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Rolling Stones Dirty Work Party

A was its usual conversational self.
Things heated up a bit with Sympathy

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A }band, Wall Street came out with
> Gimme Some Lovin’. These guys are

3 rockers, and before you knew it, their
set was over (about 40 minutes). Then

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Sof their other recent stuff.

    
  

 

It was political, it was social, it
dealt with issues concerning women,
children, South Africa, Hiroshima and
the Third World countries. It was The
Dance Brigade - Resistance: Love in a
Bitter Time.

Presenting The Dance Brigade at
the Cultch was the Wallflower Order,
a women’s dance theatre collective
from Oakland, California. The five
women performers were: Krissy Kee-
fer, Nina Fichter, Abigail Stage,
Fiona Gundy, and Kim Epijano.

The Dance Brigade was a combina-
tion of dance/movement, poems by
Nadine Stair, Sylvia Plath, Alice
Walker and others, and also music by
Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Laurie An-
derson, Herbie Hancock and Mozart,
to name a few.

Some music was done live with
tambourines, spoons, geetar and
washboard. It was serious, eye open-
ing, but also humorous at times.

There were about 14 vignettes—the
last one ending with a white board
(wall smeared with red (blood), spray
painted boldly in black were the
words ‘‘NO INTERVENTION”.

The Wallflower Order will be offer-
ing a summer intensive workshop in
August, in Berkeley, California. For
more information contact The Dance
Brigade, P.O. Box 2962, Oakland,
California 94609. Phone
(415) 848-5824.

by KIRSTIN SHAW

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: gputnik chatter

by richard

:  ‘‘A lot of- people are going to hate
= us because we're not into being
=: miserable and we're not interested in
%: music.” They could be onto some-
: thing new here...’’All the girls are
= going to go simply cur-azee about us,
* and so are all the boys...we are the
=: ultimate immaculate conception of
strock and roll, says Tony James
(founder and creator of the new
*: English phenomenon). ‘‘We are the
% best rock. and roll band in the world.

%: Ever,’’ says second drummer Chris
: Kavanagh.

=  ‘‘Sigue Sigue Sputnik’’ (Russian
= Street gang run by a modern day
=: Fagin, who steal, shine shoes and run
% sreet protection numbers), are the
‘latest and newest product from
x: London. They are...Ray Mayhew-
drums, Tony James-bass, Martin
%: Degville-vocals, Chris Kavanagh-
sz drums, and Neal X-guitar. They
*: formed four years past when T. James
*: found four posy chaps who couldn’t
= pay for their tea bill and taught them
: how to play. They handed in one, yes
= one video to EMI and got signed for
= ‘‘one million pounds’ (actually 350
=: 000). Their first single was smashed
:: by Simon Bates (radio one) on the air
s and the song went straight in to the
op ten. 350 000 pounds is the largest
mount ever paid to a new act. This
ould mean something really big.

: The main appeal lies in their crazy
zany dress code and their emphasis
zon the ‘‘designer violence’ trend
(designer violence is high-tech
=: violence tv shows with nobody really
: getting hurt). Tony James says he
*¢ only watches movies that have scenes

=: of ‘‘gratuitous sex’’ and ‘‘violence’’ in
=: them. He says he can’t justify putting
z=: such acts in videos, but he says that
sort of thing gets him real excited.

tnik sigue sputnik

   
 

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