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Eschewing the too-common "Women In Rock* ghettolzatlon trap, we decided to let our contributor* decide what they wanted to see In thle Issue. The result: Interview* with a small but diver** *«l«ctlon of women, muring* on the •tralght worid'* ob*e**lon with <ju*er **xuallty and the representation of women In Hollywood, review* of the latest 4 greatest */t mm In -written zines, a guide to girl-friendly record labels, and. Ia*t but far from lea*t. thl* month'* *trlklng covw Image by local artl*t June Ring (oh, a* for the Rattled Roosters and the fastel*, the first appear* a* a testament to the power* of female per*u**lon (can Leza be stopped?) while the second appear* a* a testament to bad luck - two women In the band and only the boy bothers to show up). Happy International Women's Day (dont forget to tune Into CITR 101.9fM for a full day of women's programming!) movie nights. dona-<?at,im&A mwi&f, eat/w/ia?r/i one on one peer suport. ifM0uit/J£uxrnfJcm£0/ie fa Aai/e a cotVee and"fa/%udtA freedinner! # *> aoed'fvod',aocd'taw, aood'drinA,ar>r>damej ™ 3 day retreat fee o/i/wrtartda fy ae? out t>fet/ie a'fy and'ffeaf/ieJomefeejAat sounds interesting? # 650-2649 _____ YOUTHCO'S POSITIVE-YOUTH OUTREACH PROGRAM (POP) IS RUN BY YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT THEN CALL US ON our private & annonymous pager because we're all in this together. hell, we might even go bowling! vancouverp^^^special LOCAL D/RT Economic oclivity it usually a sign of life, ond lhat being the case, the local music scene is showing lots of vibrancy Ihes* days. The last Iwo months have hod quite a few significant business happenings. First, it was announced that ihe Commodore was for sale, and then Mushroom Studios did ihe same. Now, ihe Gastown Musk Hall has been sold. The most substantial change is lhat Noiseprom Productions have token over its bookings and promotions. According to iheir press release, entertainment at ihe Hall will range "from ihe cutting edge of alternative to ihe velveteen sounds of lounge.' Local bands are encouraged to send them videos lo play on a big screen in between sets...Scratch Record* is relocating iheir "world headquarters" lo 109 West Cordova Street. ..Zumpano have just been to Chicago recording iheir second full length for Sub Pop with Keith Cleversfy (Flaming Lips, Hum, Mercury Rev). It should be out in the second half of 1996. Zumpano will also have a 7-inch released on Murderecords, probably in April...Mint Records will be releasing a Meow fulMenglher in late spring. Meow, you may remember, was ihe surprise winner of CiTR's Shindig in 1994. That olher Mint Irio, cub, is presently recording iheir new CD wilh Mass Giorgini (he produced the Smugglers' latest Mint/ Lookoutl co-release,Selling the Sizzle)...Local electronic duo Off and Gone (oka Phil Western and Dan Handrabur) have signed to Harthouse Records...Coal mode some recordings as a duo of late, bul hey are in foci slill a fourpiece group...Tho El-sctrosonks will soon have a 10- inch record as a co-release on two labels, Quiddity Records from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Driven Records from NEW RELEASES: First, lots of Blaise Pascal - ihey have a few 7"s ready to be released, ihe first lo be out soon on Montreal's Derivative label. • The Muscle Bitches are about lo go on a third lour to California and will shortly be releasing Demon Boy Takes o Bride. • Fir St. Studios has re leased iheir third compilation CD, ihis one including Technicians of the Sacred, Aimless James ond 1995 Shindig finalists, Pipedream. • Strain has a new 7" record, Remorse on Germany's Heart First label. • Heavy Mellows new CD is colled The Bottle Within. • Mark Brodie and the Beaver Patrol's new CD, The Shores of Hell has been released by Shredder. • Those olher local Shredders, the McCrackin*', have yet another release, ihe In On the Yolk CD. • Looney Swim is a new compilation of Kelowna bands. 1 cowshead chronicles weak (wek) ad j1 lacking physical strength; fee We 2 lacking moral strength or willpower 3 lacking mental power 4 lacking power, authority, force, etc. 5 easily torn, broken etc. 6 lacking Intensity, etc. / a weak voice / 7 diluted I weak tea I & unconvincing / a weak argument weak, i am. have been, will be again, i have weakness that i know and for some reason or another, hell maybe just because i can't give a shit, can't control and while the definition of weak has eight parts examples one, three, five, six, seven and eight neally don't apply to my every day life, two and four however, cause me great concern, but as a point of concern and clarification the moral strength part of two does not apply it's the willpower part that's got a kung fu grip on me. and four well, let's just say i'm a guy who finds it hard to say no... to anything, but more than my lack of willpower is the next definition the dictionary holds; weaken vtto make or become weak, shit, the more i'm hounded the weaker i become, just ask me enough times and hell, i'm yours, maybe it's guilt hedging itself in. guilt (gilt) n1 the state of having done something wrong or committed an offense 2 a feeling of self-neproach from believing that one has done a wrong yup, that's me. i'm not even catholic. I've had pre-marital sex. and have even used several different types of birth contro\....and self love?...don't get me started, the second down from weak is the one that really nails the tail on the donkey weak-kneed (-ned) adj lacking in courage, determination, resistance etc. i can be taken in so easily by the powers of a beautiful woman that it's almost embarrassing, and as much as i hat- admitting it damn it officer i'd kill for that dame, tall, short, fat, skinny, i love 'em all. i've said it before but ill say it again - \m weakened by them, i seemingly maintain all composure in front of them but as at least one or more of my co-workers will attest to i have been brought to my proverbial knees by many a woman, but i will say here and now that i am trying to change my ways. I want a woman who i can treat as never before, one that i don't mind missing a ned wings game for. a woman i can put on a pedestal and bake cakes for. a woman to take my mind off of all other women, a woman who makes me feel like a million bucks, the last woman ill ever kiss in a sexual way. the last. ever, i mean it. really, marry her? maybe, could i guess...if she wanted to. sure, i'd get married, there i said it. my weakness will be strengthened by another, alright so that's it. ill letya know how it's going, until next month, may the good love be yours but don't forget your party hat. gth Uhhhh... ON SALE THIS MONTHf SNUFF ° Demmamusabebonk $9i7 LP/cass $14.92 CO GUIDED BY VOICES«0/fkior fronmon Roily Song $7.»0CDEP SILKWORM • fimwter. $ii,m 2LP $»J7 cm $14.92 CD SIMON JOYNER • Heaven's Gate $15.7! 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Bucket of Love. • Th* Insipids will have a release out in March or April called Stopper, Not a Hanger. * Destroy er will be releasing a CD, We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge - me release performance will be of the Sugar Refinery (1115 Granville, west alley entrance, 683-2004) on Saturday March 23 - the opening act will be Old Man Wood. oeMO Rewews Boy, did I blow it ihis time. Actually, it was in last month's column. Seems I reported that local country lounge act Coal ore now a duo. What ihe hell was I thinking? The/re a quartet. A foursome. A tetrad. Now I gotta wash ihe egg off my face. I may never get over ihis. My first gaffe! 6969 are a duo, although with a name like lhat ihey could possibly be a foursome. Industrial rock with a metallic edge, overlaid with softly fuzzed vocals. Fans of Malhavoc and Econoiine Crush will dig this. Sobbathy guitars crunch and collide while sultry groans entice and seduce the listener into a state of robotic, destructive rage. Nice touch with ihe nearly-naked derriere, except for bondage accoutrements, on the front cover, staring ot you over top a printed circuit background. Now lhat I'm in love, what the hell am I gonna do? No fetishes to be found on the new cassette by Idiot Savant?, the band lhat won't die. By that I mean they've been around a number of years. Their earlier material, from the mid- to late-'80s, always seemed lister-able but without the spark lhat ostensibly would ignite and put on a great fireworks show for everybody. The years of experience have definitely benefitted the band, since their new three- song demo contains some powerful work. No quirks, no gimmicks, no free goodies (wait a sec), just plain old well-written and played pop-rock with a semi- serious tone. "Window" has some great geetar riffin', and, like ihe other two tracks, lets you know when it's chorus time by a shift into high gear. The mediocrity is gone, replaced by the sort of intensity lhat gives unspoken justification to a long career. Just goes to show lhat years of hard work can bring out the latent talent (interesting pair of words, eh?) in a band. Smooth, luxurious sounds emanate from your speakers when International Scout take over your system. Vocalist Heather Griffin has quite the voice, opulent with its rich lone and gushing emo tiveness. The four songs on their self-tilled demo, all written by guitarist Robin Brooks, echo the smoky sweetness of Everything But The Girl, Cowboy Junkies, and 10,000 Maniocs. Even ihough ihe first two cuts, "Wonderlown" and "Special Kind", already have you convinced this band has latched on to something special, the last Iwo, "Apostles of the Chosen Few" and "Stars in their Eyes", are such a one-two punch of melody ond neo-folk charm lhat a message comes through loud and clear: use oxygen-enriched fuels for better engine performance. You have to know how to read between the lines, folks. Other adherents of smoothness in their noise ore Juniper Daily, a quartet with their debut three-song demo out on the flogging rack. Theirs is a different kind of smoothness, however: softly distorted guitars splashing between your speakers, suggesting these guys lean more towards the My Bloody Valentine school of pop. The op erafive word here is epic, each song sounding really big and almost holy in execution. Slow tempos induce a kind of sway as opposed to actual dancing, while the vocals in iheir range remain mired in the heavy, heavy mix, never soaring above but rather dragging the listener through the melodic maelstrom. Lyrics are not chipper; lines like "Though you cry enough /You don't shed a tear", from "Never Cry Wolf", make one cast the occasional glance over the shoulder (left or right, I don't know) for the glooming spectre of Morrissey, although at this juncture the reader is reminded lhatMozzer is not dead. even ihough he often sounds like he eilher is or wishes it so. Anyway, let's not digress, since Juniper Daily are onfy mildly Smilhsy. I guess I really don't know what the hell to say about them, except lhat I like it, and lhat you should, loo. If you're into lhat sort of thing. I'm not explaining myself very clearly, am I? But who's having fun these days? Sure, I like pretty tunes, thoughtful lyrics, and locy underwear as much as the next guy, but let's just kick out the fucking jams, sonny. Look no further for your fun and games than Lozenge a double-bass'n'fuzz combo comprised of a few ex-Soreheads ond a former Belgianique. When ihey cover Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge* you know you're not getting an auditory application for Noam Chomsky's backing band. How about "She Laves to Jump" for sock-hop sentimentality, back when XTC was a band and moshing was something you did to your potatoes? "Sore throats for all on stage ond cool, fast relief for the audience* sez the bio. Watch for upcoming side project, Nasal Spre. Now lhat I've gotten the hang of these funny letters, I might as well talk about the five-songer by TraOf, they of ihe umlaut scene so big these days. I like Traiif! On first listen, you kinda go, ew, more grunge. But really, these guys are exactly between punk and rock, without really being hardcore per se. It could be called runk. Or pock. Labels aside, what they do is serve up snappy, catchy tunes with a power chord bockwall and angsty, fuck-fucking- society type lyrics. All with a shiny little bow. Tunes like "Short Attention Span" could do well on both modern-rock triple-A formats and cock-rock suburboutlets, without offending indie-rock elitists like myself too much. The point is each of the five tunes doesn't suck, and when a tape comes in wilh a New Westminster address that's half the battle right there. Okay. I made it. A whole column with, hopefully, no factual errors. It doesn't matter because I ain't publishing no more errata, even when I'm so dead wrong the pope writes in to complain. It's just loo damn hard on my ego. In fact, from now on, I insist lhat if any deviations from the currently accepted reality are found, the bands must change themselves in order to conform to the information presented in the column. Saves on ink. Recently, I had the pleasure of Intervievrfng s bend quite often dubbed •» 'the beet dressed band* in Vancouver. The Rattled Roosters. With the release of their second album. Young and Modern, and relocation to Hollywood. CA, things are looking up for these charming, cleverly deceiving, but still sincere locale. The Rattled boosters lineup: Rev. Rick 'Royale' - vocals, guitar Joel 'Billy Blastoff Darien - guitar, vocals Ed 'Cool As Hell' Maxwell - bass, vocals 'Crash' Gordon - drums DiSCORDER: Because this Is the beginning of an Interview, I need to know who you are. Cra6h: What, you don't know who we are?! Well, of course I do, but DiSCORDER readere need to know who you ars, as musicians, your astrological signs, maybe your favourite colour... Rick: I'm Rick Royale, I am a Leo-Virgo cusp, and my favourite colour -1 don't know, purple maybe. 1 don't think we should talk about colour, that's very racl6t. Ed: What the hell was that? Rick: I don't realty think that there is one colour that is better than another colour, it's politically incorrect in this world, so I take that back. All colours are equal. Ed: Rick's lost his mind. I'm Ed 'Cool As Hell' Maxwell, Pm a Cancer, I like quiet nights and walks along the beach (laughs). I also like hiking, and snow-sledding, and sex on the first date. Joel: That was Ed, and this 16 me: I'm Joel Darien, Tm a Taurus, I have Wond hair and blue eyes, and, by the Chinese horoscope, I'm the only Roo6ter In thi6 band - oh wait, I take that back because it dates me. My favourite colour is kind of that thing between pink and orange, or Hack, or red, or black. I like rock and roll, I despise all outdoor activities, and I like quiet romantic evenings for three. Crash: My name is Crash, and I'm an Aries/Rat - wait a minute, you don't need to know that either. 1 like Rice Crispie squares and Coca Cola, radio Interviewers and radio interviews, and 1 love CiTR... Why the Mg move to L.A? Crash: Isn't that an old story? Joel: That's just a rumour. Ed: We moved there to become rich rock 'ri roll stars and to get a star on Hollywood Boulevard. And how ie It going? Crash: Very, very well. We've already got our name on Hollywood Boulevard - right over Fleetwood Mac (laughs). They don't need It any more. Joel: But I think it has rained since then, so it is probably gone. I heard that you had a treacherous time getting up here. Joel: It was nothing for a bunch of rugged mountaineers like us. Ed: The only thing that scared me was the fish swimming In front of the van. Joel: Ed Is afraid of fish. Crash: It was the Rattled Roosters and the Temple of Doom. What happened? Rick: Well, the 1-5 was closed in three places (because of recent flooding). Joel: We had to go down other closed highways instead, ones that weren't so well patrolled by police. Ed: Imagine all the Duke6 of Hazzard car chases around bends, through closed roads, all In a four hour Journey, complete with mud slides, fit Crash: ..and lakes.. Joel:..M\d poisoned darts - the Washington natives were chasing us with spears. Crash: He didn't say 'spears', he said 'spheres'. Joel: Well, kind of hemispheres: tho6e orb-shaped Starbucks commuter mugs. We had to run straight up Into the stratosphere. Crash: Ed has Go Go Gadget legs, a lot easier. What are your plans after your CD release In Vancouver? Rick: We are going to be In Victoria, then back down to California, then to Toronto and eastern Canada, back to California, and then across Canada, hopefully, in April. Crash: That is actually central Canada. Rick: Ya, I guess 60, we're not going to the Maritimes. Joel: Not that we don't like the Maritimes. but Ed Is scared of fish. Ed: 1 love the Maritimes, but they talk funny. If you were stranded, alone, on a desert Island, the only thing on It being a stereo, and you could bring two records, what would they be? Joel: Two CDs? That's really tough. I'd have to bring some Elvis; I'd have to tos6 a coin between Presley and Coetello... Crash: My choice would be The Star War6 Canteena double album. Rick: tropical Island? Something like - Ed: Mine would be Leonard Nemoy Slng6; I wouldn't need another album. Leonard Nemoy is king: people say Elvis is king, well, they lie. Rick: I'm trying to get Into this tropical thing, fd have to have some Beach Boys, and I'd want something a littie more - drinks with umbrellas in them kind of music, maybe Frank Sinatra. Can 1 get a box 6«t? Both box sets of Frank Sinatra and the Beach Boys. Joel: Are there girls on the Island? I would probably bring some compilation of Bing Crosby, some "306 records, just In case some girl gets shipwrecked - you have to have something to woo the babe6 with. That would take up one thing, so I would have to flip a coin between Elvis Presley, EM6 Costello, or the Dickies. Or, I don't know. Dean Martin. Crash? How about you? What other album? Crash: I already said The Star Wars Canteena, and the other album would be something with lots of Bela Lugosi... Joel: He was never in a band. Crash: Okay, maybe Sing, Sing, Sing, that would be a good one. It wouldn't really matter what 1 would bring because I would be disappointed that I didn't bring something else. Do you consider these albums to be major Influences on the Rattled Roosters music? Crash: We take influences from everything around us, good and sometimes bad. Joel: We're influenced by ^ music that sucks, because then we don't play that, (laughs) Kick We absorb a «=> you re reading «-i_ 9'sturee thai-1 over here in *u 9 this: you talc,, :„ ™at' **» rnak- P°»d your ZltZ* " r°"' *> to *P**klm *" ^ *"«*• er a*' Z^Mlef for a moment- ~ , ,ma^ne that s.« •* <*■» all creatine, that „ /^m*^ P°P sensibiliti- TL. Crash: But *_•_. * COme ^PPeninT, 555SS£cSS5rf5 orP^ple^T^that^^theTeT ^'^^^ __S=55=k3«= HoW, ^ St" *** there in ZntJ^ - ** Cr«h.-Butnoon.- F^erick. of ^S^ouslZZT^"^ W^jr^*^^*--..*. asSS-s* CJ*S* ^e key to fam . ^ »*» 'o sum up the i»* , to**,ofth_,»._ 6 MARCH 1996 Get your Free Alternababy Sampler when you purchase any one of these 12 titles. (While Quantities Last) FREE ALTERNATIVE SAMPLER PORTISHEAD SJ pulp L_-_ Different Class THE AMPS fiL -»-s ■ Things To Do In Denver ■ | When You're Dead | 1160 Robson Street • Park Royal Shopping Centre (North Mall) Guildford Town Centre • Willowbrook Shopping Centre HMVh Eaton Centre-Metrotown • Sevenoaks Shopping Centre Abbotsford Richmond Centre • Coquitlam Centre The Pastels are a Scottish Indie band who've been playing together for longer than you've been watching MTV. They play beautiful, intricate-but-simple, melody-laden lullabies that make you want to stay awake all night trying to figure out how they sing so wonderfully slow and fiat, but in tune at the same time. You want the Pastels to be your friends. And they make it seem almost a possibility. On a Friday afternoon in Vancouver, DISCORDER talked to Stephen Pastel, who called from a friend's house on a rainy Glasgow evening. Once it was established that Stephen was "perfectly fine", and that the interview was just going to be with "the one Pastel", we began. We spent the next half-hour chatting about eating haggis, being "grown up" (or not!), and the concept of how and what it is to be popular. DiSCORDER: Have you ever been to Canada? Stephen: Yes, twice. In 1991. we played the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, in the state of Washington, and then wc travelled up and played shows in Vancouver and in Calgary. Then last year we played a show in Toronto and in Ottawa - that was supporting Yo La Tengo. What was it like touring with To La Tengo? s great. They're really considerate people and I think their music is completely fantastic. Every show they put on is really unlike the previous one. They have a lot of beautiful songs and they're really dignified people. How are you involved with the music scene in your hometown? I heard you work in a record store. I don't typically promote shows, that's really rare. But if it's something that needs to be done and if no one else is interested in it, then I will do it. I'm a librarian, but I've gotten work in a bookstore and it does have a record department. and how pleasant it was to go there. So I was thinking it would be great if there really was a "Coolport," a kind of Utopia. But it was also railing against corporate music, because I find that very, I'm not sure what the word would be - the opposite of utopia... I think it's interesting, because UK bands that are huge in the UK, such as Blur, when they come to Canada, they play small venues; I don't think we get the feeling of what your "mainstream" bands are, 'cause here they're often thought of as an "alternative" band. Yeah, I find that a lot of North American "alternative" bands are equally kind of vacuous. I just feel that there are so many bands that are all style and no content - they really have no message. We're really opposed to those bands. Do you want to name any names? (laughs) Well... no. I won't. We feel an affinity with the bands we like. We feel a solidarity with bands like Stereolab and Pavement and Beat Happening. A lot of the bands that get played on MTV where the records on major labels, but they kind of try to pretend that they're 'indie' records when they're not. That's the sort of band that we're against people know about them. They have a record out called In the Space of a Few Minutes. They're David Keenan, who used to be in 18 Wheeler, and Brendan who was a Teenage Fanclub drummer, and a couple of other people, but it's nothing like those bands: I think it's a very unique and special record. I'm making a strictly name connection, but have you ever played with other bands like Crayon, or the Red Krayola? Crayon played at the International Pop Underground, and they gave us a lift up to their town, Bellingham. And Red Krayola is a band that I really love. I especially love their album Parable of Arable Land. Mayo Thompson of the band once produced my friend's band, the Shop Assistants. So we have tenuous links with both bands. That's interesting. How do you feel the Pastels have changed since your beginning, back in 1982? McRobbie. I think when we started I thought it would be more anonymous, but it didn't really work out like that. I might just start being Stephen McRobbie again - it seems more grown up. Do you feel grown up? Yes. I feel I'm getting there. Well, in some respects, I feel kind of balanced, in that precipice between adulthood and childhood. In some ways I feel quite adult in things that I do and in other ways I can tell I'm not really a typical adult, so that makes me think I'm more childlike. Will you ever be completely grown up, though? I'd like to think not, really. I think it's important to function in the adult world, and if you just retreat then that's not too healthy. I'd rather challenge the adult world and uy to change things, but to do that you have to take things on in adult terms. In terms of the What do the other Pastel members do? Aggi is an illustrator and Katrina will be going to university in a few months. And Aggi did the painting for the Mobile Safari cover? Yeah, she does a lot of our artwork. We usually have a vision between us, and we work towards that. Aggi and Katrina and myself are very tuned in with each other. I know it's quite uncanny, but we usually move in the same way at the same time. I think that your song title "Exploration Team" actually describes you, the Pastels, in that you push the boundaries of pop music - how do you feel about that? We do like to feel that we have a unique approach to what we do. We certainly have a certain sense of striving in what we do and we liken it to people going up into the Arctic Circle. "Coolport" -1 couldn't tell if ifs a song of whimsical optimism or if it's a bitter take on the corporate music scene. It's probably a bit of both. It's quite melancholic. There's a place in Scotland called Culport and I used to go there with my father when I was younger and swim. In that song I was just really remembering the innocence Are you familiar with that song by Tullycraft, called "Pop Songs Tour New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About"? No. It's sort of a who's who of indie pop. The Pastels are mentioned in the lines "But if you want the Pastels, baby/ Here's what you should do:/ Get on your bike and take a hike/ and meet me at our spot/ Just you and me and the Halo Benders/ hey that's pretty hot." That's great, that's really nice. Seems like good company. Tou were talking about a message before - would you be able to sum up the Pastels' message in a line? We think that we're kind of purist rock and roll. That's our selling point. Is there such a thing as vegetarian haggis? Oh. there certainty is. It's a tradition with the Pastels that we have vegetarian haggis on Burns' night, with potatoes and turnip, and whiskey. What is the best Scottish band that folks in Canada probably don't know about? Oh. that's tricky. Urn, I think the Telstar Ponies are really good. I don't know if a lot of When we started the band it was veiy dental, and obviously we were pretty young, unformed, and the band was a hobby at that point. Then I think Katrina joined the band in 1991, we've become a lot more intense and serious and we're much more tuned in with each other. I much prefer the music that we make now. What is your favourite pastel colour? Oh, I don't know, I probably like primary colours better. I don't really have a favourite colour; for me, it's the combinations of colours that really work. So how did the name come about? I'm not exactly sure. I think I wrote down a list of names, and we just kind of went for that. It had an innocence; it sounded like 1950's swing music, when people were less jaded. It had a quality that we were looking for. It was very optimistic sounding. Listening to Mobile Scifari, the mood overall seems very melancholy. Would you consider yourselves optimistic or pessimistic? I think we're fairly honest in our outlook, and it rains a lot in Glasgow. I think we're fairly optimistic, but we're confrontational also. We try to be uplifting, but for me a lot of uplifting music is pretty depressing, to think of Joy Division and Galaxie 500 and stuff I really like. We're not happy happy, but we're moderately happy. Why do you go by Stephen Pastel? I'm not really sure why. My family name is way we conduct our business. In another aspect of our lives, we try to do things in a way that can maybe improve the quality of life. Not to sound too much like a politician, but... What do you see in the future of the Pastels? We're gonna make a record this year. I feel that every record we make is an improvement. I feel really optimistic about this record and I'm excited about the ideas we've come up with. I am pleased with Mobile Safari but I'd like to make a more extrovert record so that we could become more popular. That would be a good idea for us. What does "popular" mean? Instead of selling 20,000 records, with this next one, we'd like to sell 40,000. So that probably means improving our production values. I'm not really sure. I don't know why it happens, but we're gonna try. Will that change your approach to songwriting? No, I don't think so. I think in the studio maybe in a couple songs we'll tiy for a slightly sharper approach, but there's lots of songs that sound really radical. A good example is the Beck song, "Loser", that was a really big hit a couple of years ago. I think that was really radical sounding, but also really sharp. At this point, I realized that more than 25 minutes had passed, and I apologized to Stephen for having taken up so much of his long-distance time. We thanked each other and said goodbye, and I spent the rest of the day telling anyone I ran into how funny It was that the Pastels prefer primary colours...Look for the Pastels' many yummy releases, the most recent being Mobile Safari, on Up Records in the US and Domino in the UK. Other stuff: Pastels LP Sitting Pretty LP (Homestead) "Different Drum" b/w "Empty House" (K) Pastels with Jad Fair ep (Paperhouse) Thank You ep (Paperhouse) Up For a Bit with the Pastels LP (Paperhouse) Truckload of Trouble compilation of '86-'93 (Seed) WorLs of Possibility ep (Domino) Yoga ep (Matador) 8 MARCH 1996 THIS MAN WANTS TO BE mint DOG !.. ETHE CL LiS Z*L .rjiJb-z— ai* »um" tm fhigehs of fuiik §^l|f3jL ii| Jiff) ll'Qf (ijni.fff MARIA McKEEg*\ fW%* WITH GUESTS Sun. March 10 • The Town Pump ECHOBELLY with guests FOR SQUIRRELS THURS. MARCH 21 • THE TOWN PUMP with guests FEAR FACTORY SUN. MARCH 24 THE COMMODORE J ff2*fi?J( POWERDR1VE J± WITH GUESTS FRIDAY MARCH 29 • STARFISH ROOM Tix $8 at Track & Zulu Y00D00 GiOV SKUUS SAT. APlUi 20 • The Town PUPtp ^ 2 SttOVS! AU AGES AFTERNOON $6 EVEK1HG NO MINORS $9 TiX at Trarft & ZUul" /m TICKETS AT TICKETMASTER, TRACK & 2ULU OR CHARGE AT 280-4444 InspiredBy tht array of creative works Sting-presentedby January's "Women in View festivalofPerforming Sfats, J decided to escape from school \for a week\anddevote some energy to tht works of some fine artists. The annual"Wi"P'festivalshowcases women who create and perform in a\ myriad of ways. The festivalran from January 17-25, andfeaturedeverything from spoken word to cabaret raunch, to visual arts, to theatre, to\ music and, yes, even workshop activism! Sbidnone of it was run ofthe mill; for example: cellist (Peggy Lee and pianist Lay Tuan Tan were not\ afraid to get right into their instruments (Uterauy) and drew achingCy Beautiful music from their instruments using Brushes, sticks^ and wires - definitely not for the timid and traditional. This experimentalquality is characteristic of tht "Women in iHtw festival, whichprovidts artists witfu a space and an audience with which to explore ondeTtplode myths, while showing their works in a funky and freeing environment. Throughout] the year the festival committee continues to support and help product the new visions of female artists in Canada. "Before tht festival Began rolBng, I got a chance to speakjo two playwrights and a comedian to share coffee, artistic inspiration andurbanfrustrations. 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I came out on stage and I said some- /Zj^ thing spontaneous because there u/ere a couple ^~£ of drunks m the audience, and I got a huge laugh Then | froze, completely froze, and delivered the rest of mu act in a complete monotone, because I had alltheleraahZ CoZL w " brVlght Uf> t0 te" wrybody I was Catholic We went to Catholic church, and uou know I u±d obout asC<»Mc as a bagel - V W' ' Will you te// the /eke that you do about your dadt About my dad? Us quite vista!, so ftWnTTf hart? ?! "!"_".' pr#'*' and **'"*» Wkf thatf I do, I do. 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' hfld - *«** /2 MARCH 199t6 coZe^f0'• a,nd "Tt0 J0rt of *erm" S3n-« I come from a fami/y u/ith a -1 fee/ a huge resoonsib l r« f« TZJt'r?€?f,tmt,tv- whatever '* S that you are And jo what the heck was I talking about? mS^mSUT thf'Mpti '•"fffl- tfc« ■ frrent since I worked through this W '$ ° '°t d,f' !.r,S_ ^"ri*i recent'y'asked t0 d0 a ^id-raiser for Kinesis whtch ,s a femm,st newspaper. I imagined thaV they S seen my work before, so I did some of my stuff that _,__ ten over from The Butthole Dramrdy. which h muSlSX about making fun of hoiu we're ,Jp£,rt . Tehwe as women. Its fairly radical, and I don't know if theuiust thmkmg of going to Mexico, so I referred to the fact tZ « UTS1" ?'tik 0fwinUr'' u'«n't WrS to be seen on the beach. This is a uisua/ gag. and I sau 'Would you ust look at my bikini liner. Thin Nift up my^Wrt and lue got this g,gantic wig in between my lejs Vhat go« moment. ^in?J-,The.°UdJen" Wai *'<"*• ^d It's TJZ£? £ S0,1 u,'wpe Uujt kind °™°ught. 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V*« cou/d a/ways say. you know 'Hew 5Sfj h7fS-n f"t# mak< a *t5wM ^33! ^'H^ -ffl M fhw them different things you ff tw 'JL'_" t<a/e,,f' ^'^"yif -jt"« V»e wrsaj/e EiSilif •■ ".f _nw,','«d "Tth Women In Wewf DM ter' fiC°medy- ' ^ rea"y de,i»hted a"d «cklrt pink, but it s fimny - a coup/e of years ago I tried to submit ZaaZnThe Buhtthock Dramed* iA "SS. lSS5 kiXrnlrmfl the Fr_noe Fest,l,a'* ,r "«■* «-n extremely wt mZgre«5'Ue/ad,Ca'feminist 5hou'-tne ""»'«thin, was making ftin of euerything I was scared or ashamed Woml!^ leXUa,it»And ' «« P"oned by the SS??r kSSL wV'e^ flfcnd,' U'aJ t0'd that -' be/ieuVit was Kathh*n Weiss fwho] said that she thought my work was y auspicious and braue and important, and halt of the ^y^ women who were adjudicating on who to get *-X>._- in the Pfttiunl hnA J__:_-_ .l_- ¥ f . •-»»■»'«« uu/uuicaiing on who to get V/ ,n the Festival had decided that it was *-£?», j*. reo"i'- rea"y flreat. and ha/f of them Xb ^ actua//y hated it. So it was that extreme a reaction, and she was going to determine whether or not my frnm,._, * lhow was '"• But ' nad no feedback I tZl •£,'that u"MfJ0™'- «»' ^as kind of put off. hJ_ £ • <!Xe_- aronlen J f"tiua'"'d0"'* know, maybe rwLg„ f" un,df, of fundina from IBM or some ' ffSW,] Not thot' have any'h*na against IBM So.iiHn? 'kMW Wtlat the dea'was' and »pSm off fhVri" f.e.r try to.'!_ue rAf ^^^e/wproduced by ri_I_f Ki,h? ye0r ' Wnd °f9We Up on tlKm- So f u/« Kathleen call me and haue me, you know, come and do the fifteen minutes. So, thanks. Kathleen. DISCORDER: Can you tell us a bit about the piece you're working on for the Women in View festival? Kathleen Oliver: It's a play in verse and it's a sort of comedy of manners; it borrows a little bit from restoration comedy form, and it's very plot-driven. It's about a brother and sister: Catherine, the sister, is secretly stealing the poems that her brother writes and doctoring them up to publish them under a different name. Her brother, Thomas, is very frustrated by this and wonders who the thief is, because he doesn't know that she's doing this as revenge for his childhood theft of a poem from her that be won a prize for. Their parents were really proud of him, and then their mother died the same night so Catherine never got to set the record straight. So she's sort of taking it out on him 'cause he's in denial about the childhood crime. Meanwhile, her lesbian lover is trying to persuade her to run off to a lesbian commune. That eventually happens, and then Thomas disguises himself as a woman i order to pursue her there - and then it gets really complicated. It sounds like there's lots of twists and turns... Definitely, yes. Why did you choose to use verse instead of prose? It wasn't so much a conscious choice; i of started as verse. I had seen a reading c this play in verse one night and the i morning I woke up with lines in my head and realized, 'Hey, I think there's a story here.' When I realized it was something that might grow into something bigger it was a lot easier for me to write in verse; all I had to worry about was making the next line rhyme instead of having to wony about what I was trying to say. The motivating factor [was] 'just keep writing', so instead of envisioning a blank page, or reams of blank paper, it was just the next line. Then the verse became sort of a valuable element because the play has a lot to do with convention - the comedy of manners is certainly a very formal form. And thinking about gender as a set of conventions seemed a really interesting way to explore that, by looking at the verse conventions. Everything in this play is very contrived; but then, what's more contrived than gender? So when you have dialogue you write it as "OK, Joe says", and then he says his lines in verse? Yeah. And then Sue says her lines in verse? Yeah, the entire play is written in verse. Half of it takes place at the estate of the brother and sister's godparents and half of it takes place in the lesbian commune; I use heroic couplets at the godparents estate, and then a different verse form [at the lesbian commune]. So the lesbians, when they are not ii "Kathleen Oliver ■ having to pass as straight in the straight world, speak in this other verse form, and then when they are speaking to straight people in the straight world they speak in heroic couplets. I thought initially I would have the [godparents] stuff in verse and the lesbian commune in naturalistic dialogue, but then I thought, that's not really accurate because it's not like lesbians aren't circumscribed by their own set of conventions. Exactly. Well, that's really interesting. So, what about the idea of a play reading? What does that mean as opposed to a regular piece of stage theatre? This is sort of a step on the way to a full production, an interim step that will allow me to hear it being read and to get a sense of how it's working. Will someone else be directing this? Yes. Kathleen Weiss, who's the artistic director of Women in View, has been working with me for the past several months as my dramaturge, which is someone who -1 didn't know the word dramaturge until a few years ago. always thought it meant dramatic urge . [laughter] Yeah. So, [Kathleen's] been helping me develop the play. She's the one who has more experience in the theatre, and I find it's really helpful to be working with someone who, when I bring her something I've written, can say, "Well, why is this character doing this? That seems inconsistent with this aspect of their character. What if they were doing this instead?" So that's a really valuable person to have, and she's going to direct the actors in the reading. What about the enigmatic name Swollen Tongues'! Where did you come up with that? Swollen Tongues actually came from a poem I had written a long long time ago when I was a student at Western, for a restoration literature class. The poem was actually in heroic couplets, and the idea of 'Swollen Tongues' - the line was about this character in The lUiad who, for being overly vain, is struck dumb by the muses because he boasts that his singing could surpass theirs. The line was 'Cursing in jealous rage at muses honey throats/his dumb tongue swollen with unuttered notes.' The idea is that the tongue swells with the things it can't say, or the things it's biting back. There are a lot of elements of lying and secrets and silence in this play, so there are lots of swollen tongues, because everybody has a secret that they're keeping from someone, or everybody tells lies to somebody else, or everybody is being silenced in one area or another. The action of the play is about all of those things coming to light in this sort of freeing of the voices. Alright Thank-you. SivolUn 'Tongues t "if ifil DBCORDER: Tm Natasha from CITR and tm here at Off* with Unci. Wong. Linda: Hi, I'm Linda Wong, I'm the playwright for Images in the Cloud. Ifs a play about daydream i ng. The main character. Fay, is trying to separate her life from daydreaming and reality, and she's having a bit of a problem because she* externalised her imaginary friends and they've sort of taken ewer her life. Have you had experiences with imaginary friends yourself? Do you have any? I have plenty of imaginary friends. My imaginary friends grow with me as I grow up. I dont think they ever leave me They're fun to talk to, they sort of help me with problems if I'm not too sure. How docs the Imaginary friend become a vchide In your play for Fay, who's the main character? Her imaginary friends help her cope with her life, because she's extremely dissatisfied with what she has, and she doesnt know hew to change it. It's her way of escaping her responsibility and changing it. In the play it sounds Ike you're Introducing all these elements that have all been associated '•••».. "* with children, like daydreaming and Imaginary friends, Into the world of adults. What mr* your thoughts on that? Well, as adults, we actually do daydream, but we're not allowed to use the word 'daydream'. The world of daydream is for children. It sounds so innocent and pleasant- And sweet Yeah, sweet But, for adults, we fantasize* we dream about erotic stuff, violence, espionage, illicit little things that run through our heads, like killing our bosses. I fed that adults should be allowed to daydream, because if we dont daydream, then A how can we think beyond our boundaries, to go beyond them? I'm not talking about sexual boundaries, or taboo boundaries, like taking illicit drugs or whatever; I'm talking about opanding ourselves personally, to see ourselves somewhere else, other than where we are now. Our fears, our anxieties, insecurities - ifs hard for us to overcome them, and I think that if our imagination sees us overcoming those particular problems within ourselves, then maybe we can translate that into our real life, to push ourselves, to go beyond [those problems]. What events In your development as an artist led up to you writing this play? I started out as a film-maker, but I discovered that I didnt learn enough about the more creative aspects of film-making. I learned about cinematography, lighting, and sound, and thafs all really important, but the other important part is the script. I'd never been taught how to write a full-length dialogue in a script, and I thought, "Well, where, a good place to start?. I figured, in order to learn how to write a really good dialogue, you might as well learn how to let your characters talk. [And] the theatre is a perfect venue [for that]. People are allowed to let their characters talk in that particular venue, so why not learn how to let your characters talk in order to not let them talk in a film? 'Cause film is just short, snappy dialogues, whereas the theatre is long dialogues where you can go on forever. Vou mentioned something carter about a clowning workshop. How dM that help you write this play? People were reading the stuff I'd written, and they were laughing, and I just thought, "Wait a minute, whafs so funny about this? I didn't mean it to be funny!' But it came across as being really hysterical, and I thought this must have had to come out of the fact that I took this clcwning workshop. I've never been able to make people laugh, and at the clowning workshop I learned a lot about comedy and about timing, how to make people laugh, what doesnt work - things like that. I think I'm at the point where I can deliberately do that new, find the /» (*a'Ul right rhythm, you know? I'm e* fU^," 9 c£otv 'M. (&& fvo*> Cd* Q)t> #nK not completely there yet Women in View festival, for me, is a big test to see whether can reach out to a much larger audience than just a group of people I knew. ;%_. When you were talking about dialogue and how A real dialogue is, and chokes about that - what f about the Chinese that you use without I really dont care. I feel that by putting out a play thafs not issue-oriented, and to have Chinese characters - or Asian characters, for that matter - in a play, is in itself a political statement. If I dont have to bring an issue about, why should I? I dont see white people talking about why the/re white. Not everybody's life is consumed with issues, and I feel that there are enough plays out there that do issues really » well. If my play is meant to entertain, • ^ f make people laugh, to enjoy, to forget about life for a little while, so what? Why should that thought of 'entertaining' belong in the realm of television or movies alone? Do you think Ifs impossible to combine humour and ^< fro»iv' V. ^ <* IVe done that on purpose because we don't translate what we say. I mean, who's ever done that in their life? We talked in jargon, so we translate it? We dont. Not everybody knows the word 'esoteric', but I don't translate that for people,-1 assume they know I it. We dont talk like that - it breaks up the flew of /t£* natural conversation. *Z{> Have you found that foreign languages, C_V~ especially Chinese, and Chinese peo- ^jg jf*: ^®Zs*v~ pl*' h*v< been misrepresented W /4r that way? Or made to seem " - %£/f^ unnatural because of ££* that translating? Vfeah, I think so. I mean, you go to an opera "sY~ and ifs all in a foreign language. We get subtitles. ^Q f> And I thought, 'How come we watch operas in Ian- +£* guages we dont understand?' I dont understand German, ^Zf> Italian, or French, but it seems natural to us to hear opera in a foreign **_x language. So, if someone's doing a person of another culture, we have to decide, as writers, whether to deliberately do it all in English, or insert little cultural dialects in there to make it seem more real. Maybe ifs a lean towards realism. IVe seen that in film, in particular - they're allowed to do that. We also discussed earlier the issues of not having 'issues' In your play • how do you feel about that? Do you think people will critidsc you, or do you care? entertainment with education and awareness-raising about issues? Could you write a play about racism that could be reaty ftjnny? I think thafs very difficult. You have to be a really sensitive person, and a person with a lot of knowledge, in order to write that and to understand what you're writing about. I dont feel I have the skills to do that. Ifs not ^^vci easy to watch a very difficult subject and be entertained by it. Ifs not an easy separation. You can be, if you want, entertained by a serious subject, but it has to be in that particular tone. You watch certain plays where the theme is this subject we dont laugh [at_ but we're entertained by the fact that we're provoked to think. I think that in itself is different. If you mean by entertainment making people laugh about issues that are really difficult, the writer has to be really sure of what he or she is writing because the chances of you offending people are pretty high. On both sides. On both sides. You cant please everyone, let's face it. You can't compromise yourself so much so that you please everyone [If] it's a melted-dcwn version of what you intended, that can be a really serious compromise of your integrity as a writer. What arc your plans for after this play • arc you working on anything new? I'm working on a screenplay at the moment, but I also would like to expand the play some more and work on it, 'cause there are some problems with it [that] I'm aware of. There are dialogue problems, and, maybe, characterization [problems]. Thafs a really difficult job, I think, for a writer, to make sure all your characters - Are ft* Are full, or believable. That they're actually full-fleshed, 3D, and the audience will take them as individuals. How did you get involved with the Women in View festival? Kate Weiss had approached me about submitting a play. My former mentor in the workshop that I originally did had mentioned that I had a play that Kate might be interested in. And so, when Kate called me I just sort of rushed off a copy and gave it to her and just hoped that she would like it. And she did. I'm really ecstatic that she decided to take it on. And so arc wc. Thanks a lot Thank you. Photo: Shawna Dernpsey in Arborfte Housewife. Pic by Sheila Spence a? Eigg°mim Nardwuar: Who arc you? Lydia: I'm Lydia Lunch. And who are you? Exene: I'm Exene Cervenka. Hello, Exene, it's a pleasure to sec you here. I didn't think you'd be here Exene: Why? I don't know, I just didn't think you'd be here. It's a pleasure to sec you, Lydia Lunch. Lydia: Hmm. Thank you. Now, Exene, does anybody ever get Lydia confnscd with Lena Lovich? E: No, I think they get Courtney Love confused with Lena Lovich, don't they? Like, Lydia Line* - Len Lovich. Any comparison? E: Next question. L: I see no comparison. Right now you're very hungry, right? L: Well, that doesn't matter. I'm hungry for an intelligent conversation, which I've yet to find. Lydia Lunch, do you stfll want to commit suicide? L: I never wanted to commit suicide, but ready for murder. Were yon at all interested in any of those New York bands? I_Like? Like the Dictators or the Kiss, or those type of Exene? E: What? Do you still E: Oh, I mt to commit suicide? did. When? Who are the Paley brothers? L: What does it matter? Two hot young fucks from Boston. Now Lydia, did Jonathon Paley once pay to have sex with you, or did you once pay to have sex with him? L: No, neteher, neither, nor. Wei, according to this Ben is Dead magazine, this little article then, K says the Paley brothers • L: Look, anyone that can remember back 17 years has a better memory than I, right? So if you want to interview lonathon Paley, maybe you should do that. Wei, just looking at this article and it said, "Ljdh J' L: It's so irrelevant. Well, this is a new magazine you were interviewed for yourself. L: Yeah, it was, so what - I guess you believe everything you read. In the interview it said, "Lydia would say, 'Jonathon, please come home and fuck me'." And he also whipped you. And I'm trying to give you a chance to get back at those homeboys. What is going on there? L: There's no reason to get back at him, it's 17 fucking years ago, and it doesn't mean diddleyshit to me, friend. So you have no recollection of it, or no mterest hi it, and you never ever want it brought up again. L: I don't give a shit. It's your fetish, not mine. OK, I will adhere to your rules. Now, are you aware of some of Lydia's recordings with Blixa Bargeld at all, Exene? L: Some? There was one. E: Oh, a little. The Thirsty Animal release. There's a bit of screaming there at the end. Now, the rumour was that Blixa was tied up and whipped with chains • what's going on there? L: He probably was, but I think it was Mufti that was whipping him with chains, since I couldn't really come five feet within his aural zone, because the man stunk of rotted fruit and vegetables so much, maybe it from never changing his rubber pants, You don't like the past, do you, Lydia? L: I live in the future, and the present. Exene, you like the past. E: I like parts of it. You went out with Stiv Baton, right Lydia?. L: I went in and out with Stiv Baton many times, I never went out with him. Does it annoy you that a lot of people who worship the Dead Boys, does that bug you, that a lot of people worship them? I mean, the Dead Boys, man, the Dead Boys' Stiv. L: Hey, the Dead Boys still fucking rule, and that one of them's dead is even better. L:Kiss? Yeah, Kiss, they're straight out of New York. L: Jersey, I think. You never had any run-ins with them in the early days? L: Sure, 1 had run-ins with all of 'em. I ran into almost every hot man in New York in the late '70s - would you like a fucking encyclopaedia listing of everyone who I've fucked? You can't have all night. Why did Belinda Carlisle end up marrying a Republican? E: Because she's a Republican, I guess. Lydia? L: I guess - I don't know. You know, we're very entertained, but you have to get to something that we care about. OK • the Cramps - please, Lydia, the Cramps. Brian Gregory - the Cramps. L: What about Brian Gregory? Do you ever correspond with him anymore? L: I haven't seen him in 15 years. You don't know what he's doing? L: Nah, I think he's rotting and probably trying to overcome his flesh-orientated amoebic infestations. 'Cause Eight-Eyed Spy kind of had some neat tunes, didn't they - you know, "diddy-wa- diddy" • that's kind of Crampsian. L: It's not at all Crampsian. Stiv Baton called me up and sa nwra's Ms oin from Cleveland who really likes you. She's hart tight now Ware all going am to Lytftas house to lava a party. Wiy dont you coma overT I m Ilka. *Ofcay. great* S< I go over thefe. and we all got naked, and Stiv started whip ping he. wttti his belt He was whipping her. and Lydia was giving har head, saying, "Isn't this the moat beautiful pussy you've ever aaanr and wt took aims doing that, doing alt Mods ol nasty sax Wngs... Ben is Dead interview by: Daxby Ben Is Dead address: P.O. Box 3166 Hollywood, CA, USA 90028 Well, it's kinda garage-y, at least. L: Yeah, OK. So you never raly bid any rftWty with those guys? L: I found some affinity with the Cramps, sure. What about this goth thing - would you not say, Exene, that Lydia • when I think your name, "Lydia Lunch'V'Lena Lovich", I kind of think a bit of goth. The Cramps got goth, too. I think a lot of New York bands got a goth following. What is goth, and have any goths been coming out to this Rude Hieroglyphics tour? E: I don't know, I don't care. L: Look, Nardo, goth has nothing to do with me. It's like saying, you know, everyone with black hair looks like Siouxsie and the Banshees. I mean, you gotta get with it, dude, you know, you're categorising is just making no sense to me. You know, like, there's people coming out to gigs, and you go, "Oh, there's the goths" - L: Who gives a shit what they look hke? It's what they think about that's important. Look at you - I mean, if you came out to my gig, I'd say, "What is this, like, hockey fan doing at my fucking show, this guy Nardo, what is this all about? I mean, this guy is, like -" Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Lydia Lunch. L: [to Exene] He is kind of as irritating as you said he would be. [to Nardwuar] But, I mean, what does it matter what people look like, it's what they fucking think or do. All I'm referring to is • you know Down by Law, don't you? E: You mean a movie called Down by Law! No, that Dave Smalley guy, you know, straightedge - "I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't -" L: I don't give a shit. Well, he says • I heard through an insider, an industry insider, that Dave Smalley, he really does still drink, even though he's supposed to be straight-edge, but he still, you know, tries to maintain the image to do it for the kids. I mean - are you doing it for the goths E: You're so funny. You're so silly. You know what - No, we're not finished, we're not finished, a few more questions. E: We don't know who that is. We don't know who that is, and we don't care. Because we don't know who it is. After working with, hke, Richard Kem in his wild movies - what's the deal on that good-looking guy, that, like David Wojnarowicz guy? L: I don't know who you're speaking about. He's in the movie Stray Dogs. I really love the way he looks. Where is that guy right now? L: He's probably dead, since I have no idea who you're fucking talking about. In those Richard Kern movies, one of the Richard Kern movies. L: There's a hundred people in the Richard Kern movies. Get your facts straight. OK, how 'bout the - do you like the knife - what is that knife that Richard Kern uses - I love it - you just squeeze it and the blood comes out. L: [Rather acerbtcly] That's right, it's a blood knife. I love the way it's the same knife every time. L: Well, that's right. And how 'bout that pistol, you know - you came in close physical contact with a pistol. Was it cleaned when you came into close touching contact with the pistol? L: Before or after? Well, before, before you came in contact with it. L: I don't think that was necessary. It was well greased and oiled and cleaned the way a good machine should be. Right after these Richard Kern movies, you ended up collaborating with Billy ver Plank? L: No, I think it was before that. You gotta get your history straight, buddy. Billy ver Plank, like, 1981. Now, this guy's interesting. He's into Flintstone cartoon movies. You go from blood to Flintstones? What's his background, Lydia Lunch and Exene? L: Well, he wrote all the music for The Flintstones and lots of cartoon music during the '50s, '60s, '70s. It's kind ot a contrast, isn't it, to go from Richard Kern to, you know, cartoons? L: You got it backwards, buddy. I went from Teenage Jesus to The Flintstones soundtracks to Eight Eyed Spy to Richard Kern, and many things in between, which obviously you don't have notes about, but that's OK, because I don't have time to sit here and document my entire life's history. Who is God? L: I have no fucking idea. You know, your routines - who is God? E: That's not our routine. I thought God is cock, Lydia Lunch. L: God does not exist. Is there anything good about religion? Is there one good thing? Like, I once knew these old Russian ladies, and they were dying, but they really, really liked religion, and they had something to look forward to. I mean, could it now be good for them, they're about to die and, like, they die in church, isn't there anything good about it? L: That's what the problem is with religion, that it's an organised, corporate conspiracy to steal people's money by brainwashing them. What is good about religion is that it gives people something to concentrate, to focus on, to hope for, because their lives are so petty and insignificant that they just can't face the fact that when they die, it's over, and worms eat your fucking guts. Do you think that A.I.D.S. is a form of biological warfare advanced by the C.I.A.? L: That's one possibility. E: Well, it's probable, isn't it? But maybe not the C.I.A. There's other organisations that deal with that more than the C.I.A. would. Like who? Like, A.I.D.S. started in Japan at the end of the war? E: No, it started in the United States, the World Organisation of Health [sic] - L: WHO. E: World Health Organisation, Centre for Disease Control or accidental laboratory experiment on animals, or ineptitude, or, you know - L: Look, I don't know why people are so upset about A.I.D.S. because, if we go back in history - You think A.I.D.S. is hilarious, dont you? L: No, I think it doesn't kill as many people as many other plagues that we've had historically. If we want to go back to the Middle Ages, or even not as far back as the Middle Ages - I mean, the louse, my favourite animal, has personally been respon- O o f4 MARCH 1996 siMe for wiping out more men, and I do mean 'men', than bullets, bayonets or bombs. Because the louse spreads plagues, and there's been many plagues which have been far more devastating, more quickly disseminating, than A.I.D.S. People are all in an uproar about A.I.D.S., and it's only because, in our immediate lifetime, we can't remember the bubonic plague, we can't remember the sweating plague, we can't remember the laughing or St Vidas Day dance; we can't remember these plagues which infiltrated Europe, wiping out people in 2 or 3 days. You wrote a comic book about Dymphna - who's Dymphna? L: Dymphna was a saint, considered saint of the sexually insane, because her father was a pagan king who, once the mother died, insisted the daughter become queen, she refused, ran off with a priest in Antwerp, near Belgium-Holland border, and her father tracked her down and beheaded her, because she would not, indeed, copulate. That was a comic book that you put the words to, and somebody else illustrated, right? L: Yes, he's also dead, Mike Matthews. I have another comic book coming out in the fall with Ted McKevers. Is that on Fantagraphics? L: It will be on D.C./Vertigo. Hello, how are you doing? L: I'm perfect. Exene, how're you doing? E: Oh, I'm perfect as well. Why did you guys want Courtney Love's recipe for Prozac brownies? L: Do you want me to kill him now or later? E: We don't, we don't, we were just making a joke. On the record. A joke. 'Cause you told Lisa Suckdog that you once faxed Courtney, or Courtney said that you once faxed her while she was on KROQ, and you were saying - L: Look, this is how pathological Courtney is. I was living in New Orleans while she did that radio interview. I don't see how I could hear KROQ in New Orleans and fax her at the time. So you didn't fax Courtney Love saying "Stop trying to cop me"? L: No, I haven't. Other people can do that for me. I have no desire to have any contact with her. And she offered you money and you took it. E: No, no - that's the problem with the technological age, this is the problem with the anonymous age of disinformation, is everyone - This is the problem with RolterDerby, this is Lisa Suckdog's information. If you can't trust Lisa Suckdog, who can you trust? E: You're not gonna let me say one fucking thing in this whole interview - is that all these anonymous people pretend to be other people, and it's like, it's the medium of the coward and the liar, is this stupid computer thing. L: And that's why it's perfect for Courtney. But this isn't the computer. I got that out of RollerDerby. E: No, but that's how that stuff gets passed 'round. You said it was faxed. And you said, you know, that people called. L: You're quoting these shitty magazines which don't have one iota of interest in the real truth, and it's all perverted through historical backlog, and people are so consumed with other priorities that what do these petty details mean anyway? Who put David Byrne and R.EM, on the cover of Time magazine? E: What year? No, who put them - who made those people, Lydia? Who are those people that you'd like to identify? L: I don't give a shit. You don't care about those people who put David Byrne and R.E.M. on the cover of rune- magazine, you don't care about those people? Isn't that what you're out to do, you're out to destroy those people. L: I don't care about Time magazine. But you don't like those people that are out there, that magazine - those people are the root of all evil. L: Don't you have time for yourself. You're so preoccupied with everybody else's past, where's your own past or history or future? I only have concerns about the world-situation, and my part in it, that's all I'm concerned with, and at that point, I want to close this interview. Lydia, just a few more little quick questions here. Do you always win? You're beating me here - do you always win? L: Of course. You were poshed through a plate-glass window at onetime. L: Wrong. No? L: You really need to do your homework You said that in your speech! [Laughter from E & L] L: And everything I say is completely factual. OK, what about Nicole Simpson's breast implants • were they popped? L: Ah, that's Exene's line. OK. E:Yeah. Were they, Exene? E: Mmm-hmm. What's your take, Lydia Lunch, on Howard Stem's PERRYSCOPE PRESENTS live L: Come back with a token of reality under your belt and I'll speak to you then. Exene, have you ever partied with Annie Sprinkle at al? E: No I haven't Anything else you'd like to add to the listeners out there in the land? L: Ur - do it yourself. Why should people care about this Rude Hieroglyphics tour with Lydia Lunch? L You shouldn't [laughter] I don't give a shit what they da They should do like I do and do it them fucking selves and not believesecond-handinfcrmatkinforce-fedtothembypeople j who don't know whet they're fucking talking about So do you have many Canadian friends? L: My father was Canadian, and I don't consider him a friend, but he's dead, so I guess it doesn't matter. Were you bora in Canada? L: No, I wasn't Your Dad was Canadian • this is amazing, Lydia , Lunch! L: Well, this is the first you've ever heard of it, and it's , true. Where was he from, though, in Canada? L: Kitchener, Ontario - now, goodbye. Any relatives we can hunt down? . I L: No, they're all dead, I'm an orphan. That's interestm****, because Miriam Lima, you know, . Miriam Lama, original drummer for the Cramps? L: You better stop, because you're forcing me to violence now [laughs]. Miriam Linna is Canadian, do you know her? L: Yes, I do. She's cool, eh? Wasn't that mean of them to kick her out? L: Please, Nardo. You're out of line. We_, keep on rocking in the free world. Doot Doola Doot Doo... E: No, I don't do that. I won't. WITH GUESTS FILTER RT MARCH ft „„.,„-«■, »,»,iu-iu- aaa-w^i iTlHnull 10 THEATRE STAGE I m ft* fl£5^- B-Bic&lly. yeah. I love L.ytH«. Rollerderby interview by: Lisa Carver Rollerderby address: P.O. Box 18054 Denver, CO, USA 80218 heatherm with guests Friday, March 22 Starfish Room Doors 9pm • Show 10pm Tickets also available al Track m>f%K **■■. ■•■■■ ' : .. X MONDAY, APRIL 8 ^f DOORS 8 • SHOW 9 TOWN PUMP ^V O^Wi tUAAM +\ A tiresome debate is still raging these days as to whether or not it's okay to be gay. "Live and let live" is the civil solution; no need for bashing and gay persecution. But queers are ignored, and often despised by those who can't leave us to live our own Fear and ignorance would seem the rule when many with power are homophobes ar Poor Jimmy Swaggart, the Christian defender was caught with a prostitute of the female ger Would Jimmy suffer the same fall from grace if he were caught sitting on Falwell's face? <d fools. "No marriage, no benefits, adoption is outl You're all spreading AIDS and sexual doubtl It was all so much easier in less liberal days boys seduced girls and the world cried 'hurrayl' Now promiscuous women who dress as they like are parading the streets and are proud to be dykes. This queer pride and out-ness must cease and desistl We'd be oh so happy if you didn't exist." Of course sex isn't everything, but it's become the c to deny it is like saying we've no issues of rat It should be no-one's business what we do in but it matters when bigots pick fights and roll head; No-one is preaching they must become gay, but they are demanding we do it their way. They are insistent, we must all live the same; they decree that our sex lives be hopelessly tame. These conservatives tend toward anal repression - but the probing of queerness is still their obsession. "It's sick" says the Right, but who wants to know? Why do they care who we fuck, suck or blow? iolu, ror ing , fct quee _> :3re It's been called a crime, it's been called abuse by people who waste all their effort and juice on misguided crusades to dictate others' actions. If they hate gays so much, then what's the attraction? C "Get back in the closet and give us some room to guess what you're doing in there with the brooml" Perhaps it is time they all took a vacation and withdrew their gaze from the butts of the nation. > 1 and i: Jesp ivhat they claim to hate: while silencing queers with their vicious debate. They protest our existence and the fact that we're born - i while furtively leafing through lesbian porn. I Could they be worried of missing the fun? Could they be jealous of the sex that they shun? Could their outward revulsion belie a desire ix partners they wish to acquire? Preston Manning, as always, is eager and keen to be outraged (maybe tempted?) by queers that he's s And that is the nature of true western Reform: to do what you will while enforcing the norm. Our enemies are riddled with hypocrisy, words mismatch behaviour among the bourgeoisie. All these conservatives we're righteously blaming - these religious right-wingers could be secretly flaming. Political candidates worry what's next, they've confessed to dope smoking, and soon to sex - they weakly protest experiments with fellatio: ■ "I tried in the '70s, but I didn't swallowl" When Clinton was jogging in Vancouver last, he brought FBI agents to watch his ass. 'Hand-picked bodyguards' for his protection with the ability to jog despite an erection. Of course Mr. Harcourt (though you could never tell) performs questionable acts with Macrnillan Bloedel. But he shouldn't deny it, he should be proud to be building a province where queers are allowed. Evangelical crusaders have always been suspect, their heterosexuality an unlikely prospect. Jim Bakker may not be out as a fag but with the wigs and the makeup Tammy must be in drag. I If L Perhaps Jerry Falwell iuld then a » might even come out on the side of the queer id find love in his god instead of just fear. FJCK Newt Gingrich is causing a ruckus I hear; 'family values' his weapon against peace-loving queers. The nudear family is his ideal, of course; he proclaims its propriety as he signs his divorce. Newt and Rush Limbaugh, thank god for your luck. You've found in each other a bigot to fuck. No one could love them, not even a mother - they should see the light and marry each other. .' These two homophobes are a match made in heaven; I I their wedding would headline the News at Eleven. Now who is the Bottom and who is the Top? They're both power mongers, so they'd probably swap. ctabal-i sill re ::: -n ■ • • cbys Homophobes enjoy their cozy befriendments penning (cheek to cheek) anti-gay amendments. The motto of the Right is insidious swill: "I can have what I want, though no-one else willl" A Catholic example is telling and true: remember the priests who found little boys to screw while preaching against homo- and hetero-sex; it's an abusive dogma, we see by the effects. So often they practice what they preach against and in some perverse way, it makes perfect sense: in the oppression of queers they are rigorously active for what is forbidden is made more attractive. T i ■ »-» ■ ■ ■ * Some boys in the Legislature aren't after lasses they stare and drool when Svend Robinson passes. )| nOl But he is a rebel, he defies protocol MPs are concerned Svend will snitch and tell all. cay | p^ [broad can't buy a role model these days. I Jr\ [Polarized, fractionalized and marginalized politics have left those of us who consider ourselves first as humans and second as females not only cynical, but down-hearted. The modern woman's dilemma faces me daily: should I shoot an abortion doctor or become a lesbian for political reasons? I'm not exactly hankering for the good ol' days of fanny-patting and bra-burning, but the current situation sure makes a convincing argument for ambivalence. That's why, as far as the false microcosm of Hollywood is concerned, I usually just shut my mouth. "Nothing has changed, nothing will change" is not just the motto of my generation, it's the one lesson history has taught me. In that star-making suburb of LA the rules have always stated clearly that box-office receipts and the dicks of the studio heads dictate policy. Hollywood marketing types tell us again and again: women go to see men's movies but men would rather bake cookies, knit a sweater, or eat their dog than go see a 'woman's film*. Most directors (the Director's Guild is more than 75% male) use this 'fact' to relieve themselves of any compulsion to create believable female characters in their films. "It's what you call a male pornographic fantasy. Onthe one hand, you 've got your seductive sex-goddess type. On the other, you 've got a healthy girl-next-door with a nice butt. So men get it all. Madonna and the whore." -from Dazed and Confused Bound to include the 'babe-quotient' in each film, 'big-money' directors and producers use women as objects of the lead actors' devotion (the madonnas) or lust (the whores). This isn't to say that the madonnas are always virgins and the whores are always bookers: Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman was a madonna, Glenn Gose in Fatal Attraction was a whore. Maybe they've been hanging out in the "blow me and I'll make you a star" capita] too long, but most movie roles for women are formula types created by people who seem to never have met a real, living and breathing, woman. The problem is especially prevalent in the realm of 'reality' cinema. Most Hollywood biographies and historical epics deign to give their male leads few minor flaws but make sure the female characters are firmly in their places, either legs in the air or faces in their hankies. Recent examples have included Sissy Spacek in JFK (weepingly possessive wife holding husband back from greatness), Kathleen Quinlan in Apollo 13 (weepingly faithful wife holding head up in face of husband's potential demise), and la French chick [Sophie Marceau - ed.] in Braveheart (poutingly easy princess giving noble hero bad king's secrets). The people who created characters like these deserve to play "The Narcissistic lerk" in a biographical TV-movie that will be written and directed by their wives, girlfriends, mothers and associated starlets. Intentionally less realistic cinematic ventures are often laughably worse (check out the "Standard Chick Role" in Nine Months, Under Siege, or the first Batman movie) but sometimes are marginally better. Though her mammarial appendages up-stage her for most of the film, Patricia Arquette's Alabama does get to tango mano-a-mano with a hired goon in True Romance and in the Aliens series Sigourney Weaver's Ripley usually manages to leave her uterus out of it The last movie diat shook film-goers out of their Joel Silver-induced stupor was Thelma & Louise. An ambiguous diatribe masquerading as a feminist statement, the reason the movie was so fun to watch, and subsequently did good box-office, was because it was different It pretended to say something 'meaningful' (about abusive husbands? about rapists? about cowboy bars?) but its real message was mat women just want to have the same rip-snorting, jean-peeling, oil-rig exploding good time ot screen that men get to have all the time. Women change, grow, feel, lust, fuck, and lie there like doormats while some guy pumps them full of semen but they don't exist merely to help the men in their lives become fathers, heroes or existential misanthropes. Moving back through the annals of time, where the Zero Hour is 189S and we only exist as we appear on celluloid, there have been some prime examples of the land of film female the screen needs more of. Whether they're bad girls, rich chicks having fun, stately matrons, career gals, or tortured st _ls, the directors, characters and actresses agreed for once that they would not play it like it had been played so many ti before. As a result, they've achieved the immortality that every ego who has ever worked in Hollywood has dreamed of for themselves since the day they were bora. Of all the great women on screen, I like the bad girls best Often Hollywood uses the bad girl to reaffirm the hero's essentia] goodness, to himself and the audience. Once in a while one comes along that's so bad that she's an entity, and a movie, unto herself. To qualify as a true Evil Bitch, one must be stylish, smart, and firmly, though not obviously, in charge. Cartoonishly exaggerated women need not apply, but a heady dose of fantasy is acceptable. Above all, ruth- lessness rules. They may not be role models, but at least they have some fun. They play the 'hero' like a Stradi van us and in the finale, show him that he's really a dime store banjo. When Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) first meets Brigid O'Shaughnessey (Mary Astor) in the 1941 classic, The Maltese Falcon, he's charmed by her demure helplessness. Though she initially seems as innocent as a spring lamb, Detective Spade eventually learns that he's the one scheduled fcr the slaughterhouse. In a stunning performance, Mary Aster slowly opens up her character like the last present under the tree on Christmas morning, revealing only what she must until the film's last minutes when Spade finally learns that the Grinch, not Santa, delivered this ticking, stinking bomb. t€ MARCH 1996 O how they hush up in fear of being found [£♦*.• or losing the power to grind others down. J*t*****t,t***t*****'» They uphold a tenet the nations hold dear: &+•+»*•+!*&*•*•*• the inalienable right to be secretly queer. ££♦! But what of the right to be out and proud? ££♦* To be true to yourself and to say it aloud? >*J*J**v >£"'.*!% Why should the judgments of others decide £££__£___$*_ who we love, who we fuck, how we feel inside? If they loosened up and lost the fascination, let queer life be without fear and titillation; maybe they'd even get in on the scene. (Maybe those closeted could finally clean.) 'Normal' is non-existent, difference is all; |> we shouldn't be made to feel fucked-up and ;" Desire is not evil, it's not weird to be queer. J, We've nothing to lose except sexual fear. j! Anna Friz •', at fl^ljfr' ? I ■,w_ rw<*r f id se: u W J~-l. Sv> ■:*:?•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•: In the '40s noir masterpiece Double Indemnity, Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) makes no such pretensions to innocence. In fact, that's what insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) likes about her. She's a bored, rich housewife, ripe for the plucking, and he's not adverse to a juicy piece of fruit now and again. It's not until her newly-insured husband is dead and the nose of Neff's fraud-sniffing boss starts twitching that our Mutual of Omaha Romeo realizes that his Juliet may have an alternative ending for their little play. Like the audience, Neff only slowly finds out that the iciness he thought was Phyllis' ennui was really a remorseless devotion to herself. In her slightly ironic smile and her leaning posture Stanwyck's Phyllis gives the audience a glimpse of her character's truly devilish nature through a gauzy veil that never shows us so much that we'd hate her but tantalizes us with the raw power she can wield when she wants. The Last Seduction's Brigit (Linda Fiorentino) shields no one from the dark forces bubbling inside her. From her opening scene as a telemarketing floor manager to the murderous culmination of her hard work and planning, the audience and most of the film's characters think they know exactly how bad this girl is. That's her charm. TTiey just tend to underestimate her smarts. Small town beef-cake Mike (Peter Berg) is initially intrigued by her caustic put- downs and big-city sexual appetites. Her immorality gives him a few troubled moments, but any qualms about their relationship are quelled by her smooth manipulation of his more tender nature. Soon, he's committing felonies and sitting as pretty as a picture in the elaborate frame she's built around him. Fiorentino was rightfully lauded and wrongfully barred from Oscar contention for her dead-on portrayal of Brigit, a woman who rarely counts on her fingers and never moves her lips when she reads. With time and space I could conquer the universe and expostulate on other masterful female performances and characters, iron the frothy frivolity of Myrna Loy's Nora Charles in The Thin Man to the sad grand dame-ness of Katherine Hepburn's Eleanor of Aquitaine in 77ie Lion in Winter, from the bullet- speed banter of Rosalind Russell's Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday to the molasses-slow drawl of Lauren Bacall's Slim in To Have and Have Not, Hollywood has proved that it can create women worthy ofthe time it takes to watch them - ?.:;.> only hope that the ballsy broads — of movies past aren't 'entirely forsaken manager to the murderous culmination of her hard Jl only hope that the ballsy broads work and planning, the audience and most ofthe V jan of movies past aren't film's characters think they know exactly how bad W^ifm. ^^^jp* entirely forsaken this girl is. That's her charm. They just tend to under- JgfMJjP1 **Ji__^_i__Lw #'n *** movies of estimate her smarts. 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In meantime, like a lot she needs other- constructive - outlets for her anger against men. cifically, outlets that >n'f land her in jail, en my recent homici- \l terrorist fantasies I most excited about the opportunity to vent a woman who knew z score but wasn't frightened into compliance and was getting stuff done. (Crista: What really pisses you off these days? Jodi: Domestic violence. That's the number one thing. Violence against women. That's what pisses me off. Every single day I try to convince other women that we need to dedicate our lives to eradicating all violence against women. Every day. So this Is where the Free to Fight compilation is coming from. Yeah. It came about because I was sick of just putting out regular rock records. My housemate is a self- defence instructor and we have a lot of the same ideas; we're just doing them in different ways and I just wanted to bring them together because its clear that we're talking about the same issues, but just in different mediums. And I just think that rock is one of the only public spaces that is secular and I think it is important to use it for other things than making noise. I also wanted to meet women who were doing similar things. I thought this would be a good way because I knew everyone would really want to get involved. Did you tour with the Free to FlghtCD? Team Dresch went on tour and we did self-defence demos before all of our shows. But that was before Free to Fight came out. There was a Free to Fight tour down the West Coast where we did a workshop before every show - a one-hour workshop - and no guys were allowed at the shew. And then we'd have the shew and there would be demos during the shew also. Wre going to do that again in June, to the East Coast and back. Dld you start doing your own self- defence training around the time that you were doing Free to Fight? I took self-defence for the first time probably about 3 or 4 years before Free to Fight. IVe taken multiple classes. I never did it consistently, but a lot of my friends were training to be instructors and stuff, so I was always around it and talking about it. I take classes occasionally - I'm taking a class right now. I wanted to take one before I went on tour. It's something that I like to do whenever I get a chance. I don't train in martial arts regularly - I'd like to - but I'm never home consistently enough. Have you used your self-defence skills? I haven't gotten into a physical fight ever. One time I got bashed, but the guy blindsided me, and Donna [Dresch of Team Dresch] jumped on him. So I didn't have to fight. But I Ve definitely used a lot of the verbal stuff and the self respect stuff. And the physical stuff to the extent of setting your boundaries, like putting your arm up and telling someone to stop and not come any closer. Has this made you feel safer? Definitely. Even when we were walking over here, two guys were behind us and they walked past us and I was thinking, "if that guy grabbed me around the waist I would elbcw him". I knew what I would do. I think about that all the time. It's fun. That was the whole thing with Free to Fight. It's something you have to deal with all the time when you're walking down the street byyourself, whetheryou're thinking, "I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid", or whetheryou're just aware that you're alone. So you might as well be thinking, "there's an open door, there's something I can grab, here's a move I can do". It can be fun. People think it's really fucked up - some people even go so far as to call self- defence violence - but it's okay to like learning how to fight, it's okay to like fighting, it's okay to think about it and have fun practicing. I wonder If this makes you over-confident. I get over-confident in that, when I'm taking self- defence I get really, like -1 just want to fucking kill people. I definitely am more on edge. I get hyper-sensitrve to all issues of violence and I want to kill people all the time. I feel almost like I want someone to grab me so that I can fight them. But I know that I would not provoke a fight because I was feeling over-confident. And I know that if someone attacked me and I was feeling over-confident it wouldn't lessen my chances of getting away. If someone actually attacked me and I was feeling over-confident, I think it would actually help because I'd have adrenaline already. But as for getting into fights because of feeling over confident - I just don't think that it happens. If somebody grabbed you when you were walking home at night and you were ready for the attack and you started fighting back, do you thhk that you would fight Just enough to run or would you keep hitting him? I think that if someone came up behind me and I did elbows back, so that I wasn't even seeing him, and I felt him release his hold on me, then I would run. I wouldn't turn and face him and see what was going on because maybe I hit him in the throat and he is going to fall back for five seconds, and that will give me enough time to run. But if I turned around that might give him enough time to strike again. If someone was "1 fighting me from the front, I would fight until I could run. Basically, I would always just fight until I could run, unless I totally did something, which would probably be by accident, that actually hurt someone badly enough that I could tell that he was 'out'. If someone was out, on the ground, and I knew that he wasn't going be able to jump right back up again, then I think that I would kick his ass a little bit more. But I wouldn't risk my ass just to kick a few more asses. One thing that I wonder about when I'm walking home is, what if I kill someone? Then you'll go to jail because you're a lesbian. I don't know what it is in Canada, but it's that way in the U.S. I mean, in the U.S., being a lesbian is an aggravating circumstance. Legally. It's the same thing as carrying a weapon or being drunk. That just blows my fucking mind. In Canada I'm not sure If it works that way. But Just the fact that it's judges-50 year okJ straight white men - who make the decisions, means that anti-lesbian thinking is often the underlying attitude, and that makes them dislike the accused person more. And they believe that you're more violent, Lesbians are violent, crazy man-haters. That's why, when the guy who beat me up said that I called him a heterosexual and threw the first punch, the jury believed him. He didn't get convicted. So you saw the person who attacked you and took Him to court Yeah. It weri to a grand jury. And the DA [district attorney] w$s like, "Ho-vdid he kncwyouwerea lesbian? w|at signs did you give off?" I said, "It doesn't matjierwhether I'm a lesbian. It matters that he called mie a lesbian and hit me. That makes it a hate crime Its not relevant whether I'm a lesbian or not." And h| said, "Answer the question." So I said, "I don't kncjkv. The way I walk. The way I dress. What are you asking me?" It was insane. The DA was so homophobic. And I ended up yelling at him for halfjian-hour afterwards when he told me the verdict,iiand he ended up agreeing with me that he wasjhomophobic and that it was wrong jwhat hie did. Aid I was like, "Lot of tucking good that does me new." ^ prosecuted for assault and hate crifjne. The grand jury voted -1 dont renjember hew many jurors there were. j5even maybe. It was like 6-1 thoughf it wasn't a hate crime and 4-3 thojbght it wasn't an assault. and theyfought. And then other people came out because they'd seen me go into the club all bloody. And then he got scared and got in his car and drove away, but we got the license plate number and it was a rental car, so the cops found him. Was the general idea In court that you provoked the fight by being a lesbian? yeah. These are the questions the grand jury asked me: "When he said "Whose ice cream bar?" and you thought he might be drunk, why didn't you just go back inside?" "What were you doing in that bar anyway?" "Couldn't you have gone in another door?" "Was your place too. I heard through lesbians in the community that some lesbian who had worked for him had been found hanged. I think he's had people killed. He's a really serious motherfucker coke dealer. Really bad news. Does that make you scared? Knowing that you took him to court? It did for a long time. Do you ever run into him, hear from him? No. But it was written about in the papers a lot because of me being a 'rock star'. I don't think it would have been reported otherwise. It was people who knew me and only knew about it because it was at a rock show,- they wouldn't photos by Denise Sheppard I So he didn't even get convicted of assault? I No. Nothing. Because they believed that I took the first punch. And I had pictures. I had stitches. I had migraine headaches. I had pictures of my entire face. And he had nothing - except that he said he hurt his shoulder. Were there witnesses? Yeah. But his wife lied and corroborated his story and she wasn't even there. What about Donna? She was there. But then again, she's another lesbian. And he beat her up too. She jumped on him. Nobody saw him hit me except Donna. I was loading up my equipment after the shew and he was in the parking lot and I asked him to move his car. He said, "Whose ice cream bar?" And I was like, "Can you move your car?" And he says, "What are you talking about?" And I said, "I need you to move your car so I can get my van." And he's like, "you're a fucking little lesbian bitch." And I said, "That's right, I'm a fucking lesbian bitch, and you're a cock-happy motherfucker, so move your fucking car." And then he got in his car, and I got in my car, and I thought he was going to move, and I was starting to back up, but he wasn't moving. He was just sitting there. So I got out to walk back into the club and wait, and as I was walking around the back of his car he just jumped out of his car and slugged me straight in the eye. He must have had a ring on, because he cut me bad above the eye. And then Donna jumped on him because she saw it, of employment primarily heterosexual or les- bionic?" Those were the only questions they asked me. And the DA. asked me how he knew I was a lesbian and to describe what happened. That was it. So much for the D.A. being on your side. So much for the DA. having any logic capabilities. So much for the DA understanding what a hate crime is or what would be a relevant line of questioning. I'm surprised that in the States queer-bashing counts as a hate crime. It does in Oregon. In Canada queer-bashing can be a hate crime, but most of the time stuff is not reported as a hate crime or prosecuted as a hate crime. Plus, I almost think that if it had just been an assault, they might ha^e gone for it. It makes them really mad that you're calling it a hate crime because they think you're getting special privileges. The fact that it was prosecuted as a hate crime and an assault, was that a decision you were involved in? Did people try to convince you to prosecute Just as an assault? yeah. Did they tel you that It would be easier to get a conviction if you Just went for the assault? No. I didn't have a lawyer. They didn't explain shit to me. After the grand jury decision I went to a lawyer about a civil suit and she said I didn't have a case. This guy is totally organized crime have known about it otherwise. And they were totally on my side, totally made him look like an asshole in all the papers. And I wanted it to be there because I didn't want to be afraid. But I was definitely afraid. I had some dyke friends who wanted to go fuck him up, but I wouldn't let them. I was like, this guy would have to be killed. He has people around him who do things for him. He was sort of untouchable. I think they could have hurt him, but then someone would hurt me also. Do you think, for you, going to court was a good thing? yeah. I mean, I knew where I stand new. I don't have a gun because I knew that if I use a gun in sdf-defence I'm going to be in jail for murder. I knew it. So I'll never get a gun. What about a knife? I would, maybe. But ii\the same thing. And if I carried a weapon, I'd really, really, really want to know how to use it well. \ I've always wanted a switch-blade. A lot of girls in Olympia l|ave switch-blades. They're really into them. I I used to Just carry around my Swiss Army knife open to the cork screw part yeah, that's good. j I thought that would do better damage than the knife. / Its true. Eyeball. / yeah. In the eyes, <£nd if someone grabbed it from you that kneyi/ how to fight, they wouldn't be able to fu.<_k with you as bad with a corkscrew No one is trained to use a corkscrew. I have mace too/ Me too. ifha^e some somewi^eu^*-**^''^' But it/hard to u^The flic thing. "Excuse me, could you hold that evil thought while I \ adjust my mace. Just stand there a minute." I Right. So what do you think about lesbian sepa- ; ratism? I love it, but I can't be a part of it. I totally under- I stand women wanting to be separatists. I don't j know people in Portland who are actually sepa- j ratists -1 think it's hard living in the city. You pret- ; ty much have to go to Women's Land or something. But I'm totally into it and I can totally understand needing to do that for a while or for your whole life or whatever. I think it's a really important choice to be able to make. But if everyone were a separatist, I think it would be problematic. But that's not an issue. There are lots of Women's Lands in Oregon. Are Women's Lands towns where only women live? They are like farms where you can go and work in order to live for days or months or whatever. Have you ever stayed at one? No. But I really want to. I haven't had time to do a lot of things that I want to do. Too busy. Although, I dont know if I could handle living in a women's collective. There would be a lot of processing. I totally agree. But the thing with me lately is that I just want to turn my politics out more. I want to connect with different groups of people who are doing different things. But at the same time I do know women who are pretty separate - as separate as they can get - and it's totally important for me to be able to connect with them and work with them. I would be really sad if there was no lesbian separatism. I'd be really sad if there was no Michigan Women's Music Festival or other places where you can go where there are no men. How did you find playing at the festival? Great. The year before you went to Michigan, Tribe 8 was there. I remember hearing that all these women protested their show, that they canted signs that said, "Tribe 8 is violence against women." I wondered If when you were there the next year there was an anti-punk thing happening. It was totally mellow. People said it was the first year of the festival that there was no Big Issue. There wes no big political issue. None. A tot of people left during our shew, but a lot of people learve during every shew. A lot of older women were totally into it, were stage-diving, were moshing. So what did you do when you were at Michigan and weren't playing? I walked around. I just looked at all the lesbians and thought how radical they were. I was really sick so I would just sit and watch and be in the woods and get in touch with my women's spirit, eat bagels,* I listened to a lot of really good music. I did some boob tricks on the day stage. What is that? Women putting things under their boobs and crushing beer cans with their boobs and stuff. I can't crush beer cans but I was holding stuff. What did you hold? I can't hold very much stuff because I don't have big enough boobs, unfortunately. It was Big Boob Appreciation Day. So this one women was holding a giant baked chicken and a cantaloupe and stuff and I was holding a fork and a knife to eat the food she was holding. But I can hold bigger things than just that - but not that much bigger. Flashlights. Fruit. It's so easy if you're sweaty. That's the thing. If you're sweaty anything will stick to your body. Jodi Conversation wftl by megan mallettt Jfeli-? What with playing bass for one of Canada's best bands (Eric's Trip, who have just released their third full length, Purple Blue, on Sub Pop), being married, having a thirteen-month-old baby, having her own side project (Broken Girl), running a record label (Sappy Records), and taking a photography class, one would think that Julie had no spare time. Not true. She took time out between engagements to call me so she could fill me in on her busy life. So what is the weather like out there? Well, it was snowing a little while ago, but I think it's stopped. We've been having really weird weather where one weekend it will all melt and it'll be completely dry and then two weeks later we'll get another dump. It was really warm here for a week; it was above zero and everything had melted and it was warm. I went for walks with the baby. It was really nice. How is Ben doing? How old is he now? He turned thirteen months on the 24th [of January]. He's doing really well. He's not a real confident walker yet; he stands up in the middle of the room and kinda takes like four or five steps. He's really starting to go at it. For about two or three months now he's been walking under the table, holding onto the chairs, but he hasn't really ventured off with out holding onto anything until about the last month. He'll walk back and forth to us, but he won't do it on demand. It has to be when he wants to. If you try and stand him up, he'll just sit back down. So, what b going on widi Eric's lip? Xve hecrd rumours that you guys am ftnlang af going your separate ways. We didn't know what was going on with Eric's Trip until last week. We just put out this album and we're going on tour in the spring, so we'll see what happens after that. Where will you be touring to? We'd like to go along the east coast of the United States, but I'm not sure yet. L'l? Last Hme I spoke with you, you mentioned something about an Eric's Trip-Lou Barlow project... Lou's really, really busy right now. vd He tours so much, and the Folk Implosion have that big hit right I now. When Chris talked to him last time, he said he still remembers, but he has so many projects going on... So I don't know if that will ever happen. It was a nice idea, though. The last time I saw you play was at that Another , Roadside Attraction, _ . where you guys 'i-0/K"\ toured in that big tour,*'/ * * 'V bus. Would you ever.l rj p lour that way again?; ^ I don't think there's^, going to be an oppor- * tunity to do that again, which is why we did it in the first place. It was fun. It was different from the tour we did in the fall, which was just us and our sound man. We'd just hop in the van and drive to a different place, and we were in charge of getting paid and everything. It's like two different extremes. [On the last tour] we were also in charge of selling our own merchandise, and at one of the shows in Toronto, an all-ages show, I sold merchandise until about five or ten minutes before we went on stage. It was nonstop, and I had to sign practically everything I sold, so I was pretty tired and dizzy when I got on stage. Did you ever imagine that one day you'd be signing things that people bought? No, no, no. I never imagined anything like that. And it still freaks me out. I think 'Why? Why do you want me to sign this?* So your side project, Broken Girl, seems to be doing really wel. Yeah, I guess. We get letters and people buy the 7-inches, and now I have a full length coming out in February [to be co-released by Sub Pop]. Worn it Sappy [Records] doing? Is it you and Jon (Julie's husband] running it? Yeah, Jon and I run it, and we hired Ron from Orange Glass. He comes and works on Saturdays from noon to four. He helps us answer mail and package records and stuff. We still get mail and orders, and I guess now that we're going to be putting out a whole bunch of new stuff, hopefully all the people who have everything else will order this stuff. We're still not making a whole lot of money, and we still have to use a lot of our own money for releases, but ifs doing okay, I guess. Stuff gets around; the computers are really helping us. People heard about us a lot from the Internet. We haven't actually posted anything anywhere, so ifs strange how we keep . getting mail and we don't ■'•¥ advertise anywhere. What is coming up on Sappy- release schedule? There's a new Orange Glass 7- inch coming out and that should be out next week for sure. Who exactly is in Orange Glass? I keep hearing different reports... Originally, Orange Glass was just Ron Bates, but now he has a band. Ifs Tara, Rick's wife, on bass, and Chris Flannigan on drums. Ifs just him on that first 7-inch and on the new one if II be the whole band. What else do you have planned for Sappy? For the near future: an Inbreds 7-inch, as long as they can find the time to record it - last time I talked to them was, like, three weeks ago, and they were still planning on recording it, but when I called today they were on tour; probably a new Elevator to Hell 7-inch - I was just talking to Rick today and he mentioned that he still wants to, so he's going to start recording it - oh, and the wooden stars and The Mommyheads, the/re going to be doing a split with us. I really want to start putting out music thafs not so Eric's Trip-related. We put out a 7-inch by Mike (snailhouse) in October and thafs one of our favourite 7-inches up until now. We storied Sappy to put out music by people like him - [music] we didn't think anybody would ever get the chance to hear. But we decided to first put out a few things that people maybe would have heard of, and that we wanted to put out anyway, like Stereo Mountain. We're also supposed to have a 7-inch coming out from a band from Sweden called Lousy, but we don't know whafs going on with that now. They sent us a tape and we really liked it, so we wrote them right back and asked them if we could put a tape out on Sappy. They got excited and they sent us a DAT, but when I listened to it at Rick's house it was full of glitches. We e-mailed them from a computer at Jon's dad's work the next day, but we didn't hear back from them. And we just wrote them a real letter last week, so now we'll just waif, I guess. Where did you record Purple Blue? The first four songs were all done at our homes, except mine was done at Rick's. The rest of the album was recorded at a studio in Moncton. I think it had 24 tracks, but I don't think we used more than eight. I'm not sure though. Are you happy with the album? Yeah, I am. Sometimes I have mixed feelings about it; like, sometimes I think ifs a little too rock and other times I really like it. It all depends on what kind of mood I'm in. 1 & <^3e*_ 20 MARCH 1996 cnnvERSE cnnceRTs y/ V«»X opening for ■ Itmmals. R^oKimotio present 3x& **& B£Sa_^ MWftU ■SkfKOERNEffSPUC between 1683A a eg ) density uniforml I bc|kpgvw> Rimf b |OQSUVWXYZ aeaeaeae strength density unifoj *? aeaeaeae strength density uniformity II111II It bc| i ,jbyon<_^& timber d___Y_-4 lines SINCE WE BEGAN THIS COLUMN ANDREA and I have been wailing to receive a complaint about ihe higher percentage of wimrn- in-wrilten zines we review in comparsion to those written by men. Finally last month we got one. Almost needless to say it was from a male sender, who not only condemned our column but olso wrote lhat feminism deprives men of their opinions and beliefs: "it's no surprise a word like feminazi comes into ploy." Why is a womyn who works to overcome oppression interpreted as being on angry "feminazi* or a "manhotor"? Perhaps ani difranco's song "Not a Pretty Girl" says it best: "Everytime I say something they find hard to hear/they chalk it up to my onger/never to iheir own fear." Change is frightening; it provokes uncertainty, anger and, unfortunately, sometimes hale. Both men and wimmin have been conditioned to view a womyn's role as to love and be provided for by their fathers, boyfriends, and husbands. Liberation from ihis role con be difficult, but it is definitely necessary. And it doesn't have to involve holing - isn't lhat one of ihe things we are trying to overcome? bell hooks once said in an interview in Ms. magazine that she prefers the term feminist movement rather than wimmin's movement because true departure from sexism involves men too. And I read in Our Bodies Our Solves: "...some women came to equate fominism wilh hating men...Frustration and anger don't mean we want to end relationships (with men) instead they make us determined to change them." There is a revolution taking ploce and lhat revolution is not about hate or intimidation or doing to the oppressor whafs been done to the oppressed. It is about departure from the roles of superiority and inferiority and it requires us all to think about how we can abolish those roles. So, in response to the letter sent to Andrea and I: It mode me remember the time I was approached by a strange man saying, "Hey baby, show me that pretty smile." I didn't want to smile, especially for someone calling me baby. So he retorted, "Well, fuck you then." I think every aid has had a similar experience. The writer, like that strange man, hos left me and all wimmin he has declared feminazis in a lose/lose situation. We can eilher be silent to oppression or be called a man-hater. Smile pretty or be cursed at. To the writer: Why don't you take ownership of your discomfort with feminism and work it out will in yourself instead of blaming wimmin lor your insecurities. Happy Intomational Vvfomen's Day. EstmHa (8.5X7; 65 pgs) Just when I thought I hod discovered all the wonderful wimmin zine writers in this city Andrea pulls Etterks out of her zine box. As I flipped through the many fabulously layed out pages I asked myself, "Why have we not reviewed this zine before?' It became clear ta me after I began reading lhat Esler'io was saving itself for March, the month of International Women's Day. This zine puts together beautifully informative articles, short stories, comics and poetry, all done by wimmin. The author has reprinted articles on Volunteers needed. Are you an outgoing, spontaneous man or woman over the age of 19 with a never-say-die attitude and a good sense of humour? We are a non-profit society that helps young offenders and children ages 8 to 18 who are at risk of getting in trouble. [i£\3r I PLEA performance artist Karen Finloy, on excerpt from SaHy Clines'Women, Celibacy and Passion, and writing by local wimmin and zine writers. Eshria also features humourous Ad Buster*-sty!e attacks on sexist media and such helpful information as suggested remedies for menstrual discomfort and phone numbers of local support groups. Esterks has done what I believe all zine authors want ta accomplish: giving its readers tie opportunity ta become involved with what they write about. Take action - send a dollar fifty ta Esterkt, 451 Hillcrest St, Vancouver, BC, V7B 217. Honda OHM2 (5.5X4; 24 pgs) On the very last page of Hands Off Heather Lynn writes: This took you ten minutes ta read, but it took me 16 years ta write." It's apparent she has used this zine ta release a lol of built up injury and frustration. Heather Lynn's writing style is poetic ond she uses a lot of clever metaphors and imagery. She is so successful in sharing and connecting with her readers that I found myself able to picture her experiences dearly, as well as relating to her stories. She bravely puts herself at risk, retelling a story of how she harassed a minority classmate to receive approval from her peers. What really affected me was her memories or staying in a psychiatric hospital as a child and the mistreatment she faced while Ihere. If Heather Lynn thinks her readers will skim through her zine in ton minutes she's terribly wrong. HO #2 left me with something ta think about long after I put it down. Write Heather Lynn: PO Box 724 Loke Zurich, IL, 6000047-0724, USA. MpliuHrwHth MA/Alien #8 (half size; 82 pgs) If you are looking for a good read then Jenni and Wilknee's 82 page zine is for you. Jenni and Wilknee cover a lot of ground, dealing with topics as diverse as the emotional scarring that goes along wilh breast reduction surgery to mental illness. Wilknee's writings ore centered around mental illness/health and, more specifically, around being manic depressive and all lhat goes along with it, from the panic attacks to the feelings of hopelessness. She challenges her experiences with the medical profession and how their hasty and uninformo- tive treatment led to her misdiagnosis. I personally find the necessity to treat depression-related illnesses with drugs and medication extremely diskjrbing. Apparently so do Wilknee and Jenni as hey treat themselves through alternative medicines such as herbs and through a healthy vegan diet. "It is not the duty of the oppressed to educate the oppressor" Jenni responds to ihe males who are doubtful of her rape because it didn't fit into their own definition of rape. Ifs interesting lhat it was males who criticized her actions and basically blamed her for being violated. Like ifs her responsibility to explain her actions to ihem. Jennie talks about how silence tends ta win when people choose to not believe you and dismiss your pain. This zine is an amazing read and I totally urge you to support these girls and order this zine. Send $2 US ta Jenni, 612 PrenNs #B5, Detroit, Ml, 48201, USA. Wm'n Not Being Emo, It Really Hurts (5.5 X 4; 44 pgs) "Ifs 4am at Kinkos and I'm trying hard ta make this mean something." I, too, have attempted to complete an entire zine in one night, so believe me when I say it's no easy tosk... Nomy, Vol, Chris and Keyan began at 4am and by 10 mat morning a zine wilh definite meaning and insight was created. This Iwo-girl, two-boy foursome focusses a lot on forming community and allies. Chris recalls his childhood health problems wilh asthma and how his Christian Science believing parents left him solely in the hands of God to heal, leaving him feeling very deceived and abandoned by his family. He praises his new family (of friends) and the support and encouragement to heal he has found through them. Class and dassism are ihe issues brought up by Vol. She is discontented with her 'dut/ as someone who is working dass to teach others about dassism. Vol asks her readers to start thinking for themselves about overcoming dass oppression. Keyan's writing adopts Vol's ideas of analyzing our own oppressiveness without having to be tola, except Keyan is talking about sexism. I realty want to mention how truly impressed I am wilh Keyon's port in ihis zine. It is obvious he's being sincere and honest and not regurgitating a bunch of feminist slogans he overheard his girlfriends saying. He uncovers ihe foct lhat sexism hurts men too, especially iheir relationships with wimmin. Although Keyan mentions his uncertainty as ta what action men need ta take to advocate feminism he isn't afraid ta try. He invites other men ta discuss togetier the issues surrounding sexism. Lost but not least, Nomi examines the importance of community and having a strong network of allies; however, she realizes how difficult achieving hh may be. Nomi makes a good point in saying lhat ta be an ally ta someone is to be willing to fight for change whether or not you are directly involved in ihe battle. For example, being a male supporter of the feminist movement or white people opposing racism. For the short omount of time It Really Hurts was finished it has given me a lot of inspiration and hope towards ending segregation and building a real community. >Afrito Keyan: 110 legion WY Olympia, WA, USA 988501. Send US stamps and $ and viva la revolution! Rock Candy MA/Spirals ward *3 (quarter size; 64 pgs] Up- Marie is bock wilh Rock Condy #4, talking about the effects of growing up as an only child and how this has offocted her everyday interactions,- more specifically, how she reacts ta people in the punk rock scene. She also talks about how silence is a constant component in her life, from ihe silence she learned from her parents to the silence lhat prevented her from talking about her first experience of being sexually violated. Silence is a constant and Marie is realizing how it limits and damages. Marie is on inspiration to me because she is someone who is in a constant state of questioning ond self-improvement. The main focus of Spirals Upward is the questioning of gender roles, more specifically male gender roles. This is a first for me; I rarely see boys auesrioning their own internalized sexism ond how damoging gender roles are, not only for womyn but for men, becouse they limit and do not allow much room for healing and emotion. Marie and Basil then go on ta have a discussion about relationships and talk about the different levels of a relationship and why they don't believe in monogamy. A lot of valid points are made ond I wish that they could have printed the entire conversation. Marie and Basil are kids who truly believe in change ond revolution. Send $1 to Marie 717 Davis, Kalamazoo, Ml, 49007, USA. Reclaiming My Nam* 05 (7pg») The author puts herself in a vulnerable state as she responds ta her own previous zine about her sexual abuse and rape. She hod told her story, removing ihe emotional ties, and she comes back in ROM MS to deal wilh how everything affected her. "Have I reclaimed my name? Definitely not. The title is an oxymoron since I have less of an identity now. I should hove titled the series Releasing My Name." The author definitely has released her name and oil the baggage and hurt lhat has gone along with it. She talks about how important it is for her to find other girls who have been sexually abused. Communication is the most potent healer and the lack of it is what damaged her for so long. I find it vital for people to talk about iheir abuse, not only because it helps them heal, but because it helps olher people wilh iheir own healing. It helps finding out lhat you are not alone in your silence. This zine and its predecessors are a must for people who are in need of finding others who have been sexually abused. Send $1 to See the Worid, Chicken, #406-1701 Powell St, Vancouver, BC. SUUGtChn ^ STANDARD RADIO INC. |°£^ Seeing as how the eighth of this month is the most-fabulous Day of International Women, we'd like to take this opportunity ta do two things: first, to complain about the lock of 7"t we see with female content - sure, there are lots out there, but out of every month's "shipment* of records we go through, probably an average of 20% ore women-filled releases. Not a great figure. Bitching finished, the main point of this month's column is to celebrate whal labels and bands are doing wonderful things with records these days. We've put together a table of labels (admittedly inconclusive, mosHy due to space restraints) that are women-run and/or women- positive, and have tried to give as much info on them as possible. Please support them I First, however, we'd like to tell you about a few new-ish 7" releases by cool women. Perh< the most anticipated record lhat we now fin< possess is the Spinanes' latest offering. If their new single "Madding" b/w "10 Metre Platform" is on accurate somple of what their new olbum is like, then expect great things! The record comes encompassed in a very 4ADIike record cover, full of soft colours and blurry images, and the music is much more laid-back than anything from Monos, one of the best albums released in '94. The o-side contains the "single version" of "Modding," an absolutely mesmerizing song with slow, hypnotic drumming and the usual Rebecca Gates multi-layered vocals. "10 Metre Platform" contains just guitar and vocals and is along the same lines as the track lhat Gates contributed ta the Free to Fight compilation; ifs mellow, pared down, and i tremefy strong. Simply beautiful. (SubPop) On Ihe heels of their latest full-length f Old Paint, Chicago's Thrill Jockey niC^fni A nerfunc toru Records sends us Freakwater'-- 'South of Cincinnati" b/w "Count Me Out" 7". The a-side is rofDwightYoakam's torchin'nod to the mid-west, with t just a few lyric changes. "Count Me Out," a Freakwater origi- Gay - a weird, kinda warped folk-twang ditty. Kinda cheesy for Freakwater, but fun nonetheless. Buy this for the a-side. (Thrill Jockey Records, PO Box 476794, Chicago, IL, 60647) Finally, we'd like to tell you about Sta-Proer (as in stay pressed, we assume) and their new Vespa Sex 7* hat comes complete with a 'zine type booklet, full of drawings, lyrics and a band biography of sorts. We first heard ihis band on the Outpunk Dance Porty compilation, where their surfy little number stock in our ears for, well, for awhile. And now, we hove five mere* tunes to dance tol Starrest is a collective of six folks, half of which are ■nd range in character from -fbllyjhc- fetishist to as'iapeon heritage. They're not sfcj, lie/re not mod; he/ie kinda noisy, punky, funny, skenge... check'em out. (Output-it-. Records, contact ihe band c/o PrfcsrSwshdod .com or PO Box 421912, San ),CA, 94142-1912) Now, we'd just like to give a nod to some record labels lhat ore doing more than fantastic things in regards to promoting women in music, especially on vinyl. The new Boston label Villa ViHakula has just released a 12 "vinyl-only compilation called Move Into he Villa Villa Kula, which boasts a number of Iracks by Kaia (formedy of Adickdid, currently of Team Dresch) doing a beautiful solo-guitar thing, Seattle's spine-shiverers Tattle Tale (who have apparently broken up, so buy up all their stuffl), Sleater Kinney (featuring members of Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17), noise-pop weird-gal Azalia Snail, New York's rock quartet Ruby Falls, and spoken word by Eileen Myles. This compilation is just a starting point for this label, who give thanks to Tinuviel from Kill Rock Stars. Cynthia Nelson of Ruby Falls writes in the jacket sleeve notes lhat she counters arrogance with her "bratgiri rebellion." Villa ViHakula have also released a 7" each by Ruby Falls and Stealer Kinney, and probably have much more in the works. Write to them for their catalogue and for their listing of women-run labels. Another extremely proactive 7" label is Portland's HorseKitty, whose releases we've reviewed fairly recently, but we feel lhat there's no harm in reminding you just how cool they are. According to the label's Shannon, she hod never done any recording "without some butt-rock guy producing [her] records or harassing [her] because he thought his opinion wos the god opinion." Hence, she and her friend Toni decided to build a "recording studio/ record label run by all women where bands could decide how their music should sound, be distributed, and be a part of it the whole way through so they can actually learn things they're interested in instead of everything being some big dumb secret." Right on! So for, the only two HorseKitty 7"s we're aware of are by La Grenuda and by the CeBe Barnes Band, two great releases of feminist punk. One last suggestion: if you're looking for lhat special something for lhat special girl, think about writing to Munster Records (PO Box 18107, Madrid 28080, Spain) for copies of Volumes 1 & 2 of All Kindsa Girls, two double 7" compilations wilh groovy packaging and music by great gals. Tracks by cub, Lemonbabies, Pink Kross, the Gloo Girls, and morel ... And, lhat's about it, folks! We didn't have room to list every indie label that has released 7"s with women on them; we decided we'd rather concentrate on labels lhat have consistently released a majority or adequate percentage of women. .'i/idAct mn die fa be IA POBox 7154 Olympia, WA, 98507 Harriot crayon Hndooftith, [scarlet drops 6 cents ond natalie, high n»k group, lotus eaters, twig, pest, just celebrated 5 yeorsof POBox 649 Com MA, Simple Machines both liquorice, Working Holiday series, simple machines series, secret stars, scrawl published a "how to" of indie rock POBox 10290 Arlington, VA 22210-1290 NoUf. bunnygrunt pest 5000, i Apple, (o> [release w* smoll-fi), aotttM&Saik/ poostd spirt jw/smoM dsoo iBliiiii in los Angeles POBox (461778, IA CA, 90046 positive & ? hard to say go sailor, honeybunch, lilies, velocity girl/block tambourine, swirlies, small factory the "British pop" label ol America POBox 14731 Berkeley, CA, 94712 jCandyfloss positive &? no one yet azalia snail, | red choir fadeaway, poasfai, red dye #5, 138 Sift* 5lh Boor Sf,CA, 94KW Candy Ass both team dresch positive & ? splnones hazel, excuse! adickdid, ovation trolley, *wald fiv*o, seventeen, surf maggots veronica best known for producing the Free lo Fight compilation CdAP & tour POBox 42600 Portland, OR 97242 - POBox 82480 &&*Kf,0*lt] 97282 HorsoKittyj both none yet cebe barnes band, la grenuda [great towards the music biz: POBox 14284 SE, (Portland, OR 97214 j-sjiAiAA;:::- ^>j^Q*| 50373 wswhingtoftj Villa ViHakula kinney 230 A Tremont St. #3, Boston, MA, 02116 p«t5000 ItMmSMf-Of vinyl POBox 42031 * fnfSKl mm 24 MARCH 1996 indie label garage sale eXplosiOIVI Saturday • map 23»noon-5Pi« nettwerk zulu curgu mint/lookout scrulch Ii end gu WluuUer Mic uuyun I nettwerk records parking lot 1250 w. 6th ave., Vancouver, be, Canada TSHIRTS*CDS*TAPES*HATS*POSTERS*VIDEOS*VIMYL*TOURBOOKS*MUGS*CD-ROM POSTCARDS.STICKERS.ART PRINTS*SONG BOOKS AND LOTS MORE cm® Bang On Mint/Lookout Touch and Go Headhunter Sonic Unyon scratch records: bugskull • propeller pork queen • sidereal rest TRACKSHUN RECORDS: twerdocleb beauty pear • hump daytona • knock-down-ginger perfume tree»sookyin lee pointed sticks-modernettes young canadians*coal bob's your uncle NETTWERK rose chronicles • skinny puppy ginger* suzanne little wild strawberries mc 900ft jesus-myslery machine single gun theory Phone:004-054 2929 • Fax: 004-654-1993 • e.mail: info@nettwerk.com • FirstClassBBS: 604-731-7007 • WEB:http://www.nettwerk.com/ «M56I rv)<i*->M ■**> dear »H j00385% erotic; historically, this was further complicated by various types of legal discrimination Faced by Asian immigrants to North America. Thus Asian migrants have played ihe role of brown Protestants: hardworking heterosexuals who only have sex to make babies. TViis grim reality contrasts markedly with ihe Euro-North American perception ol oriental sensuality: Asian women are especially desirable because they're so physically exotic and emotionally compliant; ABOUT A YEAR AGO A FRIEND OF MINE had a cunning plan to con a particular cultural agency - since dismantled - into funding a collection of east coast erotica; ihe contributors would include herself and all of her writer friends. At ihe time I nodded my head mildly. (You're right, the idea lhat eastern Canadians are particularly well versed in things erotic, or are especially adept at erotic literature is absurd. It's like saying Albertons are ihe most ignorant hicks in Canada. Bul such is the nature of funding proposals.) My friend writes pretty good erotica and I saw no reason why she wouldn't be able to find a dozen or so people to submit work for such a project. Then, as I nodded hypolhetically, she asked me to contribute something. "Why not," she effused, "you write really physical stuff." "Well," I grimaced, "I do lonely and bitter better thon horny." I took up the challenge, ihough, and proceeded to waste a couple of months of my life trying to render sex on paper. My problem was a common one. I spent far loo much time dwelling on the sexual act itself - displacement of limbs, microscopic play-byplay on the action around various orifices, that sort of thing. Advice from veterans of earlier campaigns, lhat the best erotica has no sex in it ot all, was to no avail. My efforts were a miserable failure. Worse, they were laughable. Any scab will heal if you lick it enough, ihough. Besides, proven incompetence at something qualifies you to critique It. In this case 'it' is a collection of erotica called On a Bed of Rice (Anchor, 1995). As its subtitle tells you, ihis is not o n I y erotica, it is an "Asian-American erotic feast." My First response to the tide was, frankly, rather cynical. Why is Asian- American erotica particularly worthy of being corralled into a single collection? Doesn't such a tide suggest a crass marketing ploy, appealing to ihe voyeuristic rice queen mentality so common in North America? Isn't ihis just another manifestation of the sort of inwardtooking cultural nationalism that flourishes in today's right-wing environment? In his foreword to the collection, Russell Leong addresses some of these questions, while side-stepping others. The justification for this type of collection, Leong writes, lies in the tension between the realities and perceptions of Asian- American sensuality. Traditional ideals of sexuality, as represented in texts like the Kama Sutro, are generally not reference points in the immigrant experience. Working class ,rdle- of where they're from, are too busy trying to make a living to be concerned wilh things ooop doop (MGETBjOUGH 0' TrW 9/VEET SWEET- JOTKT! i WITH FRIENDS um 8PECIAL RELEA8E PARTY available now FOR THEIR NEW CD. at H.M.V. |FRIDy march m TOWN PUMP1 66 Water St., Gastown 683-6695 oiler dicks than white guys. The poems, stories, essays, irpts of plays and novels in On a Bed of Rice are written against such per- If this sounds a trifle academic, ihen you're getting a good impression of the sort of material ou'll find in *his collection. This is not the stuff of Pent- forum: it's highbrow erotica, i intent upon edu- ltion as arousal. A quick tally of the seventy contributors reveals more university degrees than you'll find in the queue at a Ul office, and the writing reflects this fact. The authors often linger upon ihe stereotypes iheir characters labour under as much as Ihe labour (the sex) itself. This is not a problem, really, since the contemplation of sex doesn't necessarily make for very good writing. His cock is a jutting tower of need, a ripened fruit sweet and nearly bursting in my hands... I lower my head to sip the sweet nectar that overflows from him, and he groans. So did I. The sex in this collection runs the gamut of conventionality - masturbation, incest, straight, queer, inter-racial, inter-generational, even a trace of scat. Highbrow erotica tends to be a bit on the earnest side for my tastes, but much of this material - like "Roses", another tale of woe from Evelyn Lau - is quite good. Still, it's a relief to see sex and race treated humourously on occasion, as in Wagner Wai Jim Au's "Afterimages of Leung Kar Fai", a story that turns the power dynamic of Euro-Asian sex on its head. 'Oh fuck..." Loren is gasping, but with that accent it sounds like on RAF officer about to expire. Then he begins to babble, a throaty, singsong guttural. At the top of his voice, as his hips pound into a desperate Hurry between her legs.... Anne suddenly realises what he's saying. Just as her own orgasm goes whiHing away from her outraged dit, just as she feels it pinwheeling through her body, ond her screams begin to drown out his entirely. Loren is coming... in Cantonese. Though ihis book is not a manual for breeders, most of ihe sex in it is straight, and most oF the writing safe, stylistically speaking. The work is appealing because of its content and the testimonial quality oF many oF the narratives. When ihe ■tylislically odventurous, collage "The Hemi- results ore interesting, that For a collection oF iltie here lhat's actually arousing. We could debate this point. Erotica doesn't really require sex, but it ought to be more han philosophical musings upon sex. The editor oF ihe anthology, Geraldine Kudaka, seems to prefer a brooder definition - in an excerpt from Joy Kogawa's Obason, a Japanese school teacher reminisces dryly about an asexual dinner date with the thick- thumbed Father oF one of her students. Her definition is so broad, in fact, that Kudaka seems more concerned wilh displaying Asian American talent than with erotica per se. By the time I got to the end of the collection I'd read enough entertaining (if not especially arousing or interesting) work ta stop doubting its right ta exist. But my basic problems wilh ihe idea ol the work remain. On a Bed of Rice certainly is a response ta inward-looking cultural nationalism - if not on ihe part oF the Asian-American communities, ihen oF mainstream America. Will orientalist men read this anthology? Probably. But anyone thinking lhat there is something distinct about Asian eroticism, something essentially sexier about Asian women (or asexual about Asian men), will be a bit miffed by this book. If anything, the collection reveals lhat Asian sexuality is precisely ihe same as everybody else's. Asian men have the some misogyny, or hyper-sensitivity, as white guys; Asian dykes have the same types oF coming-out experiences as non-Asians; Asian stock brokers are as likely to be pompous foot-Fetishists as Gordon Compbell is. In ihis sense On a Bed of Rice stands as a testimony to the sameness, ihe assimil-ability if you like, of Asians m North American culture, this is hardly shocking news. But For Reform Parly types, you've got to draw pictures. ALL ABOUT CHAD Down in Front (Big Pop) If this isn't an aptly-named band, I don't know what is. Down in front contains fourteen songs, most of which focus on the band's bassist, Chad Pilieri. With song titles such as "Chad's Driving Me Home" and "Chad. Got an Earring", you might expect the album to wear thin very quickly. Yet this band's infatuation with Chad is balanced by their varied, infectious music. In fact, the only other drawback to All About Chad is that their lead singer has an impossibly high voice. But these New York boys are more than willing to poke fun at themselves, and in the witty ditty "My Sister Hates the Band", the singer wails, "If there's one thing that annoys, it's the sound of my voice". Musically, these guys are great. Now, if they could only get a new singer and expand their attentions past their bassist... Peter Stevens FRANK BLACK The Cult of Ray (Epic/Sony) The Cult of Ray is a much more coherent collection of tunes than Frank Black's last outing, Teenager oftheYear, which was a jumbo mixed bag of gar bage can filler sonp and brilliant lil' This time around it looks as if Black is ready to make every last track count. Cu/t clocks in at a digestible 13 tracks. This is vintage Frank Black, meaning there aren't any real surprises, except for the fact that he managed to refine the haphazard sounds of Teenager. This is not to say Black isn't in top form. He hasn't sounded better, in fact His tired old filler songs are refreshingly absent and even the more mundane tracks aren't too unbearable. The majority of the tracks are fast-paced and lively pop treats. The surf music influence doesn't seem to be around but then again, I never thought there was a large surf element in Black's music.The disappearance of the keyboards was a little disappointing. With The Cuk of Ray. Black looks to be back on the scene.The limited edition package contains a bonus CD with 4 extra tracks, two of which are good, the other two are kind of blah. Be sure to preview this one before slapping down the extra cash. All said and done, Cult is a solid release and definitely the most radio-friendly to date. Go get it BOUNCING SOULS Maniacal Laughter (Chunksaah/BYO) This band rocks over all other medium-core '90s ponque outfits because the singer can holler, the musicians can play, the music is energetic and exciting, and the attitude is completely srvot-free.True, Maniacal Laughter is not as memorable as their previous CD, The Good, the Bad and the Argyle, but I still find it worthy. My favorite lyric is from the song "No Rules", in which the Bouncing Souls denounce (albeit gently) both extremes of the straight-edge argument: "We're not nailed to the X/or swilling in the gutter/we just follow our heart *> the other". These guys are so together* You don't have to be a dickhead to be punk rock! Barbara CI BO MATTO Viva! La Woman (Warner) With a tide like Vivo.' La Woman, one feels compelled to like the album, and Cibo Matto makes it easy.The band is composed ofYuka and Miho, two Japanese girls residing in New York who discovered that they went to the same high school in Japan only after meet ing in the Big Apple. Vivo' Lo Woman is a fun, funky and diverse album. Track #2,"Beef Jerky", is the best one, with wacky lyrics brought out by cute Japanese accents: "my weight is 300 pounds/my favourite is beef jerky/I'm a vagabond/try mom says, 'you are kinky!"' The first hah* of the album is more fun than the second, but the whole thing is pretty good. Even K you don't usually listen to sample music, Cibo Matto are worth checking out Nomiko Kiinimoto STOMPIN*TOM CONNORS Long Gone to the Yukon (EMI) It seems that Stompin' Tom Connors has always been with us. Not simply an entertainer, but port of the Canadian landscape itself. From sea to sea and every mining town and beer parlour in between, Stompin' Tom has documented this land like no other. Connors savours hb native soil with every heartbeat With less sentiment but sincerity equal to Springsteen, Connors rumbles through the Canadian panorama once again showing the spunk of a man half Brimming with classic Connors, Long Gone to the Yukon waltzes and polkas and fiddles its way through another set of down home music that records the history and nuances which make our country unique. Whether he maligns our favourite whipping-boy, Brian Mulroney ("How Do You Like It Now?"), or tells the tale of a truck stop in "All Night Cafe Blues", Stompin' Tom leads us down his highway, which in essence is a road- map ofthe Canadian vista. And we are all the better for it Pieter Hofmann DROP CITY Chiaroscuro (Red Eye/Shake) Australian pop wizards Drop City have thankfully found North American distribution, at least for this ER so now you, too, can partake of this delectable offering. For this, punters, is what it is - seven songs worth of rapture incorporating many influences, including country ("Only Time Will Tell") and rock ('losing Touch With My Mind") (but not country rock!), and some interesting instrumentation (xylophone usage warning on "Hard to Smile"). There is a reworked version of "Piydirt", which also appeared on rooArt's YoungWood 4 compilation, and a rather long, but never tedious, opening track, "Slowtrigger". Admittedly, it was not until the third or fourth listen that this EP really started to inspire some warm and fuzzy feelings within this listener, but now those feelings have matured to something approaching a very strong affection, possibly even love. It comprises rather laid-back pop and some hard-rockin" tunes, but it's al well done and the lyrics are good, too. Sophie Hamley EMILY'S SASSY LIME Right Is Hen (Xmas Records) Scared, Desperate, But Socio/ (Kill Rock Start) This trio of Californian teenage gals who are Emily's Sassy Lime not only have a knack for palindromes, but they can write some pretty nifty little pop songs as well. Both label releases seem to have come out at around the same time, and due to very minimal liner notes, it's hard to tell if there's a significant length of time between the actual recordings. Both are full- lengths (the KRS one is available on vinyl too! bonus..) and both contain songs so short the/re over before you know it Which one should you buy? And should you bother at all? Yes! The ESL song writing style is similar to that of Beat Happening in their simple but appealing approach: melodic, strummy, often distorted guitar and laid-back, pretty vocals which sound somewhere in between JuBe of Eric's Trip and Allison of Bratmobile. Right Is Here as a whole sounds a bt poppier than the KRS one; to put unwanted labels on the band, the Xmas record sounds kinda like a Riot Grrrl Beat Happening, whereas the KRS one sounds more like an album by the younger sisters of Bratmobile. These gals are sassy, witty, and here! And their litde songs have the potential to be very big. THE HERBALIZER (NinJaTune) The Herbalizer, or Jake Wherry and Ollie Trattles to the tax registers, are a spiff blend of trip-hop and acid jazz that anyone who gets off on UFO or the world of instrumental dub-heavy lounge-musik will like.You'd honestly think Mo'Wdc is getting a run for their money now. While some trax are as tepid as the tea they drink, others, like "Real Killer Part 2", just fry. Admittedly, I'm not big on some grooves here but I admire any sort of postmodern neotheistic iconoclasm that mainstream imperial Americana doesn't tolerate. (So, do I get an 'A' in Christian MIDDLESEX Art of Living (Independent) I am a sucker for bands which have a very acoustic sound. As such, I took an immedtate iking to this disc. Tha Vancouver quartet have some great tunes and truly beautiful melodies. What really won me over, however, were the topics discussed in their songs. "The Turban Song" gives a Sikh man's view of the headwear controversy which has plagued Canadian legions during the last few years. Other sonp are equally thought-provoking. However, the highlight of the album (for me, at least) is "Yuri", the tale of an astronaut who elects to loll himself in space, rather than returning to the horrors of the earth.That sounds rather bleak, but it actually serves as a wake-up call to those of us who are still kicking around this here planet After all of these social messages, it is somewhat ironic that the album closes with a cut entitled"! Don't Care".Yet, at the same time, this is a fitting album closer, for it sums up the central theme of Art of Living, apathy. Peter Stevens MOONSOCKET (Derivative) It's hard not to sound like Eric's Trip when you are in Eric's Trip, but Moonsocket is trying. This full length CD is the solo work of Chris Thompson, the guitarist of E.T.. On the similar side are the breathy vocals, the good lyrics, and the song melodies. In contrast to E.T., Moonsocket revolves around an acoustic guitar, bringing out a quieter side. Also, Moonsocket uses such effects as untuned radios, background tv.'s, distorted echoes, and tape manipulation (to quote his bio). This CD is comprised of 20 songs that include a Lou Barlow cover, "Bolder", and an Alan Parsons Project cover," Eye In the Sky".While most songs are Chris and his guitar, there are occasional drums and back-up vocals, that gives each song its own identity. My favourite song is "Fuzzy Inside", a short song with an excel- BEN NEILL Green Machine (Astralwerks) The music here was originally created for a N.Y.C multimedia installation/ performance that I'm sure was horribly pretentious. Fortunately, the music is not What we have here is ambient/trance with a tinge of jazz created by the master of the mutantrumpet, an electronically enhanced instrument with multiple bells, valves and MIDI interfaces. Generally speaking, some of the music veers dangerously close to generic, but what really pulls it off is Neill's musicianship Deftly combining classic, minimalism, avant garde and Miles Davis-like jazz with the standards of ambient, Neill has created a musical work that can stand proudly with the best of the atmospheric Keith Courage PRETTY MARY SUNSHINE Bird Medkine (Ricochet Records) Moody, warm and slow. Soft, whis- pery, at times haunting vocals: what singer PatriceTuBai is saying is not too clear but it sounds nice all the same. Musk to listen to by yourself in a dark smoky subterranean bar when you're feeling a little bit sad. At its best when the loungy sound is complemented by punkish feedback - a nice contradiction and an uncommon mix At their live show Patrice will treat you to a couple of sudden fits of screaming. I missed the absence of this on the Kristo James SANDY Dim- Sandy Dirt EP (K) All you really need to know is that Sandy Dirt combines the talents of the three current Pastel cuties Stephen, Aggi, and Katrina, with noise-punker Al Larsen from Olympia's Some Velvet Sidewalk. This five-song extended player, recorded in the Pastels' hometown of Glasgow, is a perfect mix of the lush-sounding side of them Pastels and the stranger, noisier Al from SVS. The lead-off track, "Klein International," is the upbeat, folk-pop Nt of this CD, followed by a neat cover of Van Morrison's "Slim Slow Rider," sung byAL The song-writing credits are generally split throughout this release; they all sing a bit, play a bit, and it sounds like they're having fun, in their own melancholic, mellow way. SCORN (Earache) If I told you that the band born of Napalm Death released an album via Earache Records, you would know exactly what to expect, right? Wrong. This ain't no metal. Mick Harris' Scorn is some of the best electronic music to come out in years in my humble opinion, scout's honour Scorn is the only ambient music I've heard that scares me. Haunting, screeching sounds emit from behind slowed-up hip hop beats, and don't expect any vocals. Stick this in with the lights out and you'll feel plenty alone. I guess I'd call it nihilistic ambient music for the '90s; sort of mellow Will mixed with Psychic Warriors of Gaia and Perfume Tree. Most folks won't like it, of course, being so barren and even grating, but in case you can't tell, I'm all for it VARIOUS ARTISTS Mortal Kombat Original Soundtrack (TVT Records) This album is a mixture of hard techno, ambient and thrash. What most ofthe tracks have in common is that they have a very fast tempo. The one exception is a quite good track by the ambient/trance group Orbital. The tracks by Psykosonik and Traci Lords are decent techno songs but other techno songs such as the ones by Utah Saints and The Immortals aren't the greatest They are a little too like dance songs to be good techno but too hard to be good dance songs. They linger somewhere in be- As for the more alternative tracks, some resemble Nine Inch Nails in character but are a little weak. Others are merely a screaming voice dubbed in over a beat - not too appealing. In general, most of the thrash songs are average; nothing to get excited over. Mtsta'r Savage VARIOUS ARTISTS Our Salvation Is In Hand (Theme Park Records) All the way from the UKJheme Park sends us this "acoustic based compilation" album of 26 guys-with-guitars. Folks you may recognize, such as Franklin Bruno from Nothing Painted Blue, Matthew Hattie Hein from the New Bad Things,John Davis from that Folk Implosion, Paste from Paste, and National Heroes all contribute great songs. It seems like half of the contributors are from the American labels Shrimper and Union Pole, so if you like that sparse, bedroom-guitar sound, it's safe to say you'll probably like much of this album. The strongest cuts come courtesy of California's Mountain Goats (with 2 tracks!) playing their usual brand of ultra-melodic and humorous warped folk, and Vancouver's Mark (from Good Horsey) with his sad, bitter, beautiful and too short "Stephen." My only complaint about Our Salvation... is that there are absolutely no female artists to be found on here. Half of the population is ignored, and ... well, I'll leave my rants for another time and place. VARIOUS ARTISTS "Seven" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (TVT Records) From one of the most well-made, if not disturbing, movies of last year comes an eclectic collection of tunes covering genres from jazz to industrial to classical to New Romanticism (Haircut 100! Nick Heyward!). "Seven" was probably not the best candidate for a soundtrack album, as the music was rather unobtrusive (un- noticeable?) during the film itself, but one can be mighty glad that they plowed ahead with the record anyway, as it really is a fine selection, incorporating, amongst others, J.S. Back Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Gravity Kills.The two tracks of'original score music' by Howard Shore are menacingly violin-laden and creepy, just like the film.The songs dabble all over the palette of moods and tempos, providing a dynamic hour or so of listen- The appeal of this album is in the diversity of music it offers, thus refusing to be held to the apparently common belief that a movie which contains characters of various ages and varying personalities can best be served by a soundtrack with music picked from just one genre. Sophie Hamley DAVE YOUNG Two by Two (Piano-bass Duets) (JustinTime Records) Veteran jazz bassist Dave Young is one of those players who is more respected among musicians than the record-buying public. Two byTwo probably won't change that Jazz doesn't get its due respect in Canada. Check out sales figures. Since the '60s, Ontario native Young has been plying his trade by accompanying some of the finest musicians in jazz as well as leading his own groups. Calling in a few favours for this session, Young adds another gem to his discography. Young duets with Cedar Walton, Tommy Flanagan, John Hicks, Mulgrew Miller and Oscar Peterson.The solid combinations are marked with equally solid material on Two byTwo. Opening with "OP & D",Young and Peterson bum a controlled fire over Oscar's originaLAs with all the tracks, Young's fretwork is fluid, while the piano, cleanly produced by Jim West, displays the technical excellence of Whether the bluesy stylings of Cedar Walton or the swing of Mulgrew Miller,Young plays the equal partner as he adds his wonderful thick strokes of acoustic bass on the pieces. Well- crafted jazz for those late wi nights. Pieter Hofmann ON TOUR THIS SPRING' I * Girls Against Boys, originally formed in _ Washington DC are Eli Janney- keys & bass, Scott McCloud-guitar & vocals, Johnny Temple-Bass and Alexis Fleisig- drums. * House of GVSB now located in New York , is their third album with Touch & Go. *"Once you've heard the Jesus Lizard, you know exactly how far they can go, but Girls Vs Boys give no indication that this stripped-lean, compulsive linearity is half as hard as what drives them." Melody Maker. 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S&fffflRB&Y? G_Q©CQff MQtfra ©R3W9 THE PIT PUB • IN THE BASEMENT OF THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING, 6138 SUB BLVD. • 604-822-6511 SPOTCHA THEIIMSI THE-OIH. WHEREVER HOT MUSIC IS SOLD ^^^^^BF SUNDAYS ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC 8:00AM- I2.-00PM All of lime ii measured by ils art. Most broadcasting shuns art For incestuous maHcet-music. This show presents ihe most recent new musk from around the wodd. Ears open. IHE ROCKERS SHOW 12:00-3:00PM Reggae mna all styles and Fashion. LUCKY SCRATCH Afemating 3:0O-5:00PM Blues ain't nolhin' but a good woman feelin' bad. Gil down and git back up again - host Anna. RADIO BLUE WARSAW 5:0M:00PM join lum & helen in their quest for krupnik. HEATHER'SSHOW6:00-8:00PM Dedicated lo the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual communities of Vancouver and listened lo by everyone. Lots of human interest features, background on current issues and great music from musicians of all sexual preferences and gender identities. GffTANJA_9*O0-10O0PM Geelanjali Features a wide range of music from India, including classical music, both Hindustani and Camalic, popular music from Indian movies from the 1930's lo the 1990's, Semi-classical music such as Ghazals and Bhajans, and also Quawwalis, Folk Songs, etc. Hosled by J. Dhar, A. Pate) and V. Ronjan. RADIO FREE AMERICA 10:00PM- 12:00AM Join host Dave Emory ond colleague Nip Tuck for some extraordinary political research guaranteed to make you think twice. Bring your tape deck and two C- 90s. Originally broadcast on KFJC (Los Altos, California). INTHEGRIPOf INCOHRBICY 12:00AM- 4AM Drop yer gear and stay up late. Naked radio for naked people. Get bent Love Dave. MOM-DAYS BREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS 8:15- 11:00AM Your favourite brown-slers, James and Peter, offer a savouty blend of the familiar and exotic in a blend of aural delights! Tune in and enjoy each weekly brown plate special. THE STUPD RADIO SHOW 11:00 AM-lrOO PM Wilh your hosts the Gourd of Ignorance and Don (he Wanderer. What will we play today? Rog will put il away. MEKANIKAL OBJEKT NOIZE 1:00-3:00PM CiTR's industrial/noise/ambienl show, alt-ernating with SKINTIGHT BUFFOONERY - wimpy British pop, Beastie Boys, indie guitar swing, and techno thrown in for good measure. Hit your olfactory nerve centre with June scudeleiOmindlink.bc.ca. THE MEAT-EATING VEGAN 3*00-4K)0PM I endeavour to feature dead air, verbal flatulence (only when I speak), a work of mu sic by a twentieth- century composer- can you say minimalist?—and whatever else appeals lo me. Fog and dyke positive. Mail in your requests, because I am not a human-answering machine. Gol a quarter then call someone who FEMMNE HY-JNX 4:0O-5*OOPM For women who sometimes don'l feel fresh, but always get fresh. Spoken word and music: light lo heavy flow. Maximum protection recommended for male listeners. Holy Hannah! It's a Femininst BIRDWATCHERS 5:304:00PM Join Colin Pereira for all the weekend sports shlock From the high altitudes and thin air oF Point Grey. POLYPHONIC akernating 7:0O-9:OOPM Listen for all Canadian, mostly independent tunes, and band interviews at 7:301 THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM- 12:00AM Vancouver's longest running prime lime jazz program. Hosled by the eversuave Gavin Walker. Features at 11. March 4: The new herald of the trumpet tonight - Roy Hargrove wilh his band and playing with, on tenor saxophone: Johnny Griffin, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman and Branford Marsalis. March 11: Tonight, Duke Ellington and his band al their best! March 18: Alto saxophonist Gary Bartz (who'll be in Van.) wilh Woody Shaw on trumpet and Coltrane's last great drummer Rashied Ali perform a "live" set recorded in 1969. March 25: The art of the Jam Session tonight with Jazz masters Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), tenor saxophone masters Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves and Coleman Hawkins, and piano great Wynton Kelly and others in "Silting In.1 MHmm 1 grAW/// pHii-l ' 1 PP*0 foil TUESDAYS THRD TIME'S THE CHARM ftOO-MKMAM Hear! Music that makes you feel burned dive on an dtar of flame! Shake wilh laughs! Shiver wilh suspense! Tremble with thrills! Not for sissies or children! It's scary! It's screamy! It's screwy! MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW 4:00-5:OOPM Women in music and grrds in music; two hours of info and rawk. Ya don't need a penis to be a musical Genius! K3RA 5:30400PM News, issues, and concerns facing Muslims throughout ihe wodd. THE UW-EARD MUSIC 7:0O-9:OOPM Meat the unherd where the unheard and the hordes of hardly herd are heard, courtesy of host and demo director Dde Sawyer. Herd up! RITMO LATINO 9:00-10:OOPM Get on board Vancouver's only tropical fiesta express with your loco hosts Rolando, Romy, and Paulo as ihey shake it and wiggle it lo the latest in Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia and olher fiery fiesta favourites. Latin music so hoi ifll give you a tan! ((RADIO SABROSA!! WOLF AT THE DOOR 10:00PM- 12:00AM Alternating Tuesdays. Live readings ond the latest in techno bizzarre wilh hosl Lupus Yonderboy. AURAL TENTACLES MIDNITE - VERY LATE Warning: This show is moody and unpredictable. Il encourages insomnia and may prove to be hazardous to your health. Listener discretion is advised. WKDNKSDAYS LOVE SUCKS 11:30AM-1:00PM Tune in for the musicd catharsis that is Love Sucks. If you can't make sense of il, at least you can dance to it! MOTORDADDY 3:00-5:00PM "At dub functions there is to be no shooting of firearms or setting off fireworks." ESOTERIK 6:00-7:30PM Ambient/ electronic/induslrial/elhnic/ experimental music for those of us who know aboul the illilhids. AND SOMETIMES WHY 7:30-9:00PM well, here t'is, folks; not sure what it is, but it's here... spinanes, freakwater, rocketship, ce be barnes... these are a few of our fave-oh-writ things. TROPICAL DAIQUIRI 9:00-10:00PM Zouk, Soukous, Samba, Salsa. Yes! Even Soca. Enjoy thisTropicd Daiquiri with El Doctor del Rihno. STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUNDHAR 10-00PM- 12*00 AM Let DJ's Jindwa and Bindwa immerse you in radioactive Bhungra! "Chakkh de phulay*. Listen lo all our THURSDAYS CANADIAN LUNCH 11:30-1:00PM Toques, plaids, backbacon, beer, igloos and beavers. SIEVE & MIKE 1 -00-2-OOPM Crashing the boys' club in the pil. Hard and fast, heavy and slow, listen to il, baby. JUSTIN'S TIME 2:00-3:OOPM March means Spring. Spring means love, love means Jazz. Love is in the air, so fall in love this month with Justin's Time. OUT FOR KICKS 6:00-7:30PM No Birkensfocks, nothing politically correct. We don't get paid so you're damn right we have fun with il. Hosled by Chris B. ON AK WITH GREASED HAK7:30-9:00PM Roots of rock & roll. LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL 9:00-11:00PM Local muzak from 9. live bandz from 10. March 7: Veronica Marat 14: Roadside Monument (from Sedrle!) FRIDAYS VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 8:30- 10:00AM Greg here. Join me in the love den for a cocktail. We'll hear retro stuff, groovy jazz, and thicker stuff too. See you here ... and bring some ice. XOXX TELESIS 10:00-11:00AM Tune in for discussions, interviews & information relating to people who live wilh physical & mental challenges. SUN MON TUE THU FRI SAT J ATtyOk serious music? tit. SATURDAY EPtt Wr* tke ?rown( third time's the charm fejfc interludes Item Fvmuft Ion Dim DIGITAL HLRRM CDROIDHETER Radio fret WOMEN lt\tt\s tt* KAMt) WOW BLOOD ON THE SADDLE Sk»-t'» Scenic Drive love sucks CANADIAN LUNCH ROCKERS SHOW EMfflWATOI PtHY£R\ CHORD rlEKMIMl OBJEHT IME gU/vl^fyzz, SAM Fill-in girlfood justin's time Little Stars REVTAM*/ lucky SermUk MMt-bttiiit} V**-**** Oet Tho Jay! MOTOR DADDY fUK VOUR H£AD AFRICAN SHOW | NARDWUAR/ FMtfRlM Hy-jin* Show WttfVtTS Show Fteahj C*t#rp*IUr Aw«r* House ESOTERIK tort For K4*f NATION z NATION THE SHOW (hiphop) polyphonic/ kip kep k«fcf UNHEARD P1USIC and sometimes on air with <;reas_» hair cobra. synaptic sandwich j CttUHIeli THE JAZZ SHOW RITMO LATINO tropical (Utykr'r LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL HOME BASS 1 ONE STEP BEYOND: RADIO FREE J AMERICA uiolf ar the door/ witchdocotor highball sfrS ofctt« j«flfcK(I«r Fill-in RADIO T.Y./ GROOIr? Jump/kg IN THE GRIP OF INCOHERENCY SCRfAM/A/G HtCOlt- s/sr£Ave/fs ackal TU/TAttlS THEORV.RFR Lfef fill-in slot from hell SOMETHING SKATS SCENE-IK DRIVE! 11:00AM- 1200PM SkaPunkSkoSwingSka Polka SkaCoreSkataracSkaJazz etc.ek.etc. IME TWIN STARS 2.40-3:30 PM Kiki liki Kiki liki NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 3:30-4.-OOPM Have a good brunch! NATION 2 NATION 6:0O-9:00PM Underground sound system- style mastermix rodio. FOR THE RECORD 6:304:45PM Excerpts from Dave Emory's Radio Free America Series. HOMEBASS 9:00PM-12:00AM The original live mixed dance program in Vancouver. Hosted by DJ Noah, the main focus of the show is techno, but also includes some trance, acid, tribal, elc... Guest DJ's, interviews, retrospectives, giveaways, and more are part of the flavor of homebass. LIMP SINK 12:00AM-2:42AM On altemating weeks join Dr. Killdare on "The Doctor Killdare Show.' Contact: limpsinkObroken.ranch.org SATURDAYS THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM- 12:00PM Now in its 10th year on the air, The Edge on Folk features music you won't hear anywhere else, studio guesls, new releases, Brirish comedy sketches, folk music calendar, ticket giveaways, etc., plus World. Cup Report al 11:30 AM. 8-9 AM: African/World roots. 9-12 noon: Celtic musicand feature performances. POWERCHORD 12:00-3:00PM Vancouver's only true metal show; local demo tapes, imports and other rarities. Gerald Rattler***-**d and Metal Ron do ihe damage. THE SHOW 6:00-8:00PM Strictly Hip Hop—StrictlyUndergound— Strictly Vinyl With your hosts Mr. Checka, Flip Out & J Swing on the 1 & 2's. SOMETHING l*O0-4:00AM "You can tell by the way I use my walk. I'm a woman's man ...no lime to talk." WHOM & HOW Arts Ian McKinnon Board Chair Harry Hertscheg Business Mgr. Otis Ashby Currant Affairs Andrea Spence Demos/Cassettes Dale Sawyer Engineer Richard Anderson Entertainment Chris Allison librarian Clarence Chu Mobile Sound Andy Bonfield Musk Megan Male-It President Brian Wieser Praduction Aaron Robertson Programming Miko Hoffman Promotions Selena Harrington Secretary Chandra Lesmeister Sports Dave Ryan Station Manager Undo Scholten Student Engineer Fern Webb Traffic GnAafneQuan Vic* President Ryan Ogg Volunteer Coordinator John Ruskin BUS. LINE 604.822.3017 DJLINE 604.822.2487 MUSIC DEP'T. 604.822.8733 NEWS LINE 604.822.5334 FAX LINE 604.822.9364 tune in on March Stti for a full day of women's programming! 32 MARCH 1996 REGULAR EVENTS MON: CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS WORLD VIBES W/EL DOCTO DEL RITMO (WO|lD BEAT) AT THE PIT PUB...Zoo Boogoloo,w/ djs Spun-K ond Czech (jazz, funk, reggae, hip hop) at the Starfish Room...Blue Room w/dj Isis (ambient} at Automotive...80's Donee Night w/dj Brian St. Clair at Graceland...Readings, Mu-" sic & more at fhe Grind Gollery (every other Monday at 8pm)... TUES: CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS INFUSIA W/DJS GANDORF & CO tIAZZ, SOUL, HIP HOP & FUNK) AT THE PIT PUB...Winter Mountain w/dj James Brown at Graceland...The Magic of Disco ot Richard's On Richards ...Aqua w/djs Isis and Markem (ambient) at Benny's Bagels Yaletown...Boogie Ave w/dj Maggee (70's old school) atthe Heritage House Hotel (453 Abbott)...Disco Night af fhe Commodore...The Greasy Spoon w/Slick at the Hungry E*ye...Klassix Night w/dj David Hawkes at Luv Yr Hair...N«w Wove/Retro 80's Night w/dj Atomic at the Twilight Zone...Aural Fixation ot DV8 (poetry - sigt>up7:3Q, showot 8:00)...The Tongue of the Slip at the Glass Slipper (scheduled readers and open limited open mike - 9pm on the third Tuesday of the month)...Live jazz w/ dj Brian James at the Purple Onion... WED: Velvet w/djs T-Bone, Dickey Doo and special guests {deep house) at The Underground...Reggae Night at Graceland w/ajj Silk...Ginger Snaps w/dj Mike & Somo and live electronic guests, at Mars...Mo' Funk w/ djs Soul Kid & Seren trip hop, acid jazz &; funk) at Richard's On Richards...Gin & Sin Lounge at* Niagara...Punk Rock Wednesday w/dj Twigboy at the Twilight Zone...Nitro (industrial progressive indie) w/dj Czech at Luvafair...Max Murphy Collective at Raffels...Open Mouth (open mic) w/host Carolyn Mark at the Malcolm Lowry Room (9pm •*;; call ahead to readj...El Famoso (raregroove, funk, hip-hop, jazz|; reggae) at the Red lounge... THUR: Sol w/dj Morkem and guests (progressive, trance, tribol| hard house) af Graceland... The Bottle w/djs Clarence and Davidj Love Jones (soul, \ozz & rare groove) at the Piccadilly.. Soul V Funk in the Basement w/dj Marc and guests at the St. Regis (bsmt)...Nocturnal Injection Revelation w/dj Wonderbread at the Twilight Zone...Cat House w/dj Mick Shea (house) at Celebrities...BtowBstS (soul, iazz, r&b, latin, worldbeat) w/djs Al Testa and Thomas ot the Red Lounge...Step Hard w/Andy B Luke at 898 Richards (2-4)...Strictly Business with djs Luke, Andy B. and Wundertwins at the Hungry Eye... ftQt Sugar w/woekfy rotationg djs at Graceland...Lowdown w/ djs lovely Lisa and Dick at the St. Regis (bsmt)...Explorations in Outer Boss (ambient) at Melriches Coffee House (1244 Davie)...Planetov Sound w/James Brown andguests at the World (1-5)...Homo Homer w/di Jules fhouse & disco) at the Odyssey.. Malebox w/dj Mick Shea (house) at Celebrities...Blitzkrieg (tribal, industrial, goth) at the Twilight Zone.-low Down (funk, jazz, hiphop) at the St. Regis Basement Lounge...Lounging w/ dj T-bone (house, jazz and beyond) at the Red lounge...Groove w/djs Marc and Todd Keller, 154 W Hast- SAT: Noah's Arc w/dj Noah at the World (]-5)...Yo Mama w/ djs KiloCe**** and J Swing (hip hop) atthe Twilight Zone... Bad Boys Night Out w/dj Jules (house) at the Odyssey... djs Storm & Dickey Doo (house) at Celebrities...lounging w/dj Soul Kid (jazzy, groovy) atthe Red lounge... SUN: Uronus Invades Mars w/djs Dickey Doo and Quest af Mars...AlternativeJazzatCafe Deux Soleils (every other Sun)...dj Jules (house & disco) ot the Odyssey...Ska Night w/dj Pig at the Twilight Zone...Movie Night ot fhe Railway Club...Pressing Poetry of fhe Press Club (7:30),,.lipstik Doom w/ Doctor Killdare at 1250 Richards 9pm-12am... IRREGULAR EVENTS 1 CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS SPEEDBUGGY, THE READYMADE, COAL, D THE TONEBURSTS AT THE ANZA CLUB AT 8PM...Econoline Crush jl guests of fhe Town Pump...Pluto w/ Sister lovers and Jackie Chan 3t the Starfish Room...Minority w/ guesls ot the Niagara...Crave w/ the :s at the Gai*town Music Hail...Showbusiness Giants at the Maicofm Lowry Room...Saint Someone, Galileo and Deadline at the Hungry Eye.,.Surfdusters w/ the Hellhound! af the Piccadilly Pub...lea Roekof w/ th* Deodcils at the Commodore...latcho Drom and Baraka at th* Ridge...Eldorado ond lisle Noire at the Pocific Cinematheque... SAT 2 Zolty Crocker w/ Spiritual Heroine and Wretched Ethyi ot the Hungry Eye...Econoiine Crush at the Town Pump...Eps8on Knot, Boxcutter ond Keychain Token at the Starfish Room...Smak w/ the Moiesftcs at Ihe N*ogara...The Daisy Chain w/ guests ai the Piccadilly Pub.. .Swank and Violet at Ihe Malcolm lowry Room. ..Octmbako w/ Pea! at the Gastown Music Hall.. lofcho Drom ond Baraka ot the Ridge...le Jardin Gubli6 and le Confessional ot the Pacific SUN 3 Zine Crusade 11 -6 at he Gallery, 110 W. Hastings; for info call $m al 685-0509...Lalcho Drom and Baraka at fhe Ridge...la folie des Crinotln-et, L'Oreilie d'un Sourd and Kamouraska at the Pacific Cinematheque... MON 4 Goldeneye and Goldfinger at Ihe Ridge...I'Enfant d'Eau and Champagne Safari at the Pacific Cinematheque... TUES 5 Jesus Pieces and Cola w/ 9 Days Wonder at the Hungry Eye...Showbusiness Giants at the Railway Club...Goldeneye and Goldfinger at Ihe Ridge...la Fabrication d'un Meurtrier and Zigrail al Ihe Pacific Cinematheque... WED 6 Tile Dole with low Downs and Supersize al the Hungry Eye...Showbuiiness Giants al the Mighty Niagara...Sugarcrash w/ Superstar al Ihe daslown Music Hall...Sieve Mitchell al the South Hill Candy Shop...The Usual Suspects and Gel Shorty al Ihe Ridge...Stolen Children at the Pacific Cinematheque... THURS 7 Another While Male ond lucky Me ot the Pil Pub...Velour, the Meon Reds ond Ihe limlnals al Ihe Starfish Room Drew Barnes w/Cow Jazz at the Gaslown Music Hall. Craig Jacks al Ihe South Hill Candy Shop. The Usual Suspects and Get Shorty al fhe Ridge...Sarah Turner programme al the Pacific Cinematheque... FRI 8 Alpha Yaya Diallo al the Starfish Room...Minority w/ Drexel's Eye and Peace Love Dog at the Hungry Eye ..Haymakers w/ guests at the Vancouver Press Club..The Sugar Beats and guests at the Molcolm lowry Room. Gin Blossoms w/ Dead Hoi Workshop and Refreshments ot the Commodore ...A Few Roosters and Two lane Black fop w/ Bloomsday at ihe Piccadilly Pub ..The While Balloon ond Kicking A Screaming at Ihe Ridge..Werne Herzog programme at the Pacific Cinemaiheque... SAT9 Ignite (circus-slyle evening) at ihe Starfish Room...Texture w/ Bloomsdoy andjuniper Dally al the Hungry Eye...The Smalls, Dayglo Abortions and Shallow al the Commodore.. .Pipedream w/ guest at the Gastown Music Hall...Tippy a GoGo and lazy Bones at Ihe Malcolm Lowry Room...Hais»i Motes al Ihe Indigo Cofe...Wreckin Ball Trio at the South Hill Candy Shop...The While Balloon and Kicking & Screaming ot the Ridge...Bells from the Deep at Ihe Pacific Cinematheque... SUN 10 Cypress Hill w/ he five Fingers of Funk at Ihe Commodore...Maria McKee w/ James Hall at the Town Pump...The White Balloon and Kicking _ Screaming at the Ridge.. Signs of Life and Fata Morgana al the Pacific MON 11 De la Soul at Richard's...The White Balloon and Kicking A Screaming al Ihe Ridge...Signs of Life and Fata Morgana ol he fbclfic Cinematheque... TUES 12 The White Balloon and Kicking _ Screaming ctl the Ridge... WED 13 Feedbag w/ 9 Volt at the Hungry Eye.,.The White Balloon and Kicking & Screaming at Ihe Ridge...Dear Diary at the Pacific Cinematheque... THURS 14 Noah's Greal Rainbow and Six Million Dollar Band at the Pit Pub.-Cralg Jacks al the South Hill Candy Shop...The White Balloon and Kicking & Screaming at the Ridge...Quebecois Program I af Ihe Pacific Cinematheque... FR115 CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS THE ITALS W/AIPHA DIALLO AND BAFING AT THE COMMODORE...Mad Pudding at the Starfish Room...Steel Thirsty ai the Vancouver Press Club...No Mona w/ Cathode Ray al Ihe Gaslown Music Hall...The Vinoigreltes and Kinnie Starr af the Mcrfcolm lowry Room...Kristia Jeanne Sheffield al Ihe South Hill Candy Shop...Restoration and Persuasion at the Ridge...The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and land of Silence and Darkness at ihe Pacific Cinemaiheque... SAT 16 Smokin' Frogs. Hip Hop Mecanix and Shrug at he Starfish Room...The Tonics and Meow at Ihe Malcolm lowry Room...Noah's Great Rainbow at the Voncouver Press Club...The Paperboys at the Commodore...Flash Bastard al the Hungry Eye...Hazel Motes at the Talking Stick.. Sytvi at the South Hill...Restoration and Persuasllon al the Ridge...The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Land of Silence and Darkness al Ihe Pacific Cinemaiheque... SUN 17 Restoration and Persuasion al ihe Ridge...Slroszak and Even Dwarfs Started Small al ihe Pacific Cinemaiheque... MON 18 The Postman and A Pure Formality at ihe Ridge...Stroszek and Even, Dwarfs Started Small al the Pacific Cinemaiheque... TUES 19 THe Will Goede Quartetat fhe South Hill Candy Shop...The Postman and A Pure Formality at ihe Ridge... WED 20 The Presidents of the United Slates of America ot the Commodore...Slompal the Vogue Theotre (until April 7)...Steve Mitchell al Ihe South Hill Candy Shop... Manufacturing Consent al Ihe Ridge..iCiao, Professorel al the Pacific Cinematheque... THURS 21 Tom Cochrane w/ Amanda Marshall at the Commodore...Copyright and Veal at Ihe Pit Pub...Craig Jacks at the South Hill Candy Shop...Manufacturing Consent al the Ridge...The Quality of Mercy at Ihe Pacific Cinematheque... FRI 22 Heather Nova w/ guests at the Starfish Room...The Deadcats al the Malcolm lowry Room,..The Hounds of Buskervilfe ot Ihe Vancouver Press Club,..lucas Hille at ihe South Hill...Tom Cochrane w/ Amanda Marshall at the Commodore...lamerico al he Ridge...Lo Jelee and Slaughterhouse-Five at * the Pacific Cinematheque... SAT 23 gaze, Squeeky and Avron Hoffmon at the Malcolm lowry Room.-.Radiobead at he Rage...Daytona at ihe Hungry Eye...Time Wails al the South Hlii...lamerico at the Ridge...ta Jel*6e ond Slaughterhouse-five at Ihe Pacific Cinematheque,. SUN 24 Iron Maiden w/ Fear Factory ol ho Commodore...Cherry Poppin* Daddies ot the Town Pump...lamerica at fhe Ridge...Heart of Gloss and lessons of Darkness at the Pocific Cinemaiheque... MON 25 lamerica at the Ridge...Heart of Glass and lessons of Darkness at Ihe Pacific Cinematheque... TUES 26 CiTR 101,9fM PRESENTS THE WEDDING PRESENT W/ BUTTERGIORY AT THE TOWN PUMP...Jazz Cow at the South Hill Candy Shop...Lamerica at ihe Rkige... WED 27 Tippy Agogo at the Glass Slipper...lamerica ot he Ridge...The Postman at he Pacific Cinematheque... THURS 28 Sparkmarker and Pebble at Ihe Pit Pub...Craig Jacks al the South Hill Candy Shop...Lamerica al Ihe Ridge..Canadian and European Animators programs al the Pacific Cinemaiheque... FRI 29 Texture w/guests al Ihe Vancouver fre» Clufa.,.The Mu^rks and Pfumvine pt Ihe Malcolm Lowry Room...Fear of Drinking of lh» South Hill Condy Shop. ,le Confessional and Margaret's Museuitfi al the ; Ridge...Burden of Dreams and Fitzcarraldo ol the Pacific Cinematheque... SAT 30 Coal w/ the Mach Ill's at lhe Gaslown Music Hall...The Deadcats w/ guests al the Vancouver Press Club...Copyrighl at the Malcolm Lowry Room.,.Everclear w/ Hagfish at the Commodore...le Confessional and Margaret's Museum at fhe Ridge...Burden of Dreams and Fitzcarraldo at the Pacific Cinematheque... SUN 31 Sno Jam '96 w/ d.b.s. & others af the Commodore..le Confessional and Margaret's Museum at the Ridge.. Nosferatu the Empire and Woyzeck al the Pocific Cinematheque... EVERYTHING YOU The Abyss 315 E. Broodwoy (side entrance) ill* island) Block Sheep Books 2742 W.4* {of MocOorwto) Cofe Deux Solefls 2096 Commercial (the Drive) Cafe Vieux Montreal 317 E. Broadway (Mount Pleosar Coprice Theatre 965 Gronville (Gronville Moll) Celebrities 1022 Dovie [at Burrard) CN Imax Theatre 999 Canada Place Commodore Ballroom 870 Granville (Granville Mall) Commodore lanes 83$ GrotwH* {Granville Moll) Cordova Cafe 307 Cotdovo (Gostown) Crosstown Traffic 316 W Hastings (downtown) i Ploce Cinema 1030 Denman (West Enrrrd) Firehall Arts Centre SO £. Cordova (olMaln) Food Not Bombs Voncouver Frederic Wood Theotre fUBQ Goroge Cub 2889 East Hastings St (downtown) Gaslown Theatre 36 Powell (Gastown) Gloss Slipper 2714 Prince Edward (Mount Pleasant] Groceland 1250 Richards (downtown) Greg's Place 45844 Yale Rd. jChilliwack) The Grind Gollery 4124 Mow Sf. Wf. Pleasant) Hasflngs Community Centre 2096 E. Hastings (near I Hemp B.C. 324 W. Hastings (downtown Hollywood Theotre 3123 W. Broadway (Kitsilano) Hot jozz Society 2120 Main (Ml. Pleasant) Hungry Eye 23 W. Cordova (Gaslown) : Jericho Arts Centre 1600 Discovery (Pi. Grey) la Quena 1111 Commercial (the Drive) The lotus Club 455 Abbott (Gastown) Lucky1* 3934 Main UwA-fatr 1275 Seymour {downtown) Mokob lowry Room 4125 E. Hastings (N. Burnaby Mors 1320 Richards (downtown) Maximum Blues Pub 1176 Granville (downtown) New York Theatre 639 Commercial (the Drive) Niagara Hotel Pub 435 W. Pender (downtown) Odyssey Imports 534 Seymour Idowntown) Old American Pub 928 Main (downtown) Orpheum Theatre Smith* & Seymour (downtown) »«»*.ri,.m/,iL,«I,. l lit u~_. 'J- > OUT EVERYWHERE 488 6219 222 2244 876 7128 684 2787 689 7734 687 1354 7325087 254 1195 873 1331 683 6099 689 3180 682 4629 681 7838 681 1531 683 5637 669 7573 , 6832201 682 4388 2554162 689 0926 872 6719 822 2678 822 9364 684 MASK 877 0066 688 2648 795 3334 322 6057 255 2606 681 4620 738 3211 873 4131 688 5351 2244007 251 6626 685 7777 875 9858 685 3288 685 0143 230 MARS 688 8701 254 3545 688 7574 669 6644 682 3291 665 3050 731 3456 5250371 681 1732 876 2747 682 3221 822 6273 681 6740 685 7050 473 1593 685 5585 681 1625 687 6794 738 6311 254 3545 874 6200 687 6355 876 7463 682 4171 689 0096 688 3312 Pacific Cinematheque 1131 Howe (downtown) Paradise 17 Church (New West) Paradise Cinema 9i9 Granville (Granville Mall) Parle Theotre 3440 Cambie (South Vancouver) Picadilly Pub 630 W. Pender (ot Seymour) Pit Pub basement, Student Union Building (UBC) Pill Gollery 317 W. Hastings (downtown) Plaza Theatre 881 Gronville (Granville Mall) Raffels lounge 1221 Granville (downtown) The Roge 730 Pocific Blvd. South (Plaza of Nations) Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir (ol Seymour) Richard's On Richards 1036 Rtchords (downtown) : Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus jot 16th Ave.) Romper Roam 639 Commercial Sie Drive) Russian Halt 600 Campbell (Chinatown) Scratch Records 317A Ccmbie {Gaslown) Southhill Condy Shop 4198 Main (ot 26th) Starfish Room 1055 Homer (downtown) Storlight Cinema 935 Denman (West End) Station Street Arts Centre 930 Station (off Moin) St. Regis Hotel 602 Dunsmiur (downlown) Theatre E 254 E. Hastings (Chinatown) 681 8915 Town Pump 66 Water Street (Gastown) 683 6695 Track Records 552 Seymour (downtown) 682 7976 Tree House toutge 602 Dunsmuir St. (downtown) 871 3090 Twilight Zone /^Alexander (Gastown 682 8550 UBC CINEMA (located in the SUB) 822 3697 UBC Grad Centre Gote 4 (UBC) 822 0999 The Underground 1082 Gronvtfle (downtown) Vancouver East Cultural Centre 1895 Venables (ot Victoria) 254 9578 Vancouver little Theatre 3102 Main (Mi. Pleasont) 876-4165 Vancouver Press Club 2215 Granville (S, Granville) 738 7015 Yarsity Theotre 4375 W. 10* (Point 6rey) 222 2235 Vert 2412 Main (Mt Pleasont) 872-2999 Video In Studios 1965 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 872 8337 Vogue Theatre 918 Granville (Gronville Mall) 257 6205 Waterfront Theatre 1405 Anderson (Granville Is.) 685 6217 W.I.S.E. Hall 1882Adonac (the Drive) 254 5858 Women In Print 3566 W. 4th (Kitsilano] 732 4128 Yale Blues Pub 1300GranviHe (downtown) 6819253 Zulu Records 1869 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 738 3232 SUBMISSIONS FOR DATEBOOK ARE FREE! TO HAVE YOUR EVENT USTED FAX ALL THE REIEVENT INFO (WHO, WHERE, WHEN) TO 822 9364, ATTENTION "DATEBOOK'. DEADLINE FOR THE FEBRUARY ISSUE IS JANUARY 191 33 St^gsZEigZ VELVETS' CHRISTIAN COMICS PART^J © |<j <?_ BLAME. LYLE ThuIVEK see You r*6xr month 34 MARCH 1996 While RUST is one of the best bands to arise out of the San Diego "scene", they don't fit neatly into any stylistic or musical niche: how many bands could share a stage with Stone Temple Pilots, The Meat Puppets, Tool, All, Failure, and Cop Shoot Cop?!! Bar Chord Ritual bristles with punk-ish energy and just a trace of classic rock, but the emphasis is always on melody. Dave Jerden's (Jane's Addiction, Alice In Chains) ace production has given RUST a cleaner, more streamlined sound that highlights the hooks without sacrificing any of their energy and aggression. Listen for yourself - play it loud but don't forget your earplugs!!!! RUST/Bar Chord Ritual I HMV I? 3 _^__i__s LIVE IN CONCERT FILTER / March 15 / Coliseum Strive for the beauty of the short bus and reject the cattle morality and thought of the masses. FILTER / Short Bus B m ._iJH. 3P0 ____ 1160 Robson Street Park Royal Shopping Centre (North Mall) Guildford Town Centre Willowbrook Shopping Centre Richmond Centre Coquitlam Centre Eaton Centre - Metrotown Mayfair Shopping Centre / Victoria Hillside Shopping Centre / Victoria Sevenoaks Shopping Centre / Abbotsford Specially priced at HMV while q ities last. HMV reserves the right to limit quantities. Archers of loaf "Speed Of Cattle" cD/_onie-iF | Yup, a herd of hits. The hers' have rounded I up all their slack ass sin- I gles into a superific I release, tightly packed with pop-fuzz through I and through. Yahoo! 14" CD 12'e double-LP Blumfeld "L'ttat It Moi" cd/ip Artistic production is attached to social/political context (and history) like roots in a fertile ground, adding character, inflection and a sense of reason and direction. As such, German band Blumfeld approach songwriting with a thoughtful and serious inten- tionality involving a Sonic Youth-like concern for sound and structure with a that is as politicized as it is ironic (less a wilfi their North American contemporaries). I'Bof Et Moi is an accomplished pop/rock record and a strong debut (in any language). 16* CD 12* U» Butterglory "Are You Building A Temple In Heaven?" cd/lp/cks Butterglory have progressed from quiet "lo- fi 'ers" to a rounded, competent pop rock band, following a creative trajectory (The ■ Velvet Underground Jonathan Richman, Dream Syndicate, The Feelies) that modernizes itself with continual vitality (The K Records empire). With rock history reverberating behind them, Butterglory rightfully occupy a point in this continuum, building — through the quality of their songwriting — a temple (humbly) in their own honour — one that is ours to enjoy. 14* CD 12* IP 10* Cassette Pansy Division "Wish I'd Taken Pictures" co/lp 1 In a world where Silence I = Death, Pansy J Division ring the bells... I pure punk-pop style, that 1 is! And Mint / Lookout! I Records bring it to you ■ — fourteen songs for a positive identity. Come'n get it! . 12* CD 9* LP 1869 W 4th Ave. Vancouver. BC V6J 1M4 CANADA tel 738.3232 STORE HOURS MontoWed 10:30-7:00 Thurs and Fri 10:30-9:00 Sat 9:30-6:30 Sun 12:00-6:00 ^Cd7?D3 Various Artists "Survival If Tie Fattest" n/ip/cm Fifteen artists, seventeen songs. In the spirit of te* Them f at Jellybeans, punk rock is making waves, and here's who's doing it. Features NOFX, Lagwagon, Snuff and more! Ifs a bargoon! 5* CD 5* LP 5* Cassette Tke Grifters "Ain't My Lookout" ce/ip A band from Memphis, an album with soul. The Grifters cook up a blurry, strange, enticingly evocative sound that respects their southern roots yef thrusts boldly into the realm of sonic exploration. Their debut long-player for SUB POP, Ain't My Lookout is definitely worth a-checking out. 16* CD 10* LP Nick Cove with PJ Harvey "Henry lee" co-ep A broodingly poignant pairing that had to happen. One of the best tracks on Nick Cave's new Murder Ballads album, the glum Mr. Cave and the brash Ms. Harvey team up for a moving, subtle duet that brings out the best in each. 9" CD-EP Rachels "Music For Egon Scheie' Cl/lP Intended to accompany a perfor- ork about the poignant and largely unknown life and work of artist Egon Scheie, the stylistically flexible Rachel's (a trio of piano, viola and cello for ' this recording) have produced on expressive, "biographic" musical background to the ■avents and characters of Egon s short life, using music to articulate fhe aesthetic contours of experience when words of description become limiting. 14* CD 12* U» Gas Huffer "The inhuman Ordeal Of Special Agent Gas Huffer" ci/tp Go go gadget Gas Huffer! Specializing in hard boiled garage rock, Seattle's Gas Huffer crack another big case with their latest Ul-tengfh LP. Nice work, men! 14* CD 10* LP The Flaming lips "This Here Giraffe" ci-ep Like a trip to the zoo, this here disc is full of strange and beautiful sounds. It's fun, kinda makes you feel like a kid again. More stereo magic from The lips off their latest long-player Clouds Taste Metallic. 9* CD-EP The Coctails "The details" h I A pleasant accompaniment for when it's Hme to throw in the towel. Lefs follow the lead of these multi-instrumentalists with their last self- titled release. Closure never sounded so good. 16* CD Combustible Edison "SchizophoniC'ci 1996: The Year That Cocktail Broke. What a long, strange trip it's been. Anyways, today's true lounge lizards, Combustible Edison practise mighty fine cocktail etiquette, and with their second full- length Schizophonk approach ambrosia delight. 16* CD The Smugglers "Selling The Sizzle!" ci/ip 'Tis the season of the backyard barbecue... well, almost, but here's a real teaser. The Smugglers have released their new lip- smocldn' foil-length feature — Setting The Shade! Fifteen palty-stackin' hits worthy of any skookum 12*CD 9*LP Sale prices in effect until March 31/96. Other New Favourites! 1 The Bluetones I Oasis. —Expecting To Fly CD/LP -^''^BacUr, Anger CD-EP/7-inch B|ork Hyoerbollad Pans 1 + 2CD-EPs ?*ead TheDarkAges CD-EP/10-inch ^n,m Denim On he CD/IP ar,oosA** Not So Preny (Tribute To The Pretty Things) CD/LP Wayne Kramer Dangerous Madness . CD/LP/Cassette KeVm Kane Neighbourhood Watch CD (available mid-March) I ^^-^^^ht Reeling CD/Cassette I Afghan Whigs....Ho^eyHoc/derCD-EP/10-inch Banco DeGaia Kinkajou CD-EP/12-inch I Bran'ac Hissin9 Prigs In Static Couture CD/LP °°n F'emin9 Because Tomorrow CD *,n'OUsArtists Mondo Exotic CD ^—Artists Space Capades CD ^Artists Mapsoc/taCD *"«»**■ Bachelors Den CD K,e •'•;•,; Black Nile Crash CD-EP/12-inch Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island CD/LP S°n0raPine Sonora Pine CD/iP
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Publisher | Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia |
Date Issued | 1996-03-01 |
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