The Me Gill Tribune
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Published by the Student’s Society of McGill University
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Vol. 2 No. 20, Tuesday, February 15, 1983.
Harlequin at M cGill by Dan Pope and Joanne Bayly One o f C anada’s m ost im pressive ro c k b a n d s is c o m in g to M c G ill. S portin g such hits as “In nocen ce” and “T hinking o f Y ou”, Harlequin will play in the U nion Ballroom Saturday night, February 19th. This interview was conducted over the phone with the band’s keyboard player, Gary 'Golden, at his hotel suite in T oronto. H o w d o y o u lik e M o n tr e a l? M ontreaH s just f a n ta s tic . W e’ve played
at Loyola, Club M ontréal— the response was great everywhere we went. W h a t a re y o u r m u s ic a l in flu e n c e s ?
E verybody is sort o f influenced by everything they hear, w hether they know it or not. Everybody in this band has played all different kinds o f music. P ersonally, for me, it’s been Y e s , and groups like T h e B a n d ...e v e n Beethoven— everything in b etw een — D a n H ic k s a n d H is H o t L ic k s , Frank Zappa. W h a t w a s y o u r f a v o r ite g r o u p a s a k id ? W ell, o f course it was alw ays T h e B e a tle s w hen I was grow ing up. And Yes
really turned my mind around in terms o f thinking what I wanted to write. D id y o u r e c e n tly to u r w ith P a t B en a ta r?
W ell, w e didn’t tour— we just warmed her up at The Forum . A nd that was a lot
o f fun. I’ve often heard what a dynam ite perform er she is live, and we were really thrilled to do it at The Foru.m, having had just a great reception about a weekan d-a-h alf before with April W ine. W e’re on tour now starting in Cornw all and then all through Southern Ontario. W h a t d o y o u t h in k o f p u n k b a n d s — lik e
The Plasm atics, f o r e x a m p le ? The newer m usic has g ood points to it. M ost o f the new w avejust seem s to b e . . . how can I say this politely? . . . ah, it’s really old hat with new production. It was so basic it went right back to the roots. H ow ever, it has been reborn with the advent o f E uro-pop and d isco influences, plus the old R ock that the new w ave and punk bands are starting to bring out, and it’s sort o f m elding into a really nice m usic for the eighties. D o e s H arlequin w r ite th e ir m a te r ia l? W ell, everybody throws in their ideas. H arlequin is q u ite p o p u la r th e s e d a y s. D o y o u th i n k y o u ’re g o in g to e x p lo d e soon?
Oh yeah. N ext week. D o y o u h a v e a n e w a lb u m c o m in g o u t?
S oon . We h aven ’t really set a date for s ta r tin g r e c o r d in g , b u t th e m a in songwriters in the band have been writing for the past five m onths while
w e’ve been on the road— that’s when we all get our w riting d o n e— and I’d im agine w ithin the n ext tw o or three m onths w e’ll be getting dow n to it. H a s H arlequin b e e n h u r t a t a ll b y th e to u g h s h a p e th a t th e r e c o r d c o m p a n ie s a re in th e s e d a y s?
W ell, it’s hurt everybody a little bit. W e’re still popular— our third album
w ent platinum just recently and it’s continuing to sell. The third single has been released— it’s called “ Heart G one C old”— and w e’ll be playing that at M cGill o f course. D o y o u se e H arlequin a s p e r h a p s r e p r e s e n ta tiv e in s ty le o f th e “C a n a d ia n ” s o u n d to d a y ?
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Trib Columnists Attacked Baker and Timmy Beaten in Brutal Encounter by Neil Tolchinsky
Artist’s Rendering of crime scenario
A H einous Crime
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C onflicting reports leave, obscured by an air o f m ystery, at press tim e, d e tails o f the reported attack late last night on tw o M cG ill student journalists and the ensuing theft o f d ocum ents claim ed to be basic evidence supporting a sche duled “ex p o sé” dealing with the “true behind-the-scene workings o f the M cGill D aily and it’s s t a ff ’. It has been substantiated, however, that M el Tim m y, w ho carried the brief case allegedly containing “evidence” concerning the “ex p o sé”, and his guard, A ce Baker, syndicated colum nist for the G hetto G azette, were attacked by three thugs as they attem pted to cross the lane, betw een the U nion and Bronfm an Buildings, shortly before 10:15 last night while en route from T rib u n e editorial offices in the U nion to the T r ib u n e prin ters, with copy relating to what is offi cially described as “the M cGill D aily
E xp osé”. The attackers had made their getaw ay with copy and supporting evi dence, and had left Tim m y and Baker in need o f m edical attention before police aid could be sum m oned. W hen interviewed at Gertrudes later last night colum nist Baker had reco vered sufficiently to provide Ghetto G azette artist Tom D o n n elly with de tails for the accom panying sketch to confirm that the 3 attackers had “either been m asked or had som eh ow shielded their faces— I can’t rem em ber” so as to render subsequent identification im pos sible. A circle o f M cGill undergraduates had gathered about the prone figures o f Baker and Tim m y within m om ents o f the alleged attack but not before the trio was out o f sight. T im m y, to o , was necessarily vague in details relating to the attack, but re called, while being beaten about the
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