to Discorder Maga 16 UNDER REVIEW zine. All written, drawn or photographed contribu smiths, b.a.d., naked raygun and more tions are welcome. But don't expect to get anything back. To pick up or to improve your reception of CiTR's 49-watt stereo signal, just put a little effort 17 LOCAL MOTION into it. Stick a clothes hanger or some other kind of in a city near you antenna to your receiver. Better yet, if you're a sub scriber to Rogers, Shaw or Delta Cable, turn us on at 21 ON THE DIAL 101.9 cable fm. Office hours for CiTR, Discorder every person's guide to citr and the CiTR Mobile Sound Rental are Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm. Please call then. But call 228-3017. For 22 SPINLIST the News/Sports line, call 224-4320. To talk to the DJ, call 228-2487 or 228-CiTR. the hipper sounds to be an alternative to the other radio stations of Vancouver. It was not alternative because it played "alternative" music; there was no such thing. But over time "alternative" became a label for the music college stations play. Usually this applied to British bands like The Smiths, The Cure, and New Order. Thus, we then had a definition of what was acceptable for a station such as CiTR to play. Unfortunately, this is very restricting and very white. It would seem to defeat the purpose of an "alternative"; that is, to be an outlet for music and ideas that are not to be found on other radio stations. Sure, many college stations have reggae, rap, soul or African music shows but the tendency is to keep the main playlist records alterna tively-correct, thank you very much. As applied to 6138 SUB Blvd. music, the term alternative is meaningless and ex Vancouver, B.C V6T 2A5 tremely confining; it's a dead end. Stop using it. And remember, U2 used to be an "alternative" band. Nuff said. Dear Airhead, I just transferred to Vancouver from Moose Jaw (that's right - armpit Saskatchewan) and promptly Dear Airhead, grabbed the local entertainment rags - yours included This is in response to "The Rank's" letter in the - to see what kind of groups were playing. Being of the October Discorder. I had also looked forward to the "alternative listener" sort, I feel I've been pointed in opportunity of attending school here at UBC and the right direction thanks to the club review in your living in residence. Like you, I come from a BC back October issue. Thanks, Janis. woods town and imagined UBC to be a haven where On a different note, I would like to know what I would meet interesting people who had similar THURSDAY kind of money-mongering, capitalist, gravy-sucking interests to mine, which do not include intoxicating ght in« pigs are running these places. Seriously, $3.50 - $4.00 myself to the point of imbecility. I had always asso night a beer. Is there no such thing as a $5 or less cover ciated that kind of behaviour with the small town I T charge anywhere? Over the last 5 or 6 years, myself lived in. I did not realize that residence consists THE Pi and a few friends would drive 40 miles to Regina in mainly of people also coming from small towns in BC -X search of live alternative-type gigs. (Moose Jaw is a and that nothing would change. To some of these &3° Redneck/Metal haven.) We saw the Jazz Butcher people, life doesn't go beyond campus. They might as with The Gruesomes - $10; The Doughboys with Big well be back in their "backward town" that The Drill Car - $5; Royal Crescent Mob and Mojo Nixon Grapes of Wrath sing about My reason for writing ,our Mk*«»''.3 and Skid Roper - $8. And beer, well, $1.50 before this is to tell you that you are not alone in your opinion 9:30 and $2.50 after. Can you see my point? I'm sure of residence life. There must be others like us. Try many students can. What's with these Butthole Surfer looking closely for people who are also not satisfied guys? ($15.50). Is Eddy Van Halen joining them, or with the ordinary. what? And what happened to The Jesus and Mary Sincerely, Chain on October 3? I guess I'll have to make sacri P.O.W.R. (pissed off with res.) fices. Put up with slimey club owner prices or go back to the Prairies for yet another minus 40 degree winter. Tough choice. Dear Airhead, A\« "Barry Harris is one of the living masters of modern The ParaimoeEtt —Robert Palmer, N.Y. times arry Harris plays pia The Late Nite i the film "BIRD". Soda Bar!" Nov. 6 Adversity fm • ^ "he School of Music Organized Chaos T Reconditioned W**W he University of British Columbia Mission of Christ Monday Nov. 28-8 pm Decadence UBC RECITAL HALL Nov. 12 Brilliant Orange MUSIC BUILDING Twenty Four Gone Tickets: General SI2. Students $10 On Sale at VTC Ticketmaster AMS Tickets: S.U B.. The Paramount 652 Columbia St. New West - 526-8675 Slack Swan Records. Highlife Records Dance Music Fridays & Saturdays Charge by Phone 280-4444. jazz Hotline 682-0706 8 P.M. To 5 A.M. -17& Older Only! L=M«TJ : fl ^ RECORDS LTD Cecil Taylor The Greatest Pianist of the Twentieth Century Performs his First Solo Concert in Vancouver Sunday, November 13 • 8 pm DISCOVERY THEATRE B.C. Enterprise Cer - Expo '86 Site! Tickets: Black Swan Records. Highlife Records, Ticketm T/VTC All Usual Outlets Charge by phone 280-4444 1111 Commercial Drive Ph: 251-1161 CEEIIX^ 4376 W. 10th Ave. Ph: 222-2332 Producers M ""'" """""l™-™' ffi"*' Presented by L.P.'s Tapes C.D.'s "UB JAZZ HOTLINE • 682 0706 CO-OP RADIO ovies! Free Flicks! Aces ManJ... oh rage at parties this Christmas season. of the festival. sorry, no, it was cinema and I was The next films I saw were part of press However, I was starting to get alittle jaded. M allowed to attend because of my role screenings. Press screenings involve showing I wanted something a little more. I wanted three as a member of the Media, with a sacred duty to up at the theater in the middle of the day, having in a row. In order, the three were: Shame, communicate to you, the reader, my impres- someone ply you with muffins, coffee and press Comic Book Confidential, and Mondo New sionsof what I saw. Well, how many movies can kits and then going in to see a movie with four York. The first was a modern feminist Austra you see if you don't have to pay? Of the 200 or or five other people. For comedies the result can lian version of the Alan Ladd western Shane so that played during the two weeks of the be like the sound of one hand clapping. None (geddit?). The lone rider rolls into town and Vancouver International Film Festival I'd guess theless, the two films I saw here, Cannibal discovers that things are seriously wrong. An that you would be able to see 75% of them, the Tours and Some Girls, were two of my fa interesting movie with all the good roles being other 25% being lost to scheduling conflicts. vourites. Cannibal Tours is a rib-tickling (pun female - since all the men are spineless wimps However, this assumes you would be willing to intended) documentary about groups of Europe (or, more commonly, Fosters-chugging, woman- give Up a few simple little things like your job, ans visiting the villages of former cannibals in chasing, he-men). However, there is one major eatings sunshine (or rain), your friends, sleeping the New Guinea jungle. Tourists never looked technical flaw. In one scene a set of supporting - in f lit just about everything save thebus routes so goofy, nor natives so perplexed. My favorite actors is shown arriving, and in the next they are between the Van East (on Commercial Drive), piece of tourist/native interaction was a wife's shown preparing to leave for the former scene. the Pacific Cinematheque (Howe and remark to her husband as he attempted to get a Don't worry if this doesn't make any sense; it Helmeken), the Ridge (Arbutus at 16th), and the local kid to smile for die camera: "No, don't get didn't in the film either. A strong, uncompro Hollywood (Broadway and Balaclava). I had a too close. She'll start crying. She doesn't know mising ending and sensitive, intelligent acting few other commitments so I saw a select 10% of you're a pediatrician." by Deborra-Lee Furness as the heroine, Asta, what was availiable while still managing to make the film far better than its B-movie prem squeeze in a few extra social events. True to my ome Girls provides a distinct contrast. ise suggests. duty as Media Dude I'll share my experience. Michael, a young American college stu S dent, spends Christmas in Quebec withhis irst night out, Sunday, I caught a double girlfriend and her family. The family includes hame was good, but I wanted more. The bill of The Laserman and Varapire's two sisters, the older sister's boyfriend, their evening's next entertainment gave it to FKiss. The first is a funny but flawed film. gorgeous mother, her eccentric father (a writer S me. Comic Book Confidential is an amus Writer/producer/dircctor/co-star Peter Wang who works in the nude), the family priest, and ing and informative look at the origins, history, wants to make some serious points about the re Beowulf (the family mutt). To keep things inter present and future of North American comic sponsibilities scientists must take for their dis esting the filmmakers introduce the family's books. The best bits are those that deal with the coveries, l^it doesn't pull it off. The second Film elderly grandmother, who thinks Michael is her phenomenon of 50's horror-comics and the US was terrific: Nicolas Cage plays a yuppie prick long-dead husband. Oh yeah, all of the sisters government's successful efforts to squash them who thinks he's turning into a vampire. I assume have tue hots for our young hero. You'll just (shades of the PMRC, or what?). Also enjoyable it will be going into general release fairly soon, have to trust me when I tell you all of the above is the section on the underground comics Of the so go see it and understand why someone point is handled intelligently and with the utmost late 60's. (Best line here was by the creator of a ing and yelling "ALVA" is going to be all the good taste and that this may be my favorite film Mickey Mouse parody who spent 13 years fight ing a 1.2 million dollar lawsuit launched against him by the Disney Corporation: "If you're going down in flames, try and hit something big.") In all a very enjoyable film that is sure to show up around town for years to come. However, I still wasn't satisfied. So off I trooped to the midnight show at the Van East - Mondo New York. Ever wonder what groovy, hip, "alternative" people do for enter tainment in the Big Apple? Wonder no more. The film follows a nameless, mute, mid-West ern lass as she roams from one form of "enter tainment" to another. High and low points in clude: an S&M demonstration; streetcorner "doo wop" groups; a ranting preacher who bites the heads off mice and then explodes himself; late night poetry recitals; John Sex, his boda cious Ta-Ta's and his Love Muscle; and much more. I left feeling a little unsettled. Given the sheer camp value of much of the acts featured, expect this film to appear on the midnight movie circuit fairly soon. espite, or perhaps because of, the previ ous night's overindulgences, the next D afternoon's film, We Think the World of You, featuring Alan Bates and Gary Oldman, failed to impress me strongly either way. If you can imagine a strangely dull cross between Walt Disney and Joe Orton, where the two actors are featured as sometime gay lovers drawn together by Oldman's dog, then you've got the idea. This day's midnight special was some thing completely different. The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization Part II, The Metal 6 DISCORDER ....the blue moon is always full these yellow roses never die Children only cry rainbows Success is just love Wildest imagination is reality, he said... This is my world And you can have half. VAN AKEN MODELING CLAY AT frogspirlt • EDUCATIONAL IDEAS • WIERD SUPPLIES •NEAT KITS • STRANGE TOOLS • RAW MATERIALS • KEEN STUFF LONSDALE QUAY MARKET QQQ 123-CARRIE CATES COURT All'} SOO NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. V7M 3K7 ******** Years is terrific. Under the talented direction of dutiful housewife, with her perfect house, kids tremely slow-moving, filled with images of the Penelope Spheeris this documentary examines and attitude, is left by her jerk of a husband. "plague" and bark carving into fish shapes, and LA's metal scene with a sharp and intelligent Deciding to support herself, she gets a job teach has few funny jokes. I'm fairly sure the whole eye. Featuring interviews with everyone from ing English in a medium-security men's prison. filmis acinematic 'in'joke. Morepeople walked the Biggest of the Big (Alice, Ozzy, Lemmy, Nothing really extraordinary happens, but it's out on this film than any other that I saw. It wins Gene and Paul), through to the up-and-coming all quite nice. my personal award for least understood film of and "never wills" (Poison, Faster Pussycat, and 1 With a choice between more films or DOA, the festival. my personal faves for sheer lameness, Odin), all I broke down and saw DOA. They were way The last film I saw, Amsterdam ned, is a the way down to the teenage metal fans and loud, politically correct, had a chainsaw on Dutch made police thriller. The plot concerns wannabe's. Not forgotten are side trip inter stage, and it was almost their last gig with Dave something lurking in the canals of Amsterdam views with promoters, parole officers and Gregg. Anyway, they showed Death Race 2000 and killing people. Out to solve the mystery is sleazeball club owners. Even if ybu have no before the opening act came on. our hero, a way cool police detective, played by interest in heavy metal whatsoever this film will Now for a dream sequence. You go to a Huub Stapel. Adding to the suspense and in amuse, fascinate and horrify you (a late-night party. There are far too many people there, but trigue are the detective's daughter.his partner, poolside interview with the guitar player from there is free alcohol. You see some friends. You the new woman in his life, her pyschiatrist, and WASP leaves one assuming he isn'tplanning to see Leonard Cohen. You see people tell Leonard someone in a black rubber suit with a very sharp stay in this world much longer). Another of my Cohen he's their parents' favourite poet. You knife. Well made in a none too serious manner. favorite films of the festival. wonder if these people'sparents know thenames More than a tip of the cap to James Bond, Dirty of any other poets besides Leonard Cohen. You Harry, et al. periodic problem facing someone who wonder how Leonard Cohen feels about this In many ways this last film was indicative likes to see a lot of films is that you may "favourite poet" business. You see a napkin he of what I viewed throughout the fest's length. I A be forced to choose real life over£inema signed for a female friend of yours; you read noticed a trend in film, and in pop culture in once in a while, so films may not be there when "What are you doing later?", signed, "Leonard general, to eat up and regurgitate that which has you are ready to see them. I had such a problem Cohen". You hear that Leonard Cohen actually gone before or is happening elsewhere. Aside one night. Expecting to see an Australian docu left the party in a cab by himself. You see from the Dutch police thriller there was an mentary about three women growing up, I in another female friend. She tells you she's not Australian western, a yuppie vampire and a stead saw a film about three women recounting interested right now. You drink a beer. Later on, Winnipeg filmmaker who both took their cues their pasts. Martha, Ruth, and Edie is, in fact, the roadie for the Grapes of Wrath gives you a from 1920's German film style, and an English three short stories drawn together by a chance condom. You truly understand irony for the first drama about homosexuals that felt like a piece of meeting of the women in the title. It's all rather time in your life. You wake up with a dry mouth 1950's American family entertainment. pleasant CBC, Canadian, Toronto filmmaking. and a headache. 1 The Vancouver International Film Festi The first two stories are okay. The first is about val: more than a chance to see lots of free a young girl's first love and the second about a f you thought that was a bit much, try sitting movies; less than an opportunity to discover the mousy librarian finally coming into her own through Tales from the Gimli Hospital. best place to sit in a movie theater. with the aid of her elderly "California aunts". IIt's a German surrealist silent film from the The last story, however, is a real gem. The 1920's, filmed in Winnipeg in 1988. It's ex Pat Carroll s NOVEMBER 1988 7 get out of the British Empire you are joining the American Empire. And British Columbia, if you go from the left, becomes the 52nd state of America. Or more simply, they give you more money and you give them all your good hockey players." The once planned purchase of nuclear submarines from Britain doesn't fare much bet ter, "Would you buy a used submarine from that woman? I wouldn't." But for Billy Bragg, one cannot simply separate life into politics and relationships. The two are inevitably joined. "Life isn't all politics, and life isn't all personal relationships, it is a mixture of a lot of different things, and I try to reflect that in my writing. If you haven't loved someone outside your immediate family, with all your hearL or allowed yourself to be loved, then you can't be a socialist because socialism is about loving people. I do subscribe to that, that the emotional side to politics is as important as the intellectual side." ne gets a feeling when talking to Billy that his wit and charm, which he so readily exhibits, is just a veiled attempt to cover up the darker oc curenceOs of his life. We all experience pain and insecurity during our lifetime. Guitar players are not exempt from this ordeal. And each of us t was with immense trepidation that I what kind of music I'm making, the only term I must make a decision as to how we deal with our eagerly prepared for the much anticipated feel evi mfortable with is urban frustrations. Billy chooses a self-effacing man ! interview. Injust a few short hours I would folk.'" has seen him move from ner as a means to cover up the pain. Besides his greet one of my rock and roll heroes, the doing gig! fty apathetic patrons, to ill-fated relationships,he has gone through such tght me how to play guitar via his touring N< Echo and the Bun- deep periods of doubting his ability and self that «JitoflP'cl^eflPe tnou^nt tnat nymen, ning across much at age twenty-three he found himsel of the Wei ;n Eastern Europe. ng one of your idols could be one heck of British Army. "1 joined me British Army to Thedoi t down would not leave my mind. The day songs are ill-fated escape the economic and social situation I was relatioi I badly. I was late for school and ving politics. Many of his in. 1 didn't have a job and was livingathome.lt couldn't concentrate during any of my classes. best songs deal with his painful teenage infatu wasanaivehopeto escape. I hadlostmy musical Anxiety and panic riddled me all day. I lost two ations. And those days are not yet behind him. "I confidence By the time I had joined the army. sets of car keys and nearly forgot the cassette to still feel like a seventeen year-old in love, unfor While the army didn't instill my confidence record the interview. As I was led into a dark tunately. That's all part of being human. I'm back into me, it gave me such a shock that it hallway of the Commodore Ballroom I couldn' t thirty now, and I thought that when I got to be made me think that I was so lucky to be out of help but think how much I dreaded doing this thirty all the secrets of maturity would be re- there. It was like going to prison. It made me interview. But it finally happened, I talked with vealed."The openness with which he approaches want to play gigs again." Billy lasted three the Big-nosed Bard from Barking, Billy Bragg. his songwriting leaves very litde of his soul and months in the army before he bought himself out While it may sound like a cliche, the first experience uninvolved, preferring to think of his and returned to a life of rock and roll. thing you notice when you meet Billy is his songs as confessionals for the darker side of his With his new release Worker's Playtime, unassuming manner; wearing a dark blazer and personality. many have heralded a change in the Billy Bragg jeans, sporting a goofy haircut, and talking in a But Billy's notoriety is due to his elo they once knew. On this album are featured witty, friendly style all combine to make him quence in presenting his politics. His work with Wiggy, his childhood sidekick, on bass, Tina approachable for even the most insecure of Red Wedge and the Labour Party in Britain has Carvey playing the piano, and Micky Waller, a interviewers. He was sitting in a cramped office made him a pioneer in the movement to make drummer formerly with Rod Stewart. All this cluttered withvariouspapers andclothing, almost British youth politically aware. Lastyear'sHelp accompaniment has changed the sound and as if he were sitting in his own apartment. One Save the Youth of America tour attempted to texture of his songs. While many are upset with notices his half-eaten sandwich laying on the do the same for the Americans. "We can't save his new style, Billy sees it as progress. "Worker's table. The only clues that this is not his natural them (the youth) by gigs, but at least we can Playtime is a progression from what I've done, habitat are the various semi-nude posters and a challenge them and provoke them a bit. Provok I don't think it is a departure. I think we are just Sun girlie calendar on the wall, which he says he ing them to think." It is suprising to find him still moving in a way so that the records don't neces would replace with pictures of his mother and a optimistic about the future of the world while the sarily sound like the live gigs. I think to keep picture of him and James Brown taken in Detroit vast majority of British youth have become making records with just guitar and vocals would years ago. Instantly my groundless fears evapo disillusioned with politics and resentful of the be like standing still and I wouldn't want to do rate; this would be an enjoyable interview. world they know. "With someone potentially that." After completing his world tour, which positive in the Kremlin and someone potentially should take almost a year, he plans to release he music of Billy Bragg crosses many positive in the White House, things will be a lot another lp and another song book for those boundaries. Whether you call itablend more interesting than what we've had in the last would-be guitarists. of folk, punk or rock, his music comes ten years." After all the concern and anxiety I experi down to one man and his guitar in And what about Canada, what follies do we enced before the interview, it was a great relief Tfront of an audience singing about politics and have in store for ourselves. Free trade with the to find that he was as humble and warm as his relationships. "I still feel like a punk rocker Americans gets less than favourable reviews songs are. But better still, it gave me the oppor underneath. But if you really want to talk about from Billy. "Having fought for all those years to tunity to see the human side to Billy Bragg. Chris Buchanan 8 DISCORDER ^___ : JACK UWIN'S Is/^UREW 3-8 pm JAM SESSIONS SUNDAY 7-12 pm ARRIVING 1st. WEEK OF NOVEMBER MASSIVE Imported CSHIPMEN. D. Singles From $5.98, RecordsT, Roc k FROPins, M U. K. Patches, Punk, New Wave Import Singles. New Picture Discs On Sale, Good Selection of Imported COLLECTOR'S R.P.M. Dance Records, Lots of New Beatle and Elvis Merchandise. 498 SEYMOUR ST. 685-8841 Check Out The Selection, No One Can Compare. THE ffl/A^US V°ICE eonard Cohen. You've probably heard the name before. Possibly bought a record or two. Maybe your parents have one or both of his novels collecting dust on their bookshelf. Perhaps the only thing you know about Leonard Cohen is that he wrote the songs sung by Jennifer Warnes on her 1986 surprise hit release Famous Blue Raincoat. LCohen grew up in Montreal. While attending McGill University he studied literature, played C&W with the Buckskin Boys and published his first collection of poetry. Having managed to secure a grant, Cohen travelled through Europe, settling on the Greek island of Hydra. He stayed seven years and produced his two novels The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). According to Cohen, there "was an intense group of people passing through the island at that time, people who were going to make their mark on culture - Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Axel Jensen, Goran Tonstrom." When sparse book sales no longer paid the bills, Cohen turned to music. Fifty-three year old Cohen has been at it on and off for the last 21 years, his most recent effort being othe newly released I'm Your Man LP. Leonard Cohen's influence is widespread. Artists as diverse as Neil Diamortd, Diana Ross, Joan Baez, Nick Cave and Joe Cocker have covered his tunes. Poland has an annual Leonard Cohen festival. The Sisters of Mercy took their name from one of his songs. Ian McCulloCh of Echo and the Bunnymen looks to Cohen for inspiration. I personally have been told that my singing makes Leonard Cohen sound like Frank Sinatra. I spoke with Mr Cohen in early October while he was in town promoting his album and tour. Handsomely attired in a dark grey tailored suit, black shirt and shoes, he was witty and friendly. Rather than concentrating solely on the album, we covered a wide range of topics. DISCORDER: You were known as a novelist D: Do you have a girlfriend now? peutic. There's something about the thing that before you turned to songwriting. You still write C: I don't know. I'm trying to find out. escapes the description as therapy. Maybe it lots. Do you think you'll put out another book? D: It's been three or four years since your last does exorcise the demons. There is something COHEN: I've always done the same work. A record. It was popular in Europe. Why the long else, some other human activity that is just not song here and there; a book here and there. I delay between releases? psychotherapy. published first, then put out records later but I C: It seems to take a couple or three years to D: Is there pressure from CBS to come up with was doing music and writing at the same time. I write the songs and record them. I don't have product? still blacken pages. It would be nice. I haven't any strategy. It just takes a long time. I'd much C: I wish there was. I wish they cared enough to organised my life sufficiently to cover both prefer to write it in fifteen minutes. If I could put enormous pressure on me to put out a record. those activities at the moment. It's just a matter ever figure out a way to do that, well, I would. (Laughter all around.) of organisation. Hank Williams knew how to do it. D: You're still living in Montreal. D: You were quite successful in the 60's and D: It's been said that writing is like therapy, a C: I never really left Montreal. I lived in Greece 70's. You've said that you didn't like the lone way to get rid of demons, clear the mind. for seven or eight years but I kept coming back liness and alienation of those times. C: I don't like that view of it to tell you the truth. to Montreal. It's my hometown. There are times C: It's always tricky getting by. It's nice to have It's popular now as psychotherapy; it's so popu when I've just got to be there. a girlfriend. lar to see everything as therapeutic. I think mat D: Are you resdess? demeans the activity somehow, calling it thera C: Restless hardly begins to describe it! 10 DISCORDER D: In April 1961 Cuban exiles invaded the south coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. You were in T^I= Cuba at the time. C: I never know why I was in most places. I knew that something was going on down there. —t-*m ct_t-iC3 I was anxious to find a Spanish Civil War of my own that I could claim, so I was down in Com munist Cuba. But I soon found that I was exactly what they were describing in their literary circles as a "bourgeois individualist poet". They [show]... great scorn when they use that term. I started to feel uncomfortable there for a number of reasons. I was arrested early on in the game. I was on the beach. I was wearing khaki shorts and a khaki shirt. I had an army belt on and was carrying a knife and I had a beard. I was staying PARTY SCHEDULE at a little hotel above a Cuban Chinese restaurant and I was walking along and suddenly I was surrounded by about 16 guys with Czechoslova WEDNESDAYS kia machine guns. They thought I was the first World Famous guy off the landing boats. I couldn't speak 99'sr Spanish and I was dressed in this military get- up, so I got arrested. I wrote that poem - The Nits Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward. D: Free trade...(I got the feeling he didn't want THURSDAYS to talk about it.) Tim Buck Two C: I think we should annex the state of Washing Party ton. I talked to a lot of people in Seatde. They House Music Format watch our television. They have a very high opinion of Canadians. I think if we're going to have a free trade deal we ought to have a few FRIDAYS states join our confederation. We're already deeply involved with the Americans. I don't NtsMOut know. A lot of people feel reluctant to make that commitment. I doubt if anyone really knows what the benefits and drawbacks will be. Most Free Admission of the writers I talk to seem to be deeply, vio- Til lendy against it in terms of our identity. If that's 10:30 pm the only thing that's keeping our identity intact then we might as well go through with it. If the only thing that's standing between us and leak ing away into the United States is whether or not SATURDAYS we have this trade deal, then we are in much worse condition than I thought. I don't know. The Dance Party Don't ask me that question! D: Your records sell well in Europe. Do you think Europeans are more attuned to your vision of the world, romance, etc.? C: I'm more popular almost anywhere than I 350 RICHARDS ST. here. I have no idea to tell you the truth. Even just 687-5007 saying Europeans you are embracing a lot of people who are very different. This record is popular specifically in Norway (No. 1) and Spain; very different cultures themselves. It's I usually don't write a song I can't sing. finish. hard to say. There are some songs like Song of Bernadette, D: One of my all-time favourite Leonard Cohen D: The famous Leonard Cohen voice really done by Jennifer Warnes. As arranged I think songs is Dance Me to the End of Love but I shines on the new album. It's always referred to that it would be too wide for my voice. can't find it anywhere. whenever your name or songs are mentioned. D: On the back cover of I'm Your Man it says C: It's on Various Positions. It was released Some of the best songwriters have distinctive "All these songs are for D.I." secredy. You can't find that one. voices -Dylan, Waits, etc. C: That's right. Nobody knows who she is. D: One song that really stands out on I'm Your C: Those are people who are willing to sing in D: Do you want to keep it that way? Man is Tower of Song. You see the music biz as their own voice. I think that's what we like about C: Yep! jaded yet you accept your situation in it. these people. They haven't learned how to sing. D: Do you set out to record a mix of romantic, C: That's the final chapter. The Tower of Song. They're just singing with their voice. A lot of cultural, political songs or does it just end up that The interim report. That's pretty well where I people sing like Dylan now - for instance Dire way? stand. It seems to sum it up. I like it. Straits. Dylan has produced a kind of vocabu C: I don't have any preferences. I try to bring an lary of sound and attitude that is very useful for album to completion as best I can. I don't feel Norm Van Rassel a lot of American singers, but I prefer to hear I'm at a buffet table where I can pick and choose. Swirlin' Vinyl Spin Dylan. There's generally eight or nine songs that I can Tuesdays 9:00pm -12:00 midnight NOVEMBER 1988 11 For this interview a description of the key he decides to disassemble his vintage vox players involved is necessary: organ instead of uttering words of wisdom to my face. Meanwhile, I spot the bass player Jeff: As long as it takes, man. As long as a Jeff: lead singer of the Lyres and immediately try to confront him on some woman is satisfied. Mark: bass player of the Lyres stimulating issues.) Girl: Eight hours tops. Girl: high-pitched frat house rock groupie Who are you? Have you ever heard of KICKS magazine? Why do you do all this? g Mark: I'm Mark the bass player for the Lyres. Jeff: Billy Miller and Miriam! Goddammit, I just recendy joined the band a month and a half they brought me up since I was a little boy. They Girl: Ha, ha. Tell him to fuck off. ago and I'm having a great time. Everything is are my parents. Jeff: Umm, umm. Hft. wonderful. Girl: You still owe me a drink. I Girl: Get fucked asshole. HH Jeff: Hey, I want to ask you something, how Jeff: Fuck you asshole. No, no. That's not true. How's it working with Jeff Conolly? come you never bought me a drink, man? It's not true. Mark: It's just wonderful. Everything's fine. I did. I did. I did. What political statement are the Lyres mak Great tour. This was a wonderful gig. ing? Everything's great. Jeff: You know something, you're a cheap motherfucker. Where's my drink? Girl: What are you doing, what are you doing! What was it like backing up the Waiters when Like, go away. HH^^^^J you played in Regina? Whaaa, whaaa, whaaa. Jeff: It's like, indulge in all your tastes. The Lyres speak for people that want to indulge Mark: It was really weird. It was a good gig and Jeff: Okay, I take it all back. You're the greatest themselves in their own particular tastes. I had a good time, but it was a really strange guy I've ever known. Girl: Go away, okay? Like give me a light and audience. I don't know if they were too recep fuck off. You wrecked my cigarette, dear. tive to us. F Really? Thanks. Jeff: It's like this. If you like jazz, then indulge yourself and listen to jazz. If you like garage What's Jeff like? Girl: So like hug and kiss and say goodbye. rock music indulge yourself in garage music. If you like punk rock, indulge yourself in it. Mark: Jeff's a good guy. He is. What's your name? Girl: Excuse me, I'm talking to you. I said you broke this cigarette. You owe me 5 bucks. Is he strong? Girl: Lisa. Fuck off. Do you ever regret your past? Mark: Sure is, man. It takes somebody a hell of Any final words for Vancouver? a lot to do something for ten years. He's been Girl: Yes, every day. Now give me a light. doing music for a long time. Jeff: Fuck your brains out, motherfuck Girl: Get fucked. Like, don't you ever get tired of people com Does Jeff sweat pretty good? ing up to you with a microphone and... (Jeff now begins to lick the Girl. I watch Mark: I don't know. I sweat the most of the eagerly for an end to this love-making.) Girl: Yes. We're tired of you. Go away. band members. Here is a quarter Jeff, because the Lyres rep And harrassing you like a little pre-pubes- Are you pleased with that? resent a quarter of a century of rock'n'roll. cent teenager? Led by you, Monoman, right? Mark: No, not really, 'cause I have to change Girl: Fuck off. Fuck off asshole. Get fucked. shirts a lot. Jeff: As long as you say that, it must be true. Jeff: Listen pal, I'm not Frank Sinatra, but if you Whatever you say must be true. You are the... buy me a drink I'll say anything you want (Jeff suddenly rears his head in the middle of Girl: Asshole of the earth. Girl: You wrecked my cigarette. Buy us a drink the room and I approach him cautiously.) right now. Thanks, I've never heard better. This is all Jeff: If you buy me a beer, I won't smash your I'm going to leave now, so I'll end with the for CiTR radio. H^^^ face out with my screwdriver. people I started with. Girl: They're going to play "fuck you" over th Am I an idiot for being here then? Girl: Have a nice life, sweetheart. radio, eh? BHttr Jeff: Have a nice life. Jeff: Okay, listen. It's time you 'd get the hell ou Jeff: If you buy me a beer, then you truly are an of here, okay... idiot. I wish you luck Jeff. Girl: Bye, sweetheart. Jeff: We're really tired of you and your micro Okay, who are you? Jeff: I wish you luck with the women that you'll phone. Would you get the hell out of here. never meet. ^ -:: Jeff: A beerdrinker. Bye. Girl: You're not listening to me. We want a So you're wearing a Waiters t-shirt, eh? white rum and coke and we want a beer, now. Jeff: Bye. Then you can stand here some more. Jeff: I know the Wailers 'cause I've shared their Girl: Bye, go away. women. And I wear condoms, so, like, I always (I buy Jeff a beer. But to my surprise and have the best time. Whenever I open for the horror, after gratefully accepting this offer, Wailers, I pass on the goodies to them. by John Ruskin o I bought the damn ma chine, not really for any good reason except that I'm simply amazed that I can walk into a store (with rock Sband logos all over my clothes and long hair) and leave with a machine that cost more than twice the price of my first car, just by signing my name on a piece of paper. Besides, it's tax-deductible and depreciable for five years. After I got the thing home, I still wasn't sure why I'd bought it. Nobody needs a video machine, but it seemed important that I could timeshift ALF and WKRP in Cincinnati to watch at my convenience, fast-forwarding through commercials with the flick of a thumb. I may even be getting younger now that I can watch a 30-minute show in 22 minutes. I tape everything, but hardly end up watching any of it. Then I had the bright idea that, with the frequency response and low signal-to-noise ratio in the soul of my new machine, I would tape music from CD to videotape, thus reducing the sheer bulk of my music collection. That took a week, cramped up my hand writing labels, and cost me about 70 bucks in Super Chroma High Grade videotapes, one of at least ten different VHS tape types now available in this Stereo Hi-Fi era of VCR's. Now I have four music formats to choose from, five if you count the little pile of eight-tracks I never had the heart to discard and now use to level an uneven table. I also have over 18 hours of rock videos on tape, but I won't likely watch them until MuchMusic's satellite falls from the sky. o, I decided I'd rent movies. First I went to my local 7-Elcvcn, Swhich offers 150 movies, almost six of them worth seeing (Predator, Aliens, Raising Arizona, Roxanne, Tin Men). With them out of the way, along with several others that escape my mind at the moment due to their utter banal ity, I decided I had to scout further afield. There is no shortage of video rental stores, but most offer the same high- turnover selection of movies, primarily recent releases. The chain of 24 HR. my butt is broadening too, because I fdm days); weird, unpleasant stuff that Video stores are better than most, as can never rent just one movie. It's al requires true warped endurance (like are some isolated large shops that ways three or four in a binge. I am the Ernest P. Worrel Film Festival); all opened early in the video boom and developing a cathode tan. Fortunately I the way up to any crappy regular mov kept growing (like North Delta's Scott- am self-employed and haven't had to ies that I might have missed during 72 Video), but for real selection the phone the boss to say that I'll be late for their theatrical release (almost every best place I know of is Videomatica on work because I've over-rented. thing this year except the nostalgic West Fourth. (If you know of any other Beginning next month, I'll guide Bright Lights, Big City and the stun specialty shops, especially in the outly you to all sorts of rentworthy videos. ning documentary Letters Home from ing areas, drop me a line.) Everything from cult films (like the Night Vietnam). I'll be watching out for your With my discovery of a specialty of the Living Dead trilogy); old classics best entertainment interests. Trust me. shop, my horizons broadened. In fact, (like a pair of XXX gems from the silent Dave Watson NOVEMBER 1988 13 ILIVEINSURR BYFORCE Great Things (The trendier among us make sure to wark against the cold sterile shoulder of ' About Surrey' was keep the combs hidden in our pockets the 80's: THE DELL SHOPPING lthe name of the at least.) CENTRE. Unrepentantly orange, this contest. I had all And the notion (perpetuated by long, low-slung beauty of a classic 60's bu'8t forgotten8 about having entered it Surrey denizens No Fun) that 'Surrey mall boasts Value Village, Buy-Low until I chanced upon a photo in the has no skid row' - Hah! Why, Surrey can Foods, Fanny's Fabrics, and Black community newspaper, The Leader. It compete with the East Side any day. Velvet Travel. A veritable smorgasbord pictured a fat, beaming woman locked Ever feel like your brain has started to of down-to-earth shopping. What more in a congratulatory handshake with a erode? Then youVe been to . . . MAY- could one want. Check it out at King business-suited man. The caption iden FAIR GARDENS!!! A last bastion of George Highway and 105th Avenue. tified the lady and her fat, peevish- scummy peeling 70's green wood-sid Okay, so the Surrey Public looking son as the happy winners of the ing occupied entirely by Welfare vic Market had to change its name to plain draw. They were being presented with a tims. It was also the site of a triple old 'Surrey Market' because hooligans 2500 dollar cheque from the Surrey murder when I was 8 years old and my kept stealing the 'L*. So the galloping, Chamber of Commerce. Had I any idea parents managed the complex. Or what red-neon racehorse, once a mute but the stakes were so high, I would actu about moving down the hillside past 99 comforting welcome to Surrey, no longer ally have tried to come up with 88 Great Truck Parts, home of the world's high oscillates outside the Turf Hotel. So the Things About Surrey. Or at least stuffed est freestanding structure of rusted hot- insidious virus of post-Modernist shop the entry box. In typically well-thought- water tanks? What about the heart of ping malls has penetrated even into the out Surrey fashion, not only did the beautiful downtown Bridgeview? Or hey, wilds of Newton. So what? We can still entry forms have only 20 blanks to fill Whalley Bus Exchange, the quintes cling fiercely to our pride in the highest in, but the quantity and quality of one's sential skid row . . . rows of skids per capita possession of Pit Bulls in Great Things had no bearing whatso everywhere you turn. Let's face it. Sur Canada; in a hospital whose ECU ever on one's chances of winning. It was rey is rife with slums. Sadly, however, employees mistakenly give industrial- a DRAW. Pure dumb luck. they are giving way to pastel pink Cali strength disinfectant to their elderly Given my ill fortune you may fornia-style retirement estates. charges instead of Kool-Aid; in those be wondering at my intestinal fortitude combs in our back pockets, dammit. for even venturing to come up with a By the way, the Great Thing single Great Thing about the suburb in est the marble-flooring-blue- About Surrey postulated by the woman question. Well hey, we have it good out neon-light-glass-block-walls who won the draw was (wait for it) - 'All here. For one, you can still walk around of a refurbished Guildford the friendly people.' I'll keep that in in Surrey with Skinny Puppy hair and Mall get to you (I think I'm mind the next time I'm getting my head freak people out. Time-warp city. In havinLg another Pacific Centre flash kicked in at Whalley Exchange. Surrey people still keep combs at a back...), there remains one last bul- Viola J. Funk visible position in the back pocket of their jeans. No matter that the jeans are acid-wash; some things never change. 1146 Commercial • 253 0913 14 DISCORDER ° " Q^iHcUg alternative music scene a few years back with the promise of world domination, Naked Raygun have carved themselves a cosy niche between machine gun style hardcore and a less threatening power pop form. Aggressive and at times anxious guitar and vocals highlight a gritty package that includes a live cover of Stiff Little Fingers' Suspect Device, as well as great Raygun originals Ghetto Mechanic and When the Walls Come Down. VARIOUS ARTISTS HOUSE OF LOVE speakers at loud volume. Give priority to aural senses." Gargoyle #34 The House of Love My recommendation? Headphones and an auto-re (Paycock Press) (Polygram) verse cassette deck. Gargoyle #34 is the latest in a series of spoken "Another British band" you say in a bored tone, A. PI S, word cassettes put out by Gargoyle Magazine. It is and carry on to the next review. But wait! This BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE proof once more that poetry is often better heard than London-based foursome do something exquisite to Tighten up the Volume 88 read, especially when the artists themselves recite, your body. Songs like Salome, Man to Child, and (CBS) facilitating clearer insight into their work through the Christine take you to dizzying heights, never spoiled The lead-off single to Big Audio Dynamite's passion and emotion in their voices. As with previous bymonotonous hard-edged guitar or dead-pan vocals. third album is called Just Play the Music (which I Gargoyle collections, the poems are controversial, Christine gets the album off to an incredible start. Its think could be appropriately retitled Just Play the thought-provoking, and humourous. Unrestricted by smoothly flowing sounds send shock waves through Muzak). The chorus goes something like this: commercial interests or otherwise, poets expose a your soul. By the last song you feel drained emotion- Does it have to be so tame number of modem society's "sacred cows" including ally and spiritually, and elated. If this arouses your It don't have to look the same religion (Silvana Straw - Love You Like I Love curiosity, buy this album. It don't have to all sound lame Jesus) and the plastic, preppy existence of many Jen Read B.A.D. seems to have all the qualities that they former sixties activists (Reuben Jackson • Big Chill CORE: criticize in this song. 'Tame' describes how the band Variations). Richard Flynn's reflections on child A Conspiracy International Project refuses to improve from record to record. 'The same* hood (excerpt from The Age of Reason) and a special (Nettwerk) is how all the songs on this album sound. 'Lame' is appearance by Descendents' guitarist Stephen Eg- how it compares to their last two outings. Shame it erton also stand out. Overall, an exciting and creative This album was produced by Chris Carter and isn't better. adventure in spoken word. Gargoyle #34 is essential Cosey Fanni Tutti along with Coil, John Duncan Jason Romllly listening for poets and those who wish they were. and Joe Potts, Monte Cazazza, Robert Wyatt, Rob Lorenz Lustmord, and Boyd Rice. The artists mailed or NAKED RAYGUN brought sounds to Chris and Cosey who assembled Jettison ALL ABOUT EVE and manipulated the pieces. With the exception of the (Caroline Records) Debut album near danceable Future Shock and Unmasked, the Chicago-based Naked Ray gun are pounding (Polygram) prevailing component of the tracks is high quality their way into the souls of college radio listeners with Hammersmith Odeon. London. March 88. noise. To quote the words on the cover, "We highly Jettison, the band's most recent release, and one of Despite a sore throat and other ailments, singer Juli- recommend headphones. Alternatively listen through the best of the year. Having swaggered onto the anne Regan'battles on valiantly, centre stage. All s-rems WANT TO RAISE MONEY FOR YOUR TECH OR FRATERNITY? HAVE A PARTY! For More Information call Dale. 350 Richards St. 687-5007 16 DISCORDER About Eve, a compact, unimposing group, is a pro the well-known (and equally well-despised) tradition THE SMITHS jection of Julianne's character - strong and silent. Hei of New Age Muzak. Optical Race manages to avoid Rank voice, incredibly clear and sweet, invites comparison the blandness that characterizes the worst of New Age (Rough Trade/Sire) to Kate Bush in the acoustic song Martha's Harbour. by combining Tangerine Dream's characteristic 'big I'm sure Rank brings back brilliant memories if The singles Every Angel, Wild Hearted Women, synth' sound with that of a number of other instru you were fortunate enough to see The Smiths live. Flowers in our Hair, and Martha's Harbour did ments. The most striking of these experiments, Atlas But if you didn't see the concert and you don't already moderately well in the British Top 40. One criticism Eyes, begins with a trumpet solo that runs on seem like the Smiths, then this LP isn't for you. It's a is the obvious hippie sound of the titles, such as ingly endlessly, while synthesizers pulse in the back collection of good songs with Morrissey's wonder- Gypsy Dance and Flowers in our Hair. The album's ground. My favourite track, Mothers of Rain, fea voice - a history of The Smiths up to Strangeways, Celtic flavour evokes visions of the moors, blustery tures a high, clear whistle that fades in and out behind Here We Come. winds and creates a feeling of freedom. The album is a backbeat of drums and deep synths. The album's The inside picture of a group of fans blindly excellent and deserves recognition. weakest point is that some songs drag on too long. grasping a piece of clothing mocks the delinquents Jen Read Tracks like Marakesh and Twin Soul Tribe are who clamour brainlessly at concerts. TANGERINE DREAM monotonous and unlikely to attract the interest of Overall, a solid Morrissey/Smiths effort and Optical Race anyone other than die-hard Philip Glass fans. And the nice way to say "bye". If you're craving more, rumour (Prlvate/BMG) title track itself? Sounds suspiciously like a 1987 has it that Viva Hate, Morrisey's solo effort, is Genesis dance instrumental Do The Neurotic. exquisite. The question confronting the buyer of any new All in all, Optical Race is an enjoyable, if not Jen Read synth-oriented album is whether or not the music is particularly innovative, collection of synth rock. Enjoy. actually saying anything, or just percolating along in Chris Brayshaw ell, what exciting news is there impassioned Bono or (once again) Robert Smith, this month? You've probably and everyone else is trying somehow to sound already seen the Sons of Free very musically educated but at the same time dom record (complete with Rock and Roll. A pity. Wwarning sticker) in the stores; then there's Shin Baghdads 'Black or Grey'. I know we've dig, Hallowe'en stuff, the usual rainy season had this song before. Not a bad tune but still things. But two things have surprised me. First, sounds a litde affected to me. The Hip Type will be taking a few months Captain Crunch & Let's Do Lunch hiatus while Tracy is out of town. Second, (gasp) 'Cap'n Groovy and his Bubblegum Army'. The I Dave Gregg's played his last gig with DOA. main lyrics here are "Join! Cap'n Groovy and (Looking on the bright side, maybe we'll be able his bubblegum army." Pretty mindless, yet kinda] to see more of the incredible Groovaholics.) fun. From Montreal. Now for a deluge of demos: EJ Brule 'War on Drugs'. Also from It Lives is hardly a demo tape, but actually Montreal, but a lot different. This guy sounds a compilation of local rockabilly bands (of the like Bill Reiter doing rap stuff (all with hisi 80's) buyable in stores. It includes folks like mouth and a digital delay). I don't really getl Herald Nix, The Nervous Fellas, Stinging what he's saying but I'm sure it's along the lines Hornets, Rocky Craig, The Rocking Fools, of Mojo Nixon's "I Ain't Going to Pee in No and The Yodeils. But The Dots, with Eeny- Jar". EJ's introduction is funnier but unfortu Meeny Miney Moe, may have the best song of nately it's specifically labeled "definitely not| the lot. Gorgeous vocals (I think from a former for airplay." More comedy than music. Crimpoline) and a really authentic sound. Elevation 'Cloud Shadow'. Another Hiro Groovy. shi Yano project. (He's written the music and Video Bar-B-Que 'Epistrophy' and plays all the instruments.) The music is very Against The Grain 'Slow Burn'. Dissimilar as mellow and quite pleasant while the vocals seem they are, I'm lumping these two tapes together dreary and unmusical in comparison. The lyrics because (since they're more inspired by jazz and feel clumsy or maybe it's my own hangup on R&R) I find them both hard to pigeon-hole. good grammar, 'Speak what must be spoke' is Mary 'Friends'. I listened to this a bunchJ VBBQ uses lots of guitar/ horn/piano/drums all the big refrain. of times but still don't know how to describe it. at once: frenetic and exhausting. ATG is calmer, Instincts 'Escape*. This was recorded at A weird sort of time signature and interesting far from simplistic, but not "difficult" music. Mushroom with Dave Ogilvie engineering, sound.At Shindig, the band looked promisingl Tight competent musicianship and nice female which explains the very nice production. There's (although plagued by technical problems) in vocals. a quite attractive hypnotic kind of sound here, inexperienced. Daylight 'The Watcher'. An unfortunately marred by some obtrusive cymbal-tapping and Silent Gathering 'The Homecoming'. pompous package from these Calgarians. Maybe an occasional heavy guitar that didn't seem to Now this is a band with a definite sound. My what ruined the tape for me was the quote on the fit. Just minor problems. only complaint is that maybe the guitars should] cover: 'Joy comes to those in waiting. Loves BPA 'First Accused'. BPA may stand for be a little higher in the mix. I saw them ad (sic) last gift is remembering.' The vocals are the "Benzedrine Puff Adders", but who knows? Shindig, too. They are one of those bands yod very Robert Smith-like and there are odd bell Basically, this is recordings of (I assume) Nel know won't win, but are probably likely to go orJ like sounds throughout. son and Winnie Mandela accompanied by the to some sort of success. Solid. Speed of Life 'The Life We Live'. My acoustic guitar and drums, of the studio and far- Next month, turn to Local Motion foJ favourite thing about this song (by some guys from-serious version (sort of) of a band playing reviews of big stars like Bruce A and the from my home-town, North Van) is its nice cold in Shindig this fall, Picasso Set. Quite fun, if not Secular Atavists, The Intoxicators, and The ending. Beyond that, my feeling is that the band very exciting. Not quite what the band claims in Scramblers.. is trying too hard - the singer sounds like an its letter: 'Politically Correct Ersatz Afro-Pop'. 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And to hear the anguished screams of Jon Bon Jovi as the ghost of Elvis Presley WAY TOO EARLY 7:30-10:00am comes back to shove Jon's guitar into unmentionable Rise n' shine. Let Kathryn slap you (and herself) into areas of Jon's body. Elvis is Everywhere! consciousness. Crank it up, move around, stop yawn Nov 25: The Pavilion of the Far East ing. NARDUWAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRES BATTERSEA PARK GARDENS 10-l:00pm ENTS 2:30-3:00pm There is a thin line between the hypnotic and the Get up early. Eat your oats. Get your paper. Go and irritating. Is the line drawn at duration, volume or vote. We hate you—Citizen Freak!! something quite undefinable that relates only to the Nov 11: 3pm today marks the end of a 19 hour individual. Tune in and test for yourself. Vinyl Daze: Nardwuar marathon, which will have started at 8 l/yudictt^ Matt "Youaregettingsleepy" Richards. o'clock yesterday. Hopefully. THE SPINSTERS lUL5-5:00pm Paula and Denise, the two girls most likely to use you. SATURDAYS PROGRAM SAMPLES (Being used never felt so good!) THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00 noon MONDAYS B.C. FOLK 5:30-6:00pm Vancouver's biggest and best folk/roots radio show, Listen to the thoughts and music of folksingers, featuring a mix of Celtic, acoustic and roots musicians, writers, promoters from B.C. Explore sounds, together with a unique airing of the latest UK ALIEN WATCHDOG l:30-3:00pm West Coast life through B.C. folk music in the search soccer results at 11:30. Tune in for ticket giveaways, Space cadets I'm not sure who will be spinning discs for that Canadian identity. Hosted by Barb Waldem. concert news, surprise guests, featured artists, inter this month but I do know that I'll be educating views, new releases and unsubstantiated gossip. juvenile earthlings. The indoctrination begins. Stay THE KNIGHT AFTER midnite-very late tuned & see you in December. Waiting for the dawn with one foot in hell - Rockin NEOPHILE 3 5:00pm Patrick and consorts do live maintenance drinking The newest tunes being spun by 2 men named Chris. THE UNHEARD MUSIC 3-5:00pm and give you film reviews, baking tips, drug induced Chris is into gloomy stuff, but Chris likes rock n' roll. Get down with Dale! Krazy. kassettes and dazzling insights and hints on how to drive a large American Hear them tear off the wrappers. demos with The Saw. car at high speed with a ballerina by your side without spilling your drinks. MARLIN PERKINS MUSI DEADLY DOOM OF DARKNESS 5-6:00pm THE JAZZ SHOW 9-12:30am CAL HOUR brings more tunes from the twilight: Delve into a nightmarish pit of despair and remorse Vancouver's longest-running prime time Jazz pro Zendik Farm, Clones in Pink, Smersh, Gary Winda with your host Dudley Do-Dread. Dark and Dancy gram, featuring all the classic players, the occasional and music from the Tar Pits. music. interview, and local music news. Hosted by the ever- suave Gavin Walker. GENERIC FRIEND nidmite-runsise Nov 7: One of the albums of the year called "Some THURSDAYS PoC/M early 20's, chubby, bespectacled, naive ideal thing to Live For". The music of Billy Strayhom as ist seeking like companion on a perhaps futile trek to delve through the depths of humanity to find that played by one of the masters of the fleugelhom. Art MIKE & GAV SHOW 2-4:30pm Nirvana that must exist somewhere. Farmer and his Quintet. The universal melodies of All the raging HARDCORE you can handle, de Mr. Strayhom as interpreted by modem jazz players. Dec 24: Special Christmas Eve Special signed to be listened to by 14 year old skaters with Dec 31: Special New Year's Eve Special Nov 14: Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers at the zits. We dig young girls and Chris is a permanent Cafe Bohemia is a true classic of modem jazz Re guest. corded in 1955 it represents the beginning of the Blakey style that is carried on today. We'll hear some SUNDAYS cuts from Volumes 1 and 2 but more importantly MOVING IMAGES 4:30-5:00pm some rare tracks from Volume 3 (issued only in A weekly look at the world of film with host Ken ARE YOU SERIOUS MUSIC 8:00-noon Japan). Maclntyre. THAT'S NOT MUSIC! YES IT IS! No it isn't yes it Nov 21: One of Charles Mingus' foremost composi Nov 3: Preview of the new U2 Film, Rattle & Hum is no it isn't yes it is no it isn't music yes it isn't not tions is "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady". Nov 10: Grandee Englehart concludes his interview music no it is yes it is no not music yes itno it. ..DON'T Vancouver's Hugh Fraser has tackled this work in with actor/director Paul B artel BE AFRAID. recent times and last summer the work was played by Nov 17: Hollywood North - who's in town filming an all-star band (made up of Mingus alumnae) at the what, where? ELECTRONIC SMOKE SIGNALS/JUST LIKE Newport Jazz Fest. We'll hear the real thing tonight. Nov 24: Filmsoc - just who do we think they are? WOMEN 6:30-9:00pm Nov 28: One of Lee Morgan's classics was an album Nov 6: SMOKE SIGNALS: "The Squamish Five" on Blue Note called "Cornbread". Lee Morgan prac LIVE FROM THE HANEY HOT HOUSE and "Direct Action": who were they, what did they tically defined the "Blue Note Sound". Hear the great 9-midn'rte stand for, and why the CBC is trying to make fools out trumpet player in the company of the late Hank Brought to you by Ed, Peter, and John. Live bands, of them. Indigenous news: updates on federal post- Mobley (tenor sax) and Jackie Mclean (alto sax) on interviews, & the latest and greatest CanCon. Check secondary education policy; Lubicon Lake. one of his best offerings. out the Shindig contestants. Nov 13: JUST UKE WOMEN: Military spouses: Nov 3: Surf Hippies what do the Canadian Armed Forces have against ENVIRONMENTAL SCATOLOGY Nov 10: Noise Special - featuring people from The Tupperware Parties? 12:30-4:00am New Heads, Carbon 14,49, and Noise Nov 20: SMOKE SIGNALS: To vote or not to vote. Nov 7: TuxedoMoon's "Desire" Nov 17: Tippy-A-GoGo s'prize "A change of rulers is the joy of fools," or the Nov 14: Listen, but keep your fucken paws off Keith Nov 24: Paula the Sex Goddess difference between democracy and oligarchy. In and Sandi's private 7-inch collection. digenous news: updates on Squamish Boullion case; Nov 21: Laurie Anderson's "U.S.A. Live" Gitk'sem Wet'suweten title action; Nishga nation Nov 28: SST Bands - Part One FRIDAYS treaty news. Nov 27: JUST LIKE WOMEN: Post-election blues, EMMA PEEL FAN CLUB 10-l:00pm reds, or greens. Does it really matter which boy is on TUESDAYS Join host Pat Carroll as he spins the discs Emma wants top? Music as partisan as possible. to hear. Radio to dress in black leather, look good, and LINUS LOVELACE KINDER KREEAYSHUNS save the world by. PLAYLOUD/THIS IS NOT A TEST 9-midnite 7:30-10:00am "Every moment, in feeling or in thought, prepares in ...WADOOYAMEAN,"KIDSSHOW"?...Okay,like THE NEW EXPO '66 l:20-2:30pm the dark by its own increasing clarity and confidence it's kinda weird, sorta dumb, and I can guarantee you Live from the World's Music Fair its own executioner." that your mum won't like it, heck, my mum can't Nov 4: The Wanker Pavilion (Per Arnica Silentia Lunae) stand it...so tune in and leave your door open! Nov 11: The Remembrance Day Pavilion William Butler Yeats hehhehheh... Nov 18: The Pavilion of Mojo - Tune in and find out Aural surgery performed by Larry Thiessen. NOVEMBER 1988 21 WEDNESDAY NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Nov 2: UBC's new find in Alzheimer's disease SPORTS BROADCASTS Nov 9: UNICEF youth spokesperson, Linn Ullman FEATURE REPORTS 8:00am & 5:00pm on her travels to developing countries THUNDERBIRD FOOTBALL - Saturdays MONDAY Nov 16: The future of women in the health care sector Oct 29: Calgary at UBC, 1:00pm Nov 23: Pauline Jewett discusses NDP defense policy Nov 5: Western Final (if UBC plays) Nov 7: The greenhouse effect:IIow warm will Nov 30: "Building tomorrow: The next 10 years." it get? The Agricultural Credit Conference Nov 14: Human rights in Canada THUNDERBIRD HOCKEY - Fridays Oct 28: Regina at UBC, 7:30pm Nov 21: How do you judge wine? The Kiwanis THURSDAY International Wine Festival is a good place to find out. Nov 11: Manitoba at UBC, 7:30pm Nov 3: The Japan Study Tour 1988 Dec 2: Brandon at UBC, 7:30pm Impress your friends. Nov 10: A UBC prof proposes a new billing system Nov 28: Stephen Lewis, former Canadian ambassa for doctors dor to the United Nations, speaks about the future of THUNDERBIRD BASKETBALL - WOMEN'S Nov 17: Do you resent listening to elevator music? Nov 9: UBC at SFU, 7:00pm human rights. An interview with an anti-noise pollution advocate Nov 24: Business and technical writers: Creativity TUESDAY THUNDERBIRD BASKETBALL - MEN'S and management Nov 18-19: Victoria at UBC, 7:30pm On Tuesdays, find out what the rest of Canada is doing. Our reports come to us from other campus FRIDAY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' BASKETBALL On Fridays, it's the STORY OF THE WEEK. stations across the country. Dec 3: UBC Invitational Final, 4:00pm CflRc^lS cSr^LlSf 1 ARTIST TITLE | -SONS Of FREEDOM SONS OF FREEDOM 1 "SKINNY PUPPY VIVISECTVI 1 ALICE DONUT DONUT COMES ALIVE MICHELLE SHOCKED SHORT SHARP SHOCKED 1 T.V.B.C. 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