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[Entertainment
Moev on the move

by Caroline Hardon

New wave is not repeating
itself. The common com-
plaint about most new wave
bands is that if you have
heard one of their songs,
you’ve heard them all.

| witnessed a truly inno-

Comedy
enters
New West

by lan Hunter

‘Did you hear the one about

the new comedy cclub? It’s
called Alfies and it’s no joke.
The offical opening was last
Thursday night. The evening
began with Magician James
Dimmer escaping from a
strait jacket suspended high
above Carnarvon St. The
crowd in front of Alfies star-
ed in awe as Dimmer made
his escape in one minuite
seven seconds...a record
time!(but his belts may have
been loose).
Owner Dennis Kinsey says
he started Alfies up because
of his love for comedy. ‘‘It’s
something I’ve. allways
wanted to do. I*ve been look-
‘ng around for a location for a
‘ong time when we found this
place.

The club has a long history
in New Westminster starting
just after the second world
war as a supper club, the
place has gone through a
number of transformations.
In the sixties it was called the
Groove Yard and was. the
of the once thriving Rythym
and Blues curciut in the
Lower Mainland with such
acts as Ike & Tina Turner
playing there as well as more
commercial groups such as
the Guess Who.

Kinsey says the club is break
ing even with the business
it’s doing now. ‘’To make
money in a club like this you
need three good nights out of
a week. Right now we’re do-
ing five mediocre nights and
just breaking even...but like
every other business we
can’t expect to make a profit
for the first year, but then
we’re not really into making
lots of money, if we we’re,
then we would‘t have started
a comedy club.’

Alfies is just down the
street from.Douglas College
on Carnarvon and is open
from 7pm to 2am Tuesday
thru Saturday with a cover
charge of only $1(for Douglas
College students). Featuring
a number of comedy and
magic acts per night, Alfies
will also be open on Sundays
sans liquir.

vative new wave band at The
Soft Rock Cafe last Friday.
The band is called Moev and

they’ve been around for
about two years now.

The band comprises of the
lead singer, Madelaine

Lead singer of Moev, Madelaine Morris
photo by Sean Valentini

Morris, Mark Jowett on

guitar, Tom Ferris on lead
keyboard and Cal Stephen-
son on bass keyboard. The
band members write their
own music and lyrics and

Moev plays only their own
material.

 

Tootsie toasty

“Tootsie’’ is just-as good
as we’ve all been hearing.
It’s fun and well worth the
price of admission.

In this satirical farce, Dus-
tin Hoffman has taken on an-
other controversial role, in
fact, more than one.

He gives us a look at sev-
eral layers of society that
many would rather ignore.
He plays his personal, pri-
vate self as well as his oppo-

Site with equal success. He

plays the unemployed, the

perfectionist, the aggressive

woman (yes, that’s what |

said folks) and yet he plays
them with equal honesty and
ol are ironically success-
ul.

Even if you are not excited
about seeing a man com-
pletely made up as a woman,
(in order to get a part in a
soap opera), you'll be

amazed how interesting
Hoffman makes it seem. If
you saw the TV story of how
Little Big Man was filmed,
where he did all his own
make-up, from a _ young
brave to a 90 year old wise
man, you will be reminded
how seriously he takes his
art.

The point is made, suc-
cessfully, that men, quite of-
ten try to intimidate women
‘by being condescending and
over-protective, much the
way snotty French waiters
intimidate uninitiated cus-
tomers into giving big tips by
using precise etiquette. Only
in this case it’s for bigger
stakes.

Great humor throughout
the movie gives sugar coat-
ing to a pill to cure a social
illness.

 

Moev has toured across
Canada and the United
States in the last two years
and recorded an album in
San Francisco that is avail-
able only in the import sect-
ion of the record stores.

What makes this band dif-
ferent from all the others is
that they have their own un-
ique style and music, it is
irampossible to compare
Moev with any other band
around. All for members of
the band have very different
personalities and these dif-
ferences are reflected in
their music, as no two songs
are alike. -

By coincidence, | ended up
sitting next to the bands

manager, Terry Mcbride. He

was more than willing to dis-
cuss Moev.' Terry explained

that the ‘band has a steady
following in Vancouver and
these people follow Moev:
everywhere they play. Moev
is more popular back East in
Montreal and in San Fran-
cisco than they are here.
even though they are Van-
couver based. Moev likes to
play in different atmosph-
eres than most other groups,
they sold out the Winnepeg
Art Gallery last October. You
won’t see this band on the
usual club circuit. that other
‘bands are on.

fWas very impressed with
Moev’s sound, as were most
people at The Soft Rock that
night. Moev plays at the
Commodore on Febuary 4
and 18,

    

 
 

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FEBRUARY 2ND 1983

 

 

Snobs
Doug

Somewhere along the line,

the term ‘‘music apprecia-
tion’’ was unfairly connoted
with elite snobbishness, but
at Douglas College the term
simply means accessibility to:
music.
The course, Music Apprecia-
tion, is designed for those
who want to improve their
listening skills, become bet-
ter acquainted with the clas-
sical repetoire, and gain a
larger understanding of the
great music available.

“The purpose of the
course is to instill a thirst for
good music,’’ says course in-
structor Diane Loomer.

“Music is for everyone
and with a little effort can be
accessible.’’

Emphasis is on cleansing
the ears; ‘‘really listening
and learning what to listen
for in music,’’” Lommer said.

The Spring session will in-
clude a detailed discussion of
Bizet’s opera, Carmen, fol-
lowed by an outing to the
actual opera ~ the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre in Vancou-
ver.

The session starts on Feb-
ruary 7 and is offered at the
new music facilities of Doug-
las College in New Westmin-
ster. There will also be infor-
mation on how to start a
good, timeless record collec-
tion.

For more information on
this evening course, call
520-5400.

 

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