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LOCAL SPOTLIGHT ............................ 5 LOCAL SHOWS ................................ 6-7 LOCAL RECORDINGS ................ 8-1 0 ALL AGE VENUES ................ 12-1 5 MAN ... OR ASTROMAN ? .... 16-18 BILL FRISELL ....................... :20-21 FOLKANDWORLD BEAT .................. 23 THEATER REVIEWS ................................ 24 MOVIE REVIEWS ...................................... 25 DINNER WITH HAMILTON ................ 26 P. IN THE SQUARED CIRCLE .......... 27 MY AMERICA, MY NEUROSES ........ 28 ASKALAN ............................................ 29 CALEN DAR .......................................... 30 PROOFREADER .................................................................................................. KT] GRAPHIC EDITOR /ILLUSTRATOR .......................... AMY MARCHEGIANI PHOTOGRAPHER ...................................... JACOB COVEY, KEVIN SHILLINGER GRAPHIC DESIGN I LAYOUT .................... BRENT COLE, AMY MARCHEGIANI CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: BRENT COLE, K. SCOTT, ALAN MOOERS, CARL RATLIFF, NICK VOLENEC, TREVOR ADAMS, JAMIE DONATUTO, BURKE MULVANY, ROMAN THE DESTROYER, STEVE MEYERS, LIBBY CHENAULT, CHARU WAH/, RAVEN BURNETT, FRANKIE CHAN, DAVINA LARONDELLE *COVER ART FROM A MAN OR ASTROMAN SINGLE. PHOTO IN METEOR UPPLIED BY JACOB COVEY, LAYOUT BY AMY MARCHEGIANI OUR COMPUTERS ARE SERVICED BY ALPHA TECH COMPUTERS Most underage bands play a couple of shows then break up, which makes it pretty damn hard LOCAL NOTES to get a following. ~you~ Oh yeah, I hope you've all heard about the Well, now that there's not a lot of bands in celebrity softball game. On Saturday October ~150 EPIPHONE ACOUSTICS our little city, there really isn't that much going 9th there's gonna be a softball game at Battersby on. I guess I'll try to scrape up somethin' to talk Field (corner of F St. and Ellsworth). We Buy and Trade Guitars. Amps about. Gametime's at lpm, warm-up starts at 12. It and Drums. Large stock of the First off, those crazy kids the Dick and should last a few hours. They're asking folks to coolest gear. Including: Fender. Janes have had a lot of different shit going on. bring their own seating (lawnchair, blankets, Gibson. VOX, English Guitars They've changed their name to The Kickmees, etc.) From what I hear, it's happenin' rain or which I think is a lot better than their last name. shine, though rain would really suck. The cost Also, they've been in negotiations with a label, is $3 and KUGS will be broadcasting the game. but things have been put on hold. Seems It's a benefit for the AS club Burn Down the they've unfortunately lost one of their members. World, which has brought up such acts as Dub Mish has left the band, leaving them with a huge Narcotic Sound System and Mary Lou I,ord. hole to fill. So .. .if you can sing and are female, The bands who will be playing include:Harvey give us an e-mail and I'll forward it. They're Danger, Death Cab for Cutie, Juno, Peter Parker, also looking for a good, tight, pop drummer. Eureka Farm, Pau!, Rev. Hydra, Kilmer, Course, with this town, that's damn near impos­ Serverna Park, and Jill Brazil. Be there or be sible. square. NY Jimmy and the Jive Five are embark­ In the "used to be from Bellingham" file, ing on one hell of a tour. They'll be cruising all there's lots of different news. The biggest being over the states, for seven weeks, in support of that Death Cab has parted ways with their drum­ their latest album. Damn that sounds like fun. mer. I don't remember his name, but I think he Well, as we had mentioned a couple was only in the band four months or so. Nathan, months ago, Beau Fredericks left Bellingham, their old drummer, will be filling in for a couple also leaving behind the mighty shows, but he is not the replacement. No word Counterclockwise. The remaining members yet on who they're gonna get. Five Gears and have picked up the pieces and formed Kyle Rick The Revolutionary Hydra will be playing a and the Nines. Mike-E-Funster and Greg have show with Harvey Danger and Rat Cat Hogan joined up with Jeremy Hughes for a little bit of on November 12th at the 3B Tavern. The two rockin'. They're first show is on Oct. 8th, so go bands will be debuting their cds, so it should be check it out. a pretty great fuckin' show. This year, the huge CMJ conference had a The 3B has some good shows comin' up, couple of Bellingham bands in its line-up. Both especially over the Halloween weekend. Dead Sharpie and Eureka Farm played in New York. Moon's gonna be playing on October 29th and I couldn't make it (Nothing sounds worse to me Man or Astroman will be rockin' Bellingham's than an industry conference), but I hear both the world on Oct 31st. Be afraid--be very, very bands really kicked ass. Apparently, after the afraid. Sharpie show, a guy came up to them and said John Tosch, the kingpin up at campus who they were so loud he actually shit his pants. does AS Pop Music, has started up a new label o. ... K. ... called Pool or Pond. The first official release is I don't know if Robert Blake left town or by the Megabrats, a relatively new but rockin' not. He's still on the answering machine at the band in town. He's also put together a comp of Humdinger, so maybe he didn't. That'd be cool. different Bellingham bands that he's using for There's a local program up at KUGS promotional purposes. Look for a lot of releas­ again. The new slot is on Sunday's at 9-11. The es from this guy. DJ is Matt Fuller, who also has a hand at book­ Finally, on a sadder note, Green Acres ing at the Humdinger Haus. If you're in a band, restaurant has closed down. They just couldn't get your shit up to KUGS 'cause he'll play it. make it with the small capacity of the place. So, Speaking of the Humdinger, they and the instead, they've moved all the kitchen equip­ Show Off are starting to get some kick ass ment over to Father John's Pub (same owners) shows going, including The Murder City Devils and they'll be having food there. It's not gonna playing at the Show Off on November 7th. be the same veggie/health oriented stuff, but MCD's are bringing up this band from Seattle good shit for when you've had a couple of beers. called The Catheters who are fucking amazing. Father John's has really started to get a lot Go check it out. of business. The shows have rocked and it Beekeeper has changed its name to the always seems to have a bunch of people in there James Burns Love Experience. Nah, I'm just during the day. Cool. kidding, actually it is Brown Bottle Fever. The Well, that's about it from here. If you've band hopes to be playing some all ages shows got gossip for me, my e-mail is sometime in the next month or so. Not sure [email protected]. I might have a different one who's in the band yet, but it might include ex­ later, cause of the website and all, but it's not members of Stalin's Order, which'd be bad ass. really rockin' yet. Stalin's Order is dead. Kinda sucks cause they were one of the few underage bands that -Brent Cole had actually stuck around for a couple of years. - ROARING ·PRODUCTS ROARING SPRING, PA I 6673 . ' ,. There's hints of Dio, Maiden, a little Ratt, some Ozzy, and a crap load of Quiet Riot. But, unlike those jokers, Phantasm are the real deal. Amazing showmanship (they all wore costumes that masked their The details of this all-ages day-long faces), excellent musicianship, and lyrics mini rock fest eluded me from the that'll make even the most somber indie beginning. I caught a ride out to the host rocker laugh. The best are from "Daddy house with the opening band Free Smut, First off, before I really get into the Slor" (off of their new tape): "I'm fully who were geared up for their very first review of this show, I should tell y' all that loaded/with heavy metal DNA/superior public show. Upon arriving the gracious I've been in Bellingham a relatively long roc kin' /that's all I got to say." In a time hosts chatted with us about the plan for time (7 years) and I remember when the when musician after musician takes the show, which seemed kind of sketchy Up and Up had really good shows.
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