FREE BROUGHT TO YOU BY TIMBRE CiTR FM 101.9 presents Enigma Recording Artists Nick Cave & THE BAD SEEDS with special guests 4AD Recording Artists THE WOLFGANG PRESS THURS. FEB. 23 THE TOWN PUMP _ From San Diego THE PLEASURE BARONS featuring Country Dick's Cavalcade of Stars SAT. FEBRUARY 25 THE COMMODORE BALLROOM Ticketmaster/VTC, Zulu, BJpck Swan, Highlife & Track Records, Chatgpt by Phone 280-4444. disorder That CfTRFM 102 FEBRUARY 1989*ISSUE #73 EDITOR Kevin Smith EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Viola Funk, Miss Finch WRITERS Jerome Broadway, Gavin Brown, Horacio de la Cueva, Janis McKenzie, David M., Christopher Kovacs ART DIRECTOR Marty George ARTISTS William Thompson, Greg Zbitnew PHOTOGRAPHER Mandel Ngan COVER William Thompson DESIGN DIRECTOR Michael Grigg LAYOUT BY Harley McCauley, Viola Funk, Laura Corobotiuc, Martin Richards PROGRAM GUIDE BY Kathryn Hayashi TYPESETTING AMS Desktop Publishing ADVERTISING AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Matt Richards ACCOUNTS AND SUBSCRIPTION GUY Randy Iwata PUBLISHER Harry Hertscheg Discorder is That Magazine from CiTR 101.9 Fm. It's published monthly by the Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia. It's printed in Surrey, Canada. Discorder Magazine prints what it wants to, but pledges to (try and) put the CiTR On The Dial program guide and Spin List record chart in every issue. We also vow to circulate 17,500 copies to over 200 locations by the first of each month. Twelve-month subscriptions are $12 in Canada, $12(US) in the States, $20 elsewhere. Make money orders or certified cheques payable to Discorder Magazine. All written, drawn or photographed contributions are welcome. But don't expect to get anything back. To pick up or to improve your reception of CiTR's 49-watt stereo signal, just put a little effort into it. Stick a clothes hanger or some other kind of antenna to your receiver. Better yet, if you're a subscriber to Rogers, Shaw or Delta Cable, turn us on at 101.9 cable fm. Office hours for CiTR, Discorder and the CiTR Mobile Sound Rental are Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm. Please call then. But call 228-3017. For the News/Sports line, call 224-4320. To talk to the DJ, call 228-2487 or 228-CiTR. 6 PREDICTIONS'89 What's Going To Happen In 1989? 8 DOA A New Guitarist But They'll Always Be God 10 THE 'NO FUN IN LOVE' LOVE TEST Goin' For The Big Score 12 SURPRISE What Will The World Look Like On April 1, 2050? 19 TAPE-A-MANIA II Featuring Sparky Magneto And The Ionic Alternators 22 ROVING EAR All The Way From Edinburgh 4 AIRHEAD readers who write 15 LOCAL MOTION in a city near you 16 UNDER REVIEW sonic youth, eugene chadboume, ice-t and more 20 ON THE DIAL even/person's guide to citr 21 SPINLIST the hipper sounds DWCE &t/J Tr)uf&)dY NiQHT fc FBBKUdlQ In THE PiT PUB ar ttfl.C. * * %h *« * n JW* 5HoW Up I fctNCE / % jfPS JW ( the -AOS fiMsUer- UJge for fcnX. fk!ZES tyzjeSy of: p fc> ^f> TflFS CflFg atf Hiisic fcy CiTR Mobile SdUND AIRHEAD e/o CITR 6138 SUB Blvd. Vancouver, B.C V6T 2A8 No Swearing Please Dear Airhead, Just this one important message to the "first year male student" who didn't like my letter: FUCKYOU. On to more important stuff. Is there anyplace decent (as in clubs) that will let in those who aren't 19 yet? Re: Dublin Is Where It's At. So where can I find a Guernica LP, or is there one? That's about all the questions this time...just remember —Elvis is God —therefore Bono is not —keep up the good work at Discorder —I don't know what else...have a happy new year, I guess. Later. Dressed In black P.S. 42 is the true meaning of life. // depends what you mean by decent but there is little to choose from for those under the age of 19. The Paramount at 652 Columbia St. in New West is one location. Maybe those under 19 could let us all know if there are any more. Guernica have released 3 EPS independently. The first is out of print and the other two are calledDeep Sea Diving andHumming of the Engine. Getting Defensive Dear Airhead, Re: The letter from Harry P. Kniss Retort #1: No one has to know who Steve Albini is (although those who don't are missing out on some interesting music and writing). Guy Bennett's ideas and style do resemble Albini's but unfortunately lack the obvious quality that Albini's stories have. Retort #2: It wouldn't be surprising if Bennett has read Albini's stories. Forced Exposure is becoming quite a popular magazine (I saw several copies for sale in a Chinese grocery) and as such is becoming quite available. Shit! You guys probably have a subscription. Retort #3:1 guess I'm not the only one to notice this; but there has been an obvious drop in the quality of your magazine. This could possibly be attributed to a semi-literate editor. That would explain why there are no editorials. Discorder could learn a lesson from Bob Colebrook's Night Moves. Possibly some of the most worthwhile writing on Rock *n* Roll in this city. Another thing you could do is solicit articles, stories, reviews, and so on from local musicians, artists, poets, 'writers, celebrities. People your readership may be interested in hearing from. To The Defence Of Harry Discorder solicits and always welcomes input from 'outside' sources. In fact, this issue contains The Love Test, the second contribution from local celebrity and romantic icon David M. This magazine is open to any and all contributors - writers, artists, photographers etc. REPEAT, any and all contributors. Please send us something, drop the semi-literate editor a line at 228-3017 or even come up lo the radio station sometime. Too Numerous To Mention Dear Airhead, Saving the Earth has become an individual decision. Everyone must work with nature and not against it. One electric screwdriver costs far too much environmentally. The effort it saves only destroys that which is really important. We don't need meat, only protein. If you had a choice between working in an abattoir or a soybean factory, which would you choose? If it mattered how much it paid, then my faith in humanity doesn't mean a thing. I've seen kindness and harmony in a poor country, and greed and selfishness in a rich country. Money in general, it seems, is implicitly evil. A depression might just be the cure for North America, which is suffering from terminal materialism. With so much decay and injustice in the world, how can we possibly eat without feeling guilty? The answer is simple: The smell of death hasn't reached our nostrils yet. I can list a few reasons for living, but the reasons for dying are far too numerous to mention. D. Robinson Fahrenheit 451 Dear Airhead, One Big Reason to Bum Discorder: Viola "I'm So Clever" Funk Braggarts make me tired. What is her "Top Ten Reasons to Live" list but a public display of how astonishingly well-read she is? On top of all of her name-dropping, moreover, she must remind everyone how precocious she is: this prodigy is a mere twenty years old. (She tells us this not once but twice.) My, you're intelligent, Viola! Gee, you must be a real, honest-to-goodness bookworm! Boy, you must love seeing your inflated ego in print! Do me a favour, Viola. Or two. Learn that pseudo-intellectual snobs are incredibly boring. (Read J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey.) And stop depreciating Discorder. Phoebe Caldwell Ouch! Take it easy on Viola. It has been very difficult for her growing up as a prodigy in Surrey. it's "T True\ Well, we do make mistakes here at Discoreder. And we've done it again. Last month's cover should have been credited to Tara Miller not Ann Miller. CiTR concert presentations for February: 4th-Tail- gators at 86 St.; 15th-Burning Spear and Mighty Sparrow at 86 St.; 23rd-Nick Cave and Wolfgang Press at the Town Pump; and 25th-The Pleasure Barons (featuring Country Dick Montana and Mojo Nixon) at the Commodore. And all CiTR members must attend the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, February 15 at 7pm in SUB 205,207 and 209. 4 DISCORDER CITR PRESENTS Enigma recording artists rHE TAIL GATORS Saturday February 4th Texas Boogie... AT Tickets only $7.oo Caribbean Fest Featuring BURNNG SPEAR pius MK3HTY SPARROW and SOUND REVOLUTION Wednesday, February 15 FOR MORE INFO CALL 683-8687 CITR PRESENTS Tickets for Both Shows available at VTC, Black Swan Zulu Records fc Highlife Records T-sh 7 "single available HERE! Bcbops,Cabbages,Highlife. Scratch,Track, Zoom,& Zulu GIG '• Railway Club Feb. 718 !STICK IT HERE! ANY AD - ANY SIZE $7 A SQUARE INCH Call 873-4083/228-3017 Deadline: 15th of the north 50 cents A BUCKS mar rifr>£ /VviyTlOTe C<cO •sxafr One month already passed and the question remains unanswered, what's going to happen in 1989? More Elvis sightings, celebrity drug scandals, a U.S. invasion of Libya, Premier Vanderzalm with senile dementia? Those are not my predictions. These however, are: 1. 1989 will be the year of sobriety. Except for everybody I know. 2. 7-11 stores will start to deliver. 3. It will be harder to tell the TV commercials from the TV programs. 4. Rappers and funksters will do more sampling from old Star Trek TV episodes. 5. The year's top male vocalist will be Leonard "Bones" McCoy. 6. While celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the first man on the moon (July 21,1969), historians will find that Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's actual words after setting foot on the lunar surface were: "One small step for man, one giant step for my career." 7. In an act of great benevolence, Joan Kroc, humanitarian widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, will decide that the restaurants no longer need to advertise. McDonalds will pull all its ads from the various media, thereby sparing us the usual constant assault. However, Pepsi and Coke will pick-up the slack with a vengence. 8. Condom vending machines will begin appearing in the most unlikely places. 9. Magic mushrooms will make a comeback. 10. Someone you know who is not gay will contract AIDS. 11. U2's Bono Vox will play Jesus in a Broadway production of Godspell directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. int. 12. Sprinter Ben Johnson and singer Tracy Chapman will marry. After discovering some of Ben's alleged steriods, Tracy will drop her folk act and perform with Guns and Roses. 13. There will be more sequels to movies that shouldn't have been made in first place. 14. Roman Polanski will be a guest speaker at the Vancouver International Film Festival. 15. Michael Caine will make five more forgettable films. 16. After divorcing Sean Perm, Madonna will marry Argentine soccer star Diego Maradonna. Many will have fun with her new married name. 17. Molly Ringwald will play Jodie Foster in the Jodie Foster Story. John Candy, in his first dramatic role, will play the oft misunderstood John W. Hinckley. 18. Andrew Lloyd Webber will produce a blockbuster Christmas musical entitled Santa of the Opera. 19. The Reagan presidency memoirs will be published. No one will notice. Those who do will find that the memoirs are actually a scrap book full of pictures, napkins, matchbooks, and White House ashtrays. 20. BTO will make a giant comeback. Local rockers will attempt to capitalize on the new trend of flab rock by bulking up. Art Bergman will be seen frequenting Nuffy's Donuts. ctions 21. Heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will appear on an episode of the The Cosby Show as Cosby's younger brother. The episode will deal with the topic of domestic violence. Subsequent episodes will feature Robin Givens as a battered wife next door neighbor. 22. The Vancouver Sun will do a huge weekend feature on drugs. It will be factually incorrect. 23. Ever the opportunist, Lillian Vanderzalm will jump ship and elope with the Premier's friend Peter Toigo. Soon afterwards Fantasy Gardens will mysteriously burn to the ground in a three alarm fire. Premier Vanderzalm will continue smiling. 24. The Vancouver Province will further sink into the mire of garbage tabloid journalism by running a front page article on an illegal immigrants sexual assualt charge with the headline: "Local Woman Attacked by Alien." 25. Ron and Nancy Reagan will host a morning TV talk show similiar to Jimmy and Tammy but without the religion and scandal. It will feature cartoons and old re-runs. Viewers will soon realize that it is actually a talk show for kids. 26. Depressed by declining ratings, Oprah Winfrey regains all her weight, loses her show, becomes bulimic, then puts all the weight back on and gets a variety show on the Fox Network. People Magazine will devote a whole issue to her story. 27. PLO leader Yasser Arafat will shave, don a three piece suit and briefcase, and go to America in order to gain support for his independent Palestinian State initaitive. Most people in America will ask what conference Palestinian State plays in. 28. Claiming to be receiving messages from the California Raisins, a lone gunman will make an assassination attempt on George Bush. He will miss Bush but will get VP Dan Quayle instead. No one will notice or care. Bush will appoint Charlton Heston as the new Vice- President. 29. There will be five more major civil aviation disasters. One of them will be caused by airline food. 30. Cellular phones will be like the pocket calculators of ten years ago. Even kids will have them, but only the crack dealers will have any real use for them. 31. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, after running out of friends to appoint to government positions, will have to actually make a legitimate appointment. This story will make the cover of MacLeans. 32. The Liberal Party of Canada will hold a leadership convention and remove current leader John Turner. The party will then attempt to draft Hockey Night in Canada Coach's Corner commentator Don Cherry as their new leader. 33. After city council passes new zoning laws, Mayor Gordon Campbell will quietly resign to take employment with Hong Kong land mogul Li Ka-Shing. Carole Taylor will be the new mayor. Outspoken council member Harry Rankin will call her a Barbie doll and an airhead, but will later secretly ask her out on a date. 34. South American Killer Bees will confound the experts and begin appearing in large numbers in the Southern U.S. Consequently Time Magazine will name its 1989 Man of the Year Warwick Estevan Kerr - the gentleman who brought the African bee to Brazil in 1956 and tried unsuccessfully to breed it with domestic bees. Jerome Broadway CINEMA- 16 February 1 Erotica Series • Ecstacy February 8 Kurosawa • Throne of Blood ■— February 15 Carlos Saura • Raise Ravens r— February 22 ■ Bertolucci • Last Tango in Paris Wednesday Nights at 7:00 and 9:00 $2.50 single admission $3.50 for double bills Students Union Building Theatre U.B.C. 24 Hour Info 228-3697 Quality Time and Dining Experience Live Classical Music No Cover Charge Feb 3 Nathanicn Hurvitz Renaissanc lute, original compositons Feb. 10 Galiano Trio - flute, clarinnet, bassoon Gallery: Sandra Smeed - Water Colours Gallery Club Cafe. Resfauranf 7Z4Ndaon St Owr*** franvilk \ Howe) 222-4444 FEBRUARY 1989 7 DOA - one of Vancouver's first punk bands and certainly its longest running. After some ten years of solid rocking DOA has changed little in terms of musical output. Their last album was perhaps a little more rocking and cleaner than previous efforts but this is one band that has never turned out a lousy disc. Hopefully this tradition will be continued once they find a record company to release the follow up to True North, Strong and Free. New guitar player Chris Hombre has replaced long time member Dave Gregg and we took the opportunity of his debut with the band at the Town Pump on January 6th to interview Joey and John Card about nothing in particular. Discorder - Start from the beginning, when you had long hair. Joey - In '75 or '76 we were junior hippies trying to catch on to the alternative youth movement of the time but we realised that the old hippies had all become cynics and opened up jewellery shops on 4th Ave. D - How old are you now? J 32. D - When did your first band form? J - My first band was Led Balloon. We named it Led Balloon because of Led Zep and that's how we thought our act would go over. D - How did your act go over? J - We had a gig lined up at a high school but our guitar player chickened out. I was drumming; I'dhave done it. My firstreal gig was with Stone Crazy, a long haired band into the Doors, ZZ Top and drugs. We got nicknamed the Stone Crazies by our fans - well, our neighbours and parents. Once we played the Mount Pleasant Community Center for 6-8 year olds who danced around not because they liked us but because they were 6-8 year olds. D - So DOA was formed in? J - '78 cause in '77 I was just hearing about punk. I had seen ads for The Ramones album and TV specials on The Damned and The Sex Pistols. As well, I had heard about a Vancouver band, The Furies. D - Why did you form DOA? J - Stone Crazy had just been fired from a gig up in Merritt because we wouldn't cover Steve Miller tunes so we said fuck it and formed The Skulls. We had seven covers and seven originals including Disco Sucks, Fucked Up Baby (later Fucked Up Ronnie) and 001 Loser's Club. D - You just said let's be punk? J - Yeah, I said let's form a punk band and I'll sing. Dimwit, Gerry Useless and Roy all laughed so I went out, cut my hair and ended up with a lot of bald spots that Dimwit butchered even further. Punk to me was doing what you wanted without hearing any shit about it. John Card has entered the room and disrupts the interview by bragging about his prowess at recent DOA bungy cord parties. D - Do you have a social conscience? J -1 went to SFU for a year so of course I have a social conscience. D - Are your parents still alive? J - Yeah, they just had a 45 th wedding anniversary. My old man is around 75. D - Do they support your career choice? J - They would have preferred something different but if your parents like your music it's not raunchy enough. You've got to tattoo FUCK on your arm and make sure your parents see it. Much discussion follows regarding John Card's homemade Fuck tattoo that he claims worries his parents because he spelt it wrong. D - Who is your favorite critic - Tom Harrison or John Mackie? J -1 like them both but Tom is responsible for our first album Triumph of the Ignoroids, a live album from a battle of the bands. It's real how much is Hardcore «S1 worth? J -1 know people who have John C; h people albums &M much. D - Why would money matter? J - Only because I'd donate it to crippled at our $hows. JC-Irit ITldoanytruai Call mc ix>ok D - On; is note, telliHe* jt David Lee Roth. J -1 f1TMmmm^'ieneT at a shGflHKyed with X ontlijliilttonicaslxi^SBP^immons of Ki^came^iHSl^WiB^artridge Family came, totally bombed, and then David Lee Roth showed up. After the show David started comparing himself to us; to which Chuck Biscuits replied, "I don't think so." To top the evening off, some of our friends from Reno showed up, put David in a headlock and demanded to hear one of his cute little screams. They kept on strangling him until he screamed. Big Bob Montgomery put the icing on the cake. As yelling across the parking lot, "You're too drunk to bone her David, you're too drunk to bone her." D - How did you get to open for him when he came to Vancouver? J - Perryscope called and said that Poison had cancelled which I kinda expected since they're not real men like DOA. JC -1 think it was because NoMeansNo couldn't make it. D - How muj||£Pyou mi J - Aboui$6* but in comparison, the Payolas got ?ot to tattoo FUCK on and make sure your Usee it. ey opened for ZZ Tc JC - This time I got to make David scream until we wer^^^^t£Ut with thjgffpray shoved down our p* D -1 hope you gotpaH J - They paid us before the show so we got really drunk. They finally had to kick us out which was okay since our dressing room smelled like Stan Smyl had laid a steamer right there. D - What would you have to do to be as successful as David Lee Roth? JC - A couple more interviews in Discorder. J - A new name and face transplants. Seriously, David was leaving with some girl, Bob started we have a reputation as muck rakers and very them God. few record companies want to deal with us, so success is hard. D - What about your new guitar player Chris Hombre? J - He's a member of the Gretzky family and used to play in the Dayglo Abortions. D - Tell me about Drunks on Acoustic/Arrival. JC - The best show you'll ever see. It's not a family show but you could have a family after it. D - Was this a natural progression? J - More like an unnatural contortion but somebody pays us to do it so I goddam like it. D - Do you have any musical talent? J - The band presently has stamina, charisma, talent and good looks. D - What's your favourite club in Vancouver? J - Most of them arc the same - Cheap. JC -1 like playing Club Soda since it has good sound. When! go for a beer I goto the Railway Club or theMarine Club. I just found a new bar but I'm not going to tell you where it is in case it becom&Spopular with the big black hair crowd. - DoJlfu Uke Vancouver? jj cally Irun this town. Some people ■ it, but 1 pull the strings around here and just lay low scununing around so I don't look like a hot dog like Bruce Allen. The interview continued on for about another 15 minutes but I kinda forgot to flip the tape over so for now I guess the interview is over. DOA, however, will never die, they' 11 just keep adding new members. Judging from the show on January 6th, they'll never lose the energy that makes Gavin Brown "*f ^Iffi^ rouJiy 1 c\nnu*I ppa-ovr- f CAPT PICK, STEVENSON <*rvA twe- kTqE 317 A CAMBIE S ^W^wg FEBRUARY 1989 9 TEST I. Which of the following statements that a man might say to a woman does not mean "Let's have sex"? a) "Nice dress you're wearing" b) "Wanna go see a movie tonight?" c) "I love you, my darling" d) "Chow down on my love bone, bitch" 2. When a woman te] a) "T< b)'\ en d) '^i|^(rne spend morif 3. Who said the following: "I neej of any man"? a) Lillian Vander Zalm b) Nancy ReagaJ c) Vanna Whitt d) Mrs. Bruce S e) Maureen Mc! it's go shopping", she actually means: I can buy things" want someday to own" out my own identity; to be totally independent die" :e spfTrTgsteen hpHHy is laSHa 4. A handsome man with a) A chihuahual b) A delicious meal that has been poisoned c) A cure for AIDS that only works on lab animals d) Peeling onions 5. How does a man show his woman that he loves her? a) He holds his woman's hand b) He kisses his woman tenderly c) He shares his deepest thoughts with his woman d) He hides his woman's corpse in London's Theatre District 6. Why should women trust men? a) Just because b} It doesn't matter c) Why not? d) Oh, what difference could it possibly make? 7. Why should men trust women? a.) They're easy on the ol' eyes b) They smell nice c) They make the best moms d) They always fall for m bums 8. Why should gay people trust each other? a) They invented flamboyance b) They invented hypocrisy c) They invented Disco Music d) They probably invented oral sex 9. Which aspect of a love relationship is the most satisfying? a) Shared growth b) Comfortable togetherness c) Blissful love-making d) Building a happy family 10. Can love last forever? a) No, it just seems to b) Yes, I'm taking this test with a date c) To get to the other side d) How do you keep a moron in suspense? 10 DISCORDER ring 1. d), which actually means "I am overcompensating for being gay". 2. None of the above. She actually means to kill you for wasting valuable shoppingJug* what she means by "Let's go shopping", idiot. ^dtimk 3. All of the above, but Rock Hudson said it first. -^^H 4. d), because being handsome men with no money makes NOEjgif cry. 5. d), but this question is actually a misprint. The question should read "How does a man show Scotland Yard he's Jack the Ripper?". ^JUk ~" ~Ue of ^ above- The rcal rcas°n is "Lesbianism is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord." f the above. The rcal reason is "There's no cure yet for AIDS", of the above. The real reason is "They invented blackmail", f the above. The most satisfying aspect of a love relationship is "Getting out of it alive". *) are equally correct, but award yourself an extra point if you recognised that "Can love r and "How do you keep atnoron in suspense?" are, in fact, the same question. ne point for each correct answer. For women, your total score equals the number of months left on your "Baby Clock". For men y >re equals your penis size. In centimetres. by Romantic Icon for the '90's David M. SUNDAY MONOAY TUESDAY WE0NE8OAT THUBSOAV FRtOAV SATURDAY j SAT 3-8 pm SUN 7-12 pm THE BELAIRS 31 GATEMOUTHl 111 1-4- THE TOASTERS 9 — 11 THE WAILIN DEMONS 14 — 18 DAVID RAVEN 20 — 22 kathy Mcdonald 23—25 JOHNY V/ KING BISCUIT/ DOCTOR BOOGIE 28, — 4 , !' JACKLAVIN'S! SATURDAY 3-8 prn ; JAM SESSIONS! SUNDAY 7-12pm FEBRUARY 1989 11 Surprise, v. To strike with wonder or amazement, especially because unexpected. I have at one time or another, imagined what the world would be like in the future. It is very easy forme to think of the world in 100,200 or 1,000 years hence. I can let my fantasies run wild. But when it comes to what the world would be like in, say, 30 or 50 years, I get uncomfortable. This time span is within my lifetime and I cannot honestly let my imagination run wild. When I think of the world in such a relatively short period of time I have to contend with the ugly reality of the state of the world today. Nonetheless, it is fascinating for me to envision what the world could be or should be like in the not-so-near or not-so-far future. The problems that the world faces today: nuclear annihilation, ozone layer depletion, pollution of land and water with fertilizers and pesticides and their residues, disposal of radioactive material, massive erosion of the soil, widespread deforestation, massive extinction of species, increase of urban violence, rise of fundamentalism and intolerance in all major religions, and an unprecedented concentration of I capital and decision-making in an ever decreas- tig number of people. These problems make it ifficult, but not impossible, to think of a better future for the world. Are there solutions and alternatives to all these problems; solutions and alternatives for our future not only as a species but as a planet? Maybe, maybe not. The trust that people put in the 20th century religion of 'Science and Tech-| nology' is rapidly waning, and with good rea-| son. Some of the most resounding technological | "solutions" to our everyday problems of food| WORK LESS, GET HIGHER MARKS WE CAN HELP! call RICK ORNAR 879-6121 TIME:TEXT STUDENT EDITION A system that teaches you to get control of your time, cope with the information overload and get more mileage out of your studies. Call Today and shelter have engendered even more complex and insolv able problems than the ones they were intended to solve. A good example of this is the use of synthetic fertilizers in agriculture; which, when carried away by the runoff waters, contaminate the waters leading to problems of oxygen depletion in lakes and disruption of the food chain at the primary producer level Another more immediate example is nuclear technology, long ago heralded as being so cheap and safe we wouldn't have to pay for or worry about it. Nuclear technology has terribleenvironmental consequences at every step of its production. The soil and air are contaminated by the tailings of uranium mining and the consequences of nuclear accidents are well illustrated by Chernobyl. Are scientists and technologists alone to blame for this? Scientists and technologists, like all other humans, are not capable of figuring out all the consequences of their work* and even if sometimes they know of the dangers involved in a particular technology, there are always politicians and industrialists who prefer to keep scien- UBC Student Union Building Main & Lower Concourse All Ages Welcome tists quiet and isolated from the rest of public. The "decision makers" of today have aims and biases that make it impossible for them to offer either "leadership" or real solutions to the problems which they have created. By no means are they the only ones to blame; we all perpetuate the problem by our use of goods and services, or by simply failing to act in the prevention of the implementation of nuclear power plants, construction of armaments, clear-cut deforestation, etc. bJmh If we don't believe that either science and technology, or the traditional forms of government, or even inertia are going to solve the problems we face today, we must look for alternatives. Many of the alternatives already exist and we could and should try them. Bioregional- ism, a feminist or matriarchical society, anarchy, tribal councils, worker collectives and direct democracy are just a few examples of al- terntive ways of structuring a society. But there are more than these alternatives for the future. The future, being highly unpredictable, is full of surprises. ^PVl^Mi Jr^^k. Surprises have, can, and will happen. When I refer to surprises, I'm not talking of somebody jumping out of a cake at a party, but of unexpected events that can change the lifestyle of a person and the society of the world as a whole. There are many examples of surprises and I will mention just a few. The introduction of the printing press to Europe changed the access to knowledge in such away thatmost people could learn what had been the priv ileged knowledge of a few. This popularization of knowledge even-, tuallly helped change the structure of European society. In the present century, the wireless transmitter and its children, today's radio and TV, were unexpected (suprising) uses of electromagnetic waves that changed, if not the world, at least our concept of it. You can say that the world shrunk with the advent of wireless communication. When Columbus stumbled upon this continent and its natives, notonly the concept of the shape of the world had to be revamped but also both Europeans and Natives had to redefine their own concept of what constituted a human being. Surprise, there are a lot more humans than we ever thought. The discovery of penicillin as an effective antibiotic was an event waiting to happen, but still a surprise. The effectiveness of passive resistance in the liberation of India from British rule was inconceivable, but it happened, and now it doesn' t seem to be an extraordinary means of protest. What must happen if we are to survive as a species and as a planet, and the changes that must come about in our lifestyle as people in a developed country and for people in less developed countries is the subject of much discussion today. The Brunddand commission travelled through the world looking for ideas to implement a "Common Future" for the planet based on a vague concept of sustainable development, and offered some suggestions for the implementation of thisfuture.Thesesuggestions included: the right of all human beings to an environment adequate for their health and wellbeing; the maintenance of ecosystems and ecological processes essential for the function of the biosphere; the preservation of biological diversity; the implementation of development activities; and the cessation of activities which breach an international obligation regarding the environment and provision of compensation for harm caused. If the future is to arrive, it is Us, everybody, who must design and implement it. It is our planet and we are talking about the life of everybody and everything on it. What do you think must or could happen in the world if we are to survive? What discoveries, social changes, or most important of all, surprises, must or should come about? What will the world look like on April 1, 2050? Electronic Smoke Signals wants to hear your way of getting from here to April 1,2050. Send us a short story, a poem, an essay or any other written material no more than 1000 words long or a tape of no longer than 5 minutes. We will be reading and playing some of the submissions as they come along. In April we will rebroadcast what we think are the best contributions. For more information listen to Electronic Smoke Signals Sunday night from 6:30 PM on February 12 and 26 and March 12. Send your contributions to: Electronic Smoke Signals c/o CiTR Radio 6138 SUB Boulevard University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. V6T2A5 Last day for submissions of postmarks is March 31,1989. Horacio de la Cueva PAY ONLY $2 AT A WED OR THURS PERFORMANCE, 8:00 (With this coupon) AND SEE HILARIOUS IMPROV COMEDY. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT! Expires Feb. 28th '89 BACK ALLEY THEATRE 751 THUHLOW • 688-7013 Vucon?tr TkMtreSports League HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR LEISURE CASH? coming this March the black pages THRILLS ! THRILLS with special guests CO(McMO'DO(R£ <BALL%pO<M MARCH 3 TICKETS ON SALE NOW! LOCAL MOT ION tRecords FOR Well, with Valentine's Day so near, I've been lounging around munching Purdy's dark chocolate covered almonds (warming up for the big day, of course) listening to the dulcet tones of demo tapes, and only leaving the house for super-cool events Uke seeing the Young Fresh Fellows. So here are the exciting results: THE RAINWALKERS-Ghost Town: This is a very nicely produced demo, recorded at Bullfrog and financed (I'm assuming, since their logo's on the tape) by Criminal Records. If anything, the Rain- walkers are sounding more refined, more polished than ever—this is a close to flawless example of their chosen form—a kind of country/60's pop that's getting mighty familiar by 1989. I've heard rumours that a major change is in the works for the Rainwalkers— I don't know exacdy what form it'll take but don't expect them to follow the lead of Brilliant Orange. From Edmonton CADILLAC OF WORMS-She Won't and THE COLOUR 9-Love: Gee, I wish I knew something about the Edmonton scene—both these bands sound pretty young (at least I hope they are) but there's really no telling. Cadillac of Worms' garage/early punk kind of sound (loaded with teenage angst lyrics, being about trying to get the nerve to ask someone for a date) is charming. (At times the vocals are a little reminiscent of Joe Jackson, but I'm sure this is unintentional.) The Colour 9's sound is a little faster and harder and, as far as the lyrics go, anyway, more enigmatic. All in all, if these two tapes are beginnings, they're good ones. BOB'S YOUR UNCLE-Drop the Bomb and AWOL: I have to admit I've never known what to make of BYU, but then they obviously want to defy categorization. Compared to some earlier Bob's Your Uncle these songs (well, Drop the Bomb anyway) almost seem folk-influenced. They're calm and controlled, and the production (for a two-track, especially) is remarkably clean and spare. But the biggest surprise, for me, is to hear male vocals on Drop the Bomb with Sook-yin singing backups. Look for a record on a new local indie label, soon. EXCITED FIRST DAUGHTER-Pm a Building: EFD haven't been around for too long as a band yet, but are just starting to get some attention locally (witness the big article in a recent Night Moves) and will play live on CiTR Feb 16 at 11pm. As for the song, it's complex and intelligent but not without humour (just look at the title). *C&rt& Feb.1* two locators: IIIOGwnercialPr 251-1161 TYRO QUAGMIRE-I Got Nothing to Say to You: I don't know a thing about this band but they sound as if they belong to some kind of Dead Kennedys meets Violent Femmes school of rock and roll. This tape also contains one of the best-titled songs I've ever heard of: I'm Too Cool to Fall in Love. THE DISTRACTIONS-Tough Enough: Recorded at Aragon (which I didn't think existed anymore) and Fluid studios, this song features a guest female backup vocalist and some really happening piano too. Upbeat, even happy sounding, all in all. Unfortunately, the Distractions are one of those bands I haven't managed to see yet, but I'm trying. And lastly, THE CELEBRITY DRUNKS-Holly Jolly b/w Crack Minded Bill: Not a demo but a 7" single, from Toronto and Amok Records. Does this band really have a semi-legendary status or is it just 4376WIO* 222-2332 that I've never seen them play, or even heard of them playing around town? And I get the feeling this is a band you've got to see live—the singer (Lloyd Brand- son) growls the words out and you can't help imagining the band violendy taking over some nightclub like some species of violent lounge lizards. At the same time, there are some classic rock and roll lyrics here ("I got a holly jolly dancing in my pants/I'm thinking of you girl and I don't mean romance"), and then a few little weirdnesses (well, I thought the intro to Crack Minded Bill was a bit like that terrible song Footloose...). Anyway, cool stuff from some obviously considerate guys, since they gave me one of those plastic yellow things with the record so I could actually play it! Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Janis FEBRUARY 1989 15 L ^ [review] -\ ^-y SONIC YOUTH Daydream Nation (Blast First/Enigma) Well, following the expected behaviour, I saw the concert, then I bought the album. I enjoyed both, but for different reasons. The concert was great because there were so many guitars and so many fun things done with them. Cool things I would never think of doing - like jamming a drumstick between the strings and neck and pounding it with another stick, or dropping to the floor and jamming the head of the guitar into the floor and flexing the neck for vibrato effect, or the way they just ripped out strings in mid- song. These things made the Sonic Youth experience something to tell your folks about. Daydream Nation is also a great musical experience. All the fun of the on stage hoopla is not so evident. It is true that you can hear all the bizarre guitar tunings and sounds that make Sonic Youth what they are, but when it comes right down to it this is almost a tuneful album. I actually catch myself singing along to songs that Thurston Moore sings; songs like Teen Age Riot, Total Trash, and Candle. I'm not sure, but I don't think this inclination overtook me when I listened to their earlier material. Yes, I know that rough edges are what's needed in a shiny plastic world, but there is still lots of this on Daydream Nation. Maybe it's the balance between the tuneful and the rough that makes this such an excellent album. Michael Leduc DAS DAMEN Marshmellow Conspiracy (EP) (SST) O God! A record on strawberry milkshake pink vinyl! O GOD! Ecstasy attack! Play this record LOUD—really loud (and louder than that if possible). Feel it throb in the bottom of your gut. Listen to the guitars scream, the beat pound, the singer yell. Shake your hair, feel groovy. These four songs remind you why you thought rock 'n' roll was so cool in the first place. A searing version of Magical Mystery Tour called Song for Michael Jackson to Sell is included for your listening orgasm. Way too cool for words and not for the faint of heart. Kathryn Hayashl THE DEAD MILKMEN Beelzebubba (Enigma) Life. What is it all about? Well, this record makes it apparent that The Dead Milkmen don't know. Using a straightforward drums, bass, guitar and vending machine format (they said it, not me) this quartet from Philadelphia produces a most unfunny kind of protest music with titles such as Brat in the Frat, RC's Mum, Sri Lanka Sex Hotel, and the pop music epic Smokin' Banana Peels. The Milkmen (who truly deserve to die) succeed in annoying the listener for a good forty minutes but achieve little else. A peculiar mixture of homogenous pap, talking and shouting (for emotional effect), flamenco protest music, discordant saxaphone, and, above all else, a weird sameness, form die major characteristics of this record. It isn't even a minor bit of fun. Ignore it. (I hope this band doesn't have a cult following or something...) J.W. ALIEN SEX FIEND Another Planet (Anagram) Another Planet is tedious. It consists of very slow, repetitive synthesizer riffs overlaid with uninteresting guitar squeals and repeated inane phrases. Another Planet lacks the vitality and the crazed disgusting humor that made previous ASF records at least listenable. This one is undanceable, and, for the most part, unlistenable. It is the kind of record made by a band who wants to break a contract with a label. Rob Slmms BENJAMIN LEW Nebka (Crammed Disc) According to the liner notes, Nebka is the name given to a dune formed by the wind around an obstacle in the desert. While the imagery is exact, Nebka evokes a plethora of moods befitting any number of literal or emotional landscapes. Pretty and slightly romantic, Nebka is the third LP featuring Belgian cocktail mixer Benjamin Lew's exquisite blend of rich and exotic atmospheres. The two previous LPs paired him with ex-Tuxedomoon founder Steven Brown, who has been living and working in Brussels for the last six years. The degree of continuity found in this record suggests that, despite my fondness of Brown's music, Benjamin Lew was the key figure in the previous collaborations. There is precious little background information available on Mr. Lew but one suspects he is steeped in the classical tradition with an affinity for the romantic. While his music is often infused with a subtle arabesque flavour, it remains distinctly European and not entirely out of keeping with much of what is going on in the Brussels music "scene" of the last few years. Not surprisingly, several members of that "scene" appear on this recording. Steven Brown plays clarinet on one track; Blaine Reininger, another Tuxedomoon alumni, plays violin: Crammed Disc founder Marc Hollander plays clarinet; Claudine Steenackers is the cellist, and the whole thing is engineered and "treated" by Gilles Martin, whose work on the previous Lew recordings and on Tuxedomoon's best European recordings has been nothing short of perfect. Seeing as Belgium has maintained colonies in Africa in the not too distant past, I suspect that, as in France, there has been a great deal of post-Empire influx of African and Middle Eastern culture. The ensuing melange of musical influences has had a remarkable effect on the sub-pop music circles and I would count this as one of the finest examples. In my mind, Benjamin Lew, Steven Brown, and Gilles Martin represent a collaborative whole that is thus far unsurpassed in this curious area of European atmospherics. I can't recommend this music highly enough. Mark Mushet EUGENE CHADBOURNE I've Been Everywhere (Fundamental) Ex-Shockabilly. This is the guy who connects guitar pickups to rakes, plungers, birdcages, skulls, etc., and then plays them like musical instruments. The resulting noise has marginal audience appeal (or if you prefer: the resulting music is an acquired taste). The silliness is toned down on Everywhere, revealing Chadbourne to be something of an avant-folk artist. He sings of white supremacists, "Don't worry about the South/Eat your bar-B-Q/And shut your mouth." This looks inane on paper, but on the record it comes juxtaposed with a woman telling of her experiences as a Jewish schoolgirl in proto-Nazi Germany. Another song mocks the heroism of the American military actions in the Persian Gulf (Oil Platform), and another warns of senile political leadership. Combine these with the psycho-bluegrass cover I've Been Everywhere and Chadbourne' s own It Takes Longer Saying 'Yes' Than Saying 'No' ("just one more letter, then you have met her") and Chadbourne starts sounding like a latter day Phil Ochs or a young Pete Seeger. Special guest appearance by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. JB Hohm DINOSAUR JR. Bug (SST Records) Bug, the third pretty wonderful album from Dinosaur Jr. yields a mighty sonic thump. This Amherst three piece delivers a devastating wall of guitars to bluntly contrast J. Mascio's tentative and tortured vocal delivery. The intentionally murky production only makes the overall effect even more captivating. Don't, the final cut, is an intense piece of insane mayhem which almost seems like an exorcism for Mascio. For once, this is something that really deserves to be played loud. Never before has noise been this honest, or this beautiful. Keith Parry ICE-T Power (Sire) "Yo man, that Ice-T is a bad motherfucker man," states Power, the follow-up to Rhyme Pays. The record has the razor-sharp matter-of-fact declaration pioneered on Colours that even non-rap listeners can understand with frightening clarity. Again, Ice-T is at his best when he embarks on tales of small time, would-be street smart hoodlums. In Drama, the message is very clear: don't do the stealing and doping if you can't take the maytagging. (Check out the documentary Scared Straight some time.) Power also contains what should become a pop hit, a remake of Curtis Mayfield's Pusherman, which offers music as a substitute for crack. It has accompanying vocals by crooner Pimpin Rex of the Royal Majesties. LGBNAF gets straight to the point without any unnecessary finesse. "That's what time it is," says Ice-T. Remember, "Gangs of LA. will never die, just multiply—you too can be killed." Rockin' Patrick FRONT 242 Front by Front (LP) (Nettwerk) Headhunter (12 Inch) (Wax Trax) The LP: I was really looking forward to Front 242's next release, but Front to Front disappoints. 16 DISCORDER As usual it has the multi-layered rhythms and sampled sounds, but the element of mystery which used to' make these Belgian artists' music interesting has almost been totally stamped out by a persistent and relendess beat. Yes, this album will get a lot of play at dance clubs (they even give a bpm rating for each cut), but it definitely does not stand up to previous Front 242 releases. The 12 inch: While the 12 inch version of Headhunter is just a spiced-up version of the LP mix, it is more listenable because it stands by itself— making it tolerable. The B-side contains a slighdy interesting track, which is basically just a sampled preacher backed by a rhythm—but only slighdy interesting because it is different from the rest of the songs. A. PI S. MOTORHEAD No Sleep At All (Viper Records) Lemmy is cool. His trademark, throat-cancer vocals, shred through the haze and thunder that is Motorhead live. Phil Campbell's bluesy fretwork is tasty as always. WiirzeFs screaming solos shine. Still, the guitars should have had more presence in the mix. There's litde production. Hallelujah! It actually sounds Uve! This energetic album was recorded in Finland at the Giants of Rock festival. It makes one want to party on Lemmy's head! However, you are better off buying No Remorse if you want live Motorhead. It contains better songs and a lot more of 'em! B:They're not cheering, they're shouting, "Speak clearly please Lemmy." G: Maybe we should all chip in and mail him a pack of Halls. Bruno Fruscalzo and Greg Yanke SUDDEN IMPACT Split Personality (Fringe Product) Sudden Impact are five Canadian young'uns with a future. They are a real BAND. Every member contributes. Lyrically, they tackle subjects including the inevitability of death, and the pressures of day-today life. This is a great hard-core band. Check it out. It gets ya hoppin'. B: Let's Mosh! G: O.K. Bruno Fruscalzo and Greg Yanke The Big Beatle Contest prizes ! i! COLLECTOR'S R.P.M. 1st. 1964 Limited edition Canvas Print of the Beatles 2nd. $25 - of Beatles records 3rd. Set of seven Beatle posters 4th. Beatles picture disk • • • Every entry receives an 8x11 picture of the early Beatles • • • QUESTIONS ??? 1. Who is the only left handed Beatle? 2. What beat club did the Beatles play at over 200 times? 3. What is the Beatles first #1 hit? 4. What year did John Lennon have his RollsRoyce painted psycodelic colours? 5. What was the name of the Charactor John Lennon played in "How I Won The War"? 6. True or false? The Beatles wrote "Twist and Shout"? 7. What is Ringo's real name? 8. Who wrote "Yesterday", "Let it be", and "Hey Jude" ? 9. What colour was the Beatles submarine? 10. What was the exact date of the beatles performance in Vancouver? 11. What was the exact date the Beatles performed a 24 country broadcast of "All you Need is Love" ? 12. What song did George write on the Beatle Mania Album? 13. What country's national anthem was used in a Beatles love song? 14. What in the Beatles opinion can't buy you love? Deadline for entries: Feb 20thl989 * To enter, fill out entry blank and drop of at Collectors R.P.M. 498 SEYMOUR ST. SOUL ASYLUM Hang Time (A&M) This album has been hanging around the station for quite some time and has somehow missed getting a review in spite of the fact that is is one of the better releases of the past year. This album is simply chock- full of necessary, raw, hurricane-styled raunch and roll. Yes, I realize that this could be pushing it a little bit, but you do have all of the rock and roll essential necessary to back up my adulatory claims in any court of law that cares to dispute them. Present is the prerequisite twin barrelled guitar attack, backed with the drum and bass that somehow find their way to the front when they are needed. Miraculously, Dave Priner's barroom smoke-cured voice pulls this chaos all together into ultimate party rock anthems like Sometime to Return, Cartoon, and Marionette. If you already like the Replacements or Husker Du, you have another great Minneapolis band to share with your family and the rest of the block. Michael Leduc ^yLt^xe^nX^. taasflg TH1E RIT RUB 8=30 pm .VOOam UBC SUB — _—d BLANK TAPE TAPES DUPLICATING ■ BLANK TAPE MANUFACTURER ■ CUSTOM LENGTH BLANK TAPES ■ C 10 to C 100 ■ CHROME + NORM ■ REAL TIME DUPLICATING ■ HIGH SPEED DUPLICATING ■ EVERY TAPE CUT TO LENGTH ■ NAKAMICHI 3 HEAD PRO DECKS ■ 1 100,000 + ■ ACCURATE OTARI LOADERS ■ PRINTING AND PACKAGING ■ DIGITAL MASTERING TAPE DUPLICATING CENTRE #109-2182 West 12th Ave., Vancouver (604) 734-4546 FEBRUARY 1989 17 THE BOOK $ COMIC EMPORIUM INTRODUCING NEW BOOKS BEST SELLERS 20% OFF WE ALSO HAVE VANCOUVER'S LARGEST SELECTION OF ALMOST NEW & USED PAPERBACKS & MAGAZINE BACK ISSUES. BUY • SELL - TRADE 1247 Granville St. - OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK BANDS I MAKE MOr ARUNGTOI CONTACT JOE 946-! HALL ALSO HEEDED JEY AT THE sl CABERET OR MARLENE P250 kvAILABLE ANGELS HAVE FUN ■ WHY NOT YOU? LADIES & GENTLEMENI John Fluevog cordially invites those currently having fun and strongly advises those that are having none to do one of the following: A/ Check out any of our 3 retail stores, B/ Send for our amazing free catalogue and C/ Visit some of the more daring retailers across the USA and beg to see John Fluevog shoes in their awesome reality. Don't delay . . . Fluevog Today! John tan; 852 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC V6J 1K3 (604) 688-2828 1611 First Avenue, Seattle, Wa. USA 98101 (206)441-1065 328 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. USA 02115 (617)266-1079 Tapc-a-Mania Wednesday February 15 th seems like a good day — to celebrate. So on the evening after Valentine's Day, CiTR FM 102, now broadcasting at 1800 watts, is overjoyed to present Tape-A-Mania II. Hey! Tape-A-Mania is a do-it-yourself cassette recording project where a local band, namely Sparky Magneto and the Ionic Alternators, fronted by the over-stimulated Paul McKenzie, will play live over the CiTR airwaves thereby giving you, the listener, an opportunity to record the broadcast without infringing upon anyone's copyright. All you have to do in radio land is acquire a blank 60-minute cassette, cut out cassette cover in this month's mo^k ALII tU H RECORDED LTVESVILLE AT C.I.T.R. FEBRUARY 15th 1989 HEAVY GROOVE ATTAINED IN BRAIN. 5. PUSHTN' TOO HARD. LOOKDJ' AT YOU. 7. FTRE ENGINE. . SPARKEY'S FREAK OUT 9. NO (DEAD) BODY. SPARKEY MAGNETO & THE IONIC ALTERNATORS WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE EARTH, THE SUN.AND THE APNOSPHERE.FOR WITHOUT JTHEIR HELP.WE'D ALL BE FLOATTN* ^. ••» SPRAAAAAAAAAACEr^ 0 1. PARTY TIME IS HERE AGIN". 2. SKY PILOT. 3. HURRICANE FIGHTER PLANE. 4. FLASHBACK. BOUND &ROUND .FREEZIN'fc SUFFCCATTN'AN EVERYTHTN:. G, <^Op> ^ n ^^^r*^*^*^*^*^*^**^^*^*!***^^*^ Discorder, tune into CiTR's 1800 (count 'em, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED) watt signal on February 15th at ten o'clock p.m., and prepare yourself for oncoming flabbergastation. Sparky Magneto and the Ionic Alternators will play two 25-minute sets so that you can make your own cassette album. Thank you and have a nice day. Here is your own juicy Sparky Magneto and the Ionic Alternators cassette cover to complete your do-it-yourself tape project. Good Luck! TIMELESS PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS ™E EYE SWALLOW BALL A CASSETTE RELEASE PARTY FOR SARCASTIC MANNEQUINS WITH THE SMUGGLERS AND SPECIAL GUESTS IDIOT SAVANT TIX AVAILABLE *4 NON MEM *2 MEM FEATVR1NG THAT - noMtSmMa- FlDT^FFtt 1A MUMS weiCOME JTK1 jr£jt> L<\ INFO 732-3246 LUX THEATRE 57 E HASTINGS MONDAYS THE JAZZ SHOW 9:30pm-12:30am(new time) Feb 6: Introducing a new trumpet star from Los Angeles, Clay Jenkins. His debut album called "Rings" features ex-Vancouver drummer John Nolan. A Jazz Show first! Feb 13: A brand new album by alto saxophone giant Phil Woods called "Little Big Band". The Woods' Quintet plus...with arrangements, compositions and great solos by Phil Woods and company. Feb 20: The music of Eberhard Weber combines electronics, romanticism, classical disciplines and jazz improvisation and is "mood music" of the best sort. The album is called "Little Movements". CX'vCX^L^-^b, Feb 27: "Somethin* Else" was Ornette Coleman's debut album. It shocked the jazz world at the time (1958). New concepts and new sounds were presented. It is also Ornette's only album that includes a piano. Relive this jazz classic tonight. Thanks gang and ever-suavely yours, Gavin Walker. TUESDAYS IN CONTEXT 3-4:00pm Feb 7: Karen Jamieson reiterates; the final concerts of the Discover Dance series. Eugene Chadbourne: music of the 21st century? Feb 14: Royal Winnipeg ballet, Digiitana, music performed by Beverly Johnson; Gerry Gilbert with FM102- CABLE102 7:30> 8:00' 9:00 10:00- 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 NEWS, SPORTS FEATURE REPORTS some "occasional" poetry. Feb 21: A.C.E.'s Terry Power, available studio space for artists; entertainment listings. Feb 28: Theatre & the Vancouver Playhouse TRANSFORMATIONS 4 5:00pm Feb 7: R. Murray Schafer - a legend in contemporary Canadian music. Feb 14: "Women who destroy men, and the men who love them..." A celebration of the Femme Fatale Feb 21: "I think, therefore I strategize" Perryscope's Susan Rosenberg Feb 28: New product from Nonesuch, Venture, Private Music WEDNESDAYS WAY TOO EARLY 8 10:00am Loud, nutritious rock V roll to start your day off right. Themes o' the week: Feb 1: Sex Feb 8: Love Feb 15: Happiness Feb 22: Depression BATTERSEA PARK GARDENS 101:00pm Tending towards the ambient, eclectic, electronic, and classical. Produced by Matt Richards. I THIRTY THREE AND A THIRD 3 5:00pm I Hosted by the delightful, spiteful Spike!! I Two hours of the Hottest Vancouver Music promoting Breakfast with the Browns' Soup de Jour Linus Lovelace Pest Control Way Too Early Batter sea Park Gardens Bird Droppings Better Hohn's & Garlicks Emma Peel Fan Club BBC WORLD REPORT CITR NEWS, SPORTS AND WEATHER — ARTS PROFILE 1. **% The Unheard Music Blood On The Saddle Transformation Spanish Show Spike Out Through the In Crowd Absolute Value of Noise NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER, GENERIC REVIEW, INSIGHT AND DAILY FEATURE Sports Digest Hot Pink The Jazz Show Environmental! Scatology Neon Meat Dream Swirlin' Vinyl Spin Aural Tentacles Spinsters More Dinosaurs The Knight After The Vinyl Frontier Top Of The Bops The Can-Con Job Tbe Radio Show Home Taping International Stomp On That Boppa-Tron Soup Stock From The Bones of the Elephant Man The Saturday Edge Are you Surrey Us Music? Power Chord * >■■* Deadly Doom Sat. Magazine Radio In frequency Tunes 'R'Us Generic Friend The Rockers Show The Blues and Soul Show Sun. Magazine Just Like Women/ Electronic Smoke Signals Playloud This Is Not A Test In The Grip Of Incoherency ARTIST LIME SPIDERS *0TERS0UL 7 ♦SONS OF FREEDOM PUBLIC ENEMY BEATNIGS WATERBOYS LEAD INTO GOLD ALIEN SEX FIEND COCTEAU TWINS NEW ORDER PRIMITIVES VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE RAPEMAN •GRUESOMES •THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS FISHBONE THE W0NDERSTUFF POP WILL EAT ITSELF JULIAN COPE STINKFIST HEAVENLY BODIES SONIC YOUTH FOETUS INTERRUPTUS ETTA JAMES ULTRA VIVID SCENE MOMUS SINGERS AND PLAYERS MINISTRY THE THREE I0HNS MUDHONEY JANES ADDICTION THE WOOD CHILDREN THE WOLFGANG PRESS YELLO THAT PETROL EMOTION LAIBACH HAPPY FLOWERS D-MOB FRONT*« TITLE VOLATILE OVERSOUL7 SONS OF FREEDOM IT TAKES A NATION OF... TELEVISION IS" FISHERMAN'S BLUES IDIOT It" BUN HOt BLUE BELL KNOLL FINE TIME ir WAY BEHIND ME It' LET IT BEE TWO NUNS AND A PACK MULE HEY! LOVE JUNK TRUTH AND SOUL ITS YER MONEY DEFCON ir MY NATION UNDERGROUND SON OF STINKFIST CELESTIAL DAYDREAM NATIONS THAW SEVEN YEAR ITCH S/T TENDER PERVERT VACUUM PUMPING LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY THE DEATH OF EVERYTHING SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF S/T THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY BIRD WOOD CAGE THE RACE ir END OF THE MILLENIUM LET IT BE I CRUSH BOZO WECALLITACIEED FRONT BY FRONT 20 DISCORDER Vancouver Musicians and Safe Sex (Yes, you read that right). This is your show, so lake advantage and send in your Demos and have them heard "ON THE AIR"!!! EXPERIMENTS 9:30-midnite (first Wednesday of the month) Live radio, experimental radio, 100% Canadian content radio. We attempt the impossible, an audio cross between Merry Melodies & Scrabble. Crew: Arthur Bent, Cruncher, and Stubbles. THURSDAYS NOVA EXPRESS 5:45-7:30am Elude the Orbital Mind Control Lasers by tuning in. Quasi-progressive music til 7:00, playlist and Can- Con til 7:30. No thrash, no metal. Hastily hosted by Chris Brayshaw. Phone him and talk. MOVING IMAGES 4:30-5:00pm Host Ken Maclntyre takes you on a journey through the silver screen's back-lot of life. Feb 2: Actress/Instructor June Whitaker Feb 9: Our choices for this year's Oscars Feb 16: Quebec director Francis Mankiewicz on his latest fUm, THE REVOLVING DOORS Feb 23: Confessions of a film critic, with Alex Grant FRIDAYS NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 2:30-3:00pm Pain is red. Jesus bled. Feb 17: Meet Roger Ramjet, a true "tool." THE ORIGINAL RADIO SHOW 5:30-6:00pm Play it safe and listen in before you go out. A comprehensive look at the Vancouver theatre scene. Hosts: Andrea Lupini and Keith Damsel! SOUP STOCK FROM THE BONES OF THE ELEPHANT MAN 12:30-3:30am 3 hours of the latest in independent music from around the world ranging from spoken word to hardcore and club music. Label features and selections from new releases each week, as well as interviews. Host: Lloyd Uliana. 3D RADIO 3:308:00am With Matthew and the Gang Late nite radio in Vancouver has got to be some of the dullest there is in North Amerikaka. This has now changed, for 3D Radio has taken over the night time airwaves...turn on and tune in to the hottest/coolest few hours you can spend legally for free. SUNDAYS ELECTRONIC SMOKE SIGNALS 6:30 9:00pm Feb 12: Our Common Future. What does it mean? Help us with your contributions. Feb 26: Surprising futures. How will Mother Earth look in the year 2050? See this issue for more on participation in our common future: April 1, 2050. PLAYLOUD 9-midnite Not a radio show - an infestation. You don't hear it - you're afflicted with it. Aural surgery by Larry Thiessen. HALF- PRCS SALBfZ SatuAdatj, t~e6. ttih Club evnet Ae-w&c. t2"Dcwct Sinqtto , CPJx J2u?^a cmcL LP!c ONE PAY ONLY DON'T MISS IT \ 2=134 W€ci 4-f{% Are. ^Sb-BSSb r (^^ Spirit of the West Stephen Fearing & Friends Clive Gregson & Christine Collister Koy Forbes, Shari Ulrieh & Hill Henderson African Heritage Arrows to Freedom Mango Dub Eileen McGann John McLachlan & Canadian Sky Natural Elements The No Frills Stringband No Mean Feet The Nyetz Shaman Society Singers The Sunday Umbrella Band The UBC Chinese Music bnsemble The Vancouver Folk Song Society The Vancouver Morris Men Sam We is Francis Xavier Takeo Yamashiro and more... Thursday FEBRUARY 9th to Sunday FEBRUARY 12th I VTEcTCT 11895 V,„abl« Si! I 234.9578 J Vancouver East Cultural Centre & The W.I.S.E. Club U.S.E. Club] Adanac St. 54-5858 J FEBRUARY 1989 21 COASTAL JAZZ Presents The Uttie Eddie Chttterbox Tow $uitar, electric rake, birdcage, plunger, banjo, performance, music, pretest, laughs. Sunday Feb. 12 • 8 pm WATERFRONT THEATRE GramUle Island Mnnce Tickets: Jleketmester/YTC, Beck Swan Reeeras, HieM'th Reeeras. Charge by Pheae: 280-4444 Jaa HaHhas U10706 o < 3 EFRP Pouring rain and an omnipresent yeasty smell halfway between bread and beer welcomed us to Edinburgh. Scotland, that is. Now, after a few days of casde spelunking and crag climbing we're off to see what the music is like in this city of the arts. We're sitting in the Pub of the domed Student Centre building at the University of Edinburgh. A three hour period punctuated by the antics of a group of lager louts with rococo haircuts (the haircuts being the only thing distinguishing them from the common run of lager lout), a few spirited games of 2-pence tabletop football, and Louis Armstrong and Pogues songs on the ridiculously expensive jukebox, makes the consumption of many pints of McEwan's 80 shilling Extra Heavy Intoxicant almost a necessity. Three Belgian bands are to play upstairs later. Crunching thud wails emanate from above as the final sound check reaches a conclusion. The doors open at 8 pm. At this point I have no idea what the names of the bands may be, but judging 22 DISCORDER by the crowd (which rapidly thins as its members wander off to snort, inject, inhale and imbibe) it may be something along the lines of Exploding Underwear Fuckers. From Hell. With aBelgian accent. And another pint of McEwans. It's a couple hours later and we've relocated to a student pub amile away. Before us sits Stewart, the ageless, gap-toothed, self-professed alcoholic who harbours an inexplicable fascination for Incan culture, and who is currently trying to convince me that I am the illegitimate son of Benny Hill. Were there a dance floor and deafening pop, this might be the UBC Pit. Occasional Cramps t-shirts bump into clean shaven pinstripes. But there seems to be something different here. There is the clamour of purposeful conversation. Neither booze amplified manifestos nor quiet tea room discourse is the rule, but they both can be found in the comers. Most people, however, are sitting or standing sardine-like engaging in relatively meaningful discourse. It's a momentary joy even if the accents are impenetrable. Then back we boozily blunder, pell-mell, to the Student Centre. The pub has transformed. It's packed with a crowd divided more or less into thirds - the dangerously inebriated punks with their rainbow mohawks, the goths (cobweb and lace Vampirellas and their Br am Stoker beaus), and the generic black-fixated observers affecting an air of exquisite indifference. All of whom are quite willing to talk to the Canadian with the silly accent. Bands here, it seems, are nearly without hope for exposure. Only three small venues were mentioned by more than one person - The Student Centre, The Venue, and Shady Lady's. The gatherings and bookings are handled by several 'councils', the members of which are about 2 students per 5 members. I talked to the head of the council that arranged for the bands to crunch upstairs and for the coal- black cabaret to grind away below. While he expressed some regret that the lack of venues and the monopoly of BBC radio renders most local bands stillborn, his emphasis, and presumably that of his council, leans more to the importation of foreign bands, to gatherings cum fashion shows cum discos, and to a love-hate relationship with the growing designer drug Acid House scene that has started to blearily stagger out of London. Acid House was described in M8, the Scottish style mag, as "Voodoo Chile eventually climaxing in a frantic, sweaty homage to the Laser Gods to the strains of Orff's Carmina Burana." Which may explain to some extent our black-clad friends' ambivalence - it's difficult to sweat and be sombre simultaneously. Upstairs in a room about the size of two Railway Clubs (NOT laid end to end) the Belgians are reaching a crescendo. The soundman scrawls the names of the three bands in phonetics on a napkin which is promptly lost. Judging by the reactions of the semicircle of observers - there's no other word for them - sitting cross- legged on the floor, the names are unimportant. The final, current band is letting fly with a well polished sound similar to the Sons of Freedom. Given the Sons' (hip abbreviation) 8 out of 10 and glowing review in the November NME, a similar sound should have the crowd rabid. Not a muscle in the pack stirs except for the gentlemen playing the pinball and inescapable slot machines at the back. Such a reaction may be de rigeur for the talentless speed-thud of the Drunken Buttheads (or the Belgian equivalent) whose sound check we overheard, but this sustained lack of interest mystifies me. The last two bands were good, damn it, even if lager and dark rum have warped my perceptions a tad. The shuffle floor downstairs was sombre and a bit sweaty but this upper room is sepulchral and dry as a bone. Are these people so conditioned to RADIO that an honest-to-god real live band is intimidating? Has Edinburgh's much vaunted drug scene taken its toll? Do they hate Belgians? I don't know. I'm going to hunt down Stewart and explain to him why I don't look like Benny Hill. Christopher Kovacs CAFE 829 Granville Street, Telephone: (604) 684-8900 (ACROSS FROM CAPITOL 6 CINEMAS) Bring Your Date and Get a Free Drink On The House Valentines Day! ALL AGES at Saturday, February 4th DAYGLO ABORTIONS Tix: $8 at the door Saturday, February 25th NOAEAN6NO Tix: $7 at the door fA 652 Columbia St. New Westminster 526-8675 fill figes Doors at 8pm
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Publisher | Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia |
Date Issued | 1989-02-01 |
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Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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