ill y WEEKLY $1.00 100 ALBUMS 100 SINGLES MUSIC VIDEOS Volume 41 No. 16 December 22, 1984 No. 1 SINGLE SEA OF LOVE PARACHUTE CLUB DISPLAYS MATURITY Honeydrippers The Parachute Club are currently on release with their second Current/RCA LP, At The Feet Of The Moon. Produced in Toronto at Sounds Interchange by No. 1 ALBUM Michael Beinhorn, the LP has cracked the RPM Top 30 after only 8 weeks of charting. The title track - taken as the first single -is rising rapidly into the HONEYDRIPPERS RPM Top 30. RPM spoke with Club members Laurie Conger, Lorraine Segato, and Billy Bryans, shortly after the LP was released. Volume 1 Bryans, adrummer andproducer,and the listener's ears, but to the club crowd's Segato, a vocalist, met in Toronto in 1979. feet as well. This is very danceable music, SINGLE PICK Bryans had played with local acts such as yet intended to stimulate the heart and soul The Government and Time Twins, and had as well. Although the band's unrepentant produced sessions for Downchild, Cameo espousalofegalitarianidealscan wear Blues Band, and The Bopcats (now Rock occasionally, thereisan overall sense of Angels). He also produced an EP for Mama decency and commitment here that is rare Quilla II, a Toronto band in which Segato among even the most socially conscious of us. wasleadvocalist.Parachute Clubfirst "Essentially the new record has incredible played together at a film festival, with the momentum at retail nationally," says Jim band's name decided on in half an hour. Campbell of RCA. "Sales are very steady at Signed worldwide to RCA through Current this point. We have a strong national pattern Records,the band'sself -titled debut LP with the LP, whereas with the first record, included the exuberant and subtly political there was more of a regional response. At Rise Up. The song - taken as the first single The Feet Of The Moon Goes out to the U.S. from the LP - became a Top 10 record Feb. 1st. and our meetings with the U.S. DO IT AGAIN in late 1983. people have resulted in a real commitment The Kinks How long did the new record take to on their behalf. As for the Junos .. they Arista - AS1-9309-N complete? "I guess it took us maybe 9 or 10 can only help, especially with the sales on weeks over the course of 2 or 3 months," the first record." Bryans remembers, "because we were in and ALBUM PICKS out. At one point we went to Europe on a promotional tour . at another point we went off to Dawson City to do a gig." Did your approach tothis LP differ drastically from the first one? "One of the major differences was that we were more unified as a band," says Bryans, continuing with "we put the first album together as the band went on. Dave Gray, our guitar player,was broughtinon theoriginal sessions as an extra guitar player. This year, we had the luxury of touring . and getting to know each other. You'll hear a far BRONSKI BEAT more unified vocal sound because Laurie, Age Of Consent Lorraine, and Julie have had the oppor- tunity to sing more together." London - LON-109-Q How importantis U.S. success for the band? "Artistically, Europe presents more of an interest than the United States," ex- plains Bryans, continuing with "but I think though -if I can be so bold - that America could use a taste of what we do. It repre- Lorraine Segato's response to a question sents a challenge in a way." regardingthe importance of touring for At The Feet Of The Moon, while demon- the band. "It's alternately totally and ut- stratingParachuteClub'smaturityand terly exhausting," she confides, "and feels development as a band, also brings home the endless . and also really inspiring: I think prevalenceof African and othersimilar that liveis where you really see the band rhythms in much of current popular music. happening; that kind of contact you never The title track brims with a propulsive funk want to lose . and we see ourselves as base common to many of the LP's tracks. essentially a live performance band." LINDA RONSTADT Swirling harmony vocals add depth to what A positive endorsement of The Para- are surprisingly simple melodic structures. chute Club's impact on the industry came Lush Life this month at the Juno Awards. The band Asylum - 96-03871-P Sexual Intelligence and Act Of An Innocent display the percussive kick -snap and full walked away with 2 key awards - Most bottom end that lend the set not only to Promising Group and Single. - KCW 2 - RPM - December 22, 1984 Hefty initial demand for Band Initial Canadian demands for the Band Aid says Stin HERE THEY COME single, Do They Know It's Christmas, has money tc now topped 50,000. CBS, who will be ment as distributing the release in Canada, have a recordfc `ROUND YOUR CORNER "rushrelease"situationfortherecord, ready so AND UP YOUR CHIMNEY which is now the fastest -sellingsingle in the U.K. the history of British pop. The s The single was written by Bob Geldof both 7" of the Boomtown Rats, who also organized in four -cc the project to aid the famine victims in will carry Ethiopia. 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