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With his new format, Velasquez hopes to continue his Eyes philosophy of total music integration(that means cool people and is it still alternative if everyone's doing it? nerds can dance together). The new post will not affect the "King of the UNDAY NIGHT IN WESTPORT IS USUALLY LIKE A perspectives. Beat's" normal air time at the downtown loca­ Sunday night in a small town in Western Kazanjian says that much of the footage is shot tion, but along with Club Pirahna, the two pubs SKansas. Unlike most evenings, the in Kansas City. The pair present their work at the may turn Westport Sundays into a teaming mass streets are quiet and empty except for a few tum­ Lithium Gallery and explain that their concept of dance freaks. Just make sure you don't tell the 18 Holiday movies bleweeds skipping down the road or a foraging is new to Kansas City but similar videos are used pizza vendors. 'Tis the season's big event pack of Irish wolves yelping for a cheap beer in a few bars around the country. Excepting London's Sunday night attempt at outside the closed doors of Kelly's. The military The response to Club Pirahna has been posi­ new music nirvana, the year 1988 is ending ona 3 News dog patrols aren't even out on a night like this­ tive, but mangament needs to remind the bar­ plump question mark. Where is live and DJ-spun probably because the Crips, the Bloods and the tenders not to wear their Hearthrob sweatshirts new music headed in Kansas City? 5 Leroi other rumored LA infiltrator gangs are taking a on Sunday. Jazz, Blues and Country availability hasn't day of rest. Even skate punks, street bands and On the other side of the block, London's is changed much, but the uncertain realm of rock 6 Reviews puka -bead vendors have better things to do. picking up the gauntlet by pulling a Bo Jackson tn' roll is currently up for grabs. The industrial But things may be different in 1989 if a few deal. The bar has announced that Eyes groove dance halls are chugging at full steam, but who 10 Radio report ambitious bars have their say. Both the engineer DJ Ray Velasquez has been drafted to knows when that might die off. Except for a brief Hearthrob and London's are offering an alterna­ begin a new Sunday sound night dubbed the Bacchus bash re-opening, Parody Hall is still in 12 Joe Bob goes to the drive-in tive personality to crumbing Sunday night TV "Electric Circus," a music menu of classic and a coma after it cancelled all shows in October programming. current underground rock, reggae and ska. with no word of rebirth. Management is still 14 Superfan R$!ad carefully because this gets difficult. On Velasquez says that the playlist is "entirely dif­ seeking new investors, but it's possible that the S~ilday nights, the Hearthrob isn't called the ferent from the Eyes format." Examples of the former heavyweight of alternative bookings may 16 Profile Hearthrob. Now it's Club Pirahna (si~). But artists include the Clash, the Jam, Sonic Youth, not pull through. don't try to come in the front door because no Elvis Costello, Skinny Puppy and Talking After discontinuing the MOdern Mondays 17 Chompin' to please one is at home. To enter this bar just follow the Heads. He explains that the music is more lis­ music series-which the area heavy metal au­ vibrating walls to the rear and come in the tener-oriented but as always, dancing is within thority paper, Banzai, called a "modern music 21 Steve Skelton Hearthrob service entrance. Once inside you'll the law. disaster"-the Lone Star replaced it with local find the old bar and its usual pinkness covered in The first night of air time proved to be a bit bands. Mondays are now oral hygiene jam ses- 22 Mondo video black felt with a new attitude (maybe) and loud, rocky because the DJ refused to "lay down a continued page 32 neo-industrial-postmortem music to make your 23 Life in hell (complime~ts oiBJfhe D1)./ ". .d.2:!Y""""'9I!l1&Pi<Jrearing abcnkthiS:new idea, I thought 24 December caleridar the owner of the Hearthrob must be real smart. Just name a club after a carnivorous fish, play 35 Weird news wild music and corner the market on skinheads, skate punks and satanists. But there must be less 35 Libby Reid of them than Geraldo says because the majority of the bar's groupies are just adventurous West­ KC Pitch port types and a smattering of art students. 207 Westport Road, Suite 203 Much of the reason for this dance hall's open­ Kansas City, Missouri 64111 ing probably rests on the success of Eyes night­ (816) 561-6061 club and its throng, many of whom journey from afar to hear cutting edge industrial grooves. Club Publisher Hal Brody Pirahna is banking on the fact that Eyes is closed Exec. Editor Hearne Christopher on Sunday plus its own secret weapon; the club Senior Editor Donna Trussell is using its two massive TV screens to feature the Managing Editor Scott O'Kelley work of two Art Institute students, James Art Director Keith Buchanan Kazanjian and Bobby Harrison. Advertising Hearne Christopher The students create "atmosphere videos" and Printing Neff Printing are letting the club show the their works to a Distribution Richard Jacobi dance floor crowd. The videos are in a quick flash sequence matching the rhythmic pounds of the Contributing writers sound system. 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