NOTES
IN BRITAIN
Was that Buzby at the Conflict
DOA show in London, a couple of
weeks after the Crystal Palace comp?
Rumors say that he was sporting a
THRASHER shirt, he claims he ripped
off of Mofo when he was in London.
C'mon Buz, we all know better than
that, don't we? And don't you still
owe? Other words from Britain say
that Venom recently sold out an
B-date tour (London sold out within
a few days) but were only able to
play four due to fire restrictions im-
peded on their pyrotechnic stage
show... England's new tab faves,
Jesus and the Mary Chain, are
making their way to the U.S. for a
small tour. Their brand of excessive
feedback and dark riffs constitute a
unique blend that captures the
senses. Watch for their new Lp re-
corded at Southern Studios (in the
UK), famous for Crass and Sub-
humans recordings, among others..
MEANWHILE, IN EL LAY
Yes, it's true! Billy Zoom has left
X and Blaster. Dave Alvin is filling
in. No word yet as to who X's perma-
nent guitarist is going to be... Gene
Taylor, Blasters pianoman, has left
that band as well... The D.I.'s are
cutting demo's down at A & M's Holly-
wood studios and are being very
hush-hush about exactly who the
tapes are for, or where the money's
coming from...T.S.O.L. are continu-
ing legal hassles with a certain re-
cord company, so who knows when
their new album will be out. Recently
the boys have had some prime open-
ing slots (for X at LA's Universal
Amphitheatre and for The Cult at
the Santa Monica Civic) and many
record company execs have been
spotted drooling at their club shows.
So with luck, maybe it'll be out on a
major... Speaking of new records.
Tex and the Horseheads' second
one is out on Enigma, entitled Life's
So Cool-and so is the album. Tex,
the wiley monger, never sounded
better and the songs are only killer
In support of their new Ep, First
You Dream, Then You Die, Polson
13, from Austin, Texas, just com
pleted a tour of the west coast. Hav
ing risen from the ashes of the Big
Boys, this combo is so drunkenly
wild there's no words for them. These
boys party hard. During their three
week tour, various members man-
aged to nearly wreck their van on
two seperate occasions, pass out on
the railroad tracks behind a party in
Huntington Beach, fall through a
piano at a party in Oakland, and
have Jack Daniels inspired wheel-
chair slaloms down Hollywood Blvd.
with Tony Alva. Can't forget to men-
tion their roadie throwing pork shops
at I.R.S. Records chief, Miles Cope-
land at an MTV screening. And you
wonder why Texas is the state where
legends are made!... Those crazy
whacky Screamin' Sirens have just
completed their second U.S. tour,
which started with a bang in
Pheonix, AZ when some benevolent
stranger showed up at their show
and painted them down with over
$400.00 worth of room-service
booze at his hotel room. However,
later in their tour, the girls bummed
when their certain-to-be legendary
show at Leavenworth Prison in Kan
sas was cancelled. Prison officials
took one look at the Sirens' picture
and decided that the possiblitites of
a riot in cellblock 9 were enormous
Tupelo Chain Sex have just re-
turned from a 12 week tour of the
U.S. and Canada with wicked tales
too sordid for print... Speaking of
tales, Tales of Terror's Tripp, who's
currently residing in Texas sez
they're reforming for a bunch of West
Coast shows...Also, from out of
Texas, a group called The Hickolds,
whose Lp should be out in the stores
by the time you read this, is worth
checking out, We're talkin' speed in-
fluenced hardcore moonshine twang
by a guitarist named Jukebox, who's
got to be the son of Eddie Van Halen
and Ellie May Clampett
ON THE EAST COAST
Cool new gig spot in Philly called
the Blue Horizon Ballroom. The
place has two separate rooms, so
either big or small shows can take
place. The Dead Kennedys just
played there with Scram, Electric
Love Muffin and Little Gentlemen
to a totally enthusiastic crowd. Set
up a show for your next tour by con-
tacting Chuck or Tamara at (215)
735-6590... Decontrol have a new
release out-a three song 7". Write
to Decontrol Corporate Plaza, 411
Old Forge Road, Media, PA
15063...Lord John from N.J. are a
neo- psychedelic band to watch out
for. They've just signed to Jem
PVC...Cool zine out of Reading.
PA, Freedom Is Cancer, 527 North
11th St., Reading, PA 19604... Cas-
sette freaks can contact Calvin
Johnson, Box 7154, Olympia, WA
98507 for a big catalogue of cool
stuff ranging from pop to rock to
metal to hardcore.
NOW WHAT?
There's a new form of perfor
mance occuring out in Washington,
Polkacide.
D.C. It goes by the name of Emo
Core or Emotional Core. Bands like
Embrace (featuring lan McKaye),
Rites of Spring. Beefeater, among
others, are taking the severe inten-
sity of an emotional projection and
adding it totally into their respective
Die Kruezen.
live sets. Crowds are said to be left
in tears from the intensity. This sort
of a gig is not a frequent affair, as
the bands are fully drained after a
performance... The Necros are out
and about on tour with long, long
hair and bell-bottomed trousers.
Their new 7" is out and it seems, by
the words on the winds, that their
musical direction has also
changed...C.O.C. are gonna be
back on the road again in the early
part of 1986, and also recording a
new
12... Nice good sweeps
through San Francisco during De-
cember including the likes of D.O.A..
Die Kruezen, The Dicks, The
Damned, Xmal Deutchland, Sun
Ra and Polkacide...watch next
issue for intimate details...O.K., if
you want to ever, for any bizarre
reason, go out on a limb over the
deep end, try listening to Dry
Lungs, an industrial music compila-
tion put out by Placebo Records in
Pheonix, AZ. Includes John Dun-
can, Maybe Mental, Controlled
Bleeding. Mertzbow, Sleep Cham-
ber and 13 other bands from all over
the world. This is weird tripped-out
stuff to throw your momentum into
an irrelevant spin against the
grooves of even the most uncircum-
stantial living standards ever audibly
witnessed. Yeah. That's it. That's
what we said.
Poison 13.
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