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O.K. presenting this month's unknowns, ladies and gents please . qiVe a Wag.m WeLCOme tO....ACk-ACk. The group are based in various areas that surround Kingstoflr the hearty London suburb that spawned both Sham & The members, and the fine-up is: r Mark Wif tisIIIS: - VocaIs L uk e Con'ber ' - Head Guitar Mick Foley; - RhYthm Guitar Steve JaYmâ‚Źs: - Bass Stuart Russell' - Drums Mark and. MiciE hrave been playing around in groups for over two years, but the group has only really cone together since Feb-
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straaightforrard enough chorus line. The b-side is an instnrmental that takes off at the very encl, but it rea11y does take off - gre&t guitar riff. An ok single. I want to nake a general conrnent to/on Rough T::ade here - 1n the o1d days of a year ago, they were releasing about 2 singles a nonth, but each r,ras a classic and aeknowledgecl as srmh, eg Alternative Ulster, Arnbitlon, Fb,i:a Tale trn A Supermarket, right up to the SI,F and Swe11 l,taps LP's. Nowadays they have noney,^help b.nds and release naytr- 2 singles a week. The quality is suffering only slightly, brut rnore irnportant, coinpa,r' ^ the publicity surrountling those aforeme ntioned relbases to that su:reoundingr s4Xr this, The Packrs new single, The I ast lJords and the'Red Clayola. See what I nean? (Was a1-1, that necessary?) AJOIE; l4ax Bygraves
Killed
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SWETL MAFS:
Real Shocks;
Read"
About Seynour (Uottr Rough Trade)
First off is the l{aps' new single Real Shocks a a rough and read.y piece, and. pretty gocd short and to the poi-nt. No nore than very good though. The b-side features two of their ancient bedroom t::acks, English Verse belng ror-rghly in the nould of Steven Does, and Monologues is an out'of tui're, c/w piece" Sometimes all this gets beyond" a joke" And where do Ror.igh Trade go for their pressing? Next up is a. reissue of their debut single Read About Seymour, 1.27 of chaos, and I li-ke it. The b-side is i) Ripped And Torn a great piece of Status Quo type guitar with sone good vocals (and they 're not Nikki ) , and i-i ) Bhck Velvet, rnore ror:gh stuff and not as god . I sti1l f ind Swel-l l4aps ::ather overited, but neverbheless o at times they can be just what the doct or ord.ered STEPPING
TALK: EP (Eustone):
Peel gave thls'a slagging for being hlppyish, which 1s bollocks just '6os it's got a female singr, it's st1l1 great. Alice In Su:rderland. is the ma,in trac'k, and the highlight, i-t's got a good tune as well as interesting instruments. Health And Safety 1s next up and agaln excellent can't hear the lyrics, but an3rway. . . by Comon Problens it f s obvious that they've been li-stenj-ng to Scritti Politti, and again you've got the saxophone, tinny guitar, reggae-bass, and rnale spr:ken voice underneath female singing voice. The ]ast tm.ck, Johrn's Turtles n does border on the psychedelic, and would be b e tter off completely off. Even so this is a great way of ending our reviews only 90p for 12 mi.nutes god music ou,t, of L5, and one of the nost essential purchases on this page DOOR AND
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Well this is a st::ange affair - two pe gple making regularly (Z nf rs and a cassette alburn in J monthb) and cheaply (tZ ninutes nusic for 55p). A11 that's left now is for them to make sone bood. music'. Not that all this is bad it seems to grow on you, and I haven't had thsi for more than 3 hoursr so it'}l probably grow a lot more. The tracks (fairfy good.) , Production ("ury god ) , , He' Feels L,ike A Doris (aver?rge ) lry - ltg I Llke Sound (btd ) and Innocent (ave:la6e ) . None of the J L**"eks are what you night call normal, but it's eertainly worbh checliing oul. record.s
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stuff floating *"outtd. Orto the retord tasieally it's a hunouious effort, anct arnzingly good. Catchy tune, well-p1ayect, very enjoyable, with a maryellously tad bit of lilax hinself at the end. The otnlr siAe; Beatlejacket, i-s even better - about 5 ninutes 1or:g, but never boring. One of this issu'e's better releases - a superb single' and I'd like to see
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ULTIMATE INTERVIEW THINK OF THE I/'IAY IT'S TURNED our - THE STTUATION NO}-I fiHEM;YOU NEGUI,ANTY HAVE 3 NEW-WAVE INFIUENCE D BANI6 IN TFE TOF
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Alright, so it 's only a year since the last one, but a lot's happened to The Jani si-nce then - they've trisen from the dead t (as the weeklj-es r^rould. ha,ve yoLl know ) , had. four hit singles, a silver album, tcured-
round the world., been hel-d. respcnsible f or a mod revival, and alongside The Clash ) have established themselves as the most popular of the vangr,ranl of new-wave groups still going. Obviously, attitudes have changed, and. there are new things tc ask. Also, there 's rarely , if ever', been an ,
inte:rriew with the three together, something we've tsort of ' remed.ied.Ad.d to ttlat the fact that we 've d el iberately kept The Jam out of' Janming as ,nuch as we could. jrn nos 6 r7 & B ( it was your vctes that won them the pol1 in issue 7), and that only a quar"b€T r at the ' most , of the pe ople reading this read, the last one, we felt it was time to go back and Ciscuss the changes. Also, to try and get an exclusi-ve on the al.bun, but that's something it's never easy for fanzines to get, by the time they've gcne to print. The lnts:rriew was done during a latesunmer of nad-ness in Virgin's plushr new
Town House stud ios (used. by' both The Rtits &, XTC for their new reeord.s ). Certain things about the reeording lre '11 never f orget, eg FauI & Rick's addictlon to Sp,ce Invad.ers (ea,n I be the first tc say I reckon it's
ripped off the last episode of 3lakes 7?), Fmce and. Paul's addiction to pool , Rick's aaaiction to Ivlayfair (sorry about that Rick: ), football matches a,gainst the NME, endless cups of eoffee, constant one-liners f:ien Rick & Brucer o€ither ever wi]ling to let the other have the last line, and. lots
more nemories besid.es . At The inte:rriew is, in fact , 2 interviews ,I d.one over a gap of 4 days : * the f irst was t with all 3, Bruce being in a terrible rtocd, and. the intenriew getting nowhere fast, be fore we got some decent answers, and then the jokes started coming, end.ing up nith I Bnrce being in a great mood" all ,day; the ZnP was a (slightly) more serious affair, with just Rick & Paul , Biving a good balance . Doubtless you think we've said- enough, so here goes with the f irst inte:rriew ioi
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Rick: f think it's good, it's great. Paul: Tt depends who you I re talking reallX.
about
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. ..WE;I,L AtIhI TITIIIY JT]ST. PTNT]NG c)TJT STIIFF ,COS TI{EY K}lohr IE0?1,8 l^lILL BLIr rT? SM.ASH HITS & T}LAT LO[. . . TT{E BANM W}iO GET TN AHE T}M TYFE T}IAT APPEAT TO LITTTE KTDS. . . .
Paul: 3ut you've got The Clash in there, and.' r wouldn't think The clash come under that. Rlck: f don't think rhe Buzzcocks do either. Faul: But you tve got to think like. . . how' ilany real bands get in the Top 10? The Boom.
town Rats don tt count r or Costello r or Durlrit's good when bands l1ke The UK Subs and The Ruts get in there. . . . Punk has taken off on a real nationwide level now. And in a sense, it ts 2 years too late. But it ts r still good - at least somethingts going on. BIN ] ("IC ) H}CKC,N IT 'S BEING WATEMD DOWN F'NR T}fr SMASH HTTS MARKET - TI{E STUFF THAT GETS ]N THE CHART T}TAT IS " Rick: r knohr what you mean" you mean the word t punlo t has gr:t a broad.er meaning on
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Paul: Well it's acceptable lnnit? YEAH IT IS . BTN YOU WCITILDN IT GET BANM trKE Tm PACK IN THERE, WHO AnE LIKE lT SHOIILD }IAVE BEEN
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think people like The Rats, Sham and. Costello ha,ve that acceptable rneaning. Rick I T think there are band.s though that tve'got been influenced. by saying "It{e get tc radio airplay" arnd then bringing out a single that would" appeal to those
Paul I Tf people feel the neeC to be stigmatised. to one thing, then it's their fault, not ours. All our sCIngs are ahcut ind ividr:als, like, I don 't see why people have to be pr.rrks or mods or anythins, Wel-1 ?t q{ I do - on a superf icial lesel it ns g*ad ta -[r have a bi-t of culture , but ultirnately i-t 's fucking boring, when it comes down tc fighting or anything. .I mean, lthen ycu wontt got to see a band 'cos they ain't Hr- punks or threy ain't mods r that's just
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fucking mhbish.
T}M I{EW-I/'IAVE }IAS ACHIEVE ANYTHTNG }{If,N YNU lVE STITL GOT HITS BETNG MAIM ON T}M BAS IS NF THE BBC PLAYL]ST? 3 ,t Paul; Well I think, &s I said , the main The like thlng it 's achieved. is that band.s Upstarbs and The Subs * regard.less of r^rhether you like tt em or nct a there 's no. way they would. ever have got in the charts -tr
THEN WOULD YOU SAY
DO YOU AECKON }EOPI,E CAN CHANC'E }'fiilH TO MOD SUCCESSTULLY?
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Paul.: Basically, all you need is just a white laced hanki-e, which you tuck under your cuff ; and you get it out now and again and. dab your f orehead.: : I (lnte:rriew colJapses into lar:ghter) Paul: That 's about it - that 's all you need. It t s quite an lnexpensive fad. really. CAN WE JUST }IAVE THAT BIT A3OIff SOUINE AGAIN
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The .Phone/Thick As .Thieves/prirrate Hell/tittle Boy Soldiers/tvteet Me 0n The Wastelands s ky/s nithe rs -J one s/satur.r"ays Kids /Et on h ifl */H"ri*..ru "Parb 1 is rRore usuai pop*styie Jam, and.n A year l;i.'ter, aird. tl,;spite lhe nasy little rr, thgn into Parb . Gl,I t, dr 2 with n I UII d, a f.L J9I-UC ieree und ert-ying UlfU-gI'Jyang l<x_ _. .q \ { :r,1 ennoyarlceit thert have cccured in the making fl *6.f guitar riff , timoanis and Bn:ce tring to cf this LP, The Jan have oome out "with possit ;f; Sl p1ay 'cello . The re sul-t of this , of .6rr"** , ibly the f inest piece of f-2" vinyl ever. is a vpry military sornd, all red ti,rnics Ii t:Il ::l medals (private joke ). Superb. parL j is & This review is likely tc bc very biased &, i : very over-the-to1r, but i^ie 1re a.l-l &ntitled. -Z Y sc I delibem,tely psychedelic r &n obvicus (and to our favpr:rite groups, an,1 when they ccne , iigl adnlttec) rip*cff cf the lst pink Ftoyrt Lp" o,"rt with a.n albun like this, there ts no ,way * g ? 6l (what's this with denying being psychecel* you can sit back and be th,:oretical . H ad ;J ic?). The effect is eery and gr*it. unfort,You inay have hearC a bit about concepts t Y 3Sl ol"tely, Faul ruins any chance of decent airplay by putting in an obvious 'fuckingn. on this LP, so let's get the whole rCea of ,i t'o z :ldl The song f]-icks back to the parb one tune thult dealt 'lith now:- The general theme of IJI the albr"un is about 3 sons (hence the pun in I j ' ;, 1 bef ore gcing into e magnlf icent end ing with the LP ti"t,le) whc, in a civil war, ,each go i g ,t^3 I piano ar.C aLl . Sid"e rJ r-\Iv rtheir own ways, and- this record follows closes,e like 1 ur_Ubsb JJr{e &II A]t floct Mod {.rOnS Cons,, W1I 6 j; :il O with :, ll o an emotional, atmor:pheric song Meet Me thein. Hoiqever, it t s innpor*,ant not to attach ?J d tln rhe Wastelands. ft too rnuch importance to this therne - the g]: il or The wastelands. rt ns yery melod.ic melori.ic and 9*: ol smoothl songs are all songs tn their own right, & and wi1l unCorjbbedly be a, lot of ,F E , there's no way they were written to supple People " i sB i :1y:l*::* nent the cthers, as :-n Tommy or Quad"rophenia Burning Sky o t, he opener "bo s ide ?*, 3 i :," I is really So get that out of your heaC now, s a ypify ong bo t Lhe atb,rr!, in - ; A lJ that r The strengbh of the al bun rl-es :-n the it has all 'the c}:aracLeristics of the f f $ drl the things they've oEners, Great stul't'. stuf f . smithers-Joi:Ies the bi i; llil others, w fact t-het it take,: ;li few subtle* like " years orchest:m.l version f ollows, anrl obvioirsllast ,t : i'.1 ' gained over the conbined thenr though it's not golnâ&#x201A;Ź to get you leaping ani y!*^Fl x, intelligence fy and ' been seen from then d"gf I 311r oY?t th? p]-ace, lt dces {it lnto the r^rith !"t-i ti:al hrasn't No way are The llorlcl. The 8,,]'*; I LP s idea of militaryness (f ) , old -fashionsince AlfA="*r* are threy back' laying leaning off and fg ;:l;-;3;.?3,r;:*orlan ronanticisrn. Enoush "Tarn {s starts orr wittr Satuniay,s Kids is the popp_y sons, râ&#x201A;Źff g 9l *"o"iscent ""il;?:#::rSr}lT;:";in* of rt'? Too Bad etr:, with a great oneofthebigge=t""v*'rock'n,ro}lclichds on from the poor g iI II chorus line and instant appeal " rf rhe Jan "ri E= * the felephone" Following f ound a b,a pointero but t_o go corTunerciat, this wouli 'be ,T \ ,: *r l*** see $an, it seelns iiit* fol}It's gr**l' stil1 the song its*rr is H gl ln* best track on *1,;.1:'i:liu*l',:T"iit3"u po*uilfy is whrat by oi^redAlthough Thieves pop-art ' h. endins. fil;k -lof Pj" {:l the Lp alreacLy Then the cl-osing tm,ck - "3. suprise all f when You're Young j.fi, tr | '3 q"*' the chorus line "i;; wit'h a ' nelody .. I round. +l round. Most of th; *".hp olrlies nl d i rrs, Thp and-, Most of -Tr n rrrra-i 9':,r The Jan used Lc pure f I ii**t the song ie lyrics' as well' fu have (5 atrearty vinyt line"u"a-greal bass : f I ry,il:rn : 1i",* ieen soaring Priwritten ot}rers, to precise b.e telently Lut i '{? Heatwave has i ,1. I ), Next up is the *oul s *"""Lu* lies in it 's lg j :; I al-ways been the most *brr-known, ani yet vate He ll'" Again ' it ' never seen vinyl . At the last minute they 've er"" the l: a ] f I a*cided to inc1ude it, and ?OWer **?:3"?; the iday it's I+iltl*,P:{ ; I ffi i tl '." -" rhe 4th sons, -.6,'- I cone out is indescrlbabre'* knocks the shit lt yog ;"'l;; i,.?";;l * :-T::s,-,H*3 for besr sons. lY !'Vel out of rnost othre stuff they've evr dcne, ;ontender ". H?;.:";ffi'il; self*composed stuff ine lud ed. rt rffi,ces k.l|ry along at 100 mph without the slightest }:int of clumsiness, anc the piano is ananing. rtts a classic end.ing to a classic recom., you just have to hear it. Sefare slosing* r do want to point out a ather ignored" fact ahout ?he Jarn, and that is the imporbanee of prod.ucer vic srnith. Besides the fact that he*b a great producer anSn'rai, he ts a)-ways rnaklng useful- sugg.estions and. is a vital Xmr* of The Jam's suceess. So tlrat os it* &n inte::niew and a review of what r consi-der the best album ever. The On
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I joined Pennine Radio, the commercial radio station covering the Br.adford and Leeds area, for the rnonth of June this year, hopirrg to gp.in practical experience to supplement the course ilm taking in ned ia and conmunications. The experienees r had. there explained quite a lot about the deficienei-es of both the Briti.sh m.dio and the ,rock b-usiness.in general ....' I starbed my senrice in the newsroom, & it was immediately obrvtous that the people there we;'e the yomgest on the staff , the DJs being nainly mid.d"1e-aged . The place was littereC with teleprinter news-bulletlns from the I3A in Lond.on n and. the occasional record.; I noticed a disco L2" r' as well as Anita Ward's new albun. I said what a pity it was that so many fine soul artists felt the need, to go d.isco r and got a response I night have expected had I expressed ad.miration for the Yorkshire Rlpper. Disco, I was tersely' informed , was a very happy nusic (tfris justif ied everybhing ) , and I 'd better get used to it because it would be the donirrant trend. for the nexb few years. Viv l{ackeson, one of the nefis staf f , kindly suggested that I vlsit a club in Leeds which I was told would get me out of ny 'Bob Dylan Synd.romet. This, I believe, was a reference to Iny suggestion tha't music was usually better wheh the lyrics had. some meaniilB, either socio-pblitiialr or emotional. . The tme depth of the Pennine presenters interest in contemporary musio was revealed by thpir remarks on the ai,r. One Top 10 single was introd.uced as 'police' by 'Roxanne t; the b-side of the Buzzcock's llarmony In My Head. was played on the ckuir:l; .;how without the DI apparentl-y realising his nistake; and the Banshees i 'Playground Twist'
wered., "but we-rre not really in' your age group". The station's.interested output, he told il€, was aimed at 25-45 f€&r-olds, because they were the ones who slnnt nostnoney, and were therefore the ones the ad.vertisers were interested in. End of
argument.
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the dissappointed conment nThat's nothing like a twist" 'and the jocks' reniniscences on d.ancing in the sixties. The nistakes were frequent and ranged fron ihe offensive to the arnusir€ t the ,inadverbently played. Bttzzcocks' track was entitlerL 'Something Goes Wrong Again'. l,Iidr.+ay thror.6h my stay I politery suggested tJ trre progxairne ' controller. :eh€ Jeff H L'lston . that his Imowledge
of the latest
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became pred.ictable.
the compilers play pil,'s 'Death Disco' for all of 20 seconds before deeid ing it was totally unfit for airplay. The Ruts 'BabI: lon ts Burnlng' was brought in as a new release, and the 6ame man told me ttuit it was "...terrible. ft sound"s rrgly.r'f net some of the presenters, and was hardly suprised to find tha! none of them even remotely lived up to thdir on-the-air inages. Brian McSharry is the morning h ousewive 's DJ; on 'the air he's alnost lndistiirguishable from Terry wogan; off the air his favourite words are shorb and Anglo-saxon. JuLius K. scragg is probably Pennine's star presenter- his broadcasting manner is the epitome of happy nindl-essness, all .,1:o11ity f or the kid.d.ies. when he's being himself , he's an oddly rleurotic cha::acter with a d lsturbrngly psychotic stare. When I suggested. he didn't take music. serlously enough, he snapped. angrily "r take music very seriously - probably more seriously than you. There 's a lot of money involved in it". Pennine had one 2tor:r roek
was followed by
staff''s
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was moved to the presenter's roon; where the DJ shows are prepared, and heard one of
,
sounds lacked
sonething. He agreed, but said, "They're not . DJs, they're presenters", and. went on to €xplain that a knowledge of local events and affairs was at least as impor-tant as a knowledge in what he persisted in calling 'pop music'. Fair enough; I changed. my tact and asked, why Dew-w&v€, despite it's ever-increasing fopularity, was largely ignored outsidP $he chart gulrdowlts. At this Winston becane fEiirtfy ernna:la,ssed. - "No offenc€,' ,. he &rlsans-
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show a week, concentrating on heavy rnetal and basic punk - more subt le music was 'difficult to programlne ' . Scragg felt that two hours was too much; he. inf ormed. me that rock was dying - "Rock talks to itself'. You may be wondering what all this hes . to do with you; after all, Pennine Radio only covers a rel-atively snal1 area. But even if you tre lucky enorrgh never to have heard Penni-ne, the chances are that there's a commercial stati-on near you with the sane philosophy; another br-rnch of business people sellirl€; music, any music that isn't at ail disturbing or thor:ght-provoki-ng. 0r as viv Itlackeson said - "A pleasant beat in the background." . In Ameiica, all md io is coilrrercial, and a quick glance at their charts will give you an icLea of the long-tenn effects of that. The safe , clean nuzak supplied W Pennine, Capital, and the rest is, as they would say "happy music". To be more precise, it ts happy, consumer muslc; nusic to keep buying and stop think. ihg by, which isn't unexpected when you reali-se that , in the end , it 's the aivertisers who d.ecid.e what gets broad.cast. And. they have all the hits to play, to keep you in yorrr place ' all day.
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It doesn't go that far, fortrrnately,-but the nusic stiIl doesn't live up to the id-eal... The G1+xo Babies start the ball rolling with It rs Irr:atiore1, a tm.ck fron their Peel session.'New wavets wierrler, nore promising side. The Europeans a.re al.larently
:. "" proud to be on tlte san€, label a.r: Tl:€ Korgi.s' bare essentiaru -or rockfn rro11, without anvv and The Planets. I think that says enough. of the frills that The Prinate Dicks eontribute a stmiglrtj,st walkea-;,;;;;J;: ff.Tjl-"T fonmrd. potrl- brack, Green Is In The B*d, Althorrgh some *oira"-ritt tr*fi" rroro it whleh grows on you' an d end-s up a hit' in should be, it meant "rii'atmosftereless, my rnirid anyway. lloskow then cone along with cold perfozmance, "n
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Ca*nmf VOtTAfnE; IvIix_Up (Rough Trade ) : The debut albun frnom a group rve I
never
overliked, and this aLbun
d;i&iy that a mixture of good. anA """ifies bad. . didn,t- knowr Cabaret"Voltai;;; f," if you outfit frol Sheffield who d.ress wierd " 3_pi""" and like__exprirnentl"J electronic knobs. "itf, is ; ;;;fi; tedious Kurlian. photog::aph affair - Iots ofe6noi twisted. vocals and. d.nrn machines. hetty irelevarri. i'rt immed._ Ptgiy the Lp goes iirt" it ,s best track No Escaln. Thia, like N"e N"€ G, is one o of the s=o:{: _ a pretty 3oppr lumbgrs good all-round
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?oG: Fourth Shot also fat*Ly interesti"el of ,eourse, rs ".rrJ,music. Heananit t""r.Eio*a ll]_nfeasant Herl is arso^f"i"ry t";u (r;;d;;iy And
eooa) and side onefinisrrls-with'e- i;; #lo"airrs, Eyelees Sj€ht, tt"i= ,J"" ted.ious sid.e again.
$idc 2 starts with a speaking track Againpi""u."t.
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continue the song with thei-r stand.arrc",- ini"*a poppy tune for -song, a xou reaLise it's ;u"{-in"ixiJlt-ilirri's, same o1d ; The-l,p-enis with C apsules_
ff;T":"diorr.s. So.... thsi
rs nothing as bad as f thought itwoulJ b" -;;#i3:fl".i^: ;dj';iii";-e, ;t r*i.Lll3"fir{:*.*lrt"] oyer the next.rew album
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CaUing (Hearbbeat):
have hard
quite a bit of this Lp on geh;s ion of 15 Bristoi;";il;;; _ it ,J a compitat_ contributing 1 track each, which boast for a torm of Bristoils size. i;-;?ir .io*"i;;r.
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possibly the best trackr Too Much Comnotion. Itfs electronic, tuneful, and interesting. Excellent str:ff . Essential Bop are very mod.er, despite the biog:aphy, and the ir: track Chronicle, is good , but simply not special enough. The DirecterF and. Various Artists showwup the album's weakness in gojng for qrrantlty m.ther than quality, Each is rlnberingly ordinary. Sld.e 2 is overall more successfult starting with Slugrried by Sneak keview, with a ni-ce, effectiv'e "I don't want your body line" in the niddle. Then The Stingr:ays provid.e a nj.ce pop tune on the srrbject of 'Sound I
The X-Cets, who had
on
I reckon they'd. be great. The Ap,rbnent give The Alternativ€ r & good rock song that would stand out on it ts owl1. The Nunbers, another group. from that EP, are very weak on Crosslide and I decide I d on 't Like then. Nothing, by Viee $c1uad is a song for punks, about prinks, by punks' T t"'1 1 ----- ' I Stereo I'Ioclel*s are a 2piece whose }iove Fast, Stay Ahead, does just that.
last grc',up, Double Vision , are the for the albun - a female lead singer with caraohter, and ovezall youth, musicianship, and instead of the norrnal rock-punk of the LF, play white reggaefdance-mu,sic. Even though the girl 's voice gets on ny neRres , it's a st::aightfo::ward prediction to say there rs bi$ thines in store for, them. f f ve already mentioneci the nain'fau1t of thi,s Lp, but }ocally1, thistll be on, everybodyl.s turntable regularlyr a.rd nost have of these bands would be grea.t live Heartbeat thought of a package tour? Another personalised complaint is the abscence of the €froup t 48 llours t who re rlly did take the 4 Alternatives EP. I{ave they split? Thb actual id.ea of loca.l LPrs is gir€at. Therets some more out that ltd have 'reviewed if ftd had time the Cardiff Compilation LP, Southend Rock although that hasnr t got much to d.or"ith nevr wave, and alson I hear talk of a Vaultage t79 a.lbun, featuring new Brighton band s l ike the Lanbrettas. Therers also defenitely going to be a 2nd. ALternative Paisley EP (out now?) featuring The Fegs, Defiant Pose r arrd. Urban llnemies . This general sort of thing is just what is neededl ard any 1^921 compilation is rortha second 'l i'r*oThe
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IOGIC: Beat Rhthm Ners (nougtr .
of EssentEavlng heard very little laf Logic ln the past r ard' what I had heard I rasnrt overkeen on, Itm very pleasantly suprlsed urith, thls a1bun. It is d, record bf trebLy g'ritar-beate itth a female sLnger and' a helL of a lot of saxophone (both;of course, by Lora Irogtc) . Some tracks 'are rather boringr b but others succeed. veqy well. Most notabLy ' the opener Qulatty. Crryon Fax OK (tlontt conBlaLn, they get rorse), rhlch has 4.. greet feel r moves fagt r and' has a nLce Iot 0ther receomnended tracks are ".
hurrry to
**;Hrffi:ff;
that great song
the 4 Alternatives Ep, aren't quite as strorrg here, with their Anthen, though Live
rte,r*l*l n(fa'ue {t
E
I o+{r. Pic.:
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Jhabby Abbotr and' Collectlng Dust' As=
I said., certain tracks dragl to:l notable being World Frietion, which could be gnod if it ltias hal"f as long' ?opc.rrn BoY ,=the new s ingl e , is ln l;raek on the LPt & fact ttre wen"xept The ttre only .r,ra'cks now ignored are Crddr Form, Al trerL e Wake lIP (a prel: i;;" single) and Alkaline Loaf In The ' ;;;; ii i"ra You theY g"t worse) So, a gnba I,P I and' ^ nice suPriCabitret the t,hl-s or s€. 1 ilont t tfuink Voltaire albun anything to natch-the StF or Swell Maps albuns, Rough Trades oirt"i Lf rsr and' Irct' be suprised- lf both tobetfrer eqtral half -the sales of the ? old ones. Does that mean strrr +t i-ng?
t Out , Lyeeum Jan 3 1979 : Right now, itrs to be seen what becomes of The Clash when they release thel.r rlev LP. Littlers been hlard of them this yearr &rd rnost peoplg (right_ fully) ha Led their rip-orl Ei . rrit it the turn o I' the year, The Cl ash were tcp of the piler a,nd this bootleg was """oo de,l at that time. .tike other0lash bootl€gsr it proves that they put more into the actual gig than professlonalism - quite a fer ml stakes abound. B'ut the energy shovs through. Strtrmrner enJoys being Joe pubIic, and it comes in a good cover, with 15 traeks rhat I lrresuu,e to be ifr" rhole Sig. I personaLly, consl.der The Clash to ii ive dnne nothing worthwhile s inc e t i *e ] rd rack o 1' G ive Em I'lnough Roper so il;t,s a pity that 6 tracks are fron after t,hat. Sid.e oners best nos are, dare T s iy it, a good. versrion of I foteht The Lanl English Civil War & 'a frantic TThite Man - no hint at reggae at all . Dmg-Stabblng Tine and Clash City Rockers both come over pretty CI,ASH: ,$o:rt I
(boat,Ieg)
i,
reak.
Slde 2 starts off with one of the greatest siggles ever released, Compleb Control. Itrs given agood going over, but obviousl.y lacks power. ft utfortunately folLows on with 4 tracks from Rope , i.ncluding a good To'nmy Gun and a great version of Canr t. Explain oh srorry, lt was Clash City Rockers. You may trave notlced. that so far therers been no track before the lrd single, and. now the alburn 'end.s off .orith Capi ta1 Radio , London I s Burning, and Iltrite Rtot. ft just seems wrorf, that they should play a whole set of'neq numbers and then finish with their 7 oLdies' Are the.y crowd. pleasers or something t theyt re- 'seared to change? Anyway, for Inewt Clash fans thatrs a fairly good LP - the quality is good for a bootleg, though not as good as the Pit one, and incldentall'yr both are new from Japan.
Tapes of this' and the Pit one are avI ailabl e from us t see page 2t . And it s just left to see how The Clash develoP no:w.
Second.
of the local scenes featured this time is. . .
H $ffiffiFFilE[[D home of muzl k there's been so much nritten and said about the sheffield 'scene' over the last 'year or so by people with Iittle insight into what 's,. really going on that r thor:ght you night like to hear about sheffield. from someone who rs seen the seene fromi the
inqid.e..:...... ,
,
Unquestionably the 'singie
:
:
most |nltor -
tantf'$;;-i1sr,llri"'li"ii*unustbe
":fl"H"n"titFti Jls insp-
id"r,i%*lt ${[:d:il"lt" r;;-r"iti"i-*w1r.,that arses rhby to-eit"irf somethins p"opr" , lred, ""ilt'*i -'n"ir so rnany;;#-
i
4/
"t"tt if nol noving ' CmATIVE? * ^ iis s, nothing no rrusic Gm btting The
and do sonerhi#:= .
Broo*:;Hi"l?:i{;li: HE;;i;;a
the
noises
- 'The cabs musicr&sI'Ptoi,-+uife.L"tilthere's ?11 b""lira;!*til;t ro
Art trroffs
anyrhins
wi}lalway*.P".t"*a.*iiiicriticsitry'ing want toanalvse!n9ii*-d1i:-i'i"'r-?""nt"*the then and' ii you ;l"rests what . Cabs do to""uasonetr'i''edeePi"t;il;th"q'::be it.oi*-'*:tr'eyoPeT;;-;nol"newdintenst';t i:-y Pre9a'raous (rt has ions, but rheil!1ei it"*t*:tt
^ are for Ine sheffierd,
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iffi;i#l+f:*-#
:s*'lr" * t*j
, affairs often errf,rneor"*''*pegtlf to straY th? been'iion*t lot
enjov
th* hottest
H;#,F:"*,$ t;;,fiT#r
'r devet"rd"J y'"'o' io"g . has ;trtrime audien"l: 6uJ _t"1-ri#i1 to: *r"y?:,:_r,apport, with his
uponil;caE-durins;;;*oftheirlnore
ifi*:,u}}:rt: # ry
',.EHh*f and the: : Serr fop""*oL,i"r"nu"6 souno:::; o' ioi or so years Years-or s :o ;titled iii S been arourrd nli:fl '
IP is out nol{ i; first for sure lf,ti"t"tt ,!tix-,fr;; one lhi1g lt-bo unnoticed' iloP rf there 's, one brg
whose name you won,t -t"nr-
fiff; ;:ff;.*;ff;it ";;; i; tr.t
The C*" is nl"Jo bv at reasi but 'i- ean *"J*" you
on"l"il"Jiltrril
.off "
other bands, are the orieinals: ?h;the- srr"iii"ra Russians Russi*rr* starbed off as a piss_take of ffr"-Cabsr;; have ended, up a piss_1ake of thenselves. ft has been run or*ed they';;
;;; -i;*rto their nane i*e to"r,*ng* electronic pop nffirtwr' "^ia The Rrrssians are in a way like the lvrarx Brothers r Po$;;dilut" to spread ir,ro" whei"r*". remarkable abiliity best songs in ir,eir-;; thgr g:o. One of the is trr"i= versi-on of 'Nellie fue nr"pLlt?=ir,i"r,;J" their debrrb Et;-$. appears on appalling u""*" of *ulr" *-*J-the Russians tir", poor taste and their
aufuitil: fair
superstars
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with lar_ yetF;i; be seen.
}fhich brings us to lvlr. Marcus Fe_atherby, ' nanager of Arbery, Linitea boss, entrepenaur and. ex-flod r among other things. He is, to say the least, sonething of a contraversial flgr:re. 1n sheffield at, the noment - a nuch rnaligned character who rs sti:red up a lot of nixel feelirrgs. His amival had the effect of livenirrg up a scene that was begirurirrg to show sr-gns of tiring, and though thp end result of his involvement in sheffield is yet to be seen, it is elear soins 'bhings have charrged for
the better. '
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a tr,tt has wol then their I cal'ilI*gine verT charrgi"Jir'utaciofrogk*"*i"'theiraff? h'anas of the lo q; airs ^'Z "i'h""*t ! capabl""ul'Ii* x n"*sian
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as
A'l-
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I EXcess., is Sheff ield s - the best issues meaty gossip about all
New lvlusical
nost inffuemine are ful1 of really the Sheffield. pop stars. As it's currently sr-rffering from havlng exhausted- nost of the local band.s, it t s 'now tryirrg to extend t it 's bound.aries beyon: d. the Steel city. Jt s blggest se:rrice to Sheffield was making the
scene more read ily accessible to the Jocal populus &, thereby helping to break d.own the elitist image that so often goes hand. in hand. with close-hn:.t scenes like tf ie1d.. Sheffield lnd, reprr?c rhe N e ear ^?'? ^tiffi tfl:"ffiH}
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l*Xi. l3t5""Tt*ineltt*r^5tiJ"*Llu-"'"; ffi;'?4tfh J{xJtil:* 1ffi" {iil ?*:t
going musically, if it lives up to their early promise ii shor:ld L good .
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else
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"'wE ARE The NO SUBTITLES FOR, US" Tt{E FALI' l ^- ', n Ivlark E. Snithi* "??1"*., guitaffi Irla,rc 'Utf." Riley ' ?l*ctric Leigh-- Druns
ffimHH
S$Ys
mSR
p
l.r
E, $nlTH (trlok/
)
I
:i:i:;i.:,:::
r vocals
eJ-ectrle gui31^' Craig Sdnt'a'n - gass guitar ' vocals Steve HianleY -
ffi
to Itseemsfromyour:ht"tvotesthatnost atoul-The Fa}l' butstart of you I'i="tav k"o* the go*e since and' recap, they have been uu"a-; il"nchester, of the new *u,rulr*"y line-up freguent have u*d,ergone "lg orriy sr::crrivof ' They the bJ"g changes r $rnith 2 alburns on st'ep j -iF1:". ,*i"u,sed have "*
ffi
\?Petfi*:{lii l*;;;:H:3"1i;:? ltrtion (S{.?) lv,ar
i ut
) Tiles Thirg f \atLous (Sfff ) l'ly AtP Rowcrre Rrlnb iref tn ip (srurz) uii"rr-t=r".r" The Live At elsewhere ) Dcasnet Lp tsrr,i'ri)- i;;l;ed'.
It
(SF9
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I EXmcT you,lIE T]UES, BTIT WHY- BEEN ASKED T}Iib
,
O}IE I{AI{Y TS T}MNE SUCH E Pr,ENr
TMAGE?
i;iin: #:*l'tJ;f
ruJtt.[iyi::j;l'#:H,T:F"*:*x* who think :l#-ii"f:ffl il1'itrii]H*]::,areh1i",fl:'i:i,'#"*"i*i:lilfi;""
iiq";'"'*:i tr=Hi:":'::k" or hunour, and z/ tne Fall g r
''"e
: are not tr," """fr11 ;;;;-P;oPr" surith E' t was done'*t$-*"O office. OK. The inte:rriew ffi; i""rtv_p"oducts and l{arc Riley ;l
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,!,ake it anaY' :' you HA'E ANy rDEArs, ND rF so ";"0 Do srnith: Do you nean ror tbe band, or
tr'i=
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personal-
1y?
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Iil fli';rJJi"Tf :T::11,#!t:";i:fiig,
f*h'm*rfiiffi iilrffiiffit= xr' *,tt:jHi?J#+ili#l+"u*u"*r iult; jilt'#",1i,il"l"ll i'l#"';:i.,3ll ' iii,i*.hTn; ff;:'iiifff-Tri, #i;"'n*, --'''' Jeu $ti:"*.*l#l':;::":".;::,::":*"LTnqr"$":,Hi:lfitT*"tTfi already. just keep The Fall.eoite -.. Know.
Smith:
It's
to
that's ny fuckin'_thing T.lil?: to x3el,-11 going as long as I can. It's like an institutlon real1y, 'cos no rnatter what we sound 1ike, werre uniqr.re. There's got to be a d.enand. thoughl 'cos a 1ot of the n"tn tn".t" bands are-pred.ictable, they cto things hke
sirii
FAII
MATERIAL AS aELE'ANT, oR AS Solm111INc TIIAT'S
Do yOU COnSnmn
-
TIE
OLD
Stnmm*ft pretty snith: I think nost of our stuff,s tineless1- *yb: the style's slightly
niifl-SnfO
A
irelevant nowad'e'y"'--.- r^^- ^..* for After an albun'" ts?" out s^* a Rileyr They do tftingoEv"l-ifr"_ it neans you
you sai-d, you Icrow. old. bands thoqght iwice-about aoitgtrren like no suestions
if it doesn't age, --:r;" asked. nl"r::ttrfiy:;,li ik""ti:tri:r:Hisht' -
they ao"year,
them next time, and r think that good . The YMCA lias wierd - that wasn,t 'd what r expected at (o*etails of il,re YMCA glg are on Fage "1+ 39).. . Ril_ey; rt 's like when we played r yonks ago, with lbrl, and it waswa,rzington just iiL" hundreds of kids_ there, with a mass of poBling. Then we played ih""" 6 months later with Mike, and it *as suddenly different a a toacL _of peopre just stood tirere watching. : smith: Lond"on i-s il**y" differeni as well. so is Manchester. The Falr haven ,t got a . fixed aud ience. The YMCA gig was really *_igrd , because there was f fue, all int_ ellectuals there, and then a core ofthe dan_ eers at the front goir:g wild, and guys with moustaches uenina themr' all these ttUmmm...yes...rr. s"i";"
Nightclub, which noone ean relate to, not even The Membere.
conmorl pof icy of the band - we wanna make musii: that w111 stay on for 10 years. Itn Camned sure there'll be a lot more people listening to our stuff in 10 years than a lot ot- fanous band.s. S+ttltl . Wlr,at songs ere you talking about?
Snith: That 1s a
,WELL, IT ,S JI,FT THAT SOTIE GNOUPS DON 'T IIKE P]AYING THEIR EiARLY MUSJC-THEY FEEL THEY'VE POSSIRLY C}IANGED SINCE THEN, OR THAT IT'S A STATEMNT T}IAT 'S BEEN SAID. . .
a
Snith:, Well , we tve d.ropPed. Repetition n and Bingo Master; parbly because we feel the
iitessage is irrelevant, but also because the -and I s bored. with it . .ii.ley: If ile pooled" in all the songs we â&#x201A;Ź.ve we'd. have about 60. We tve got too Inany songs now, and. there ts only about 3 ol-d
in the set. Snith: And. it's wrong to suppress that creatlvity. It's like band.s that have hlt singlesr you know, - by the time the single hits the charts, they 've been playing 1t for a year, and. they're going to have to play it for another year. songs
Riley: That's why we ]1ke getting things d.own whi4-e they're fresh. Like we have with the new albun - all the stgff on it, except for 2, was written after llartin left r so . all the album is fresh. Smith: If there 's a fault wlth }{i-tch Trials , it 's that ile were over-familia.r with the songs. Riley : I was , and" I'd onlY been in the band 6 months at the time . ,
WHY I{AVE T}MNE BEEN SO Iq.ANY:
ffi IT
LINE-UF'
snithr
SOIVFJTHING YOUIVE WANTED?
at it.
,
you , leave
st::ange
it off ,
and.
again...
brings the best out of us i-rrsituations like .
that
*ft
with something like Marbin to break and
just
say " I 'm leaving" he's been iiiere
, and see for like
2 years.
IDffi M THE FAI,I,? Smith: Yeah. Defeinitely. A banC- is wkiat j-t's got to say, and- t've always spoken for the band thror,rgh the lyrics; so I think it wouldbe d if'ferent if th; lyric-writer had 1eft, but he hasn't, ie I haven't. I was throughly bored. with the j.tch Trials sound, J needed a fuckin' change, it was horrible o well it seens horrible to me noil . It works really good - the energy a line-up c'hange injects iqtq a band- is j-ncrred i h] e CF T}M
DC YOU
STITL
CONS
W
THINKING
STAGE A I,C'I OF IEOPIE ?O ON AU DIEN@' THE WCT AND AUHMNCE'
HEAR; DO ycu
WA}ITS TO ourt*Is' t ool'AT Tlm lAuDrENcE
'LAY On WHAT YCU t^iANT?'
Smithl ile]-I we d'on't lnnd'er
to
-.C
i1
aE I
aud'iencest
butthenaudiencescanmakead.ifference. tot'lly unpredictable; I find. our aud.i"rr"""going * happen with I d.on'1, know whal 's
.
,filer: ft's like if sonethlng goes wrong 're "ri .*ou,ilo up. Like l:f:fThe h1g.!g", Ie go oh,yyoll-?_(p at awlett) was
that 's that. ft 's
what happens when
.
' snith: 'cos we thought it, would be a r-ot better. }.Ie were preiing with what we tho*ght then were rkiniired ip:-rits ' ie Gang of 4, Stlf'f Little*Fir,â&#x201A;Ź,ersj , . s .fuut they {ekonsr turned out to be a oack of shit. rt T^ras good to play ;t though a Ttre Fell-irr"'"* on that. Me & I'iarc tar-ki*g ;nout it just the other d-ay,were it 's reaJ.ly good - it
,Ri.ley: Jt's al-l veIT personal - if you d.on't
like it
.
IUU *WCN I AT THE LYI,EUIq? yeah. people rnade a big fuss
P=. about that thing, whe"i* we tho*ght it was just another gig, }{e just thor.,g,ht we,d mad e a rnistkae playing th e r,ycfum again , 'cos we knew it was soirrs to tie like that. Ri-ley: . . .After the d"n X thing We " played with Gen x there and it *"* pretty ' horrible, but we eleci.ded te, pra,r there
CHANGES?
Snith: It's not somethrng you want at the time, but it's worked. ot{ good when ycu look back
DO YCU TH]NK
r. t .t-,
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.
sltpposed- tc trrrn utr>, ?nd she hre said. "AJrightu iuck you" ' spite e I suppose, ,3mi-th
The
I
omething lj-ke The
s
So didn't' It ts like
Lyce
Falr,s attiiuce, Like the
,
T
LATWfCAFEFLITLY PLANNED OUI
but r
ft 's like
me -
I
can
dt sing
ilm d olng is good . And" r know that rock'n 'ro11 i-s not tt e plying of instnrments knwo what
-, you d on rt pray instruments in roektn troil, and bands that do are copping out in mlr estirnation" Bands liker go in the ltuaio, do a guitar thatn sorc, ]'hen gCI bck and put loads of effects cn it, sc it's not u,ctu*lly a guitar soro you'ffie listening to, nul a control co ygu get me? And r thfuk that's bcard". not tn troll
ings cut a bit
YI'{fiA was
too easy reallY. WA$
it.'s_ ggod ,
IN ANVANCE,
IIKE rT WAS A RUN-DOWN 0F '78 FOR yOU? $mith: Yeah it was m,ther 'In Retrospect ' . Rlley r It was getting rid of old songs. Snlth: Well- it wasn't so much that- we had abeut 4 other sor1gs to go on it; we just had too r.any songs f or it. That was the drag* The only bit of real spontanef.ty was the t,itle track- it was rnad.e up there. WAS ]T MTIBERATE TO NECORD ]T TN ONIE NAY ANN MlX TT IN CNE DAY? smith s rt was and. it wasn't " }{e hed 5 d.ays but f got sick for the first 3, There was a lot of fuss rnade about that as well a I mefi,n, why banCs have to take more than 3-4
rcck
o
t:'"*,'i iiffifii;'i
ft
.a;.,s.e.ry,
-*
-' :*SSi;.
:
'rn*ffiir'::',' :wJ/:/
n
days to do an albr:m i-s beyonC me persorritty band"s tlut do the, l-ike, guitarn bass , C::u.ms line*up like we d_o. Why they have to go ln for months is beyond rne. Riley ; S ome pe ople go in , and they do d.ubs en this , and" dubs on that, Curs is a very
Especially
Mi$htfo:*rard"
ancrr<. R;t
sound.
Smith: The beet scund The Fall get is live* it always hras been. Riley f, " o " Which is why Rumble got more of
a live
sound.
TS T}ffi
''I ST]],t
BETTEVH
IN TIfi R'N'R
tINn SARCASTIC OR SERTCIJS?
IYNTCS ?
srni.th: No, r don 't, berieve in i_t. r think that us another thlng that 's wrong with rcck tn trcll at the moment : the consumer is getting everrthlng on a prate. you natice these new wave hand.s, tt uy took the had angle of it, like the accesslbility a it ts so fuckin n accessible that there rs no work required. by the band or the listener. And, like, - why should. people lyric sheets * itrs a wasye fuckFtu in time. Th* greatest thing r luu=ofsaw was the flrst Ranrones album where they put the lyrics in. rt was so fucking v funny. That was a Tea]ry good bit oF plsstaking of the American iact maricet. T,ike "You *re a loucJ.mouth baby, nre a loud sou rm *eia ls*inst mcuth" o o No, r i-t. : f $e ve sot a rot cf retters asking for lyrics o and if ffve got thern handy, r
DREAMU'
: It 's half and. half* it s arnbiguous . But I do ina l-ot of ways , People say The Fa}l aren 't rocie tn 'ro11 you kncw i my e,ttitude is thet we are rock'n 'ro11 and no ather fuclqer is Riley: ft's just lihat they consider to be rcck tn roll , like screwing and. , . Smith: Like if you get d own to the bssics af rocknntrollo if you go h,ck to the inid.* '50's - those bands had the right attitude. I WAS GCTNG TO ASK I'IHETHER YOU D]D CCNSIDER Smith
t
"
t
YOUHSETF ROCK'N ROLL. . . N
Smith: I d-o. I consid"er other h,nds not rock nn t ro11" The term rock tn troll is ov€Ttrsed and it stinks, which is why I siiid" rrR rn tRt' - an abbreviation . WHY
DC"i
send" them.
r don't like ryrics for people r like lyrics to go with music" r'd.tchereag. fuckin I poet would.n rt r? r r^rculd,n rt a write like r write if, they were meant to be read. rt's rike some af ,ru*--utuir that the band ts going to d"o the $oon -, there rs no lyrics actually j-n it Most of them are like scunds, sorb of"sub*wod,s,
YOU CONS]DER $IHEN BANDS NCTX NOCK'
$;f?ll?u*cau$e a lot or them d on 't ke;p -L*: the spiri{, '*"they get into technique ' t}"}ey
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D0 You THINK, THAT, IN nE.IECTIm FAIvtE, AS Iou AIilITTED you Am, THEnE fs A DANGER 0F YOUR BECOMING A CIITT BA}IDP srnith: Yeah, r understand that, that's bad. llhatfs been going wrong is the kids can,t get the recors. He d.id. gi€s in l,ancaster & places liJ<e that, and kid.s eame up to us &, said "lle cantt get your record.s". So you say "Ohr w€11, wetrp an underground. band.", but thatrs not the fucklng kids fault they shpuld' be able" to get ther,ebo.rds" step Fonrarrl ls ideal, 'cos their distribution's getting it 's shit together at last. And qqgg. we tve done that, we,_rve cracked. it -
HAVE YOU THOUGIfI THAT THIS AIBT'M IS COUING OuI WITH Att THE C}MffiTMAS II{ARKE"f.?
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Psykick D.ncehaffft f:6r:re I'Ialks Behind Voderintheaa/Oicemaq/Before The Moon FaLLs/ Your Hearb Out Muaorewi's &,r:ghterftLat Of Angles/Ctroc-Stocly'Spectre vs Rector/Rrt Array Before startir:g the revielr, I nust polnt cut l1f eogf, ie a test pressing that was :refused. for a couple of julnps and. u,rrbearable quality. The review is therefore not easy to wri-te - I just assume the finished. version will therefore be better than my review makes out. llith this reeord The Fall rea11y come out and. prove that they have a songlrriting
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rid of the way itsound.s like j-t's been r€corrled. in a bathroom, If not, The FalI are d.efe initely taking te ir stm.ightfomarrl attitude too far. Unforbunately, side 2 is weaker. Not enough to stop this being a classic teanrthat, if it gave the rigb songs to album, but sti1l enough to lower it a . the right groups, would have a series of bit. Firstly though, Muzorewirs h,ughthits on j-tts hand.s, There are 3 songs on er features those tribal d.nrns again, & a the albun that this specifically :iefers tonj-ce uite Flat tune. Of A4g1es has a C/W Psykick Dancehall , Your Heart Out, and. y good song (sorry feel, fairl and. a is Choc r-Stobk. These were all written with this Seems reviewf s so insubstantial). tStaff Cm,ig Scanlan, i,ew member fron 9', " like a title track album. After to the The reason I nenti-on this is it seems . Choc-Stock somes the longest and. wi-erd.thib night well be ane,w direction for The il est track, Spectre vs Rector. Sonething FalI (sor* of ), if Scanlani icarries on by about it annoys rr€ r pssibly it d.:a,gs orl r .AI writing a lot of music for them. These 3 jsut the feel of it. Anyway, the LP songs a$e pretty afia'zing, in thet they have ; or end.s rather weakly w ith Prrt Away unforgettable ttmes/riffs and. yet are just J realise I seem to have got a bit I so onclinarify played. As usu,aL, It$ confus- s O d.own-cast there r so I must point out that ed. Bui fhe Fb,lI evirlently consid.er this ( this is a J-star albrm, and worth everXr to be the right way, and. I adnj-re then for you of brrying. 'M y copy obviously .olte a that. These 3 tracks take the album by nlins a it bit, but cbr,tain$r s5.de 1 ,' L,r stor:n. beat's ilitch TriaLs hand.s dorm, it s only E A Figr:re llaikg-"is,'ft'ill.of . tribal d.rums j-d e 2 that slackens. The only other s ; and. a tale of betng followed hone late at to say is that The llall, l-i-ke Joy night, The album is going extrenely well ' t .3 thing Division, from being veqy uneasy at the nonent, Prjrlthead following, being ?g "Lrfer listening. a nore roclqy, riolous piece with a, lot of '
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to Iondon ln August /8 and Llvecl ln Claphan t111 l{ovenber uhrn we had to cone hone after falllng foul of thecops and SPG and Grahan and Ron had both been in Jall fro a while. this was Just as we were flnd1ng ouf feet ln EngJ.and, 'gettlng at 1a!! a 8ey glgs and pres-s iriterset aff,er broken pronlSes bi'McCLaren and Rhodes (seperately). We cgne back after Belfast- becane falhlonable, but donr t r,rant to be llnked wlth Belfast as such. Any categorlsations ltke that le Akron/Sheffleld./GJ.asgow even $ki,B/punF/mod etc does everybo{y harm. n$-eanwhtle rOvercole By Funest recoredd even before w.e went to England surfeced on the Battle 0f fhe Bands 8P and was Sg badly prod.uced. Productlog also rulned the I-SOY.8P whlch we dld last FEBr but_only c?tue out ln Aulust. It Eakes us sound +oo nlce and not ggg enough. In ihe last few nonttrs werve eut the ,band to a 3-ptecc baseilEround thq-J=ggt4,ng,1-3g@e49 :and, lt works better ln every way now Ron has switched to bassr as we are far tighter and better both tsuslcally and vtsually. Also Ye play and prastlce a lot rcre lrrstead of restlng on our laule ls . Wer re stt 11 a' blt J ealous that sotseof the bands who eop LeU fol-lowed us have made ltr but we arenr t too worrled because we are now better than any of them ( ff you donr t bellgve 1n yours elf t nWe moved
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