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FEBRUARY 1991 - ISSUE #97 ■ I I I I'lf I —— BAD RELIGION What a Riot! 7 SLAYER U.TV Beats Us To It 10 KINGHORSE Zrno Falls Off and Gets Back On 11 LUSH A Hard-Rockin' Ass-Kickin' Band 12 L7 "Slurp!" 13 DIOXIN Sandoz Can Pay Everything 14 BLOODSTAR The Band Uliana Broke 15 THE TANKHOG TOUR DIARIES The Hog Squeals 16 FICTION The Tables Turned by David Carswell 30 ■ i.*Mi]*M,-k___» AIRHEAD ...5 7" ....23 MINIS ...8 FUTURE RAP ....23 SUBTEXT .18 HELL'S KITCHEN... ....25 THE BIJOUX .19 DATEBOOK ....27 REAL LIVE ACTION... .21 ON THE DIAL ....28 UNDER REVIEW .22 CHARTS ....29 lv;i|[-_-__________]i_H_-^-_H-- DANCING ON THE CLOUDS Marc Yuill & Julian Lawrence 24 JUNKFLESH Bryce Rasmussen 26 -M.-'J-l:: Tankhog unloads their van in a most unusual fashion after their gruelling North American tour. Shot by Leonard Whistler. M^M-md-fOTTT- EDITRIX Lisa Marr ART DIRECTOR Robynn Iwata DISCORDERLY ORDERLYZeezyZeezman EDITORIALASSISTANTS Bill Baker, Paul Funk, Viola Funk, Randy Iwata, Mikey Likesit PRODUCTION Rick Awender, Bill Baker, Don Bull, Dean Doherty, Alice Loring, Lisa Lutman GRAPHICS Scott Fearnley, Robynn Iwata WORD PRO CESSING Tricia Festejo, Ha Ha Hamilton, Alice Lorlng, Lisa Lutman PHOTO DEVELOPMENT Lydia Schymansky SPINLIST Randy Iwata, Lloyd Uliana ADVERTISING Greg Elsie ADVERTISING PRODUCTION Robynn Iwata LOCAL DISTRIBUTION Matt Steffich SUBSCRIPTIONS / MAIL DISTRIBUTION Lydia Schymansky PROGRAM GUIDE / DATEBOOK / DELIVERY FRIEND Randy Iwata ACCOUNTS Linda ScholtenTECHNICALSUPPORTTedV Sue PUBLISHER Barb Elgood Discorder Copyright © 1991 by The Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia. All rights reserved. Discorder is that magazine from CiTR 101.9 fM, and is printed monthly in Canada on paper manufactured in Canada. 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Call CiTR DJ line @ 822-CITR, our offices @ 822-3017, our news + sports @ 222- 2487, fax us c/o CiTR © 822-6093, or write Discorder, #233-6138 SUB Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6T 2A5 Life With The Family Enndye (From the Files of T.D Vladamira, Biographer) ENNDYE: A large vociferously opinionated group or family given to writing a bi-monthly column attacking friend or foe, or suddenly siding with the same. This group divides and subdivides frequently, due mostly to unwise riages and "lost" wills. Common phrases: "Bloody hell, I've lost my pipe!" and "This wine is corked! I demand a substitution!! Waiter!" Going to a Go-q0? Doors Open i - 2am Tues - Sat Party Line 682-8550 #7 ALEXANDER GASTOWN and ihc whole concept of was not lo have a good an against a wall and tually v ! THAT'S SIC! ALL LETTERS PRINTED AS RECIEVED. QUINCY PUNKS STRIKE BACK Dear Discorder: One day about seven of us gathered in one of our parents rcc- rooms lo watch Sid n'Nancy & DOA (again) on video, put each others mowhawks up, drink some beer and read aloud in a semi-circle all the back issues of discorder we've col- We noticed (in between rass- lin' matches n'belchin' contests) a disturbing pattern in what appears lo be a series of negative assaults on the Vancouver Punk Rawk Scene. We all wanl guidance n'heroes and icons closer together and feeling all warm n'comradelike, leaving you alone and ugly. If this is true well, disregard this letter and jusl coast on our blessing to you, a cannonization is not loo far off in the future laddie. We were going to try and figure oul if there was another reason why you slag us so, bul we figured youd' figure wc had nothing beiler lo think about and call us losers or (worse) All we really want to know is, why don't you folks up at Discorder send someone tocoveramovie shoot who isn't under delusions that il's going to be a live show, or send knowifihals'O.K. and misguided. 1 guess Ihc final (only) point is - we need YOUR guidance. In the future wc would appro ciatc il if you came up to us in Person and perhaps nip us m the bud before we do anything silly. THANK- YOUTH AN K YOUTH ANK YOUTHANKEW Sincerely - THE QUINCY PUNKS P.S. Storm Ihc Basilic "Seemingly self righteous aqquillals" aside, our motto here at Discorder is: If some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time don t hale you, you're doing something wrong. So cheer up and enjoy Bruno's review this month. And who's Joe? MORE THAN A FEELIN' I>car Airhead: I'm in Boston but your magazine is the best CK' one I've seen. I wonder about your scene. The playlists arc as good as any bul unfortunately names arc hard for greal bands. You have a few I haven't heard so I'm hopeful. I wonder if I could order a 90 minute lape of one of your radio shows? I'd give $6.00. Il would be easy to do. If il's illegal to sell them, then definitely do it. One band you have lo play is Jesus Lizard. The worst band name ever almost but the best band I know of now. Their chrome cover on the ep — lots of stuff on their record. Fugail in Warsaw : Wojtek Zdanuk n'shit...and we keep trying to find the light of wisdom and support in your seemingly self righteous aqquitals of us, but alas are left cold. First (being the positive folks we are) we figured you just believed a little too much in unity among the socially maladjusted - and were opting yourself as a martyr for us to collectively hate, thus bringing us who doesn't care about goatees to a Jell-o Biafra gig. In our collective stupors we sally forth back inlo the cracks we crawled oul of afler shows, feeling at one with the downtown underground and well...yes...ENJOYLNG ourselves damitall. Then we read Discorder and are left mortified and shattered - finding out that we made fools of STRAIT TALK Dear Airhead: To all "Discordcrcrs": GTR 101.9 fm Stereophonic Blisssss! Merry Krinkle, Snappy 1991... Proud to distribute "Discorder." "Local Motion" — Discorder ot Georgia Straight? Nice letter in OS., Terry J. (Jihson Rcgma old/. Of course there are plenty of discotheques lor dickheads. I really don'l know how ihc mailer is in Canada, but in Poland agiessive ami foolish people, wlio only think aboul scuffles, very last fucking and drink as much as [hey can go lo discole que*. To my surprise many girls take pari inn. Apparently ihey enjoy lhal churlishness/It must lx- fascinating lo be lucked by macho man/ I and my friends try to organize wlasnie ja" /maybe il's me/ , If youarcintcrsled in ihese position, give us lilies and how much of ihem you wanl. We are interested in groups hke: NOMEANSNO Any favourite group/. BAD BRAINS, DOA. CAPITOL PUNISHMENT, groups from Alternative Tent, and Discord Kec. Unfonunatly ihese records are unal lainahle, Ihe only chance lo gel I hem is exchang. If you wanl lean semi vou information about PEOPLES' Wojtek Zdonuk Discorder or Georgia Straight indeed. After discussing this matter with the G.S. editor and writing aforementioned letter, it seems the people running that mag still couldn' I (or wouldn't) come up with a new name. So we say fuck 'em. RIP Local Motion! Slay tuned for a brand new local scene column starting next month. DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE POUSH DISCOTHEQUE? Hi Airhead! Greetings from Poland! I'm writing lo you because I heard aboul your radoi slalion "RADIO CITR" 101.9 f.M. Probably you are looking lor some subjects connected with Polish music. I have some contacts. Maybe you will be interested in groups like: APATIA/in English: APATHY/, AH1MSA, KARCER/in English: DARK.CELL/ etc. Have you heard about them? They arc vcrygood. Youdon'lknow whal you are losing unknow ing them. APATIA is from Poznan City, AHIMSA from Warsaw and KARCER exists in Slupsk City. My town - Suwalki - is a small town in nonh-eastem Poland /about 60.000 inhabitans/. The MiT station has a real good digital live tape. My message lo all C R' stations —sell ads do it illegally. Like a student job. Chip & Brenda Shirty Boston, MA Wedo play Jesus Lizard!Andw you see what Felicity has lo say about them! SUWAfcW Here is a form of Poland and my In fact there is nothing interesting for people of my age /I'm 21 years independent concerts/APATIA and AHIMSA will play in Suwalki on 30.12.1990/. Wc have our club and wc do gigs in il. Wc meet one another there, sometimes drink beer /I don't like drunkenness, but I don't like orthodoxy, loo/. Il's very fine, all of us have a good lime and our club is really safe. It is the only local in our town where people who l<x>k strangely /of course in other peoples' opinion/aren'lsmashed in iheir face. Il's a little like a pub, because the club is lived by the sale of beer. Since New Year there will be vegetarian food in il. Our problem is a shortage of contacts wilh inicresting organisations from all around the world. Wc arc interested in people and groups of people work ing in free way except for fascism, sexism and nihilism. We have a favourtoask of you. We need some contacts, exchange of information, records and tapes. Maybe you arc interested in Polish records. There arc few records of Polish bands/much less lhan tapes/ . Reason: doing of tapes is cheaper and "independent stage" haven't got a technical base to make records. However we have access lo a few records with music of Polish bands: Records: MOSKWA - 2nd LP DEZERTER - 2nd LP and 3rd LP "Wszyscyprzeciwwszystkim"/"A11 Against All"/ - It will be soon in AURORA-demo APATIA - live '90 - demo KARCER -"Blindman" Joanna Makabresku - "Piata prosty- lucja" /the fifth prostitution/ NOMEANSNO - live in Warsaw / QQRYQ tapes/ INKWIZYCJA - "No wlasne podo- LIBERATTON FRONT. Il's an anarchist organisation from Gdansk / They possess squat/. Probably you edit lan/.in connected with it what's going on in your RADIO CITR. I would like to get ii. Please, send me some addresses of American or Canadian bands. I wanl to edit my own zinc /I need some subjects of lhal reason/. Our group is called GROUP of FRIVOLOUS ACTIONS "SYNAXON". Wc warn to break a slate of torpor in head of people from our town and region. Slowly it im- I am wailing for answer! My address: WOJTEK ZDANUK UL. NONIHWICZA 18/43 16-400 SUWALKI POLAND Sounds like the Polish scene isn't much different lhan ours JESUS SAVES DISCORDERS Hey AIRHEADS Pulling "Dancing on the Clouds" in Honour (?) of X-.Vlas is thelamcsicdilorialdccision I've seen in years! C'mon! You folks are DISCORDER not THE PLAIN TRUTH and failure to print an item out of fear of insulting the status quo is (dare I say il?): censorship. .Julian (D.O.T.C.) Lawrence The C-word? Yikes! While the ariisi was under the impression lhat we'd pulled the comic because it would upset the moral majority losee Jesus' genitalia during the holiday season, in truth il was simply the eternal problem of too much stuff and nol enough $$$. Turn lo page 24 for episode #17 of D.O.T.C. which should have been run last month bul, due to very weird circumstances, #18 was run instead. Whew! FEBRUARY 1991 5 The Rogue Folk Club NOUVEAU Station Wagon (left) featuring J. Knutson Thursday FEBRUARY 21st 8:30pm The W.I.S.E. Hall (1882 Adanac St.) Tickets $10 ($8 members) JUNE TABOR & OYSTER BAND Sunday MARCH 3rd 8:30pm 86 St. Music Hall $12 ($10 members) Tickets at Black Swan, Highlife and Track (Oyster Band tix also at Ticketmaster) Information 736-3022 I rambled through my brain to try and remember if I had valid ID in my pocket as the nondescript, mustachioed man in blue eyed me. "Holy shit! I gotta show my boys this." Once again I was stuck in a situation where those of authority were questioning the hardware on my jacket, the ages of several of my peers (thank god I had MY ID) and the smoking habits of a select few people in the bathroom. It was nary 15 minutes before hardcore non-gods Bad Religion hit the stage at the Town Pump, and Vancouver's finest were doin' their damnedest to reduce the room capacity by 100. apf***"- Apparently RCMP all over Canada were forewarned to "send in the troops" to the evil Bad Rel igion concerts 'n' make sure us explosive canucks didn't trash the whole country over that Satan-lovih' LA hardcore. As opposed to,rhe 1 or 2 cops lhat would normally check out the club, we were treated to the presence of six cops all set to radio for the not squad if need be. Frustrated in their attempts to evacuate people from the building, they instead spent the night turn- i ng people a way from the doo r who had already paid to gei in. Yes, it was a bad night in visit the parking lot. The audience should've stuck around to see opening bands Coffin Break and Mary instead of coming late for Bad Religion The behavior of the cops obviously had something to do with a recent riot at a Bad Religion gig in LA. The venue had been filled to capacity by a crowd that had paid 20 bucks each to see the gig, and they were none too happy when the fire marshall waltzed in and pulled the plug. Understandably pissed off, the crowd started wreaking a little havoc at which time the cops appeared with hoses and stirred things up a notch. But according to the band, the actual riot was comparatively sedate and it took a slow night in the news to blow things out of proportion. As vocalist Greg Graffin put it: "We certainly didn't incite the riot. How could we? We didn't even get to play- Aside from banging on cars and some hootin' and hollerin' after the gig in Victoria, there were no visible signs of any rioting in either of B.C. 's major cities. Perhaps certain controlling elements have a reason to be threatened by the existence of BR. considering what the band stands for. I asked Greg G. about the somewhat anti-religion tendencies of the group. "Religion is taken idh organized belief system. Wc don't single out anybody, because everyone's guilty of thc same things that we talk about. No one in any given group is particularly more guilty than anyone else, 'lhat's kind of what we mean by "Modem Man"; you can lcx>k at other sectors of society or any culture in the world and they all exhibit similar trails We tend to single out trie bad traits of mankind, notjustthe badtraits of specific individuals. Religion canexist in manyfotms— religion of science, religion of money—anywhere where blind beliefsexist. People who judge others as being politically correct or not fall into ihe same traps as the most judgmental preachers. If there's a prescription in their way of proper behavior, then that's something we'ddefmitely like to address." Where do you draw the line between trying to impose your views on people and being self-righteous? "You don't have to tell someone "Here's the solution." 1 think you could probably accomplish more by just pointing put the situation. If everyone had their own ideas on something the world would be a much more interesting place. Instead what you find is people don't have their own ideas, they tend to follow the ideas of their idols, or their peers, or what not." of Ins time pursuing a PhD in evolutionary biology and teaching undergrad lab courses. Greg Hetson, one of the guitarists for the band, also likely spends much time separate from the band considering he slill plays guitar for the Circlcjerks.'Ihismakes u even more impressive that the band has been churning out albums in such rapid succession with another one due to appear in the very near future Their latest album, Against the Cram, is an incredible record of highspeed melodic hardcore; poses to push a satisfying blend of Town Pump roadie to yell "Luck the GST" into the mic after the _how (gi k >d i hing the cops were there after all, eh?). In Victoria, U.H played hom- agetoDOA by bleuding classic BTO cover "Takin* Care of Business" and an earlier track off Suffer. They readily reply to requests, even taking time out to ask the audience what ihey want To hear. The White Eagle crowd fostered a "play 'Voice of God' you fuck heads" shout which was less than reluctantly com- ihit one< >ftheaudienc e mem l>< who managed tof nd hims iving down on th j stage. both shows they mention regrt l lor not bei »slongasthe\ he audience n their less hipsters couldn't ev manage a smirk a Rob Sk Bad Religion is limited to touring either during the summer or during breaks in school due to Greg G. spending most ner's brazen display of playful Coffin Break's opening set. It's hard lo pinpoint where the negative feedback comes from and guitarist Brett had a few things to say about that. "I don't understand why certain devoted hardcore fans have become disillusioned with us. Our music hasn't changed that much, I mean, it's evolving but we're still playing hardcore. I think our ideas are expressed more allegorically and eloquently now. They're more provocative and evocative now. I think our entire approach has become more honed, nol at all diluted. Wc don't deserve to be disowned. Reverse prejudice is haling someone because a lot of people like them. People who base their self-image on what kind of music they listen to don't like bands that aren't completely obscure because then they don't feel lhat they're unique. I don't want the peo pic who supported us all the years and got us where we arc- not to like us, that's the last thing I want." Is there any danget ol Bad Religion becoming more and more amazed with themselves as people start raving more about the band? Brett: "I thought I was amazing when I was a junkie with nothing in my apartment but a spoon and a T-shirt. I'm a blatant egomaniac with an inferiority complex and I vacillate between the two. Everyone's really like that to a degree. As far as letting the band go to my head, yeah, I'm sure it could happen. I'm no saint, I'm no Jesus Christ, but the wotst thinglhat could happen irom lhat is that I'd be an asshole to some kid and then I'd feel bad and stop doing it. Cm nol going to start exploit- in); people or raping the earth. 1 am an asshole, but I try lo fight that. That's maybe what gets people into punk rock, that ihey have a mean streak. Its enioyable do the cruel, pon ■■■:hi ■ :sjust >ve thai you're human and you have freedom. The utmost gesture of freedom is to do something completely pointless. To do something logical lhal has a point behind it doesn't prove you're free because you're motivated to do it, it's more I ike a cause and effect situation. Kick that puppy, even if it's cute: that's freedom. Of course it's also totally fucked. Everyone can be an asshole, everyone's self- centered so you have to fight thai constantly your whole life." BAD RELIGION by the bastardized mind-meld of Redd Mcjan and Tom Milne FEBRUARY 1991 7 MEDUSA'S RAFT by Caroline Longford Our nation's m**-- known throughout Canada, nol lor her unprecedented contribution lo ihc musn scene bin rather for her unprecedented ;ihil n \ to act 1 a magnet lo people who fart oul the wrong end. Hut from the spew What led arose the triumphant Medusa's Rail, on which name'.' five bravedodei, like voyagers, floated we i all the way lo Vancouver. At one point vou asked tor birr donations. D: 'lhat's because a lol ol people enjoy drinking with Toby Drinking with Toby pre-dates Mcdu- How long have you been Medusa's Raft? 1): Aboul I ■ How long have you been here? Toby (sax i:\Vc came at different limes but we've been playing since June/July. Where was your first gig in Vancouver? Don (guitar): Parties Vou won CKCU'l Hattie ofthe Hands in Ot- Donnv Osmond and Aqua Man. Don: The Sex Pistols. The first thing I learned to play m the guitar was "Anarchy in the U.K." and my favonte superhero is Spiderman. What do you have to say to the youth of today ? Jim (drums!: Live long anil prosper, buy bonds and cal all your vegetables. D: I think h wan be Toby had already evolved and "Welcome aboard" was ihc catch phrase. What were your influences.' Jason: Andy Gibb, naked raygun A Staple On the Chicago scene since 1980, Naked Raygun have recently released their fifth album, Raygun, Naked Raygun. Tom Milne talked to Bass Thing Pierre Kezdy. What kind of ties do you have with the hardcore scene? PIERRE: Hardcore is a strange sort of category. Wc started oul being punk rockers and lhat's what we slill are after all these years. We get a lot of different sorts of people coming to our shows, some of them are hardcores. 1 don't like to classify the band into one particular category. Chicago's a strange place anyway, there's never been a really cohesive scene. There's never been a lot of press here, or record companies or anything like that. People just go and see the bands they like without categorizing. Have you toured outside the US? P: Yeah, we went to Europe a couple of limes. Response was not bad, pretty similar to what we get here. I think we're a little loo European sounding for the Europeans. A band comes over from the US and they wanl you to go up on stage with cowboy boots and all that, but some people appreciated us. We had some really big shows in London and Berlin. Any really memorable gigs? P: Both times wc played in London we played at a School of African and Oriental studies in a big hall there. The firsl limes we were there, Charlie Harper from the UK Subs showed up and wc got him lo come on stage and do an old Subs song. The second time, Steve Diggle from the Buzzcocks showed up and so wc had him come up and play as well. People really got on our case for lhat, ihey seem lo think these guys arc way past their prime. London and Europe arc so fickle. A band can be big one week and old hat the next. We got mixed reviews from the press but the crowd was there and I guess that's what How do you feel about the latest record Raygun, Naked Raygun? P: Really happy about the songwriting; I think every song is strong which is more than I could say aboul the previous two records. A few of the songs were particularly badly mixed on this record, I wish I could go back and remix them. This album completes our three album contract wilh Caroline records but we're still writing new stuff anyway. Even if no one in the world wanted to sign Naked Raygun we'd put the record out ourselves anyway. Thai's the way we feel, we just like doing whal we do. 8 DISCORDER Was your vocalist originally in Big Black? P: People have this idea lhal Big Black was before Naked Raygun or something which is not true. Naked Raygun started in 1980 and Sieve Albini wasn't really even living in Chicago until '83 or something. Big Black just got big sort of fast and ihey got out and started touring around the country before Naked Raygun did. Al that point Santiago was the original guitar player for Naked Raygun and he quit and started playing with Steve and Big Black. They needed a bass player to go on tour so they gol Jeff (from Naked Raygun) lo play bass on tour. I le just played with them a few limes, he wasn't really part of the band or anything. Are any band members of draft age? P: Bill Stevens, the newest addition to the band, was bom in '66 which makes him about 24 so he's the youngest. I'm the next youngest, I'm 28. In ihc U.S. you can get drafted up until you're 25 bul we all know that if war broke out and they needed more people they'd draft whoever they wanted anyway. 1 think you'd be surprised lo know that a lol of young people support the military presence in the Middle East whereas il's a lot of the older people that don't think we should be there. I was prelly surprised to hear lhat; I thought it'd be the other way around. When are you going to play in Canada? P: We're supposed lo go oul west in February. We jusl finished playing the East coast and we haven't played the West coast for a long time. I'm sure it'll probably include Vancouver. It did the lasl lime wc toured west anyway. Nak«_ Raygun : Marc H. I text by june Hi Front Line Assembly have been «.*. leading edge of industrial/techno since their inception in 1986 after Bi 11I-ccb (a/k/a WilhclmSchrocdcr) left Skinny l\ippy. With the departure of Michael Balch, Bill is now joined by long-lime collaborator Rhys Fulbcr. Discorder talked with them a while back when ihey dropped into CiTR. What's been happening with FLA? B: We've just finished a new LP called Caustic Grip and three singles are being released off that: "Icedate," which came out lasl summer, "Provision" which has just come out now, same wilh the LP, and then we have a third single coming out in January called "Virus" as well. We're alsogetling ready lo do our second North American lour which is going to start in January. So when are you playing Vancouver? B: If wc play it'll be at the end of our tour. Il's up in the air, we'll sec. I wa.s talking to someone about interviewing FLA and he was surprised to find out you're from Vancouver. R: That has a lot to do with not having a Canadian deal... B: But I think a lot of people think we're from Europe, which I am anyway originally. Il's strange a lot of people don't realize wc are from Vancouver. But that's okay; I like walking down the street and nobody knows mc! Is there an electronic "scene" in Vancouver? B: I don't know whal you call a scene. I think it's just like anything, there's good bands lhal get supported and the ones lhal aren't, don't. II a good band rolls into town, people will go sec them as long as they like whal they do. I don't think there's any one type, except rock n' roll, that's really prevalent in Vancouver. R: There's too many musicians and not enough audience. B: Also, 1 think Vancouver has more critics per pound than anywhere else in Canada. It's really amazing... When we played Montreal wc sold the place out and il's jusl amazing how many kids there was. I remember from the Puppy days people were so critical, they'd just stand and analyze everything and yet none of them have done anything any better or anything at all except go to the Town Dump and have three beers and then go home and that's their equilibrium of a week of having done something. I never understand that R: Is this hip? Are we supposed to like this? B: Nobody can ever let go here... In the Stales people just lose ii; ihey come onstage, they jump off, they go crazy. That's so rare here, maybe it [happened] for the odd punk band or speed metal band. Mosl of ihe lime it's so reserved here; it's like Robson Street, people are really laid back... I gather from talking to people [at local record stores] there's a definite following, but Vancouver'sneverbeenaholbed for [indusirial/tcchnomusic] Even Puppy: playing some other place they draw 3-4000 people, but in Vancouver 5-600 calling ma5a|al\a by gav reaty Combine .wo young Jiggle hosts, one Nazi music director, a really old long distance operator and a confused girl in Kyoto, Japan in a quest lo talk to Ma- saiaka, the fiendish dictator behind the deluge of recent Japanese hardcore flexis invading Vancouver and this is what you gel: CiTR: There's a ring, there's a ring! JAPAN: Hei. OPERATOR1 This is Canada, C-I- T-R Radio calling collect. C: For Masalaka. Extremely long pause. C: Hello? J: Hcrro'1 C: Hi. O: Do you speak English? C: Yes. O: I know you do sir. I'm talking to the lady. J: Masalaka isn't here nght now. C: Operator, could I leave a message there for Masalaka? O: Yup. C: This is CITR. J: Masalaka isn't here right now. C: Could I, could you— O: I don't think she understands English lhat well sir. C: Okay, all right, I'll try later. O: When would Mr. Masalaka return? One hour, two hour? J: (soundingpissed) Masalaka isn't here right now. O: When will he be there? J: Please iry to call again. C: Okay, thanks; adios Japan. shovlhed by torn mi Inc SnOVlhed iS ton. Io be the next West Coast phe Maybe ncH for a while yel, bill talking to Scott (guitar, vocals), Chris (bass) and Ken (dnims), I couldn't help thinking that this is a band to keep an eye What involvement do you have with recording other Victoria underground bands? S: I've been involved wilh recording of bands for about eight or nine years now. I helped the NEOs record stuff when ihey were still around. C: Scott is essentially the figurehead of an arts cooperative in Victoria called Incentive. S: It's like a label except thai any money lhal is made from selling the various bands' tapes goes directly to the bands. I don't make any money, I use the label more as a networking system to distribute music from some of the more underground bands around. The Victoria music scene is really heating up. What are some bands worth checking out? S: Perhaps Shovlhed. Shutdown, Section 46 arc bolh really hot, rockin' hardcore bands lhal have released tapes on Incentive. 'Diere's Silent Party who sound like U2 wilh a female singer; Vox Populi who sound like REM with brains; and Slickl'arm and S.A.M. which is me and Murray |Ac:Ion| doing some industrial dance stuff. (': And Pigment Vehicle Si Pigment Vehicle are a hand lhal are going loabsolulely blow ever) bod) ' I heads off when they finally gel their live act together What plans do you have for releasing a recording? C: We have a demo lape which came oul about a year ago and we've recorded a 20 song LP wilh John Wright [of NoMeansNo]. Thai should be out by January if wc cross our fingers. S: Right now, Incentive is trying to gel a coalition together that perhaps will include the Dayglos and NoMeansNo and il will service only Canada with vinyl, CDs and cassettes from some of the better underground Victoria Any final comments? S: 1 would like lo lake this moment to announce ihc fact lhat ihe Show Business Giants ("featuring a goof from Shovlhed and a jerk from NoMeansNo"! sciII be ihe next REM. Ihey arc also the only band in recorded history to play a song thai was originally performed on Star Trek. A is a good night. R: Originally they were really hip and then for some reason— B: —they got backstabbed. There's a big backlash... Most cool bands don't come to Vancouver, thai I consider cool. It's too far out of the way and it's not worth il for what ihey pay in guarantees and usually you can't draw that well here, unless it's your average rock n' roll band, then everybody goes; or if it's the Pixies or something, then everyone runs to the Commodore... Seattle's the same way, too. L.A.'s as far as they go, San Francisco and then it's back... Another reason why we don'l play here [is] because I don't know if we have anything to prove; I don't really care. I don't feel I have to prove anything to people that don't want to change or just want to have iheir four been and go bang their heads together for an hour or two to a four bar guitar band. That's OK... They're not ready for us, we're not ready for them. e,\ene talks to Jennifer I KnOVr your solo work is really well acclaimed, but do some people still give you a hard time, displeased with your musical direction changing, challenging their Oh yeah; some media people are, especially oul in Los Angeles. They saw X as a real groundbreaking, innovative band and they loved our music... but if I sounded like X I would no longer be so innovative would I; I'd be imitating something I'd done and I'd be pathetic. So the thing to do is to just nol worry about the direction and if people approve of it or nol. It's an outrageous concept that someone you 've never met or even someone you know can disapprove or approve of a direction you've decided to take artistically... we do what we have to do. Has the suggestion been by some industry people that your work needs to be validated by affiliation with the rest of X or with John? Ihere is some form of sexism going on 'cause I know the Los Angeles ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Times, which was always lavish in its praise of X and especially focused on me it seems, I guess they thought that was a better angle or something, didn't do a Sunday review or interview about my last album [Old Wives' Tales] and didn't review ordo an interview or article about this album [Running Sacred] and yet when John's record came out they did a whole feature and review... It's nol like I'm quarrelling with John; I'm glad he got what he got, I think he should, he deserves it. But ihe thing is, what's the difference?... I'm on an independent label and I'm a woman. WTiat else is the difference between me and John? It's gotta be those two things or a combination. But if you say lhat to people they think you've got a problem; you're seeing things that don't exist; people aren't prejudiced against women; they liked his record they didn't like yours.... But I still say it and I don't care. I've seen that in interviews; I've said things like that and then the editor would put in "Oh, sounds like sour grapes to me Exene." No, I'm makin' a point; I'm using myself to make a point but I could just as well be using someone else... I'm pretty objective about myself to some degree... I can see things happening to mc as universal things that happen to a lot of people. What about outside influences affecting your work; things like creating under pressure against a deadline or the possibility of censorship? The pressures I think are... complete artistic freedom: there's no guidelines. I don't wanl to limit myself and I'm afraid if I only compose on guitar I'll be limited to a certain chord style. I've been training myself on keyboard now and learning music theory. That's my only thing; I don't have a problem with censorship. My records aren't going to get warning stickers because I don't use all the kind of stuff that gets it; I don't use that kind of language and sexist and racist stuff. Subversive content with clean Ian guage; that's OK? But see, subversive isn't what they're censoring; they're censoring the perficial aspects of bands; il's ridiculous. all Exen« Cerv»nka : Rhino Do performers have resonsihili- ties as role models or in communicating certain messages? It depends on how you see it. Duke [McVinnie, bass player] was saying this tome before: "You're an artist; your responsibility is to your art If you wanna come off stage and gel in a cab and leave and not speak to anybody and not do interviews after the show and just be like lhat, that's within your rights. Your responsibility is lo be an artist." And as an individual I gotta interpret what being an artist means and it goes past that to me to communicate ideas; but it's true, your responsibility is to yourself and if that means you wanna go out and be an activist too that's one thing. Speaking of activism, what about the PET A compilation you sang a Phil Ochs song on? They just asked me to do it. PETA is a really good group of people andi don't agree with every single thing that they believe in which is OK; which is good. I think some people think "I'm not a vegeiarian and I wear leather shoes so I can't be involved in animal rights" but lhat's ridiculous: all you have to do is maybe stop eating at McDonald's... Y'know, the whole animal testing for cosmetics and stuff, they've really almost single-handedly ended lhat; Avon and all these companies that used lo do lhat don't do iI anymore. And lhat was hard work; il's all volunteer work so 1 help ihem out as much as I can, for whatever it's worth. So you believe in confronting the wrongs of the world through your art? Well I can 'l right the wrongs of the world... I guess there's no way of gauging your success or failure about that stuff. You just do il because it's what you believe in doing and if three people hear it then three people heard it and if a million people hear it then a million people heard it! How can you ever try to even have hopes with an... You just try to keep that out of your mind while you're creating. FEBRUARY 1991 9 Wtoof*!! A j"ori of Siayeu's pOH or«'t; | ic*<* (v«;rj«:i baa to uoait you... you... UTV!! Who called Cbera anytxxjyl Is Cbetze no Respect for- _be paint raediall ^>o Cbeae l uxm, sitting In fb<* Foaara's sfonos, coa.-itag and Reflecting on boco SLayen's necoesC r-rjcN best-selling neLeaseSeasons fa cbc.* Ab^ssbas pi nail-y gioen Che boys f h<> chance Co beadline ir* Vancoaoea. Finally, I jjof Che nod fo or-feu the daessing aoora, | rinding a table almost cm pall Of. yooo as I orr) Arzaya's rnoatb coas. slayers BY BRADEN ZRNO What's the band's philosophy? We don'l follow any philos,.pill. We gci together, we write, we just do it Slayei is ■ dark cloud thai hangi one, ami ihai's the idea We try to go to the extreme in lyrit content, at lew) I try lo. I don't IP. lom.ike it very obvious. I'm nol as gross as I used lo Ih\ I'm liv ing lo be a litlk more thought provoking Seasons In the Abyss was given a warning sticker because of the lyrics. Do you think It's justified? Does this affect how Slayer approaches writing material? I don't care (laughs). 'Dial's the attitude wc have... Fuck 'cm. It's funny, y'know; this album, by comparison, is the lamcsl one we've done, yet il gol a warning label. So lhat's why I've gol this on. /He opens his leather biker jacket to reveal a message done in the format of warning labels: Paranoid Siuftul Lame Old Fucks] How did you ever find out about "The Original Psycho" Ed Geln, and what led you to write a song about him? Somebody had ihe hook, lhe\ showed me these pictures ol Uxlics hanging upside down, CUI open, il was like WHOA' Who is this guv Id Ciein ' So 1 went oul.boughl the Ixxsk and Because so much of your music explores darker sides of reality, there's a certain mystique that, I think, Is fundamental to Slayer's Identity. How do you think this mystique reflects on your fans, and Is it a conscious effort? [don'l know, .'lhat IS how the fans view us; 1 don't think we've really asked for that. We sort of presented ourselves that way and it seems to have stuck. When wc first presented ourselves, lhat's what wc wanted but now we're just ourselves and wc don't change for anyone... I feel very uncomfortable when people judge me before they even know mc. But I don'l care; I know who I am. How would you compare and contrast Seasons In the Abyss with South of It's got the balls SoulhofHeaven didn't have. Thai's il. South of Heaven was a great album, but this one' lacked. Il I i■ • it lacked the energy. Even though ihe - Strong and heavy, ihese have mo Is everyone's Input equal in the studio? Yeah, everybody |iisi gives i heir opinion and if the writer wains lo hear n, he'll hear it, but it nol. . "luck vou, it's my HRgl" (laughs) Do you guys record live In the studio, or do you Jam the song out and do It track by track? Wcjam it up live and gel [drummer] Dave's iracks down. linen wc come In and do dubs. How's the tour going? Well, this is ihc first date on thi s tour. We did a European lour for "A Clash of Titans,"then we went to Japan, and now we're here so wc 've been off and on for aboul two months. Do you see any up and coming bands Joining the ranks of Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth? Yeah. I mean, everybody's got the chance. There's a lot of good bands out there... We'll KNITTING FACTORY GOES TO THE NORTHWEST CiTR A 101.9 fM d - Sonny t Sharrocm BAND* chunk! THIRD PERSON* 3 cutting edge bands on tour from New York's hippest live music club in one happening show ■ Sunday February 24 • 8|_>m i igfrfrlfri-M Tickets at all Ticketmaster Outlets, Black Swan, Highlife, Zulu Records, & CJBS Office Jazz Hotline 682-0706 • Charge by Phone 280-4444 leave ii .ii : Do you guys draw musical Influence from anybody In particular? I don'i listen io musk io 1 don'l take my influence* from anyone.Same vviih ihc other guys; ihey don'l listen lo metal... Iguitarist] Jell listens io rap, plays Nintendo, builds his war modell. S.unc vv ilh mc. 1 read and 1 do a lot of video siult so I'm cither working with my songs or songs I like and putting images Will Slayer fans be seeing any of these Images In the next few videos? No, it's personal stuff. In Vancouver, Slayer's music attracts skaters, headbangers and skinheads. Have there been problems at past Slayer shows where such groups have converged? (grinning) I guess so. Itdcpcnds whereyou'rc at. In certain cilics, kids are more violent than others. You hit the mid-wesland il's not as bad, but when you gel out to the coastal cities, LA and New York... they're horren- do damage. Is Slayer working on new material right now? , No We don'l write an Ihe toad. We just work on ihe song] wc do. To me, ifyou start writing on the road .ind you're playing older songs consistently every night, your "new" Stuff is gonna sound like the stuff you're doing already. And you don'l wanl your Stuff to sound similar all Ihe lime. It's great 1/ people can write on ihe road, bul 10 me, I think being on ihc road is a major influence on what you write. So wc wait till wc get home. I work on ideas for lyrics, Jeff works on some music and we'll gel together and fuck with them until they sound ihc way we Is the rumour true that last tour or so, Kerry King walked Into your tour manager's room at 4:00 AM to show him a booger? Probably. You guys must get pretty crazy. Naw, just stupid. LICK ME CHEW ME ON ROBSON Now serving coffee and salads too. 1175 Robson 681-1233 1937 Cornwall 732-8840 The almighty powers of d«- corder recruited me for an interview. Allhough I had never heard of Kinghorse, ihe point of view held by a melal band from Kentucky intrigued mc. Whal transpired is difficult to record on paper, but hopefully ihc high intelligence level of the average Discorder reader will make up formy shortcomings in capturing vocal semantics. Their debut self-tilled album marks ihc firsl opportunity for Kinghorse lo get oul of ihc Louisville music scene and spread iheir message to the Where did the name Kinghorse come from? Well, I think I saw inspiration in the name of a song, an Elvis Costello song. Just ihc whole image of relcntlessncss throughout the song. But also, there's a definite dichotomy out of the relcnllcssncss. There's a line lhal says "Now I know that you arc kinghorse / You're all tenderness and brute force." I thought lhal was pretty interesting, y'know, if you can't see the issue bolh ways, you're fucked up. This name has stuck with me since the breakup of my last band. I knew that the next band I was in would be named Kinghorse. Is there much of a metal scene in Kentucky? Well, there's no such thing as a metal scene here. There's no hardcore scene. There's no anything. In our city there's forty bands lhat play all original music of every conceivable style you can think of and all these bands play together and it's one unified thing. Kinghorse has played with rap acts, metal acts, every kind of conceivable label that you could give a band. We've brought them on our bills. Al this point, we fill every venue in the city no matter whal size it is... The point is, we're really reluctant to move around in any circles other than our own. We're all pretty much homebodies. I mean, now that the album has been released, we're being forced to participate on "Music Society." But, we've fought it tooth and nail as long as we can, and now it's time to take the message to the street because now that people have the album and they know what the band's about, we know there are people out there who want to see us and not just playing in another town where no one knows who you are and you're just the opening act and people are just like, "Yeah, hurry up so I can see the headlining Does the environment in Louisville plays a big role in Kinghorse's sound? 1 don't think it plays any sort of an influence at all, I mean, two of us are from rural areas: no running water, no electricity. I mean, I was listening to punk rock and metal ever since I got a record player. As far as Louisville's attitude, that shaped the philosophy of the band, bul there's nothing about where we're from lhal shaped our sound. Is there any one band tha t was a prominent influence? Well each guy is inlo totally different things. Our guitar player likes the Stooges, early Sabbath, Minor Threat, early hardcore, 70's punk. Our bass player likes punk rock. That's all he listens to... and Madonna, lhat's it.... Oh, and jazz... The only thing I know our drummer listens to is Rush. He went through a year of listening lo speed metal loo. Me, I'm primarily inlo Elvis Costello, Birthday Party, Hank Williams, Sabbath. I noticed Glen Danzig produced some of your album. How did you get him to help out? Well, I've known him for years... I'm just a little hardcore nerd, y'know, so I was into the Misfits in '82... I was in a band called Maurice. Il was like King Crimson meels... Metallica. Thai was when "I was 16, 17, and the band toured wilh [Danzig's] second band, KINGHORSE BY BRADEN ZRNO Samhain. He tried to get mc lojoin ihc Four Horsemen or something. One lime I called him 'cause I hadn't talked to him in iwo years and he said "There's [his band, the Four Horsemen; you're going to come up here and try out" and I was like "No - I've got my own band" and he said, "Well, send mc a tape." And we wanted to be on Plan 9, his label. He said O.K. and I said "You 're gonna produce it." He said, "OK" and then he didn't have lime lo so we scnl Caroline the tape and a whole bunch of different journalists who were in Caroline's office were picking up the cassette, saying, "IIcy, these guys rule, are you going to sign them?" Caroline signed us after a long period of beating the idea around. Really? Oh yeah, it's like our demo is terrible, our original demo, it's just terrible. Production wise. And 1 was very ill. For some reason I always gel the flu around the time we record. far the Peppers go, three of ihc four guys in this band despise that band. Wc hate them. The bass player likes them. Now, like, he's really into Rea, not really heavy inlo him but, y'know, if you're gonna have a bass god, why nol Flea, right? 1 mean, he's good. Bul the rest of us despise thai band. I have no idea how some of those funky rhythms got in there, like, ihc drum rhythms? Wc gel compared to the Birthday Parly a lot because of that and other strange, dcmcnicd sons of music. I mean, if that's whal you hear, that's fine, but I don't see it. Il jusl kinda blows my mind. If you hear il, that's whal you're hearing, y'know. I just have no idea where the fuck that would come from 'coz we hate funk. Kinghorsehatesfunk. Man, I can't tell you how much I hate it. The whole movement lhal it's spawning right now like, lhat band "Mind Funk," I heard they've got like a "Funky Edge" lo them. Like whal total crap. They were together two months when they got signed... They're the total cute boy, you guys had any problems resulting from thai or any other song? Ihc problem wilh "Caged" is just like the problem with the fuckin' Spin review wc just got. Another line in "Caged" says, um, "Motherfucker, open this cage, maybe I'll leave this place in one piece." Well, they wrote "...maybe I'll leave this bitch in one piece." "I like you better on your knees" has nothing to do with the line before il and yet people think lhal I'm lalkin' some sort of subservient mumbo-jumbo. Il's simply a matter of caged man, like, locked up, like strapped down, like in the nut-house, like in the cage, like, hey bitch open this thing. And ihe song turns around and says "I like you better on your knees" 'cuz that's whal ihc fuckin' system wants; what the people oul there on the street want: they want mc on my knees, they want me to fuckin' shut up and obey the rules and that's how come they lock me in asylums, lhat's why they would put me in prison if I got out of line... "Ihe concept Kinghorw : Wes Allison - This Like, for the first demo, I was sick to the point of, like, nol being able lo speak... Anyway, 1 think we were signed based on just rumor about how fucked up we arc. And how we run the band more like a political organization. How did your album benefit from Danzig's help? I think a lot of people picked il up who would have been skeptical. I'm not sure what percentage of people are going to pick il up just because he produced it, bul if people pick it upjust because he produced it then, y'know, they're suckers. The whole point is, we're from Kentucky, nobody knows who we arc. We need everything we can get to just get people to listen to us. If they just listen io ihc record, il will do ils work. The message will reach them... I mean, il sticks in your craw. The whole point is that we needed people to help legitimize us in a world lhat we're trying to systematically destroy. Although you guys do have an original style, I hear a bit of a Red Hot Chili Pepper sound with a harder, more metal edge to the music. I have no idea what you 're talking about. As total little cuiie pies and it's like "Here it is ihc cx-hardcorc guys who now have long hair, playing in a Red Hoi Chili Peppers/ Primus Rip-off band." Y'know, like, suck my asshole. 1 don't fuckin' give a fuck. Primus are label-males of ours, y'know, but when I read that thing in Spin when they were like "hardcore sucks" y'know, like, fuck man, I can't help it if you wanna be Bootsy Collins man, get a clue. Are you guys currently on tour? Nope. I'm silling in my living room. I'm not gonna do anything; I've got fuckin' housework to dolomorrow. There's a weird smell in ihe apartment, we don't know what it is. Well sec, the girl I Live with, 1 picked her up and she gets in the truck and she says, "What's lhal smell?" I'm just like, "Look, whal the fuck, il ain't me." It's this weird smell, il's in the truck, it's in the apartment, it's nol anywhere else, it's a real animal smell. Like, I don't know, maybe there's a possum living here, y'know, I don't know. bitch, gimme the keys, I like you better when you're on your knees." Have Ooooooh weeee! is abstract: "bitch" jusl means ihc matron at the nuthouse. Il's al ihc system that's trying to quiet down people whose minds never I mean, dial's whal ihe whole holy war is about; we're nol gonna compromise whal we wanna say, y'know. Everyone should know ihis is a fuckin' re-birth movement, y'know. This is a revolution ofthe soul and emotion and passion needs to be brought back to music because wc are sick of hearing the goddamn same impersonal topics that is running through music on all levels and il's gol to come back down to problems people have like being alienated. I mean you've got to be some kind of a misfit to pick up our record and I'm not going to sing songs lo ihem aboul how wonderful it is to be in league wilh the devil or lo worry about the greenhouse effect, what's that got to do wilh real life? It doesn't. These kids have lo go to school with people lhat hate ihem. They come home sometimes to families who hate them, they walk the street and the people on the street hate them, y'know, and there's no explanation for il. Our record is a document on the strength that you can find in yourself to survive all thai and rise above it and accept what you are. There's a lot more to knob"' A band so filled with passion must have some goals in mind. Well, yeah, Mire. We have a final solution planned oul. We have definite enemies we arc oul loget I mean, there is a whole system oul there we arc throwing a wrench in even as we speak, know whal I'm sayin"' I mean, I'm sending lillle scorpions oul lo do jobs even when I'm asleep, y'know, it never stops. 'Ihe seeds are sown and the insects arc all over, they're every where. I"hcy're worked inlo the system and vou c an'l slop u now...it So, is there any sorl ol philosophy you guys follow in a structured sorl of way? No, no, It's not as if we have a party policy written out. It's jusl trying to be as honest as possible. It's like, some of us aren't really all together well in the upstairs department. But, y'know, thi s is how it is and people can either lake it or leave it. I mean, when ihey gel the record they know they're getting one hundred per cent documental ion of the personalities who arc in the band. I think there's a lot of those words in the songs lhal people need to hear. Like, kids who arc alienated and feel like they're from Mars need to hear it. Instead of, like..."bullets flying, flesh being split", y'know, fuckin' "T.V. evangelists are bad."What's that got todd with some twelve- year old kid wilh zits on his face whose got long, greasy hairand all the girls make fun of him. Telling a kid lhat innocence is not gone even though he's bombarded everyday wilh the media and wilh...y'know whal I'm saying the whole world is telling him his innocence is gone and he's got to get with the program. Well, we're telling him that's complete bullshit and he's been lied to and for him to sel fire to the nearest building. Don't you think that will create a stagnant subject matter in relation to songwriting? I mean, some bands grow to write about different subjects only after making an x-number of releases. Well, I can't see us making more than four records... I am like I am, y'know what I'm sayin'? There's no conceivable way thai I can ever shake what's wrong with me. Il's nol like everything's gonna be alright and suddenly I'm gonna be writing songs about... well, you name il, y'know. I mean, the newest batch of songs are pretty different. How? Well, there's just a couple of them mat are a lot more abstract, y'know? Do you think the abstract nature of these songs makes your message a little more difficult to get across to the listener? Well, dial's his problem. He needs lo think. I mean, I don'l know; I've been thinking aboul lhal, and your last question has been one I've asked myself for the first lime in a long time and I ihink there's a lot more stuff that wc could say, or that we want to say. I mean, the whole point is that each individual song doesn't reflect the philosophy of the band. Like, "Brother Doubt" isn't anything like "Razor", y'know what I'm saying? Each song has its own lillle statement. The band as a whole has a goal, but each song has a different look on life. Ifyou ask individual questions on each song, then we'll give individual answers, but if you ask general questions, you get the general perspective of the band. Bul I can't see us making more lhan four records. What after that? Join with Danzig? What would I do? I'm a singer, I don 'l know anything about music. 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Phone (604)61 Uttoi IS »J'5or 1176 Cranville SI. 1 (ONE) DOLLAR OFF ((EXCEPT SPECIAL EVENTS)| LA_p _MJ_S_s_i_p_JMj DEDICATED TO POPULAR DANCE MUSIC DANCE CONTEST EVERY THURSDAY 990 NIGHT EVERY FRIDAY 871 BEATTY STREET FULL ENTRANCE SECURITY WED 10PM - 2AM THURS - SAT 9PM - 2AM LUSh a re a new band out of Ijondon, England fronted by two women, Miki Bcrcnyi and 1-Jnma Anderson on guitars and vocals, with Steve Rippon and Chris Acland on bass and drums respectively. When Ioish were over in Toronto in November, Discorder talked to Steve and Chris ofthe band via telephone. As both of them have very similar North London accents, and as the questions were lo cither of them, I could nol tell them apart on the interview tape, so their answers will be attributed to a generic "Lush." DISCORDER: Is this your first time over here? LUSH: Firsl time in Canada yeah. I like it here, after walking around Toronto for a couple of hours. All the reviews that I've read describe your music as "shimmery, wavesof guitar, ethereal, dreamy". Are you happy with those types of descriptions? I don'l know. It's difficult to describe music isn't it? There's a lot of hyperbole: the "ethereal" thing gets blown away when you see us live. There's no blueprint lo the songs, I ethereal or a spooky song; everything just happens. We're actually a hard-rockin' ass-kickin' band, we just don't want people to know lhat until they come and see us. We get people to say lhat we're wistful and we sing about bunny-rabbits. You're bound toget compared with The Cocteau Twins, especially being on 4AD. Does that piss you ofT? Not really. I don't mind being compared to bands really. Being compared to the Cocteau Twins is quite an obvious one especially "cause Robin [Guthrie] produced us. I've just read something lhat says that Miki's voice is like Liz Cocteau's, which it's not really: Liz can sing! (laughs) No, that's not being bitchy bul Liz could easily do what Miki does with us, but Miki couldn't do what Liz does in a million years. It's alright when they say there's elements of The Cocteaus in their sound, but if someone said we were just a rip-off of the Cocteau Twins I don't think il would be fair really. We don't say "let's write a song like the Cocteau Twins" or anything. No, I didn't mean that. Hut Miki does seem to be slurring the vocals more now, making the words harder to distinguish. Il's 'cause the lyrics arc so bad. Miki's been drinking a lot as well. No, wc have talked about this; ihc voice is important bul as another sound on lop of what's already going on. 'Ihc lyrics arc important, they're nol churned oul in five minutes: they're churned oul in three! (laughs). It's good to make your own mind up aboul the lyrics and whal you think it says. So arc you going to do a U2 and goto the States,start wearingstetsons and stuff? Well, when I was in LA for ten days I really got into all these dodgy bands like Guns 'n Roses and stuff. I started saying "bad" meaning "good" loo. Melody Maker reckon that you are going to be "enormous". Is this what you want? Well, Chris isputting on a bil of weight, but I wouldn't say he's enormous yet. When you're all caught up in it you don't notice the changes much. I don't really want to be mega. It'd be nice to be a band that were able to just keep going and do exactly what they wanted all the time without worrying about how many records they sell. It'd be horrible lo be working under pressure. *.». .^ s^. io come up wun some new stuff. Thai's a bil of pressure, but we don'l worry about whether we're go- big ihing or not. lo be the di 4AD is a pretty good label. Do they give you plenty of time and space? I think they do, yeah. It's not like a major record label. Wc were rehearsing and the band next door, a heavy melal band, were told by their record company lhal ihey had to wrilca ballad, and they had to write it in an afternoon! We don'l get Ivo (4A1) Bon) caning down and saying " Wc wanl a mysterious, spooky number by five p.m." or "You're not as ethereal as you used to be; wc want more ethereal tracks". I think that they realize that we're nol the most prolific band in the world, and the more lime we get the better. Do the two women in the band find that they're under pressure to be sex symbols? I don't think so. Women in music always gel lhal kind of thing and the pressure comes from trying to avoid being seen as sex symbols. At gigs there's a lot of "gel ya lits oul" which is a bit embarrassing but Emma and Miki can handle it. It spoils things in a way but you just turn round and tell them lo fuck off. A lol of the music press use women to sell ihe paper. I don't think they're gonna slart coming on slage in stockings and suspenders, but me and Steve might. It's a pretty good career? It is, yeah, 'cause 1 can't do anything So many of the writers in the music- else! press write "dirty old man" style reviews of your stuff using words You've been getting amazing press like "succulent," "sultry," "seduc in the UK. Are you bracing for the ing innocence" and so on. usual backlash? Oh fuck yeah. I think a lot ofthe music We're wary of it. We're wary of the press are perverts. A lot of photogra good press; it's nice but I'm always phers are as well. expecting the next single to get a slagging. Don't believe the hype, really. Il's just the English music press. They're the worst. Manchester's really trendy at the moment and therefore everyone's getting into it and some bands like House of Love suffer'cause they're nol like lhat. Are you under any pressure at the moment? Not really. Obviously al some time over the next year we've gol lo bring an album out and we've only gol three Are you referring to that thing you did for NME, those crossed-arm topless body paint shots? Yeah, I mean I thought that was funny 'cause me and Chris did it as well. But I hate people that use people, and music journalists tend to adopt a band and feel that they're really in with you and you owe them something and you should hang out with them, but its bollocks you know, and they're a bunch of perverts, so who wanls to hang about with perverts? - by laurent aerts and greg garlick ( irt"t giriS, gllltdrS and grunge together and something pretty fast and frightening happens. Discorder discovered this when it talked to Suzy Gardner (guitar/vocals), Donita Sparks (guitar/vocals), Dee Plakas (drums) and Jennifer Finch (bass/vocals) one snowy night. How long have you lived in LA? Were you part of the scene Ihere back in the early '80s? Were you influenced by it? DONITA: We are influenced by that... I moved to LA in '83 [trom Chicago]. Dee moved to LA in '85 [from Chicago). Jennifer grew up in LA and Suzie is from Sacramento. So Jennifer was like a little teeny bopper eighth grader when the scene was going really strong Didn't you go surfing with Fugazi? D: Yes Fugazi and Beat Happening And you can actually surf? D: No comment. I'm try ing.. It's like a ugly sight. I get wiped out all tf time So you guys reside in Hollywood? D: No, that's where our P.O. Box was. Park, Suzie lives in Silver Lake, Dee lives in Venice, Jennifer lives over on the west side. Have you ever met Penelope Spheeris? SUZIE: I auditioned for Suburb/abut I was too old. Are you friends with the Pandoras? D: We rehearse at the same practice space as they do. S: Did you know the Pandoras broke I thought it was Dickless that broke up. D: Dickless broke up, STP broke up, Pandoras broke up. What Is Paula Pierce going to do now? S: She's trying to get a new band together. Her old bandmates have something going. The drummer is now in this band called Harley Dangerous and Melanie and Kim have another band going. In LA there's a lot of pay to play? D: We don't involve ourselves in that; that's true for a lot of people. S: The underground clubs don't make you pay to play, it's the Strip clubs... Sunset Strip clubs [like] Gazzari's but we never' pay to play. We make money at the Roxy, we make money at the Whisky, but if you're a cheesy heavy metal band you probably have ., iaJnr* *••** to pay to play. What made you want to come up to Canada in the dead of winter? D: Well, it's not usually snowy Hke this, is it? We figured it would be clear roads, a little nippy outside. S: Basically itall comes down to one thing: we're here to take our music to the people. If we get to do a little eating and shopping along the way that's great; if we get laid then it's the cherry on the whipped cream. Have you ever toured outside the continental U.S. or Canada? D: We just got back from Europe in November. We were there for six weeks; we did all the sausage eating countries. S: We played with Teenage Fan Club from Scotland and we love them alot. Did you get favorable reviews? D: Yeah, our live shows get great reviews and our EP's getting good reviews. Is the EP on Glitterhouse in Europe? DEE: Yes and it's going beyond everything we hoped or dreamed... Did you play France? D: No, we played the sausage eating countries: Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and England. Did G.l.s come to see you when you played Germany? JENNIFER: No it was mostly politically correct young Germans males and females, a lot of feminists, a lot of cool guys, cool girls,. Any plans to tour backing up a big band? D: Well, yeah, we'd like to do that. We toured with Nirvana in England which is a good opportunity We could get drunk and rock out to them. It's weird being a headliner band because you usually get there late or you're concentrating, changing strings while the opening band are playing. I don't like to get drunk before we play so it's good to be an opener because you can like party after the show and watch the next band and have fun but when you're a headliner you get a little more pressure and have to be in control of what you're doing. Do you know Mudhoney? D: No, not really. I did the bump with bass player Matt OK, so our hips have touched. Not frontal to frontal but side to side. Do you know Poison Idea from Portland? D: We like those guys. They come to see us whenever we play in Portland. And you go see them when they play? D: I've never seen them; I think we've always been on the road when they've been in town. Same thing with the Cosmic Psychos from Australia. They're one of our favorite bands but we just never get the chance to see them for some reason Are you hoping for an opportunity to depart for down under? D: Yeah, that's one of our goals for this year, 1991, is to get over to Australia Is the record available domestically or on import there? D: In Australia it's available on a 10" blue vinyl format [on Waterfront}, so ifs kind of cool, like smaller. So you're doing really well in Australia as well. D: I don't know I hope so. We get fanmail from there What about places in Eastern Europe? D: Haven't had a single letter from the Eastern Bloc. I don't think its over there. I hope so but I kinda doubt it. Maybe they're Standing in line like for cheese jr somethin' over there. Any new material coming out? D: No, none. That's it. We're a one hit wonder... You sure thanked a lot of people on the back of your EP. D: David Naz is from the Chemical People who lets us rehearse in the back house of his pad for free and Mr. Finch is Jennifer's dad who's been very nice watching our dogs and stuff while we were off on tour and Danny, David, Dean and James and E-Rock are from Cat Butt who we did our second tour with, who are like our brothers from Seattle. Are you on a mission to see more girls picking up guitars and blasting away? D: Yes, I want to influence young women to play and you ng men to play but someday there's gonna be a band to absolutely blow us away. Do you see a band like Paper Tulips doing that? D: I like Paper Tulips; they have one woman in the band. I just like good music. I don't think we're at the top by any means or anything like that I think hopefully we'll be influencing young women to pick up instruments to learn how to play and have fun; get a message across Do you have girls coming up to you asking how to get started? D: We have girls and boys write us fan mail for advice, tor inspiration, inspirational words. Do we have any? No. S: I would tell them keep going no matter how tough it gets, how hard it is, keep up doin' it. J: We're proof you can do it against all odds. PIT HURSDAY ■ DJING Bv VELVIS EYEBROWS1 THURSDAY TOP TEN 1) Happy Mondays • Grandbags Funeral 2) Sisters of Mercy • More 3) Meat Beat Manifesto • Psyche Out 4) Ride • Seagull 5) Killing Joke • Money's Not Our God 6) Artillerymen • 9G 7) Stereo MC's • What Is Soul 8) The Charlatans UK • Then 9) Straw People • One Good Reason 10) Plantbachofnus • llif BEAT ASSASSINATOR'S PIT TOP TEN l. Meat Beat Manifesto • Hello Teenage America 2. Public Enemy • Brothers Gonna Work It Out 3. Parliament • Flashlight 4. KMFDM • Godlike 5. Meat Beat Manifesto • Helter Skelter 6. Boogie Down Productions • Ya Know The Rules 7. Artillerymen • 9G (Ambiomorphic Mix) J&. Vomito Negro • In Strict Tempo (Part 2) I. Straw People • Beautiful Skin 10) Out Out • D.W.I. NOW YOU HAS JAS 10 1) Front 242 • Tragedy For You 2) Killdozer • American Pie 3) Airin Peryglus • Y Cyfarfod 4) Paris » Escape From Babylon 5) Plantbachofnus • Pwylltrais 6) Double Dee • Found Love 7) Rikk Agnew's Yardsale • Never Let Me Down 8) Cranes • Inescapable 9) Ail Gyfnod • Perthynas 10) Hullabaloo • Dr. Love 0) m v> HARDCORE I O _>C I TEXT BY ULIANA N Patrick Lang Pansi Switzerland's (******,« the western press) 0% unem- ■ I rate, healthy economy, and formidai m of government make it one ofthe most admired countries on the planet Earth, yet it is very evident wilh bands who Im ve submitted music to CiTR— Smelly Gambas, Prof ax, Ele'tsch. and The Infected—lhal something very wrong is happening in Swiss society. Enter Dioxin, an issues-conscious punk band from Trin in eastern Switzerland whose Atomic Death cassette warrants some invesliga- Beginnings? Marcel Reich: Afteroncycarin arts school I came back to Trin to start my apprenticeship as a graphic designer. I met a lot of cool people here. Me and some friends decided to start a band. That was in 1987 when I was seventeen. We were the second generation of punk bands from this small town. We played cover versions of bands like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, or Henry Rollins. We couldn't play our instruments very well. We were bloody beginners, so it was just chaotic and noisy punk rock. The lineup today is Rainer Glauser, 24, student of psychology, guitar; Forti Diener, 17, student, guitar; myself, Marcel Reich, 20, graphic designer, vocals; Steve Coler, 22, student of biology, drums; Pascal Berseker, 17, typographic designer, bass. The lineup today is the best we ever had. Today, I would mark our music as hardcore wilh thrash metal influence. I changed my lyrics from German to English because hardcore is an international thing and English is much easier and better to sing fast. Mosl Swiss and German people can understand English. What's your motivation? Our motivation is lo scream out and live out our aggressions, our frustrations, and our dissatisfaction. Some of these feelings we trace back to this kind of sick society we're living in. We are five different people working at the same project and that is very interesting. We jusl love rock Is Dioxin nihilistic? If you define "nihilism" as the negation of the possibility of real perception then it's a wrong as- In attempting to explain the health of the music scene in Yugoslavia, Alex from Pankow told me that compared to Italy, "It's a much more violent, much more unsatisfied society," which is the reason wh) "it's possible to do something more creative." On the other hand, in Italy, "people are more quiet, more satisfied, and they have a lull belly, so they don'tea re to goa step beyond" which be claims is the reason why Italy's underground scene is pathetic. Mow true is this of Switzerland? I don't know much aboul Yugoslavian society, but what Alex said about Italy is true. Most young people in Italy are dressed very fine. There a lot of fashionable conformists. Some weeks ago Forti and me were in Rome for three days and people looked at us as if wc came from Pluto jusl because we were dressed a bit differently. The police tix)k us to pieces just for our tom trousers and anarchy T-shirts. You can't compare Switzerland with Italy or Yugoslavia. We have a small rock subculture here. Switzerland has surely too good an image in the world. I wouldn't say lhat somelhing very wrong is happening in Swiss society. We have the same problems, the same shit going on like in olher countries... destruction of the environment and so on. Maybe Switzerland is a bit more capitalistic, similar to the United States. A sick underground can also be a good underground. Are bands like Dioxin limited to"Jugendhaus"esofEurope? I hope Dioxin's not limited lo the youth houses of Europe. In Switzerland we have some nice clubs and other places to play. Better and more famous bands have belter places to play. What do you mean in the line "NoproblemmanlSandozean play everything" from your song "Holocaust"? In November 1986, a grave chemical accident occurred at Sandoz Industries in Basel. Chemical contaminated the Rhine, the whole river chain was killed. After this accident Sandoz declared lhat ihey would pay a compensation, but you can't revive all the animals or clean the river with financial compensations. Since then different accidents and financial scandals at Swiss corporations and banks have intensified Swiss people's suspicions of their operations. Should Switzerland join EC '92? Switzerland shouldn't join the 14 DISCORDER EC '92. EC '92_»a_X_l economic system. Small businesses and especially fanners would close down. Only multinational corporations will produce for Europe anymore. It's time to recognize lhat we don't need economic growing anymore. Maybe it's for other reasons than mine, but a lot of Swiss people arc against EC '92. Keeping in mind "Swiss army Fuck Off' ("You have a choice: Army or jail / Is that Swiss freedom, or what the hell? / If you want tojoin the army, do it! / It's a tin soldier-army / Suppressed, subdued / Recruitment, 17 weeks / Swiss army, fuck off x 8...") what are your comments on the national referendum to dismantle the Swiss army? The best way is the radical one; to give up the army. Unfortunately, the army still have too many friends here, but military leaders were shocked about the result of ihe voting. Dioxin have a full length LP scheduled for early summer release. For further info on this and their Atomic Death C-60, write Marcel Reich. Visura 224, 70 14 Trin, Switzerland. I II© DGSX band in America right now. The Pixies? Living Color? Nine Inch Nails? Bell Biv Devoe? Seeing as any mention whatsoever of NIN guarantees their record company taking out a full colour back page ad (with bonus subscription incentive sucker), and that here we are in the final hours of production for the new Discorder and we STILL haven't received the camera-ready artwork ("Because anything less just won't do" — Greg "Jacques" Elsie) from TVT Records, NIN are automatically disqualified. I also realize that since Bell Biv Devoe = The Pixies, in all fairness to the other participants one of these supergroups, too, must be removed from the ballot in our little contest here. So, let's stay with Bell Biv Devoe, and add the Kentucky Fried Chicken jingle band for all national advertising— REM—to the pot. Living Color, REM, Bell Biv Devoe. The best band in America... Wake up and smell the bidet, pal! You're not even close! Try Bloodstar. Hell, they're not even American. Iron-Maiden-minus-the- 'Tattooed-Millionaire"-meets- | Siglo-XX-at-a-James-Heifield- a Tom-Araya-co-hosted-hot-tub- § christening-at-Michael-Gira's- | cottage-in-the-Adirondacks 9 should give you anideaof where _ the Zurich troika of Michaela J Pansi, Rolf Brunner and Roger Baumer lie on the musical spectrum. And if it doesn't, put it this way: they got guitars, they gol synths. they got a drum machine and they ain't afraid to use it. They outmean Killdo/er and Ministry, andeven though iliey're not gonna keep the Thursday- night-Pit-Pub -Peter-DcLuisc- punks-in-LA-Gcar's-ncw-line- of-Jby-Division-wear (wash in hike warm and "hang "dry) from enjoying their token Nivek Ogre Stomp when "Stigmata" rolls around, iheir debut self-titled LP caught the attention of some fairly uninteresting CiTR types in 1990. With Us recent release licensed for North American distribution through Minneapolis' Red Decibel Records, more college radio jokers on ihis continent might get the opportunity to experience for themselves a band whom 1 keep going on and on about during those awfully lonely Friday evenings on the air. Ladies and gentlemen, scruffing lotion users and Saianists, let's give it up for Bloodstar. Could you please give us a little bit on Bloodstar's background? What styles of music were you playing previous to this band? Rolf Brunner: Well, we've known each other for many years now as we started making music in our teens. You could say we grew uptogether. At lhat time we were influenced by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Chrome... industrial rock in general. That was also the reason why westart- ed making music with electronic instruments. We formed our first band when we were about 16 years old. At that time we played some kind of electronic punk rock, you could call it, and we had some gigs, mostly for fun. h was pretty noisy and over the years the whole thing became more and more serious.Thatwas ihe reason why we founded Bloodstar back in 1986,1 think. We've always been influenced by a lot of different music, like punk rock, electronic music, and film music. Do you think "nihilistic" is a fair assessment of Bloodstar? R: Nihilistic in that we don't follow schemes.There's so many different styles in rock and roll thai became schemes like bands only having a drum and bass player, a guitar player and a singer. It's sometimes very difficult for us to explain why we have synthesizers and guitars. Wc don't belong to the techno scene and we also don't belong to the metal scene. We're just interested in sounds. This is not bound to any instrument or scheme, so I think nihilistic is a pretty good expression for our style. How do your two "electronic noise"cassettescompare to the Bloodstar LP? R: Well, the two cassettes arc much more unstructured lhan the LP. The cassettes are from the band's beginnings and actually, they don'l contain any songs. It's jusl noise When we made the LP, we were a lot more metal influenced than we were in the beginning. The cassettes are more simple experiments with our instruments. What is the inspiration for Bloodstar? Michaela Pansi: Firsl of all, we are three totally different personalities. Each ol us is influenced by different things. I read a lot which Rolf doesn' l do at al 1 and Roger neither. We arc all great movie fans, especially s. We al different kinds of music. R: Well, if 1 weren't playing in a band I just wouldn't know what to do with my time. Perhaps I would thrash up people or somelhing like this. M: That sounds very drastic. R: Well, I think it's also a big adventure to make music... to explore sound and stuff, you know. I think it's a good way to waste your time (laughs). Mythology and science fiction seem to play a big role in your lyrics. M: Well. I write all the lyrics and I am influenced by mythology and science fiction because I read a lot of books about that. I'm also interested in history and the lyrics to "Dawn" ('There is no mercy in this martial world/ Stagger with your blood-dripping iron sword / Over the atro- cious battlefields of fear / With the sound of shattered bones in your ear") arc influenced by hi s- tory. The lyrics on the first LP are very doomy, but I think lhat has changed now and there are other subjects I am working on at the moment, bul I guess you'll hear that when the second LP is out. Bloodstar signed a deal with an American distributor (Rough Trade) and label (Red Decibel) to handle the Bloodstar LP. Why are you re-releasing the first album? M: We are re-releasing out LP because up until now you couldn't buy il outside of Europe and in only some European countries. R: We only made a thousand copies of the original pressing on our label (Desert Engine - ed.) and they've sold out. Right now, we are working on new material and we plan to release a 10" maxi which hopefully should be available this spring. We're also working on a lotol electron- Should your release do well in America, are you wil I ing or are you prepared to make any sacrifices in order to pursue the life of a rock and roll superstar? R: Well, Idon't know about the around us and whal I'm itSjuty concerned about is that Europe not like America. People are differ n Fn prepared I should com A psychedelic band from Italy-Soul Hunters-told me: "In Italy there exists neither the places nor the clubs where you can play peacefully. It's a different scene than America or than any other European country like Germany, France, or England. Clubs don't exist. It's all because they don't believe in young Italian groups. Th'ts is a large problem. Thus, many groups have short lives. You certainly can't make a living at it" How reflective is this of the situation in Switzerland? Are there opportunities for underground bands like Bloodstar in Switzerland? R: I've heard ihe same thing about Italy, lhat there aren't any clubs ai all and that it's pretty hard for Italian bands to play. 1 think the situation in Switzerland is altltle bit better.There are many places where bands can play. There's also no clubs here, but it's got different places like old factories, etc., especially here in Zurich where there are a lot of illegal bars mostly located in basements, and a lot of local bands play atthose places. So it's not so bad. • A ysGxSS.****' M: Ifyou want to play, you certainly can find an opportunity. Your views on Switzerland and EC '92? M: I think Switzerland will have tojoin EC '92becauseifitdoesn't we're going to be on a totally isolated island and I don'l think that anybody wants that. R: Actually, 1 personally am againsijoining EC '92 because it will have many bad effects especially on ihe economics here in Switzerland. We would have mported all the bad products from i.Fore pie, beef from Great Britain which I wouldn't eat at all. So it will have serious effects on Switzerland in general and alsoon the culture, 1 think. M: Yes, probably we'll have an from all the countries ny and Italy, they don't evei speak the same language as wi do. For them [Americans) it' the same. These people h*v< totally different mentalities am iflhcre are borders or not bctweei people, borders will remain. R: That's another big problen concerning Germany. Since mos people in Switzerland don't liki doesn't wanl tojoin EC '92. M: The federalist system we have here is part of die Swiss mentality and I think this will be the mam reason why people don't wanl EC 'l>2. What are y thereferendum Initiated by the group for a Switzerland without an army and its results.' R: Well, vou have lo know lhat almost every young male citizen here in Switzerland has lo go to Germans at all, I problem lor us. villb I've read that there are 130,000 companies that employ between one and one hundred peoplein Switzerland,and that 99% ol Swiss companies employ fewer than one hundred people and that the EC will have a serious effect on these small businesses not only in Switzerland but throughout Europe. iVI: I don't know if these figures are correct. 1 assume so. Butihcy give a totally wrong impression about Switzerland because ihe remaining one percent are really huge companies like Sandoz or Nestle or all the big banks and insurance companies and they employ a lot of people and they are certainly preparing for EC '92. They won't be affected. The problem with the small compa nies is lhal they will liave problems selling their products because... (utterssomelhing inRo- mansch). R: (whispers) "Competition." M: (laughs)Thcy will have a lot Of competition in their market wilh products from Germany and ftance and Italy. So, I don't know if this is good or bad for the consumer. But it will certainly beaproblem for the companies. R:Theproblem is that the smaller companies inSwitzerland have got a very high and also famous quality level... I don't know if they can sell their products anymore bee ausel suppose that most people ;.rc not willing lo pay high prices for high quality products iflhcre are low quality products which do the same and are much cheaper. M: Yeah, but I think this might also be the chance they have to keep their quality standard and so if people want quality ihey buy these products. Where does the Swiss public stand as far as joining the EC is concerned? It is my understanding that the whole federalist system in place in Switzerland would be seriously threatened as would your economy which is very regulated. R: Well, I suppose that the biggest part of the S wiss population the a . The s alw bevn a very traditional thing and it really was a big surprise for Mroost every body that about 30% of ihe Swiss population was against ihe army which was a very high percentage. Nobody What are your feelings on Platzpromenade Park? There have been a few tele vision documentaries on it in Canada. Some people have argued the park teaches people to become d rug addicts, while others have said that by not providing addicts with needles and a place to shoot up, that more people would die. R: Actually. I think lhat the drug probl e rn here in S w itzer 1 a nd i s n' t as big as it is in America right now. Probably theonly problem here is lhat we've got ihe image of being so clean and stuff, and this is a very extraordinary ihing to happen in Switzerland - lhat Ihere is a public place where you can buy drugs and shoot up. It's obvious that if the drug addicLs weren't provided with clean needles, the Al DS disease wou Id be spread much faster, of course. Bul it's also true that a lot of people come to Zurich io buy drugs now, since everybody knows where to get them, especially young people from the countryside who have problems getting drugs in their villages; they come to Zurich and buy iheir drugs here. .j__a_i,^__j Is there much of a scene in Zurich? The Young Gods are the only other band I've heard of fi-om Zurich. R: Well, the scene in Zurich is pretty big I suppose. There are some other well-known bands from Zurich as well, for example Celtic Frost and Yello. There's a lot of smaller-scale bands, so Zurich's music scene up. If you can't find Bloodstar in your favorite record store wrile Red Decibel Records: 2541 Nicollet Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, and ask Jake for your free catalogue. And remember, we have five C-60s of Bloodstar's Bloodstar for giveaway to new subscribers! FEBRUARY 1991 15 a- -i r— Nov. 10 Pulled into the Big Toe today at seven thirty in the morning after driving about 40 hours from Winnipeg. We've all stumbled Into our buddy Chucks ten by ten apartment stinking and dazed. Chuck's already stocked up on the browns and seeing how we don't have to be at sound check we start pounding em back while Chuck reminisces about the good old days back when we were all in OGRE. So far everything's real cool: Calgary was typically lame, we got stiffed in Edmonton, but we met this real cool band called Nine Pound Hammer from Lex ington, Kentucky. They were staying at the same shitty hotel as us and also got stiffed by the same promoter. They liked Canadian beer and Johnny Cash so we got along swell. Played two nights in Winnipeg with Skin Yard from Seattle and that was real cool. Swilled tons o' beer with them. But now we've made it to the Toe, it's noon, we're shitfaced and hungover and stoned on hash and we have to go and play our first show tonight with Skinny Puppy. To quote a Puppy song: Totally Fuckin' Weirded out. Nov. 14 Arrrrrgh I got a screamin' hangover; we're drivin' by the cover of darkness to Montreal after two shows at the Concert Hall in T.O. The Puppy tour is pretty fuckin'big. Played to about two thousand people both nights people didn't hate us in fact we went over well. Shane's amp blew up half way through the set the first night but the P.A. incredibly huge that all we gotta do is hit our instruments real hard and we blow out every neat0 machine that creates one's ear drums. Found a com- honest to god lightning storms mon bond with Ogre from Skinny rjght jn y-ur very own , jvirlg room Puppy, we both really like Old The povver t0 hj«. house was Bushmills a lot... maybe this restored just prior to our arrival, won't bo so bad after all. From Pittsburgh we went to Nor Middle of November sometime folk. Virginia via a short cut Ter Shitfaced in Boston with this -, found that went through the wonderfulfriendofBruccs. I mily. Appalachian mountains. I woke We all fell madly in love with her up about seven hours into the and she treated us all like royal- trip to take a piss and everyone ty. Unfortunately, the show here f at the gas station was wearing is cancelled due to Illness und | army fatigues. I looked around border hassles, thpvh^t. ,i re ,- ■ . border hassles, they hat eu us in « Montreal, it wasreallycold there ■ and it's way nicer here, the beer f heartily. cheap and we're partying t ADH!!NewY/k Cashington^as i?^l froftV Later stlHl ME NEED BEER BAD! hated ourguts.Wa: cool; we stayed in a Comfa£ Inr and drove our dear manage^ _-_-_-__P^ j^^^^^^^^^^^__ Blue Velvet. Every time he opens "^ they say his mouth we all scream wildly: ""■ ' •Fuck that shit, PABST BLUE RIBBON." Terry also refuses to bathe and keeps Al fully informed on the status of his hemorrhoids. We're in Pittsburgh now and Al has gone home early, I guess the road is not his cup of Tea. We're on the guest list for the Iggy Pop show tonight and I just set the bed in the back of the truck on fire. Bruce went out to the truck to get some beer and the futon ignited from a cigarette I left there. Luckily he had a whole six pack left, which was just enough of Milwaukee's finest to put out the blaze. I don't know the fucking date anymore!!! OK!!!!!!! Went to Oklahoma, two nights, Tulsa was cancelled. We played a big country beer barn just out side Oklahoma City in the middle of a corn field. Elvis played on the very same stage as did George Straight, Johnny Cash, Mel Tillis and Skinny Puppy. We drank a whole lotta beer and It seems people like us in the smaller towns better. We figure that's because people don't necessarily go to see a band because they really like the band, they go just because it's the only show happening that month! So things are goin' way better than we expected. The whole Skinny Puppy crew and the band are real cool to us and that helps a lot. Tonight we're flying a model rocket that Dave,Terry and I bought at the mall around the corner (or the corn field) from the club. It's two o'clock AM and this sucker is supposed to reach about two thousand feet. I gotta use the truck bat tery and jumper cables to ignite the engine. The launcher is made out of some wire and a coffee can. This is prime rocket flying friends in Orlando. Shane an_> country cause it's so fucking Christian got the shit knocked^-flat. Hogstar One (that's what out of them, Dave hasn't taken \(e named our rocket eh) corn- off his long Johns since we left pitted three successful flights Vancouver, and weird things are unt iPl^lew up on the fourth two coming out of hibernation and thous?^g feet above Bobs growing inside the van and on Country Bu^keri *~ " s Fucking e getting for perhaps a military vehic but then realized that this was just how everyone dressed in this neck of the woods... help me. It's real warm in Georgia at this time of the year so we went with Sid and his girlfriend to a bar that had a beer garden. This is where I found out that every female in the South is a goddess and I really like the way f'aalll like another jer honey.* Got really drunk wifl^Bruce and Terry and Sid an all trXother fine Southern folk while sWane and Dave and Christian riVently waited for us out in theparkK|p lot. The weather is pleasant here^. Early December... ^ Florida sucked it wasN^ degrees and 98 percent hunVidjty. Stayed with more of Bruce'sW^ —I i 1 j Shane went into the Puppy's dressing room and came out gritting his teeth again. Wonder Near the end... Were in Denver and it cold so I know we'i near Vancouver. Got ended up with some girls who had Skinhead boyfriends. We've cooped ourselves up In a motel just outside of Denver. Terry and Christian are out enjoying the hot tub, Bruce and Dave have hopped the Amtrak to San Francisco and I haven't left my bed in 30 hours. Everyone seems to be keeping their distance from me... I think I've had enough American beer for a while. • I Wi the middle of Dallas s with no idea where t the band are; fun. 0 out of the hotel I spo closet, looks like a g to sleep. "What the h. doing in thar, boy?* 1 hotel staff have foun. porary home; time to for me someone was c to let me in and that' stayed till showtime. Fi though, I was never any parties after that. Shad..., spina, Tap ,„ No, Even later In the month... Were enjoying fine Southern hospitality in Atlanta now. Staying with more friends of Bruce's. Seems that everyone who Bruce knows on the East Coast (and on the West Coast for that mat ter) are all insane alcoholics, which suits me just fine right now. We're staying with Bruce's old friend Sid who just built a my body. We're off to Tulsa after a brief stay in Bruce's hometown of Talahasee where we got to meet more of his looney American friends. fuck this pla%| is called, i middle of Oklahoma. v the Ogre loaned me his stilts, took °" *o Texas. \ ™«_^F^ a stroll around the "boathouse" (boat storage area turned night club) without even falling down n spite of vast beer consumption (I can see why he wears a harness though). Slipped and fell during the 2nd song of our set, Christian runs out and picks me up. Army radio communications came through Dave and >a"as Texas faJ'tas befor vve Played e\ speed. We' '!*<* show here that '^thing a, half ._., we ' S0 fat sounding couple of BTO T6 t0 P'ay a took°fftotheLnr?fS-Shar* __ _ s invited to L_ {y% hotel for some furthl laTe abuse. Hung out in C cement >on\untiU 'rm&togo. -"■e'sYspeci °rn. £tern Day 9 Q: Daddy, where do clo A' Big Factories in On Almost in TO. The he ney is almost over. S| hour looking for the big Sudbury but we failed l is crestfallen. The hig the journey was the i that occupied the spaci above the road. It was Sl looking that I listened tc ofthe Mole Men" by the over and over again wr ing through it. Unfortur smelled like the expenm got me thrown out of Ch • ^ ^'aSfS- The g^ station Pup- dants make Bob £ subtle. afi_"a7*> V 'ike the^e missing a ft, Sfom their family tree. So I headed to TirV ___-_-_-_-_-_-_-__. .special effect PuPpy guy?V XV -»3 Houston First night was the best show of the tour so far. There is tons of beer here and tons of people who are right into diinkin' it. Also a 40 pounder of Johnny Walker to liven up the evening. 1 \ \ ^' Vm V^aiDia Be. XNavy Town: everyorre% i, l>ia. Milkmen are all gnnS Powntown looked like 0 Van Turf. Shane lay down *'ddle of the street. Chn r*i around with his pants ar h| ankles. We figure there ojeen a radiation leak or r S*9 or something. The one ^ve met was a Black guy asked:-you boys in a rock bai Yup.* -What choo all cal selves?'"Tankhog." "Youou 16 THE TANKHOG ROAD ATLAS omewhere he rest of n the way it a broom ood place ell are you 0 AM and go. Lucky unny thing invited to lile driv- lately it entthat emistry i atten- Jg look ■rn toci becalledda undertakers.' Iguess we had a lot of black clothes on 3 wetefttoa7-lltophonethe Puppy's hotel. While I was on the phone, a couple of Black euvs ran out with a few cases of ludweiser. trailing loose cans. The girl working there picked up a can and threw it at the guys whopromptlyretaliated.lhopped in the van and we left; the cans were still flyin'. Virginia Beach, long row of for offseason business. We got a cheap room, gorgeous ocean view, just finished taking a dip ir pool and I am n< Flintstones. Tai Thanksgiving. We went t The main strip w empty hotels desperate f< w watching the < about a swell Knue m lts mediocritv We arrived in Tuk., r- h £*; hall was really cool. Ca|n_ -n looked like ithas host " s shit-kictun' hoe remainder of the day in a ma„ •vait,ngtorShane.synewg^»: Ballroor acoolyo-yotha plays anaged t 'udscome tario. Hish jour- pent 1/2 Nickel in Christian blight of neat fog 34'to6' Yankee Doodle.', , sleep it three notes'___„„„.,.„ t'hrnlf0 ^ g°°d incentive^© throwongersleepers. Ne xt stop °K City via the Turner Turnpike (named after C.F. we assume, The next dav u/__ room. We bought a model rock et and launched ,t beforeThe ft k SS'ngroomistheold «age where Elws once played Coot p,ace ,0 suck back Blue R'bbon. Coo/ gjg: ,ne Hlck "e he Hog. Afterthe *«*S launched the "Hog Star l-Ja second time. We put , engine in the third time around """**> the last we saw of Winnipeg, Day 6 On the fourth floor c Albert—I've been to pie have died on in particularly comforti I that peo bed—not mg—gotti or reas sleep- man muttering <t to me—he seems nethlng the am very unaware—occasionally he emerges from his room to ask no one in particular about his mail—sure hope it comes soon- Day 26 driving through Florida—the humidity is clinging to pasty elco holic flesh—two days of Southern debauchery InAtlanta, where beautiful women'bought us far too much beer, has done us in—now back in Mr. Van with Hamm's fast decaying feet far too close to my nose—all beau ty has dissolved in the heat, and previously dormant creatures are com ing a live—everythinghas begun to crawl with a persistent purpose—in the words of Jessica, "I am very afraid..."—My head aches constantly—falling off the stage onto it in C harlotte was not the best thing that could have occurred—damaged—it didn't hurt at all the whole time I was drunk in Atlanta, weird, must be the humidity or something— The Tankhog Road Atlas of the United States & Canada Land Area: 7,391,150 sq. mi. Population: 267,555,740 For an index of cities and towns and an explanation of map symbols, see page 119. Compiled By Shane Davis, Steve Hamm, Bruce Kane, and Terry Russell with photos by Al Campbell and Tankhog. later... In the bar—a bar where they don't serve coffee—gotta keep those patrons fucked up—if I could only afford a game of Cyclone my happiness would be oh so boundless—Terry and Dave are filling their pockets with matches—they're gonna prac-^' tice more pyrotechnics—dis^- rocki •nt—laupffiing :el v^riowsjust Miami, Day 27? Shane bled gallons of blood last night—bouncers on coke decided he was due for a little Turkish Revenge and put another hole in his ass—lotsa blood—-blood Jn the alley—bloody footprints ^^tJown the sidewalk—blood on |he fence—lots of cops taking ijctures of all the blood—plenty dj cops too asking inane questions and telling Christian to c|lm down—Christian kept saying, "No! No, you don't understand!" They would in turn assure him they understood per- fecly and tell him to just calm the|uck down—I saw very little reascn for calm of any sort—at ^^^^^_^ one floint the cops cuffed Shane Toronto, Day 10? andjiristian together—his town Skinny Puppy are soundcheck- iyvil—its only redeeming qual- '*"" ""' " very loud— J* is the fact that beer is sold i^g—outside > 24 hours a day—aside from that "k IK^f an-> the people all look diseased s from can't be safe-^^ Skin Yap% preparing to soundcheck—a barrage of Seattle grunge is soon going to be gurgling across the floor—time to hide in the bathroom—far from the gurgling grunge— ing upstairs^ faces there's a two drogyny sporting' shade of black starting to get concerl ismiit and the city's a pastel night mare—now I'm hungover on top of it—we gotta get outa here— and that w the "Hog sta night at Jessie, °K, where Jams stop: Texas. Denver, Day 4_ rooJ We crossed the Central Time ^r ,,—-rtChg bpent the strong ^ in Norman, weird-gotta'get out'of 'g now. Next ^^^^^ lontreal, Day XX crowd-^gnowed \ Bogi Vr* •i Ara- HA_ in the istian ound Day 43? Reno. Getting drunk was never challenging. You have to c stantly monitor the waitresses k^ know which slots to play. Th% eet less friendly as the night v^^rs on. By the end of the night I l%J to gamble $2 to get a really w3^v drink. score: spent $lr,%£ot r post show... \ Shane's amp blew up and rt* parents hung out with Mike Arrr\ getting^ hefj>^ m++ JK N&Slk, Day 17? ^•^rant Head's inspirat about Norfolk— thegi » Norfol \ Norfol \ Norfolk..." ° .\f 0«c//»We 6on ally drunk, played for 8 hdVaand pocketed two silverdollars. CcH*^{ bitch: $17 buys 20 minutes of%, prinball and 3 beers at home. Day 48?... \amm wrote a little note for t\e Brickell on the bathroom waT^-Sure hope she pinches a log nV Tankhog tomorrow night when V,e P|ays here-this city scares Ve-think it's now ir.v X. perative Vdrink a great deal- >» \ -* M. i °;»ando. Day 28 At Charlie and Stacy's sub,, , 'ty~soon n/ b! „hT hUm,d around ,he room * t0 SWlf" -"ore iced tea^rg°,ta dri"k 9 stap,e ?*Tn!?**ten"h« necessity- ,'"tne So^h~a ;-ebee^na:atortf;r^' talking w^maTbT begU" ence-anewfr,end .'eC°her- PV-Hope that _? ' msohaP* 'hebarbecuepiSr^0 '*" " tualfy mad^>Stnight ^en- Guess S * °Ut °{ there- ^^7^'didn't have ™»* «.ust coT" °UtSide-' jusi confused him— Denver, Day 4_? Crossed the c T 7 n Johnny Walker '! Drank through Texas-scr^-f'-ing heads—Jerry's in town—Played to Art Fags—Ran across skinheads— "Slaughter-ama" byGwar tops the charts in the van, beating out "Sick of You."—Hamm walked out of the room this morning screaming, "Holy Shit, I just heard it on the radio! Jerry's fucking dead, man! He OD'd last night! The motherfucker's dead!" General pandemonium ensued— Day 42 going through the RockieS-in «' Greyhound moving slowlv! ^ ■ San ^ncisco^eS ^ far away from theTueviT6'' ane__f?P'e0^^Xenl.smH ^ese womenS,SsHuanmf,mmee, ^rbeau„fu!MS; women-Wehavea7. rnger°US off-Dave'son ? t,fevveek "; west—Cm c, heading mis is important— »' San Francisco My band's outdrinkingwith Donut H and my brother—I've found sanctuary at Eric's—Vancouver has suddenly become far too ■close—it s presence is most unpleasant—I see no apparent reason why we ought to return to that sewer we so fondly call home—fuck—three days Vancouver, Day 52— No more free beer—nc free food—no more perdi this just isn't at all good—no more abusing assholes in the ~~ crowd—no more fun—and it's snowingforChrist's sake—I just don't understand—we have to get out of this place— INDEX TO EVENTS LISTED ON MAP Cities, Towns, and Bars 9 lb. Hammer's home N - 8 Ass, Shane's, photo A-12 Ass, Shane's, stabbing of 0-13 Bruce drinkin', photo 0 - 1 Bruce's hometown N-12 CF Turner turnpike J - 9 Cloud Factories P - 7 Emily's house Q - 7 Futon fire P • 8 Girls, skinhead boyfriends H - 8 Hamm, sleeping, photo B - 1 Hogstar 1 Space Center J - 9 Home o' the Hog E • 3 Jerry Garcia O.D'd H - 8 Norfuck, VA P - 9 Pinch a log for Tankhog P • 9 Shane sleeps In closet 1-10 Shane w/ Puppy prop, photo 1 - 6 'Showed 'em my ass- P • 8 Terry driving van, photo K - S "The Big Toe* P - 7 Where they hate the hog Q • 7 FEBRUARY 1991 17 THE BOOK e comic SAPOMUA Vancouver's Largest Selection of Almost New and Used Paperbacks and Magazine Back Issues Large Range of Hard Cover Books Thousands of New and Collector's Comics We Buy, Sell or Trade 1247 Granville near Davie 682-3019 3347 Kingsway 430-3003 Open 7 Days a Week ALL STOCK WITH THIS AD BL8.CX, ®m ■sum CaFfECM0u_-£„ 'IMRftSON Ho? 5Pr;n&5 M OPfrViifct* -HP/ 176-3888 SECRETS ENTRUSTED TO A FEW S U B T E X T BY JUDITH LAHTI or "bad guys" per say; the charade rs arc a mixture of the two. Confusion reigns and the outlook is gloomy: this poetically written story's ending is not happy and quile sad. Bowles was bom in New York p I or half this time he's lived m Morocco where he continue! IO write. Aside from being a novelist and being a composer lor slum story writer. His Collected Stories 1939 ■ 1976 (Black Sparrow l'ress) is the perfect introduction, ncs. Subject done his besi to keep his life just thai, and while not altogether encouraging this biography, he did give blanket permission to the author to quote Irom all his wnlings. This coupled wilh letter/memoirs of friends/fellow writers makes for an in-depth sludy. Bowles published his autobiography. Without Slopping, in 1972, which, while ..I course iCCUrite, doesn't reveal as much as An Invisible Special. Thinking Recently, a. my n ancc's place, I emitted a short sigh. F.vcr thoughiful, he glanced over as to enquire what was up. Right on cue I sang a-la-Mornsscy "I'm not happy and I'm not sad" (actually il was just an allack of pre- ^ wedding jitters). But the sentiment, thai feeling of utter limbo I momentarily fell, can be yours loo folks, found through the writings of Paul His firsl novel, TheShelleringSky.v/is published in 1949, an era when people had names such as Port and Kit, ihe husband and wife who, wilh iheir companion Tunner, travel throughout the cities and deserts (Sahara!) of North Africa, in search of adventure and — don'l laugh — themselves. Wilh The Sheltering Sky now a film dirccled by Bernardo Berolucci, a new generation can discover lhal angst has always existed, this lime seen through post-WWII V _, travellers' eyes. "["he Moresby's marriage dis- inlegralcs as the pages lum. This couple is in l-r-o-u-b-l-c and the destined sympathetic place to ,'llimatcly Kit alone is wild search for some salvation the couple together couldn 'l find. The last quarter of the book focuses on i ' Paul is Nomads, drugs, ex \e Walrus: selected wor. Icnlialist heroes and wandering heroir " third world cultures, lots of love and lots o! The Sheltering Sky ('49) Let It Come Down ('52) The Spiders House ('55) Up Above the World ('66) short story collections: Collected Stories 1939 - 1976 Midnight Mass Unwelcome Word poetry: to Nothing: Collected Poems 1926 - 1977 Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue (travel < Without Stopping translations: Isabelle Ebcrhardu The Oblivion Seekers Mohammed Mrabel: The Big Mirror Mohammed Mrabel: Look and Move On Mohammed Choukri: Jean Genet in Tangier Rodrigo Rey Rosa: The Beggar's Knife recordings: Tellus The Audio Cassette Magazine H19 iluring Bowles reading his own and other works These include joining a harem and becoming a virtual sex slave: ihe reading is fasl paced and ralher lurid. This novel has no"good guys" ning scriplion of emotion; the clash of cultures is often examined. Then there's the landscape: Mexico and North Africa are the principal sellings. Bowles' descriptive powers are fascinating, sweeping ihe reader up in the action of the tales. An Invisible Spectator, a biography of Bowles written by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno published last year (Ecco Press), is a 500-page work showing Bowles from childhood through marriage to writer Jane Bowles [check out her own incredible collection of writings, My Sister's Hand in Mine, also from Ecco Press - Ed] and his latter years (Bowles has a cameo appearance in 7Vie Sheltering Sky\). , Bowles has the writing is "politically c which is to say the men arc spanked, bound and leased just as much as the TTic basic plot is lhat Beauty is awakened from her ceniury-long slumber by the Prince only lo find her clothes stripped away and her butt hauled to ihc Grand Kingdom. With her parents' consent, Beauly enters a "training ground" for her ilk: upon graduation she'll be returned with a big grin on her face) to herown Kingdom. Well guess what? Beauty is a girl with her own ideas and soon finds herself on the auction block. Gulp. The saga of Beauty and her male friends, the "disobedient" Tristan and ihe "runaway" Laurent, continues through ihc trilogy (written during the early '80s and in order): The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release. From an aesthetic point of vie w these books are lovely; the hand- tinted cover of Beauty's Release has angels moving skyward. Each chapter is tilled. And ihe sex? Uh, prclty dam hoi really. Balanced with great writing, class, and loads of symbolism of the day, these Beauty books are Valeniines-Rcd-I lot. Whoneeds chocolates anyhow? Ever wonder whal people arc reading? 1 do. 12 midnite, artist guy and dog owner, took time to \ WHAT people: are e and tell subtexl. As one may well guess, my relentless quest for irashincss in all aspects of life docs hlccd over inlo my choice of rcad- ingmatcrial. The supermarket checkouts are an invaluable source of all greal truths in this and many olher worlds. Of the tabloids it is. of course. The Weekly World News which rules supreme (even Spin says so). My favorites arc stories concerning animals—"Fisheats people and horses"—and the "lost tribe" articles (ihe hcadhuntcrs who wear formal gowns stand out in my memory). On a more historical note, early '60s "intimate" magazines read like a Miss Manners of heavy petting. Who can forget "Make-out girl... forced by her Mother! I" or "Such a quiet girl, but can she kiss!!" The shame these poor misguided girls had to endure because they jusl went too far should serve as a lesson to all oul there who may be considering pre-marital "Skin-Hunger." 1950s Popular Science/Mechanics Illustrated: "Build your own autogyro... in your back yard." God bless Of special interest are favorite books of psychopaths. My favorite? The Catcher in the Rye. Bui let us nol ignore comic books. Mid '70s Marvel & DCs: you can get them cheap so it doesn't hurt to read them in ihc bathtub or in nightclubs (cool move 12! —Judith). Also, you can cut them up and make paintings from them and sell them for loo much money. Gladstone reprints those trashy 1950s E.C. comics that caused such an uproar when your dad was a boy. Hey, anything with zombies and "cemetery ooze" is OK in my books. What am I saying? I IADINO mean it's A #1 in my books. The smoke shop on the comer sells 1970s Hot Rod magazines for too much money, but ifyou need ideas of what to do with shag carpet and crushed velvet, they're hard to beat. Olher favorites: 5lh business, A Clockwork Orange,/i.vu£magazine(mid '80s), Globe Examiner. Lasl Book Read: The BookofRock Atrocities. Next book in line? 1 saw Anya has a couple of pretty interesting looking Hardy Boys. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Based on the powerful novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the film focuses on a group of German youths who arc swayed by romantic ideals of ;tfnmt 19IS (\930) aiation, poverty, and the dcslruc- of family and marriage are shown be a part of the damage caused by away from the trenches. A molh- ccs her son return on leave, but cannot move from I he line for ral ions in which she's been wailing since morning. The son finds his wife with another man and is too ravaged to respond when she expresses her unbearable loneliness. Directed by German fflmakerGW Pabst. Th e Day th e Earth Stood Still (1951) A spaceship lands m Washington DC carrying Klaalu and the robot Gort with intentions of peace, but also with the message lhat if Earth doesn't rid its atomic bomb potential it will be destroyed by the other pac- polilical process Sonic classic pel formances by Slim Pickens, George C Scolt and Peter Sellers (in a triple role). Written by Terry Southern and directed by Stanley Kubrick. His olher anti -war films include Tear ami Desire(,\953),PathsofGlory(W51) and Full Melal Jacket (1987). HohI Won Ihe War (1967) "Shutup! Ifilwcren'tforlhcBniish army you wouldn't be here today," says a captain lo a complaining sol dier in the scorching deserts of Egypt. Another hilarious satire, bul on ihe Bniish component! oi war, thai mocks nationalism, cricket, British comedy shows and epic war lilms. The cast includes John l.ennon. Di reeled by Richard I rsici who also did A Hard Day's Night (\964) and HtlpJ(\96S). ntircly supported ihe war movement, providing light entertainment or :s of inspiration and heroism. And although the more recent slew of Vietnam War movies decidedly lakes the past romanticism oul of war, they slill lend to glamourize war to certain extents through visual quality, casting of young teen idols, and emphasis on terminology, artillery and action sequences. In most war films women arc written into roles as the grieving mother, the girl back home, or the foreign prostitute, always in support of their man. The following arc a handful of films to walch lhat express anti-war and/or pacifist war and heroism into fighting for their country in World War I. But through death and dehumamzalion comes ihe realization of war's futility and waste. Directed by Lewis ifist planets. An excellent science fiction film that illuminates how xenophobia can lead to media hysteria and mass paranoia and ultimately to war and destruction. The cast includes Patricia Ncal and Aunt Bea. Directed by Robert Wise. The Harp of Burma (Bi- ruma No Tategolo) (1956) A very moving account of a Japanese soldier's disillusionment and internal struggleatlheendofWWn in Burma. Afler an unsuccessful mission lo bring back a unit lhal hasn't surrendered yet, he heads to Mudon discovering stretches and stretches of dead bodies along the way. The overwhelming indignities and final effects of unit's musical plea to return to Japan with them, instead choosing to stay in a Buddhist monastery. Music is a unifying force in this film, through the protagonist's harp and the songs of the Japanese and the British. Directed by Kon Ichikawa. Dr. Slrangetove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) An American general authorizes a bombing in the Soviet Union without ihc knowledge of the President, resulting in a hilarious satire on anti-Communist hysteria, the gung-ho military, world leaders and the Z(1969) The eruption ol vi olcncc and us el Feels arc absolutely realised in llus dra Greek pacifist Gregory I-ambrakis in Salonika in 1963. Government corruption permeates all levels and ihc washed inlo violence creating a stifling, yet charged atmosphere. Cast inlcudes Irene Papas, Yves Montand and Jean-lxiuis Trintignant. Based on the novel by Vassilis Vasilikos and directed by Cosla-Gavras. Catch-22 (1970) The "catch" is every time a pilol reaches ihe quota for amount of flights flown thequola is raised. The tight weave of nonsensical bureaucracy, the idea that war involvement equals heroism/fame, the economical factor and the lack of moral and ethical values are all questioned in yel another hilarious salire on the American military. Here il becomes exposed as a form of "systematized insanity" that is sell-perpetuating. Wonderful performances by a greal cast including Alan Arkin, Art Gar- funkel, Jon Voight, Bob Ncwhart, Charles Grodin, and Norman Pell. Based on Ihe novel by Joseph Heller, the film has been criticised for not retaining the book's humanity and realism. Directed by Mike Nichols. Johnny Got His Gun (1971) After his limbs and face arc blown off in WWI, a young American is declared brain dead and shoved into a utility closet in a hospital. Hul he is alert and through flashbacks, scenes of his innocence and vitality provide a sharp coulrasl lo ihe horror he is now confronted with. He eventually communicates with a sensitive nurse, but is finally witheld from what he really wants—death. A severe criticism of the care and treatment ol ans and of ihe general sight of the negative ', although ihe ending internal. The cast inlcudes Timothy Bottoms, Donald Sutherland and Jason Robards. 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Nettwerk Recording Artists FALLING JOYS with special guests from Boston, Embargo Recording Artists THE NEIGHBOURHOODS From Portland, SATURDAY-FEBRUARY 9 DHARMA BUI with from Boston, THE NEIGHBOURHOODS and DOGZILLA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13 Elektra Recording Artists THE HAVALINAS CiTR 101.9 fM presents Chameleon Recording Aa fists with special guests THE PICASSO SET FEBRUARY 14 TICKETS ON SALE AT VTC AND ALL USUAL OUTLETS SKINNY PUPPY Commodore Ballroom Saturday 22 December The lights dimmed and all the young'uns pressed to the front ofthe stage, waiting for the show to begin (which took quite a while; Puppy likes to build "atmosphere.") But ai least we gol to listen lo a tape of aural landscapes by Ccvin Key and Dwayne Goettel called "Doubting Thomas" (and no they didn't pay me lo mention it). Finally the happy lads hit the stage and what a stage it was! The show opened wilh pretty images of birds, waves, undulating aqueducts all awash in blue. Key sal surrounded by a massive drum set; Goltcll bobbed al keyboards screened by wires interwoven wilh leaves. Images (mostly pretty gruesome) flashed on three TVs and ihe new, improved backstage screen. Ogre, sporting fashionable grey electrical tape around his head and his de- rigeuer black jeans, entered to an enthusiastic response; this intrepid reviewer was nearly crushed in the ensuing glee. The music was superb. Key seemed happy to be a full-time d rummer again and Ogre proved he can growl quite well without the aid of electronics. They even did some of my favorite songs: "VX Gas Attack," "Warlock," "Spasmolytic." The theatrical portion ofthe evening was extremely gory. Themain prop was the "Chair of No Cares," which had a TV on top and moving arms that looked like tree branches. It looked great, but as Ogre only satin it acouple of times, it was superfluous to the show. The mosl revolting thing by far was the latex human chest Ogre put on for a couple of songs: he proceeded to grab suspicious-looking, blood- ■ smeared stuff out of its "stomach" and munch happily on it. MY stomach wasn't too pleased. Ogre then became "stiltman": while perched upon crutch/stilts, wearing a grotesque mask, he died a symbolic death and re-emerged, reborn, clean, - without any props, into the best part of the evening. F.vcn though il was only two songs, the encore was indicative of the direction I feel Puppy should be heading in: no slage blood, no stilts, no props—letting the music speak for itself as il does so well (OK, they can keep the tellys.) Ogre seemed more real—almost shy—but he slill has a strange rapport with the audience with his maniacal smile and enigmatic gestures. Alas, the encore (and the whole concert) was too short; ihe micbangedagainst metal wilh a loud thud, Ogre stalked off the slage, the lights came glaring on. Back to normalcy? June L7/MARY/LUNG The Cruel Elephant Saturday 29 December "There's too many people in here," said a voice. "It's gelling sweaty." "You're getting old," said I. Lung Skinny Puppy : Leoncuc kicked right off with some ballsy stuff, bul most of Ihe audience just kinda stood there and swayed a bit. "Too early," said the voice. Maybe. Bul it seems to me that a few years ago people would have been slamming after two bars of this stuff. Maybe it was ihe atmosphere Ihe Cruel Elephant (Wc have lo rind an abbreviation for lhat name! Ihc CE.? Ihc Elph?), heralded by many as the of ihe local music scene, is nill loo pristine and new: don'l slam too hard, you might scratch the paint! Ihc clubjust doesn't have thai lived- in look that the Arts Club or the Savoy had (a minute of silent remembrance, please). Not yet, any way. A lew protein spills on the carpet, a lew chips in the arlxintc lablelops, a couple ol dcnls m die gyproc, and it'll feel jusl like home. Oh yeah, I uas talking aboul Long, wasn't 1. The) 're punk in all the besl ways —load, last, obnoxious, wilh some cool lime changes—and none ol ihe woi cuts, no anti-fashion fashion, no for inula lunes. Mosl likely influences: GBH and NoMeansNo Guitar strap held on by lhal silver stuff affectionately known to musicians as hamster tape. Guitarist broke a string but plowed on through the lunc regardless. 1 heard a riff thai reminded mc of Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. "Whala cover lhal would make! Go see Lung, a band that isn't afraid of being alive. And then along comes Mary. I decided I didn't like Mary the other time I saw ihem, also at this club, when they played wiih@*#&!,afar more interesting band. Mary didn't do much for mc this lime, cither, although they were a Utile better. Most of Mary's presence, and, I suspect, ils talent, lies wilh the bass player. Ihe drummer's kind of invisible, and the guitarist is too busy adopting an Attitude. What really killed them for me was ihc juvenile "Saw My Daddy Fuckin' My Momma." Maybe this would have been out ragcous and shock ing when I was twelve, but now il's jusl stupid. Even their cover of "L.A. Woman" couldn't redeem them. I think it was a Frankie Avalon movie in which he demonstrated the hand shapes: L + 7 = Square. They showed up jusl as Mary was (mercifully) winding down. "But you close in half an hour!" said a voice. "No we don't," said Paul. The slamming began. A few guys tried stage diving, but the crowd wasn't really dense enough, so they just ended up falling into their buddies' arms, which is fine, or knocking over L7's mic stands, which bites. The guitarist's cries of "Security, I've got a violator!" went unheeded, and there were apparently some monitor "I'm not givin'anything away when I say you guys are nuts," said the guitarist/ singer. The singer/guilarist wore make-up Eke Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. The bassist/ singer's smile was pure poetry. Ihe drummer... well, er she drums Eke a girl: stiff- wristed, like the girl in thatClearasil commercial. Bul these women kick butt. Notas'.oumiquet-tightasLung; a little grungicr, and a little sloppier with lots of crunch and power. And square they ain't. I was impressed that they braved the blizzard all the way from.Sean le, showing more jam than the aging Hawkwind, who wimped oul the previous week on their way up from Portland I speni ihe resl t.4 llie nighl on slam buffer duty, watching 1.7 crank il oot, I wish the hone he ad I rum Ihc I )ayglos had gotten the luck ofl the Stage aboul five minutes earlier so L7 COuld've gotten on with their encore. Living proof to ihe ihcory thai men tend to dominate conversations ObvioUl advice to 1.7: leave home and bring yourown sound tech. And Wary sax playing. As for Dose Pump: el harsho supremo Kevin McCandless THE POSIES/JOEY KLINE'S WILD WEST SHOW O.K. Hotel, Seattle Sunday 6 January Ihe O.K. Hotel was the place to be for a mind blow mg double bill First up was Joey Kline's Wild Wesi Show. Joey has again pi bunch ol Seattle's in lorcboding bass power: yeah, ihe heads were going up and down to dull.lining sound and the slam me rs were slamming. Ihis was pure calh.usis, hdpMl along by Slayer's technical wizardry. I he key changes, unprc du table rhythms and contrasting sounds ol their latest and best album. SoesOlU in the Abyss, were all there, lending some interesting undertones to pieces taken Irom earliei albums I he must le content ol Slayer DOSE PUMP/ENIGMAS/ GORILLA GORILLA The Cruel Elephant Monday 31 December How 'boul dem Gorillas!! No one Ekes to hear lhal their guaranteed good time on New Year's Eve has cancelled but unfortunately this was ihe case. Due lo "medical reasons," ihe Wongs could not play the Cruel Elephant's three band New Year's Eve fest; however, all was not lost because Gorilla Gorilla really came through. FvcryihingfromChili-lypc stuff to all-out hardcore heavy quickness was pumped out. Comparing ihem lo the Chilics really isn't fair though because Gorilla Gorilla's songs have much more complexity and crazincss. Ihey delivered their unpredictable set as if they were headlining (which ihey should have been). "Joe bass guy" came complete wilh a flying evil clown doll, a lol of jumping around, and a playing style thai looked so sloppy I wondered how the hell he hit ihe right notes. Obviously the man knows his bass. Ihc beatings of Brett the drummer were also pretty nutly. Fast and intricate. Ihc fact lhat these two have been playing together for quite a while really shows. Randy wilh the crazy'do had a lot of high tech guitar equipment with him and used it lo produce some intense chordage, even though he wasn't lumed up as much as he should've been. Mama Gorilla Biff was up there singin' and doin' a prelty good job loo. She didn'ljump around a lot, bul I did get some good zoomins and a poke in the belly. She was wearing a wild pair of while, studded and jewelled chaps and a flattering, cul- up Gorilla T-shirt. They've moved here from Winnipeg and I'm glad they did. There's a lot of room in Vancouver for good quality hardcore; go see these guys! The Enigmas, filling in for ihc Wongs, opened their sel wilh some excellent hard rocking lunes. After taking time out at midnight lo acknowledge ihe new year, they slipped into the nostalgia zone which the floor seemed to enjoy. I don't think anyone can really resist a good psy- chedeUc projection orMacKenzie's musicians (including Craig Fergo son on bass and drummer Dave Guinn, both of sensational Seattle supcrgroup'lhc Squirrels), and, with guest appearances Irom others, il proved to be an entertaining show. Orvill Johnson stole the spotlighl when he sang the old blues tune "White Frcighllincr," complete wilh guitar solos. Les Bohcm, ex-member of Sparks and the Gleaming Spires, showed up to sing a Merle Haggard tunc and "Don't Fear The Reaper" with Joey. Ken Slringfcl- low sang backup lo Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" and "Derailcd,"lhc tide track off Kline's 10 song cassette which features many of the night's participants. If the Wild Wcsi Show ever comes lo Canada, don'l miss it! Next up were'Ihc Posies, fresh off tour. Some outstanding moments in their set were: -Mike Musburgcr's new outfit; -guest appearance by Roderick for a Sky Cries Mary reunion; -finishing up wilh stage dives by the entire band; All in all, this show was well wonh ihc six bucks and fora gig that was hardly advertised it did quite well, drawing a reported 350 people. The Girls Next Door SLAYER/TESTAMENT PNE Forum Wednesday 9 January Thcmoiley crowd in the PNE Forum could have been cast for a film called Misfits of Society (maybe even Skeletons of Society?). Thai's who Slayer, along with opening band Testament, thrashed il oul for; ihey obviously felt ihis crowd deserved some rewards. 'Ihc Marshall amps were lined up and in full force, delivering a power akin to a form of exorcism. Slayer, too, delivered wilh the killer quality sound they promised. Savage vocals that crawled around the body like a snake, raging against all constraints of society; drums that drove on and on, bashing and beating our chests into submission; a wailing specd-mclal guitar that reached the highest realms of tightness, fighting against the dark and allhough at times they seemed to be leasing their audience with loo-long breaks between numbers. "Fuck that, we want more!" yelled one angry puppy, a cry echoed in various obscenities, even though the band was dripping wet after three-quarters of an hour and the slammcrs had thrown off their shirts. When ihc relentless drivcof "Mandatory Suicide" kicked in, blowing away ihc already powerful album version, the crowd went wild, and the guitar solo's shriek from hell was worth the S27.50 admission alone. 'Ihe psychotic feci for the underworld was in evidence likcaprimal scream. ArayaV'Wcll, whal should wc play next?" was met wilh a universal "ANGEL OF DEATH!" so lhat's whal they played. And ended with. Ol course, the audience slill wanted more and Slayer's "Goodnight" was anti-climactic, but what wouldn't be for the hungry melal masses? Sarah Chesterman BUNCHOFUCKINGOOFS/ PEEWEE MANSON/ CRAZY CATS The Cruel Elephant Wednesday 23 January Once again, for no apparent reason, some lamcass band that couldn't provide background music to a children's puppet show opened. Oh to give local artists a stage!, I know, but the Crazy Cats are destined to stay in the garage forever. Thai said, the next band, Pec Wee Manson, was a surprise. For a band that plays Club Soda frequently, ihey were pretty heavy fast dirge. Kinda sloppy but still not bad. Next up was ihe band every Quincy/CHiPs punk in the sold oul place was waiting for: stars ofthe early '80s Cl'VsLivell Up show, Toronto's own bunchofuckingccks. Man these guys were a pretty good gag when I was 14 bul now they're rehashed Mayhem/Pain. Lyrics and riffs seem a bit, well, retarded. Just fast tuneless crap aboul society's evils, you know: corporations, governments—the same people who give the band and half the audience a welfare check— etc. Kind of funny bul il probably took ihem a long time to drive from TO and it wasn't really worth it. Bruno FEBRUARY 1991 21 ASWAD Too Wicked PolyGram/A&M/lsland/Mango Superlatives, indeed. The new Aswad release finds the band once again close to iheir reggae heritage. 1989's Distant Thunder album showed a noticeable departure from iheir rools toward a conscious attempt at' urban crossover' and thus mass acceptance; lhat acceptance never occurred and many reggae fans were put off by this release. Too Wicked shows Aswad have learned from their past mistake. Recorded in Jamaica with prolific producer Augustus "Gussie" Clarke, ihis release has all ihe trademark harmonics, tasty horns and solid riddims Aswad is known for. Gussie Clarke's trademark production style is also instantly recognizable, complimenting the band without altering the texture. The opening cut and firsl single release,"Fire," is done combination- style, featuring Shabba Ranks, one of numerous gucsl performers on ihis session (J.C. Lodge and Nadine Sutherland arc also featured). "Fire" sets ihc dancchall momentum lone for ihc rest ofthe album. Dean Frazer is credited with vocal arrangements lhat fortunately blend well wilh Aswad's harmony approach. Looking at ihc list of song lilies, I was a bil apprehensive al firsl of the inclusion of yuppie soft-rock staple "Best of my Love," bul ihc treatment of this lunc is far superior loihe original and sounds as if it wcreexclusivcly written for the band. All the iracks are solid reggae except "Uwe Won't Leave Mc," done hip-hop siylc but slill not entirely out of place. Too Wicked will keep bolh the Aswad posses pleased and should attract new fans lo this definitive merging of traditional roots-style harmonics and fresh dance-hall rid- containing a hint of raw melody. This gives the songs a certain anthemic quality and keeps ihem from blurring together inlo a wildly distorted mess. Judging from Ihc sound and the angry punk rock "I hale authority" lyrics the band likely owes at least some influences to early punk bands such as the Exploited. I even like the cover, a well drawn skeletonized court jester holding a pig's head impaled on a stick. Whal more could you want? Tom Milne DEAD CAN DANCE Alon PolyGram/4AD This latest release represents a slight departure from past efforts. Previous albums looked towards far eastern, especially Indian, music for inspiration, however, here medieval l. Thoj thai c e reggae s currcnloutpul would do well loeheck this one out! Mike Cherry BASTARD SQUAD Hardcore Revolution Blast It Hardcore bands from Australia arc a bil of a rarity so my curiousily was up when I pul this album on. I was immediately impressed with an intense rippcrofasongcalled"N.CA."These guys play powerful, fasl hardcore wilh gut-wrenching yelling vocals 22 DiSCORDER c act a: the starting point. But the leap is not as dramatic as it might seem; the middle and far eastern influences inherent in medieval music are quite apparent and Aion maintains a stylistic continuity with the group's previous work. The darkly luxurious medieval flavourcombincd wilh Lisa Gcrrard's sumptuous vocals, provide a full sound. The music spans the range from ihe 14th century piece Saltarello to the arabic influences in Garden of Zephyr. Two short ambient interludes offer a delightful change of pace. Brendan Perry's vocals verge dangerously close lo a poorer John Cale, but never threaten disrupt the musical flow. A very enjoyable offering. Peter Sickert JULIO IGLESIAS Starry Night Sony/Columbia Actually, I don't care for him in English. I only hke him in Spanish and Italian. That's all. I don't like him in French because he doesn't pronounce well. In Italian, it's just as though he were Italian. He puts more inlo the languages he speaks better lhan English. Even French; I don'l care for him. Bepi's Mom KINOTHEK PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Suspense Audiox Albums by percussion groups are few and far between; good percussion albums are even rarer. Lasl year wc were treated io Uzume Taiko's excellent debut Chirashi. Now wc have Suspense by ihc Kinolhek Percussion Fnscmblc. Unlike ihc disciplined and hold nluahsm of Chirashi, "Suspense" owes more to Fno and his fellow ambient soundscapcrs lhan to anything else. Ihc album features subtle arrangements with a sparse sprinkling ol environmental touches. Ihis is nol so much an album of percussionist prowess, but rather of clever and deliberate rmxxland place making. If there is a criticism, then ii is that ihc music al limes seems to be missing a context, almost like soundtrack music without a film. Ihis in itself isn't a bad thing, bul it docs threaten to delegate some iracks lo mere background noise. Peter Sickert KOFI Black... with Sugar Ras/Arilia Coming out of Ariwa Studios in London, home of the Mad Professor, this album has taken the soulful and soft female voice of Kofi and overproduced an uninteresting example of lovers rock. Definitely more suited lo a less synthesized and quieter reggae sound, Kofi's potentially talented voice is lost among a rcpctclivc drone of uninteresting melodies and accompaniment. There area few spots where her lyrics arc interesting and the annoying synthesized sound stands back and lets hcrsing such as "Black Pride" and "Big John," but more often than not, one wonders if the middles of songs arc just lape loops. Positively speaking, the second half of ihis album provides a passable demonstration of sofl lovers reggae (bul certainly an English sound ie: more produced and polished) and the songs all seem to group together fairly well, even though they lack interest and primarily would serve as sofl background music, as long as noboby listened too carefully. Russ Hergert MAD PROFESSOR Mad Professor Recaptures Pato Banton Ras/Arilia Mad Professor, the English version of the legendary dub great Ixc "Scratch" Perry has been capturing several artists in England on his highly computer based rhylhms. Palo Banlon is one of his most recent and mosl successful caplurings. Ihc sound remains very English in il's unfortunalcly strict adherence to computer gencralcd sounds, but il docs meet with some success through a few positive glimpses of Palo Banlon's lyrical Ihc firsl track, which is often the strongest an mosl albums produced by Mad Professor, plays on Bob Marley's bass line from Exodus as Pato Banlon comments on his status as a victum ofthe music industry wilh an effective lyrical stutter reminiscent of a Ninjaman style as he praises the mad producer who is taking him on exodus back lo some decern music, a path lhat has often been missed by Pato Banton in the past. This misdirection is heard through repcletivc and used lyrical phrases on "Satan," as well as ihe downright bad track "Mr. Singh" loo often emphasized wilh overproduced accompa- nyment. If you dislike the sound of electronic drums, Mad Professor is not for you. However, apart from ihis, Ihc rest of the album is a fairly good example of one direction ihe English reggae sound is taking. Palo Banlon flings out some descent U-Roy style of bubbling lyrics on'Tck McTimc" and "Live As One" which also offers good backing vocals by Sandra Cross lo produce one of the highlights of ihc album, while the social commentary in the narrative description of a "Riol" and the Bngadccr Jerry-style of poetry on the less successful "Worries" reflects his interest in culture lyrics. Each song is followed with a an instrumental version by Mad Professor which only offers some interesting dub on a few iracks and usually prompts the listener to skip to the next song Palo Banlon's lyrical bag is a borrowed one but he docs manage to pul out whal I feci is some of the best work he has done if you are a fan of his electronic reggae sound. Russ Hergert BORIS MIKULIC Heresy A&MA/irgin/Caroline Boris Mikulic is 26 and comes from Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. He was bom into ihc orphanage of St. Augustus parish. An unruly child who spent his formative years in thedelcnlion centre wilh only the Lalin masses and organ heard from a nearby church for company, Bons was released ai age 12 and laught to read and write and play piano by a kind monk. Al 16 Boris ran away to Berlin where he was exposed to "Western" music. He returned to the University of Ljubljana, where he met Ilya Dimitr- ijevic, wilh whom he started In Sotto Voce, which did particularly well in Germany. Sounds made up? Only Boris and his record company know for . 1 firsi n that a' some Antler/Subway sampler, Around the World-Electronic Body Music, wilh his contribution "Bitterer Als Der Tod," a mix of techno- dance and Gregorian chants. This is Boris' first solo album and I'm mightily impressed at the fusion of guilar and electronic BPM: the opening tracks, "The End" and "Die Mauer," are killer examples. Ihere are also some more atmospheric cuts, bul they also have a definite edge to ihem. Bons Mikulic is definitely a name to remember. June MARI BOINE PERSEN Gula Gula A&M/Virgin/Realworld Gula Gula is a fine and unusual offering. Mari Boinc Perscn hails from Iggaldas near North Cape, Norway. She crafts soft and melodic folk music lhal draws heavily on the traditional music of the Sami (the proper name for ihe Lapplanders, since Lapp is considered derogatory). The sparse arrangements and the clear, oftimes haunlingly beautiful vocals create a rich dialogue between the present and the more primeval influences of the SJmi culture. The music ranges from melodic ballads to somber incantations with a pleasant and even flow. It is excellent music formoonless nights when you're reading Tristan and Isolde by candlelight. Peter Sickert PIGFACE Spoon Breakfast Touch & Go/Invisible Imagine my inexpressible delerium when I was handed this EP which includes the likes of Martin Atkins, Bill Riefhn and Paul Barker (Ministry, Revolting Cocks), Chris Connelly (FiniTnbe, Cocks, Ministry), Ogre (Skinny Puppy) and En Esch (KMFDM). The story behind this amazing release is lhal when drummers Atkins and Ricflin got off ihc '89/'90 Ministry tourtour. they went into the studio with Steve Albini and some of the talent then in Chicago. Atkins and Connelly remixed some tracks and this EP was bom. The four songs arc interesting in very different ways. "Winnebago Induced Tapeworm" is incredible: a slow, tortured funk from hell wilh Ogre scrcaming/chaniing over il. "Bushmaster Bushmaslcr" is kind of duelling drums without ever falling into ihc bad drum solo syndrome. En Esch docs his Blixa ihing on "War Ich Nicht Immcr Fin Guler Jungc"; starting wilh a high, car-nnging whine slowly building in tension and volume. On straight ahead rock song "Tonight's the Nighl,"Connelly docs vocal duties, joined by Ministry's William Tucker on guitar. A full- fledged Pigface features an appearance by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor. Write to Pigface c/o Invisible Records, PO Box 16008, Chicago, IL 60616. June RANCID HELL SPAWN Chainsaw Masoehist Wrench If puke in a blender could be heard ralher lhan seen, this is what it might sound like. Rancid Hell Spawn have achieved the impossible by stretching out their raw buzzsaw distorted, psychedelic, noise/grunge/garage/ pop disco over a full length album without it getting tedious. The music is actually quite boppy and calchy in a hyperactive-slobbering, axe-waving kind of way. Playing this for people and having ihem glare at you and say "What the fuck is lhal?" is in itself reason enough io own it. Tom Milne RIKK AGNEW'S YARDSALE Emotional Vomit Triple XXX I had to force myself nol to skip from song to song on this record. Thai's a bad sign, especially considering Rikk's pasl glories wilh punk legends ihc Adolescents and D.I., both renowned for their highly melodic, riff-laden punk tunes. These songs are quite unremarkable and only showcase what a lousy, boring singer Rikk is. This record should'vc been titled Rikk Agncw's Vomit. Tom Milne SENATOR FLUX The Criminal Special Cargo/Emergo Senator Flux, originating from Washington D.C, arc a psychedelic garage pop band. Their music is part of a growing phenomenon which incorporates sixties kaleidoscopic lu- nagc wilh contemporary beats and vocals in a grungicr sound. Allhough perhaps a bit egocentric at times, Senator Flux are a talented group of people wilh something lo say worth hearing. They use a wide variety of instruments such as the oboe, saxophone, harmonica, violin, and organ in addition to ihe basics, guitar etc. and present a variety of interesting ideas bolh poetically and philosophically. Their songs deal wilh powerful subjects like people's tendency lo forget pasl wrongs in politics ("United States of Amnesia") and in one song I really hke, "The Combine", they dis- cribe very well the insanities of the world -a nice, poignant topic for these days. The only drawback is ihe annoying whine of singer Jeff Turner (formerly of Grey Mailer), which obscures intelligent lyrics in songs like "Greal Sloth Heart" and "Fallcnncss." As well, the Flux also has a good solid sound which can be listened to over and over again. If nothing else gel the record for ils knockout cover designed by Grace Jcffers. Angle Fin- ley VARIOUS ARTISTS Unknown HC Drunkers MCR Company Three floppy, flappy flexi-disks of Japanese hardcore and metal noise damage thai hits harder than any lameass, next-big-lhing schmuck band on CBS. Bands with boss haircuts and excellent names like Blum Head, Struggle, Diabolic, Plot Scolder, Think or Sink, Decplhroat, and ihe winner in the "Japanese Hardcore Band Name Mosl Likely To Be Tattooed In Inch High Gothic Script On My Forehead" contest: ASSFORT The Japanese build better cars, calculators and cows lhan Americans and this comp proves ihey play better music. 800 Yen to MCR Company, 157 Kamiagu, Maizuru, Kyoto, 624, Japan, should secure you these essential discs. Gav WARTIME Fast Food For Thought Chrysalis Rollins, as in Henry, and Andrew, as in bassist for Rollins Band, leam up in a minimalist blues techno damage parade. First off this ain't Black Rag, you retro geek. Wartime is 100 times more relevant in 1990. The beats and samples (i.e. music) move beyond the techno hard core of Ministry, Pailhcad and Lard, rising up lo the same bluesy mayhem of the Rollins Band, albeit with a techno edge throughout. Rollins, the big baby man mental cripple wanna-be all the way, echoes his perversions with lyrics filled with truly twisted ideas; rolling thunderclaps of Rollins'hatred encompasses what most people hold up and respect in life. Fuck lhat: the nihilistic reality of how easy il is to hate most of the world is bitterly evident underneath the funky twang of Andrew's ten ton bass. Gav WAXING POETICS Bed Time Story Cargo/Emergo Despite what their corny name and down home origins suggest, Waxing Poetics mercifully aren't of the same flaky ilk as Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. Their third offering is the mongrel offspring of a number of musical influences. While there are hints of psychedelia and flower power in iheir songs, the sometimes wailing, sometimes croaking vocals of band leader David Middleton along wilh strong blues undertones add grunge and soul to each concoction. Lyrically the songs wax more down toearth lhan poetic although songs like "Semaphore Signals" and "Manakin Moon" evoke some unusual images and others such as "Jet Black Plastic Pistol and "Under a Fake Blue Sky" entrance. In general, this album brings to mind Thin White Rope's Sack Full of Silver in both substance and quality. Mindy Abramowitz member ol the Bastards and as ex peeled ihcir'Tiimslimeiii" b/w "Going Poundm'" single (Amphetamine Reptile) is I slab of ugly, guitar- laden pounding noise, albeit slightly cleaner sounding and more energel iclhan mosl Baslards material. While "l*unishmcnl" is really hoi, "Going Poundin" is lank boi Word Made Flesh is • New York band lhal include the vastly underrated punk-I oik band A.P.P.L.E. on vocals. 'Iheir fivc- inalk reminds mc of A.P.P.LF. quite a bil allhough ihe lac growls a bit more instead of showing off her incredibly melodic vocal range. Still, eaddm 0 the (rowing line of Squat .>rl<ot Records which fri Like to cal n I do? And better yet, Well, the Estrus Crust Club may be just the thing for you. Quite simply it's a Sub Pop Singles Club type of thing only undoublably with more garage fumes and less hair. Volume One brings us The Mummies from California who were in town several weeks back to put on a way cool gig al the Town Pump. This single has two songs, "Out of Our Tree" and "Tall Cool One," both which were originally done by The Wailers. Ihc former has been covered by the likes of DMZ, Ihe Gruesomes, and Girl Trouble. Our own Mr. Nardwuar stales that this version is "Excellent! Good drum sound on the snare!" 'Nuf said, I suppose. K label has also had their own varicly-packed 7"cr series going for some time now. The latest car (Volume XVI) on K's International Pop Underground train is "Different Drum" b/w "Empty House" byThe Pastels from Scotland. A bil of an escape from the garage - y rock thai seems to fill the 7" bins these days. that. Here Ihe Pastels sound alot hke Beat Happening only with iwo more people. Drums that go ihum- pctly thump, vocals lhat go "yeah yeah yeah yeah," muffled sound quality, plus cheezy organ to boot. "Different Drum" a Monkee Mike Nesmiih song features what some would call offkey vocals, I call 'em sensitive and heartfelt. Much like with Beat Happening, you eilher all out love this band or hale them with a fury. For the longest lime I thought Gut Flower were called Cut Flower. Oops. Thes of boys who play rock'n'roll music. And their "Think So" b/w "Maple Leaves" single is arock'n'roll record. And they would like to play in Vancouver so if you're having a party please give them a shout at Blow Valve Records (#12-959 Harrison Sircci, Seattle, WA, 98109). If you're even slightly hip you probably already own ihc Cynics amazing Pock 'n Poll LP so you'd recognize"Girl,you'rconmymind" (Gel Hip) as being one of the better songs off of ihc aforementioned album. Ihc A side of this single "Girl, You're On My Mind" is previously unreleased and definitely worth having as il rocks out at least as much as a large number of the tracks on Rock 'n Poll. If you like garage- rock played with the energy and intensity of more modem music, and haven't yet heard the Cynics, this single is a great place to start. Da Willys cover Alice Do- nut's amazing "egg" and Alice Donut cover Da Willys' "Love Roller- coaster" on their split 7" on Rave. Ihis sort of thing has been iried before and it rarely work s bul there's some good news on this single. First off, I've never heard anything by Da Willy's before but iheir somewhat- twisted punk sound doesn'ido"'egg" BrcntS TV's "Lumberjack D.y." (Lookout) as sound ing like ihc band had been locked up in a shack in the hills with nothing but a Ramones record and Grandpa Joe's banjo band. How can 1 improve on a description like lhal? You've got la admire a record where you can't decide whether to thrash to il or yell oul 'shceeit... yeeehaw- Although Red Transistor's "Note Bite" b/w "We're Not Crazy" single was saved from obscurity by F'orced Exposure, I'm not so sure wc should lhank them for this '77 recording. There's some really interesting noises going on here but the rcpclitiveness wears me down, kind of like fingernails on a black- board.The more I listen to it, the more I like it which is scary because it's just die type of pretentious NY I a nice bunch even the slightest bit of justice. On the other hand, 1 don'l know what "Love Rollercoaster" is supposed to sound like, but il's lailor-made for Alice Donut. Catchy, energetic, annoying, and totally fucked it makes a great Alice Donut song. Casus Belli includes an ex- art-punk noise lhat causes some very lame people to rave uncontrollably. What can I say about this Rancid Vat and Antiseen's split single (Rave Records)? Rancid Val play some song called "h.h.h.h" and it kind of plods along with oul-of- tune vocals and some alright, hard- edged whiny guiiar-work. Aniiseen play "Kill Ihe Business" al about ihe same tempo except with extremely raw, gravelly vocals. Kind of like lxmmy on 'hides. I heard some girls raving aboul ihc recent Paisley Sin Club Soda show and, while mosl ol ihc talk revolved around singer Sylvan Smith's physical attributes, there was ample praise for the music lix>. 'Ihis band must be Ixitcr live lhan they arc- on vinyl because allhough P.S. has ompetent job bath producing and playing on their single (KM A), there's nor lung really exciting or interesting aboul the songs Showing "two different sides of ihe band," Ihc predictable metal-nx.koul "I've Been Watching You" is paired with predictable power- ballad "Dancing In a Trance." Paisley Sin has a serious case of he Guns-N-Rbscs- Vannabcs, kind of trangefora band lhat irides itself on being not typically whal ; in the Seattle The Jesus Lizard is a stupid name especially when there's so many other bands - stupid and unslupid - throwing the Jesus name around all over the place already. But the Jesus Lizard by any other name would sound as harsh. Cool driving riffs and intense fuzzy vocals combine in "Mouthbrealher" b/w "Sunday You Need Love" (Touch & Go) for some mighty gixxi music. And now I turn the pen over lo a special guest wilh some words to say about Ken Baumyartncr's "Bomber"CD-singleno.Vlelal Blade/ Caroline: Bepi Crcspan: Bo knows hockey. Bo knows rock' n' roll. Ken liaumgarlner knows neither, but does a decent enough job faking the latter wilhpals-o-his Suicidal's Rocky George and a couple Tales Warning guys. Themalically, the former LA King-turned NY Islander's vocal debut ("Ain l no hope in hell/Nothing's gonna bring us down/The way we glide/A hundred miles off the ground/Because we shoot lo kill/And we always will/it's a bomber") is le joue sur la glaee's equivalent of S'T's "Surf and Slam" or "Possessed lo Skate," wilh all proceeds directed towards leukemia research. The CD-single also comes equipped with two versions of ACl DCs "Live Wire." You're nol going to find this legit sports merchandise item among ihe empty Oakland Raiders merchandise shelves in your favorite legit sporls merchandise store so write Metal Blade Records at 18653 Ventura Blvd., Suite 311, Tarzana CA, 91356 for a catalogue. Watch upcoming issues of Discorder for a full interview with Mr. liaumgarlner by CiTR sporls guy Jeff "Mingus" Palerson. Actually, like yourselves, this is the first Jeff lias heard aboul this interview. So if ya see Jeff, fist him in the back, breathe the morladella sandwich ya jusl lapped up in his face, buy him a beer and ask him how the Baumgarlner piece is going "because the idea sounds greal!" X <* 4 . Al___i / BY ADAM SLOAN YO. THIS is ihe second installment of this column, so I'm still gelling things organized, or getting in the groove so to speak. Fir The Brand Nubians released their debut album One For All (Flcklra) last month. 'Ihis one fiis right in with the style originated by the likes of Dc 1_ Soul and 'Ihc Jungle Brothers, sounding most similar to A Tribe Called Quest. Each lunc is based on a loop of some old funky tunc with not much else in the way. The raps busted on this bed track arc intcl- (Priorily). This contains remixes of two of the iracks off AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and is produced by his main homic, 19-ycar-old Sir Jinx along wilh Chilly Chill and Ice Cube himself. 'Ihey can't quite measure up to the production on A.M.W. which was done with the help of Public Enemy's Bomb Squad, bul it's still slammin' harder n' anything else out there. For the mosl part, Culx; is still in his paranoia phase, but the funk still flows like Niagara Falls. Cube gets gtng—is evident here still. A new trio, KMC Po»on Iv.y 4 T». (which stands for KaoticMinds Corrupting is getting ready to put out one of the craziest albums ever on Priority. With two guys rapping at 'he same lime, there is a slight resemblance to what Run DMC docs but this is very intense rap with offbeat lyrics and dense production whipping things inlo a frenzy of energy in your cars. On ihc slower tip again, Gang Starr's album Step In The Arena (Chrysalis) kicks mo' better knowledge. They arc fond of Public Enc- my-style high pitched horns running through the mix, but ihc rest of ihc rhythm, except the excellent scratching, is pretly laid-back wilh sampled loops and cxlra percussion. Ice Cube has jusl busted out another release, his Kill At Will EP TV all the iii and then have an artificially high standard lhat men have to live up to. To get the money to lcxik like the guys on the tube, "he becomes a slick-up kid, taking your shit, my shit, he's selling dope. Now he's gol ihe car and the jewelry" and only now has a chance for ihc bilch lo like him. "If she knows how todo her shit right, the girl can make you buy" anything she wants. That's why he has done songs like "I Ain't the One" and "You Can't Fade Me." He is trying lo reverse ihc "material shil to gel women" because he thinks lhat's ihe basis of all ihc black "crime, shil, dope, |and| gangs." On another lip. Ice Cube is supposedly going to be in a movie next year called Boyz- 'N-The-Hood (Columbia Pictures). Mychoiccforbcstrappcrlhis month? You guessed it, Ice Cube. FEBRUARY 1991 23 GRACELAND CALENDAR Wednesdays Reggae Night *—^**** with ************** DJ George Barrett Thursdays Nirvana ■■■■■■■ with ******** DJ The Mixtress Fridays The Smooth Groove ■_____■__■ with ******** DJ Mick Shea Saturdays The Monster with DJ The Mixtress GRACELAND 1250 Richards St, Alley Entrance, Vancouver 688-2648 •I T^Wv^ ^** "QYFAMli-YOION'T 6oTH£R ASKIN4 WM6R. X WAS 60IN6. AFTEP. FlM-JnTo ABOOT RFTYFEtTOFTME ei-CCTR>CAI-WIRE- X. P^ECJOtR&O. " RB-TURH_t) UPSTAvRS JOST IN TlMtTO HEAP- A Vflt.5peP.tD -***A6Aof- BY VIOLA FUNK Hot dogs, own. Bul somehow il never lived up to us miraculous promise when eaten alone, another one of the weird examples of food chemistry, I guess. And while I'm on the topic, may 1 iUudetoWHOLEWHEATbotdog buns and denounce Ihem as the hanc ol ihe hot dog's existence, (ioddam it, • HOT DOG is primal junk food in us unadulterated state and any attempt lo render il partially nutritious is tantamount to blasphemy. 1 remember one thing lhat always used io gross mc oul harshly was the lend ixlour of the waler thal'd he left over in the pot after my mom cooked weinen for hoi dogs. No offense to my M.'s cooking or anything; this is no doubt a universal phenomenon, but it was the one ihing aboul hot dogs that always repulsed me. Thankfully, il's casilv avoided if you slick io those acsthctically- pteasing, spit-roasted Mall I lot Dogs. in be dam delicious, FEBRUARY CONCERTS Uh I /she says. e about hot dogs. Whal do I, far removed from my carnivorous Surrey mall-going days, know about hot dogs? So ran my thoughts upon my edilrix's suggestion lhat I explore the humble hot dog this month. Casting insecurity to the winds though, 1 threw my mind back to ihose halcyon days and dredged up a few recollec- Hot dogs. Why have ihey earned such a hard-and- fast place in North America's cullural psyche, anyway? Well, a large pan of their allure must surely rest in ihc limc-honoured method of display: skewered on stainless steel prongs in those insanely-lit glass cases, slickly gleaming with a healthy coal of grease, damn nigh burst- in' their hides as they hypnotically rotate before your eyes—hey, who can resist such a sales pitch? Sure sucked me in when I was a kid anyway, and slill causes mc to slow and salivate when I pass 'em by. WilheWoo/Je, Orange Julius, Drummer Boy Malt Bar: al) purveyed the quintessential Mall Hot Dog in days of yore, and a representative from any of them was a cherished treat on the occasions M.& D.'s funds allowed for them. But—lest we forget—a non-mall locale that also served up a fine 'dog, albeit under a curious title: A&W. Remember the Whistle Dog Planer? When I felt real adventurous in A&W-land, fell like breaking free of the feltcrs of Teenburgerdom, lhat's whal I'd order. Came in a kooky wicker basket wilh French fries and that coleslaw in the cool, creamy dressing; a honking big slab o' flesh split lengthwise down the middle, sona looking like it had been barbecued, resting upon a reverently open bun. This was the Whistle Dog, and in fact, it is available at A&W's to this day. Except now you may well hafta go INto a mall to avail yourself of one, and when you do, it'll come in a plastic basket. Kinda lame, but there ya go. Green relish. Ya can't have a genuine Mall Hot Dog without ya have green relish. Mustard is fairly obligatory loo, but ketchup tends to sogoultheholdogbun and shouldn't chicken or beef in place of lhal old standby, pig offal—well, arc they REALLY hoi dogs, or only a bastar- disalion ihcrcof, catering to the health-conscious '90s? I dunno; I dunno. I lard to say. Heck, maybe by the turn of the century, tofu wcincrs will'vc replaced all olher forms and the question will be definitively settled. be allowed near it. Chopped onions as a garnish arc cool, although as a child my tastebuds found them in- timidatingly exotic. So yeah. The hoi dog bun—an important component of the whole— always lasted so great in tandem with the frankfurter that I'd jump at the chance Robynn Iw Okay, well, 1 don't think I need to get obvious and gross about ihc Symbolism of lialing a Hot Dog; suffice it to say, they look great roasting on a spit, totally sexy attired in green relish, and taste like more when ya sink yer lecth into them. What more can you ask in a lifelong love? FRIDAY 1 MCA Recording Artists TANKHOG with special guests THE SWALLOWS SATURDAY 2 MCA Recording Artists THE CONNELLS with guests from Seattle HAMMERBOX SUNDAY 3 Open MONDAY 4 Showcase: SALLY CAN'T DANCE, FESTIVE EDDIES, GROOVE RANCH TUESDAY S SHARKBAIT with special guests TURF CITY WEDNESDAY 6 THE ODDS with guests UNDER RAIN THURSDAY 7 CFOX presents THE MEDALLION with guests N.O.S. FRIDAY 8 From Australia Nettwerk Recording Artists FALLING JOYS with special guests THE NEIGHBOURHOODS SATURDAY 9 From Boston, THE NEIGHBOURHOODS with special guests DOGZILLA SUNDAY 10 Open MONDAY 11 Open TUESDAY 12 THE NOISE with special guests MIND THE GAP WEDNESDAY 13 ATLANTIS BUS with special guests SUN DOG SUN THURSDAY 14 CiTR 101.9fM presents MARY'S DANISH with special guests THE PICASSO SET FRIDAY 15 WEA Recording Artists LITTLE CHARLIE AND THE NIGHTCATS SATURDAY 16 Perryscope and CiTR 101.9fM present BUFFALO TOM with special guests WINDWALKER and LUNG SUNDAY 17 A MURDER OF CROWS with special guests SAW HORSE MONDAY 18 SHE with guests TUESDAY 19 KRAMER VS. KRAMER LUV NIGHT with special guests WEDNESDAY20 Coast 800 presents EUGENE RIPPER'S FAST FOLK UNDERGROUND featuring HERALD NIX THURSDAY 21 CD Release Party for ANIMAL SLAVES with special guests RED HERRING and UZUME TAIKO FRIDAY 22 CiTR 101.9fM presents ROOTS ROUNDUP with special guests from New York BLAKE BABIES SATURDAY 23 CiTR 101.9fM presents ROOTS ROUNDUP with special guests GORILLA GORILLA SUNDAY 24 Coastal Ja/_ and Blues Society and CiTR 101.9fM present THE KNITTING FACTORY GOES TO THE NORTHWEST featuring THE SONNY SHARROCK BAND, CHUNK, and THIRD PERSON MONDAY 25 KASHTON TUESDAY 26 B.T.O. WEDNESDAY 27 PAUL HYDE and MAE MOORE double bill THURSDAY 28 Dr. Dream Recording Artists BOB'S YOUR UNCLE and 'from Toronto JERRY JERRY AND THE SONS OF RHYTHM KINGS double bill FRIDAY MARCH 1 1st show: MURRAY MCLACHLAN 2nd show: TRAGICALLY HIP SATURDAY 2 1st show: SUE MEDLEY 2nd show: BARNEY BENTALL AND THE LEGENDARY HEARTS TOWN PUMP PPP &SX~: TUt iWA/E W/IR (MJHU*9eir1'Cwm:?) 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V -''-! >*** ' • DiSCORDER DATEBOOK mains and the True Nature ol Love al the firehall Theatre.. 4 MONDAY CiTR Classics Night .1: :-<• Pit Pub... Hammerbox at Harpos (Victona)..The8ar1>erolSevilleattrie Queen Elizabeth Theatre. 5TUESDAY CiTR World Beat Nights the Pit Pub. Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens backed by the - Makgona Tsohle Band at the Com The lells 1 FRIDAY Tankhog, Th* Swallows and Nimana at the Town Pump... Gorilla Gorilla and Tha Bombshells at The Cruel Elephant... No More Excuses! Amnesty International benefit with Bob's Your Uncle, Bolera Lava. One Big Union and Oh Yeah! at the Commodore Ballroom... Art Bergmann and Sons ol Freedom at 86 Street Music Hall... Memory Day atthe RailwayClub... Mark Hummed at the Yale... Discover Dance presents 0 Vertigo Danse at the Vancouver Playhouse... Savage in UmboattheStationStreetArts Centre... Vancouver Secondary Schools present Theatre Festival at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre... Ruling Passions curated by Karen Knights at the Video In... Brave New Play Rites at the Dorothy Somerset Studio, UBC... 2 SATURDAY The Connells and Hammerbox at the Town Pump... Chris Houston and His Evil Twang and Herald Nix at The Cruel Elephant... Martha Reeves and the Vandellas at the Commodore... Memory Day at the Railway Club... EQ at 86 Street Music Hall... Marian Rose and the Headbenders at the WISE Hall... Re- percussionat the Centennial Theatre... Mark Hummell at the Yale... 0 Vertigo Danse at the Vancouver Playhouse... The Barber ol Seville at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre... Vancouver Secondary Schools present Theatre Festival at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature ol Love at the Rrehall Theatre... Brave New Play Rites at the Dorothy Somerset Studio, UBC... 3 SUNDAY 3 Mustaphas3 atthe Town Pump... Bill Clark Sextet at the Glass Slipper... Unidentified Human Re- it the Off Ramp (Seattle)... Maurice Vaughn at the Yale Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 6 WEDNESDAY CiTR presents >For You< the special no-cover soiree in celebration of Front 242's firsl Sony America's release Tyranny >tor You< at the Luv-a-Fair (8-10pm)... CiTR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... Nervous Fellas at the Railway Club... Spoon Divy and Way at The Cruel Elephant... Maurice Vaughnat the Yale... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 7 THURSDAY CiTR Cool Thursdays at the Pit Pub... Ocktratrackter and Lung at the Cruel Elephant... Nervous Fellas at the Railway Club... Jesse Colin Young at the Town Pump... Maurice Vaughnat the Yale... Bob Weir and Bob Wasserman with Capping Day atThe Pantages Theatre (Tacoma)... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature ot Love atthe Firehall Theatre... 8 FRIDAY Winter Roots Music Festival begins Colleen Eccleston, Bill Henderson, Qiu Xia and Bourne & MacLeod at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and Jimmy Roy's 5-Star it the WISE Hall... Onion e with Soul Charge at the Cruel VANCOUVER'S HOTTEST BLUES NIGHTCLUB Feb. 1 2 From San Francisco, The Mark Hummel Band Feb. 5 9 Maurice Vaughn Feb. 11 Canned Heat Feb. 12 16 From Portland, Lloyd Jones Struggle Feb. 19 23 David Raven Feb. 26 Mar. 2 Cathi McDonald DON'T MISS JACK LA VIN'S JAMS: SAT. 3-8 PM I SUNDAY BLUES MARATHON JAM SUN. 3 PM-MIDNITE OPEN EACH NIGHT FROM 9:30 pm -.1:30 am OPEN WEEKDAYS FROM 11:30 a Elephant... Nervous Fellas at the Railway Club . Falling Joys and the Neighborhoods at the Town Pump. Small Circle of Friends benefit concert teatunng Johnny and the Stickmen, Christine Duncan. Peter Wisstoff. Rhythm and News and Karen Parent and Friendsat the Surrey Arts Centre.. Maunce Vaughn at the Yale. Capping Oay and Sadhappy at Western Washington University's Mama Sundays (Bellingham)... Black History Month at the Vancouver EastCultural Centre Gallery ... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pit! Gallery... United Players of Vancouver present The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey) Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Thealre... 9 SATURDAY Winter Roots Music Festival continues John McLachlan, Valdy, Babayaga String Quartet. Robert Minden Ensemble, Bill Gallagher and Jake Galbraith, David Essig, Uzume Taiko, Allen Dobb and Dumela at the Vancouver EastCultural Centre and Anzanga Marimba at the WISE Hall... 64 Funny Cars with The Sweaters at the Cruel Elephant... Nervous Fellas at the Railway Club... The Persuaders at the Town Pump... Maurice Vaughn at the Yale... Like Rain and Stumpy Joe and Hitmen at the Off Ramp (Seattle)... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Uni- dentilied Human RemainsandtheTrue Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre... 10 SUNDAY Winter Roots Music Festival closes with Valdy, Jim Page and Zero Tolerance. Eileen McGann. "The Hat Band,* James Gordon. Grievous Angels. Jenny Allen. Colleen Eccleston. Sandy Scofield. Wyckham Porteous Band at the WISE Hall First Order Beating. Daydreams ol Sade, Subculture and Sonarchy II the Cruel Elephant... Ranch Romance at the Vancouver EastCultural Centre... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery.. Empowerment Series by Ingnd Koenig at Ihe Pitt Gallery... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature ol Love al the Firehall Thealre... 11 MONDAY CiTR Classics Night al the Pit Pub... Speed Bumps and Sally Can't Dance a! the Railway Club.. Double Exposure's 3rd Anniversary at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre... Black History Month al the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Empow- ennent Series by Ingnd Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... 12 TUESDAY CiTR World Beat Nighl at the Pit Pub... Feathered Pens featuring Caroline Arends at the Railway Club... Concrete Blonde and Andy Prieboy at the Commodore Ballroom... The Flirtations at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre... Lloyd Jones at the Yale... Black History Month at the VancouverEastCultural Centre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 13 WEDNESDAY CITR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... Video Bar- B-Que, Baron Von Fokker and Taylor Kane Explosion at the Cruel Elephant... Concrete Blonde and Andy Prieboy at the Commodore Ballroom... The Flirtations at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre... New Winds at the Glass Slip per Frank Frink 5 atthe Railway Club Lloyd Jones at the Yale... Rastaman Vibration with Roger Sleffens at Graceland... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery ... Empowerment Series by Ingnd Koenig al the Pitt Gallery The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jen cho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre... 14THURSDAY CiTR presents Mary's Danish at the Town Pump... CiTR Cool Thursdays al the Pit Pub... Slam Suzanne With Bitter End at the Cruel Elephant... The Flirtations at the Vancouver EastCultural Centre...Frank Frink5atthe RailwayClub... New Winds at the Glass Slipper... Animal Slaves CD Release Parry at the Town Pump... Black History Month at ihe Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Lloyd Jones at the Yale Empowerment Series by Ingnd Koenig at the Pitt Gallery The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentified Human Remainsand the True Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre... 15FWDAY DirtandSluggoattheCruel Elephant... Club Mango at the Railway Club... Little Charlie and the Night Cats at the Town Pump... The Flirtations at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre... Lloyd Jones at the Yale... Brazilian Carnival '91 featuring Brazilian Expressions at 86 Street Music Hall... Black History Month at the VancouverEastCultural Centre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... The Importance of Continued on page 29 PROFESSIONAL QUALITY DEMOS FULLY EQUIPPED 8 TRACK $12/hr INCLUDES ENGINEER DEADBEAT STUDIOS (604) 687-5803 STUDENTS - WELCOME TO PflRfl9ISf VANCOUVER'S BEST SHOW VALUE! GREAT TRIPLE FEATURES! SEE 3 FILMS FOR ONLY $2.50! ENJOY THE BEST IN MOVIE ENTERTAINMENT AT THE LOWEST TICKET PRICE IN TOWN VANCOUVER'S ORIGINAL DISCOUNT THEATRE & STILL THE BEST! ALL SEATS ALL DAY WE WANT TO MAKE THE PARADISE YOUR FAVOURITE THEATRE 24 HR. 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HEAR SAY 5:30-6:00PM CiTR's literary arts program needs YOU to submit your works for on-air perfor- ELECTRONIC SMOKE SIGNALS/DECOMPOSITIONS 6:00-»:00PM From the global cultures of resistance hosted by Horacio de la Cueva. alternating Sundays with De-Composit ions RADIO FREE AMERICA 10:00PM- 12:00AM Join host Dave Emory and colleague Nip Tuck for some extraodinary political research guaranteed to make you think twice Bring your tape deck and two C-90s Originally broadcast on KFJC (Los Altos. California) _____■ A.*]. I»7. %>__■__■ THE MORNING SHOW 7:30«:1SAM From the famous siren to the not- so-famous BBC Radio News Reel, wake up with the CiTR Morning Show News, sports, weather and Alberta hog prices. BREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS »:15- 11:00 AM Your favourite brownsters James and Peter offer a savoury blend ofthe familiar and exotic in an excitingly luscious blend of aural delights! Tune in and enjoy each weekly brown plate special. 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FLEX YOUR HEAD 3:00-5:00PM -HARD— -ERIC— -CORE- THE YAP GAP 530-6O0PM H and anything else that occurs to fed by Antje Rauwerda RADIO FREE PARKING 10:00PM- , radio show with a life- force all its own Mixes come from seemingly nowhere much like the radio signals you pick up An aural parking lot for the muses No expectations. No disappointments. THE ELECTRIC ENEMA 1:00-4:OOAM CiTR Sports Team covers UBC Thunderbirds in ce hockey ' jskefball varsity action. Play- action pre-empts regula r C iTR. uned for CWUAA playoff lies ICE HOCKEY Saturday February 2nd at 7:30pm vs Universrtyof Lethbridge Friday Fetmjory »th at 7 30pm vs University of Saskatchewan Friday February 22nd at 7:30pm vs. University of Calgary BASKETBALL Saturday February 9th at 8:00pm B.C. High School Basketball Final Saturday Merch 16th, time to be TOP OF THE BOPS 6:00-7:O0PM Mu- a tasty pot of gumbo stew. 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Today's ie Spirit Feel THE AFTERNOON REPORT 1:00- 1:15PM News.sportsandweather, MEKANIKAL OBJEKT NOIZE 1:15- 3:00PM A musical miasma of spinner June Scudeler. BOXER SHORT BOYZ 7:00-9:00PM Wear boxer shorts and walk with confidence. Jerome Broadway and Garnet Timothy Harry arter- THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM-12:00AM Vancouver's longest running prime time jazz program. Hosted by the ever-suave Gavin Walker Features at 11. 4fh Aura .Miles Davis' most important album of the past decade. Thisalbum was scheduled for Jan. 7th but the snowstorms intervened (remember?). 11 th Groovin' with Golson. a hard driving album by composer-tenor saxophonist Benny Golson. A really inspired free-blowing date 28 DISCORDER -wmm -J :wmm _■;.:•::_■ bi' mbvi~ •__■ _■_■»■:l■_■_■_■ ■__.,._■ wmr\mm s 9 10 ARE YOU SERIOUS MUSIC BREAKFAST WITH THE CONFESSIONS OF A COFFEE ADDICT JOURNEY TO THE SOFT CHEWY... WHITE NOISE SCRAMBLED EGGS THE SATURDAY DAVID LONGRIDGE UVE FROM VENUS 11 12 1 MOVING IMAGES CHORD GOURD & DON MOO-ZICK SWINGIN'SINGLES NOW YOU ROCKERS SHOW SOULCHURCH LUC DINSDALE MOO-ZICK VENUS FLYTRAP *m*wn^iwyrstm M&MHaW-lJMe1 l*H*M*ilMal*MSM JIJdv'eMFJadrlJ 2 3 MEKANIKAL OBJEKT NOIZE BLOOD ON THE SADDLE MOO-ZICK DICK CLARK'S HEAP CHITS ...BEING GREEN 4 5 THE NEW BRENT ARGO SHOW MOO-ZICK AVANT PIG MOO-ZICK FLEX YOUR HEAD NOISE ONE/ NARDWUAR/ NOISE TWO IN EFFECT ■MUMd-I-M-Mrl n-|"ia:_rM»M_Hh* Wrl-HsMrlMHIMd J*kM*4ldlflfl__M •MI_I!I"|:):I:,-I_ il^LTHXNiM'i l-ISH*ld_e1„__ H HEARSAY SPORTS DIGEST VANCOUVER FOCUS ARTS CAFE ...ELUS FAILS THE YAP GAP KERENTAFFEHRZ 7 8 ELECTRONIC FACING THE MUSIC BC FOLK HANFORD NUCLEAR TOP O'DA BOPS MULLAN SMOKE.. ./ULIANA BOXER SHORT BOYZ THE UNHEARD MUSIC JIGGLE OUT FOR KICKS HOME TAPING 9 HI-FI THE AFRICAN THE JAZZ SHOW HEADS DAY DREAM 10 THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL 11 ONE STEP BEYOND/RADIO FREE AMERICA HOME BASS RADIO FREE PARKING 1° SOUNDOF IN THE GRIP OF INCOHERENCY PHENOMENON ONE DANCE HALL REGGAE AURAL TENTACLES I 2 3 4 OPEN COUNTRY JOY/OPEN SEASON MEGABLAST1 SMELL THE BIDET THE ELECTRIC ENEMA _________■ fa ;(ri a (.:.:.:.:._'j±:*k. ____■■_■ Rollins Band Turned On (Touch & Go/1/4 Stick) Front Line Assembty . Caustic Grip (Third Mind) Wartime Fast Food For Thought (Chrysalis) Lush Goto (PotyGram/4AD) Meat Beat Manifesto 99% (Warner/Mute) Various Artists Rewind Part 2 - The Singers (Ras) Noise Unit Response Frequency (Antler-Subway) Paris The Devil Made Me Do It (Tommy Boy) IceCube K/Mof "////(Priority) Various Artists OulotMa)ors(y\SA.) Various Artists .._. Hard To 8e«eve (C/Z) Rancid Hell Spawn . Chainsaw Masoehist (Wrench) 2 Live Jews As Kosher as They Wanna Be (Hot Productions) SexMuseum /ndependence(Romilar-D) Blaine Reininger.. .xpofr/a/eJourna/iCRockville) Mad Professor Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton(.Qcx/'Arilia) Various Artists L//urg/ejOrthoc/oxes(S.R.I./HarmoniaMundi) Vangelis The City (Warner/East West) BolfThrower In Battle There Is No /.aw.'CFuture Shock/Si lentScream) Various Artists Rewind Part 2 -The DJs (Ras) Doughboys Happy Accidents (Capitol/Restless) Various Artists Parad/se of £asMfr/ca(A&M/Virgin/Earthworks) Fastbacks Very, Very Powerful Motor(Popl\ama) Mekons TheMe/rorM/?ock'n'/?o//(A&MAwin\Tone) Killdozer For Ladies Only (Touch &Go) Squirrels What Gives?(Popllama) KMFDM Wo/ve(WaxTrax) Nikki Sudden Delerium Borghesia Resistance (PlayltAgainSam) Capping Day Pos/fVoB/Ms(Popllama) Ween Satan- the Oneness CTwin\ Tone) Exene Cervenka ffunn/ngSacred(Capitol/Rhino) Gruntruck Inside Yours (Empty) Cancer To the Gory End (Future Shock/Silent Scream) Tankhog House ot Beauty (Zulu) TheConnells OneS/mp/e Word(MCA/TVT) Alien Sex Fiend Ci/rse(Sinclair/Anagram) Devine& Statton The Prince of Wales (Rockville) Rikk Agnew's Yard Sale £mo//ona/Vom/f (Triple XXX) Jack Endino /Angle of Attack (Toxic Shock/Bobok) R. Murray Shafer 5 Ortord String Quartets (Centrediscs) Various Artists... New Wave ot British Heavy Meto/(Metal Blade/Caroline) NoirDeSoir A Suite ot Aural Pictures (COD/150 BPM) Vexed The Good Fight (C/Z) Mari Boine Persen Goto Gu/a(A&M/Virgin/Realworid) Bad Religion Aga//wftt>eGrafn(Epitaph) Unk'N'Chain New Day (Ras) Various Artists Hard Cash (Green Linnet) The Barra Macneib Timeframe (Barra Music Company) Overthrow Within Suffering (Epidemic) The Baltimore Consort On the Banks of He*con(S.R.I. /Dorian) Sadus Swallowed In Black (Cargo/Roadracer) U.H.F TheProject- Variety Recordings 5 (CBCfS/ariery Recordings) Stereo-Taxic Device S/ereo-rajrfcDeWce(Cargo/KK) Various Artists Uveal fhe Knitting Factory (ASM) Ride Nownere(Reprise) PribislavPitoeff Inde duSud (S.R. I. /Harmonia Mundi) Nuclear Assault Handle wilh Care (Sony/ln-Effect) Killing Joke Extremities, Dirt A Various Repressed Emotions (Noise) John Lee Hooker The Hook (Chameleon) Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band (Flying Bulgar) Cosmic Psychos.... LNe atthe Palace, Me7bou me(Shake/Rartlesnake) Anthony Braxton Compositions 98(S.R.I./HatHut) Bounty Hunters Threads: A FeorSfa/nedScorCRockville/Giant) Atheist Ptece of 77me(Caroline/Death) Winter Into Darkness (Future Shock) Verlaines SomeDfeenc/tanredfven/ngOHomestead) Kreator Coma ot Souls (Sony) Universal Congr ess of... The Sad and Tragic Demise of.-(t us ion Ill/Enemy) Of Cabbages and Kings Basic Pain Basic Pleasure (Triple XXX) Mad Professor Afeas/orVe/towDu_>(Ras) Pentangle So Earty In the Spring (Green Linnet) Henry Fiol Sonero(A&M/Virgin/Earthworks) Exhorder Slaughter In the Vatican (Cargo/Roadracer) Brenda Kahn Goldfish Don't Talk Back (Community 3) Hawkwind SpaceBand/te'Cargo/GWR) Marie-Lynn Hammond Black A While... (Festival/Aural Tradition) BastTo Sing Ihe Troubled BeastXHomestead) Animosity Get Off My Back (Mosh Pit) Black Tape for a Blue Girl A Chaos of Desire (Projekt) The Great Kat Bee//)ovenonSpeed(Cargo/Roadracer) TheWarratahs Wildcard (Pagan) 3 Mustaphas 3 Soup otthe Century (AbM/fryko) Chickasaw Mudd Puppies W/»#eD/rf(PolyGram/Wing/Texas Hotel) TretFure TlmeTums the Moon (Festival/Olivia) Kinothek Percussion Ensemble Suspense (Audiox) Hellhammer Apocalyptic Raids 1990 A.D. (Noise) AilGyfnod Nuonce(OFN) Mother Love Bone Appfe (PolyGram/PolyDor) Thomas Mapfumo.... ... Shumba (A&M /Virgin/Earthworks) Senator Flux The Criminal Special (Cargo/Emergo) The Toasters ThlsGun'sForHlreQAoon') WestphalandOppens Johannes Brahms Sonatas Op. 120(Bridge) Rankin Family Fare Thee We/7iove(Rankin Family) Jackofflcers Digital Dump (Rough Trade) mWmWmWWM^: M ;1 _M :_•_•_M 4.-_H<********* Front Line Assembly "Provision" 12" (Third Mind) Metallica "StoneColdCrazy"CD-5"(WEA/Elektra) Tad "Jinx"/ "PigIron"7"(SubPop) Ken Baumgartner "Bomber" CD-5" (Metal Blade/Caroline) Young Black Teenagers "Nobody Knows Kelli" CD-5" (SOUL) Front242 "Tragedy lor You" CD-5" (Sony/Epic) Gas Huffer / Fas (backs Split 7" (Steve Priest Fan Club) Noise Unit "Agitate" 12" (Antler-Subway) Mark Arm Freewheelin' Mark Arm 7"(Sub Pop) Smelly Gambas Ftttmttuuuucck! 7"EP(Far Out) Pigface Spoon Breakfast EPOouchb. Go/Invisible) Young Fresh Fellows "Moforbroke"/"Equator Blues" 7" (Cruddy) Smugglers "Upand Down" 7" (Nardwuar) Venus Fly Trap Europa EP (Danceteria) SonofBazerk "Change fhe Style" CD-5" (SOUL.) A Tribe Called Quest "Description ol a Fool" 12" (BMG/Jive) Chikara Jesus Was aCapricorn 7"£P(Chikara) Aieee! Flory, Larson, Shumate Vinyl 7" EP(Vlnylmania) Gunsharp'ners "Do You Care Theme" 7" (Cruddy) EirinPeryglus "Yllosg"12"(OFN) Jomanda "Shake" 12" (Big Beat) LibidoBoyz "ChildhoodMemories" 7"(RedDecibel) OutOut "D.W.I." 12" (Axis) Nid Madagascar "Lledrlth Lllw" 12"(OFN) Profax 7 Protax 7" EPffat Out) Jay Williams "Sweat" 12" (Big Beat) Singing Spoons "Buzz" 7" (Manufacture Sound Output) Rhythm Radicals "Brotherto Brother" 12" (Skyywalker) Prince "New Power Generation" 12" (Warner/Paisley Park) Plant Bach Of nus "Pwlltrals" 12"(OFN) Just Say No "Pitbulls on Crack" 7" (Go Ahead) Intelligent Hoodlum "Black and Proud" 12" (A&M) Gangstarr "Just lo Gel a Rep" 12" (Chrysalis) Harry Coltelto "When Sailors Are In Town" 7" (ZOO.) Peg boy Three Chord Mon/eEP (Touch & Go/ 1/4 Stick) Chemistry Set Wake Up Sometime 12" (Romilar-D) dinger / Hopeful Monsters Split 7"(Hippycore) Infinite Regression Is This All? 7" EP(Chikara) Love & Respect Love A Respect EP (Penultimate) Trash Brats "Somebody's Too Late" 7" (Force Majeure) Gut Flower "Maple Leafs" 7" (Blow Valve) Deco "Powerhlts"12"(Circularphile) Mad Mad Nomad "Keeper ofthe Cage" 7" (Green Monkey) Captainv'sandthe "Rock'n'Roll Paper Route" 7" (Heart Punch) Where's the Beach "Shakln'" 12" (Mantra) A Priori "First Cause" 12" (Laocoon Productions) Marcos Gil "One More Night" 12" (Merge) Artillerymen "9G"12"(Circularphile) kii.[Hi-«t,iriieikM-4i[ii_r±i;iiY<voi:i44fit-H Windwalker "Ripped Away" Real Truth "How Many Words" Perfume Tree "Dreaming" Tryptic of a Pastel Fern "Alpha Nightclub" Za Za & the Angels "Dr. Nightmare" Mystery Machine "Tombstone" LSD49 "Vitamin K" Captain Crunch "You Don't Exist in Transit" Bloodblister "Tan Just One (Summer Summer)" Joe 90 "End of the World" Festerkampf "Kill the Little Children" Laughing Hyenas "Guitar Boats" Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet "TheAlou ette" Uneven Steps "North Star Shine" Vasectomoids "Men" Sect "Amor Patriae" NoG.S.T.Band "We Need a Revolution" Cherry Hoggs "Ain't Got the Keys to Your Heart" 23music "Labrylnfhs- 4th Movement" Bruce Atchinson "Passing Messages" Naked Lunch "I Don't Know You" Polka Dogs "Llle In the Colonies" Tony Baloney Dance Ensemble "Pussycat" Emily Stop "Can't You See" Mermaid Cafe "Back of a Cadillac" Ludwigs "I Want You" Global Citizens "Why" FunforMalakai "Saltwater Flow" Darkling Thrushes "Glass" Don Don "Dlrtyswlne" John Adams "The Winds of Change" Purdins "Tony's New One" Show Business Giants "Love Sick" Rattled Roosters "'57Cadlllac" VoxPopuli "Don't Know Why" Valentinos "Gimme Some Action" The Moaners "G.S.T. Boogie" Patrick Klebe "Crisis In the Gulf" High Speed Sacrifice "Chainsaw Guitar" Crash Dummies "Exercising the Demons" Flem "Satanic Versus Satanic" Headspring "Ill State of..." Cerebral Dissonance "Behind YourSmlle" LogicCons piracy "I Hate" Desmonds "Denver" Terror T & the Beat Assassinator... Ironing Pants Indefinitely FallingSpikes Esruk . "Dlss-functlonal Relationship" "Off Pants" "History" Continual from 1'agc 27 Being EarnestattheJenchoGym (West Point Grey).. Unidentified Human Remains ana the True Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre Our Images, Our Selves Videos by Women about Women atthe Video In... 16 SATURDAY CiTR presents Buffalo Tom. Windwalker and Lung at the Town Pump... Hammerboxind Sweaty Nipples .it The Cruel Elephant... The Flirtations at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre... Brazilian Carnival '91 featuring Brazilian Expressions at 86 Street Music Hall... Blue Rodeo and Skydiggers at the Orpheum.. Lloyd Jones at the Yale... Like Rain and Picketls at Speedy O'tubbs (Bellingham)... The Jazzmanian Devils at the Vancouver Art Gallery...Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cullural Centre Gallery.. .Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery. The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentilied Human Remains and Ihe True Nature ot Love at the Firehall Theatre... Our Images, Our Selves Videos by Women about Women at the 17 SUNDAY Jellyfishbabies at the CruelElephant... Amanda Hughesatthe Arts Revue Theater Granville Island... Hammerbox and Mary's Danish at the OK Hotel (Seattle)... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery. Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig al Ihe Pitt Gallery... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 18 MONDAY CiTR Classics Night at the Pit Pub... Black History Monthatthe VancouverEastCultural Centre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... 19 TUESDAY CiTR World Beat Night at the Pit Pub... Blue Oyster Cult at 86 StreetMusic Hall... Black HistoryMonth at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... Unidentified HumanRemainsandtheTrue Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 20 WEDNESDAY CiTR Hot Wednesdays at Ihe Pit Pub... Eugene Ripper's Fast Folk Underground at the Town Pump... Kinesis Dance presents In Search of Melissanthe at the Vancouver EastCultural Centre...Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery...Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentified Human Remainsand the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 21 THURSDAY CiTR Cool Thursdays atthe Pi! Pub... Lik Dirt with Charleson Chargesat the Cruel Elephant... Sacred Blade at 86 Street Music Hall... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... In Search of Melissanthe... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... The Importance of Being Earnestat the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentilied Human Remains and the True Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre... 22 FRIDAY CiTR presents Roots Roundup with special guests Mam- Commodore Ballroom 870 Granville CruelElephant 1176 Granville 86 Street Music Hall BC Enterprise Centre Firehall Arts Centre 260 East Cordova Frederic Wood Theatre 6454 Crescent Road, UBC Graceland 1250 Richards La Quena Coffee House 1111 Commercial Luv-a-Falr 1275 Seymour PacificCinematheque 1131 Howe Paradise Cinema 919 Granville Pit Pub Basement, Student Union Building, UBC RailwayClub 579 Dunsmuir Ridge Theatre 3131 Arbutus Starlight Cinema 935 Denman Station Street Arts Centre 930 Station Student Union Building 6138 SUB Blvd, UBC Town Pump 66 Water Vancouver East Cultural Centre 1895 Venables WISE Hall 1882Adanac Yale 1300 Granville FEBRUARY 1991 29 moth recording artist from New York Blake 8abies at the Town Pump... Sister Oouble Happiness with Touch 'n' Go's at the Cruel Elephant Like Ram and Picketts a! the Railway Club... Black History Month at the Vancouver East CulluralCentreGallery Empowennent Series by Ingrid Koenig al Ihe Pitt Gallery.. The Importance ol Being Earnest at the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentilied Human Remains and the True Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre... 23 SATURDAY CiTR presents Gregory Isaacs with Chicken Chest at 86 Street... CiTR presents Roots Roundup at the Town Pump... Sister Double Happiness with Touch 'n' Go's at the Cruel Elephant.. Like Rain and Pickefts at the Railway Club... Muy Caliente! benefit concert featuring Ancient Cultures, Salsa Ferreras and Santiago Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... Empowennent Series by Ingnd Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... The Importance ol Being Earnestat the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre... 24 SUNDAY CiTR presents The Knitting Factory Goes to Ihe Northwest with Sonny Sharrock, Chunk and Third Person at Ihe Glass Slipper... Black History Month at the Vancouver East CulluralCentre Gallery... Empowennent Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery.. Unidentilied Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 25 MONDAY CiTR Classics Night at the Pit Pub... Black History Monthatthe Van couverEastCulturalCentre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig atthe Pitt Gallery... 26 TUESDAY CiTR World Beat Night at the Pit Pub... Moonlodge at the Vancouver EastCultural Centre...Black History Month at the Vancouver East CulturalCentre Gallery... Empowerment Series by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature ol Love at the Firehall Theatre... free film screening of New Works by Mina Shum at the Pacific Cimematheque... 27 WEDNESDAY CiTR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... Inspiral Carpets at the Luv-a-Fair... Jack FeBts Fine with A Fine Pickle at th^Cruel Elephant... Moonlodgeatthe Vancouver East Cultural Centre... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... EmpowermentSeries by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... The Importance of Being Earnestat the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... 28 THURSDAY CiTR Cool Thursdays at the Pit Pub... Lung, The Wongs and A Cartoon Swear at the Cruel Elephant... Moonlodge at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre... Black History Month at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery... EmpowermentSeries by Ingrid Koenig at the Pitt Gallery... The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jericho Gym (West Point Grey)... Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Firehall Theatre... I am your master, Vinny. I am your master! Mr. Carbuncle took his little black slave boy by the neck and tossed him across the pink tile floor. Little Karoot was the most disobedient slave Mr. Carbuncle had had since landing on the Portuguese colony five years before. He called the boy Vinny, after an Italian naval officer who had passed through Mr. Carbuncle's village when he was a boy. Mr. Carbuncle had been in love then, but now not even a beautiful dark-eyed native like Karoot could put the fire back into his thick colonial veins. Why had this big Portuguese monster taken him away from his mother and baby brother, Dingo? Mr. Carbuncle started kicking. He had to teach this lousy runt a lesson. Right into the gut, again and again, until finally Vinny turned and looked at him, and in Vinny's eyes Mr. Carbuncle not only saw blood from the countless lacerations to his forehead, but tears, tears that took him back, far back to those long summer days with Vinny the sailor man. Suddenly he realized little Karoot was no different from Vinny; that the tears in Karoot's eyes were the same ones he had seen in Vinnyfs eyes when Vinny left for the Americas many years before. I am sorry, Vinny, said Mr. Carbuncle. I didn't mean to cause you such pain and sorrow. Karoot didn't care what name his master called him by anymore; he had heard the words he'd been longing to hear ever since he started working for this handsome foreigner. I love you, Mr. Carbuncle, said Vinny. 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Publisher | Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia |
Date Issued | 1991-02-01 |
Extent | 32 pages |
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Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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