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100 : - " wow BOMBS NANCY AND i DfconPER CliKff In This Issue Asia Pacific Festival.. .9 Paris Simons glances back at the meeting of East and West under the sun in Vanier Park filWT Editor Chris Dafoe Severed Heads... 10 Contributors Larry Thiessen, axe in hand, explores the world of Tom Ellard, Larry Thiessen, Mike Johal, Steve Robertson, musical force behind Australia's Severed Heads Paris Simons, Julia Steele, David Firman, Kevin Smith, Patrick Carroll, CD, Chris Houston. .,12 AI Thurgood Beyond the Church of the Fallen Elvis with Baby Jesus. By CD Photos Greg Nixon, Lincoln Clarkes Jim Main Cartoons In Every Issue R. Filbrant, Susan Catherine, Chris Pearson Airhead...^/ Production Manager Letters from home and beyond Patrick Carroll Layout Behind the Dial...6 Patrick Carroll, Randy Iwata, A new DISCORDER feature; a look at the poop you can't pick up on the radio Janis MacKenzie Jim Main, Chris Dafoe Program Guide. ..14 Design Harry Hertscheg How to listen to the radio — in three easy lessons. A month programming at a glance. Typesetting Dena Corby Vinyl Verdict 17 Cover Chris Houston by Lincoln Clarkes D.O.A., Guadalcanal Diary, David Thomas, Tupelo Chain Sex Advertising Harry Hertscheg 228-3017 Singles... 20 Subscribe to Round black things with holes in them DISCORDER $9 in Canada Roving Ear.. .22 $12 outside Canada This month from New Delhi 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C DISCORDER, c/o CITR Radio, 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C, V6T 2A5. Phone (604) 228-3017. DISCORDER, a guide to CITR, is published monthly by the Student Radio Society of UBC. 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I really hope it doesn't Yes, You Can happen again. Thank you. Dear Airhead: RHSAfc Yours truly Hello. Steve Richards Please send me a copy. (a listener of CITR for more than Thanks, ssssss^ss.sssssssssssss^ five years) Fritz Konad c/o CITR Radio Bad Oldesloe 6138 S.U.B. Blvd. The opinions of the cited broad West Germany Vancouver, B.C. caster are his own and are not V6T2A5 necessarily those of CITR. We do Dear Fritz: feel, however, that he is entitled to Hello. express them, provided that they OK. are not of a slanderous nature. has been over six months since you grams) where a guest DJ, referring Thank you for your letter. Keep people last threatened us with a to himself as "Knob" began to run them coming. lawsuit? C'mon, you've got to make off his political views on Gerry Han Notes from the Fossil it worth our while. By the way, how nah and the Squamish Five. He many CFOX DJs does it take to do played the old Subhumans' song More on Metal Dear Airhead: a radio show? The answer is two- "Death Was Too Kind" and dedica Dear Airhead, I am perplexed! one to push the buttons and read ted it to Hannah and the rest of the Re: Letter from Hanna K. I picked up the June issue of the cue cards and one to fire the Five as he wished to see them rot (June '85) DISCORDER and find, to my chag the rest of their despicable lives in other if he dares to utter something Why should "metal" be exclud rin, no gratuitous slags levelled at prison. Knob rambled on about the of even rudimentary intelligence. ed from CITR's programming? the FOXOIDS. What are we doing various evils of the urban guerillas PS. We'll take a speed-crazed ger- Shouldn't these bands be given wrong? and then returned to the musical bil over a candle in a bottle any day. the same opportunity for airplay as How many alternative radio format. Whether or not CITR or the (for example) Go Four 3 or Husker types does it take to screw in a light listening public agrees with views Du? bulb? The question is immaterial No Politics Please, like these is irrelevant. This new wave of metal that's as alternative radio types spend all We're Punks Programs like PARTY WITH ME sweeping the world is something their money on expensive import PUNKER are not the outlets for new and intense; I haven't been so records and can't afford to pay their Dear Airhead, anyone's own political diatribes. charged up about something since B.C. Hydro tab. I spent a lot of my afternoon on Aren't there other places for that, I first heard Minor Threat, SS How many alternative radio June 5 listening to CITR. For the INSIGHT, for example? People turn Decontrol or Die Kreuzen three types does it take to jam a candle most part it was enjoyable; some on PARTY WITH ME PUNKER, years ago (or D.O.A. five or six into an empty muscatel bottle. of the music I heard I really liked and most other radio shows, for the years ago for that matter). Try tak Best regards and some of the music I could've music, and that's it. ing a listen to something like Voi Peter Taylor done without. But one incident We just don't need ignoramus' Vod, Exodus, Destruction or Mega- Promotion Director dissuaded me from listening any like Knob tottering on soapboxes deth before condemning it—but further that day. It was during the and telling the public between maybe metal just isn't cool. Sorry, Peter, it just isn't that much PARTY WITH ME PUNKER show songs how things are. It's happen Wouldn't it be nice if we could fun anymore. Do you know that it (normally one of CITR's better pro- ed on a couple of occasions on break past all the labels of "rocker," "punk," "wavo," "mod," etc. (or RMBU'T 6WCK LeATHBR \JBbjeTlAs) "fag," "commie," "anarchist," etc.). 0LISJQ5 9&KJ OOue &eFOK£ f Just be people and listen to music for what it is, not its label. Oh well, you're probably just a wimp who likes Franki and thinks Tears For Fears really care. 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Marine Drive DISCORDER A Guide to CITR fm 102 cable 100 1 The Shindig album should be in lin, Marv Newland, Zulu-Bird Re please, please DO IT NOW. Tell us ate the airwaves for 2 /2 hours, record stores by the end of the cords, the Savoy, all the bands, and what you like about CITR (we Tuesday July 30 as Gord Badanic month, featuring live tracks from all of you who came out and sup adore flattery) and mention any and Dale Wiese look back on the Rhythm Mission, Red Herring, ported Shindig over the last year. problems you might have receiving West Coast underground scene NG3, Nerve Tubes, Death Sen the station. from 1976 to 1980. Remember your tence, and My 3 Sons. Recorded All letters should be addressed first drunk, the first time you got on Commercial Electronics1 Mobile In the exciting, high pressure to: thrown out of a club, the first time Studio (graciously donated for the world of High Power, things are CITR Radio a 250-pound guy with a mohawk occasion), the record was engi plodding along. We won't bore you 6138 SUB Blvd., UBC launched himself off the stage and neered and produced by Andrew with the bureaucratic finagling; suf Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A5 landed on your girlfriend? Isn't Butler of Commercial Electronics fice to say that things are moving. nostalgia fun? with help from the bands and Gord No predictions, nor promises, but Badanic. The tapes were run we're hoping for the best. through the magical electronic The CRTC has informed us that gadgetry of Little Mountain Sound they are not accepting letters of and will be sent to England for support for our application at this mastering in the hands of George time.