2nd April 1983, price 40p
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Record Mirror 2nd April 1983, price 40p |
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Front Cover Features KAJAGOOGOO (main photo) - Let's NOT get serious. TWISTED SISTER RICHARD BARBIERI KIRK BRANDON KASHIF Also pictured - ULTRAVOX 'My career in blue movies' (inset photo) Other features: - PHIL COLLINS · MAISONETTES · SET THE TONE · TRACIE songwords! - Win your height in pre-recorded tapes! - Bowie tickets scandal!! NICK BEGGS of KAJAGOOGOO: pic by Jill Furmanovsky. |
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NEWS Bowie ticket shambles DAVID BOWIE tickets could have gone to touts rather than to fans. Tickets were sold over the counter at the Arena box office, an employee alleged last week... even though they were meant to have all gone out by post. "We've had people coming in to the box office, and believe tickets were being sold there," she said. "We've had one or two people buying in bulk." Before she could finish her phone call, the line was mysteriously cut off. And fans who wrote off for tickets are unlikely to get them. By the end of last week there were already a quarter of a million applications. "Only people who read the London Standard on Thursday evening and the Sun newspaper on the Friday after the announcement will have a chance," said the Wembley employee. Martin Corrie, press officer for Wembley Arena, denied the allegation. "As far we know, tickets were strictly by postal application and limited to four per person. The tickets don't even come to Wembley." Promoter Harvey Goldsmith was not available for comment — despite many phone calls. But one Of Goldsmith's employees did say that the tickets would be sent out on a first come, first served basis. That will almost certainly mean that only people who read the national press the day after will receive tickets. |
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NEWS KIRK BRANDON'S Spear Of Destiny hit the road later this month for their biggest tour ever. And the group release their first album 'Grapes Of Wrath' on April 15. It includes their 'Flying Scotsman' single. Their tour starts at Glasgow Night Moves on April 14. Then Aberdeen Venue 16, Edinburgh Nite Club 18, Newcastle Dingwalls 19, Manchester Metro 20, Bristol Dingwalls 21, Torquay Pavilion 22, Sheffield Polytechnic 25, Birmingham Powerhouse 15, Coventry Polytechnic 27, Norwich East Anglia University 28, Loughborough University 29, Liverpool University 30, St Albans City Hal/ May 1, Guildford Civic Hall 3, Southampton University 4, London Lyceum 5 and Brighton Top Rank 6. Tickets for the shows are on sale now from the venues. |
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ADVERT for Virgin MARILLION Script For A Jester's Tear. Includes Hit Single "He Knows you know". £3.99 Album & Tape Marillion - He knows You Know. Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1983 Uploaded by Jack Psamit. |
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SINGLES Selected by MIKE GARDNER Sweet dreams are made of these CULTURE CLUB 'Church Of The Poison Mind' (Virgin) Boy George and his pals tread the Human League path and plunder their old Motown records. I suspect Martha Reeves will look through her post for a royalty cheque in a few months time. The Club show little of the elegance of their last two singles and it's only the endearing George and his golden larynx that carries it through. B&W photo of the band. Culture Club - Church Of The Poisoned Mind (TOTP 1983), uploaded by softladification. These we have loved THE MERTON PARKAS 'The Singles EP' (Beggars Banquet) Keyboardist Mick Talbot before he had a style councillor in the heydey of the mod revival. The wheels could be better used to run over this skeleton in the cupbaord. THE MEMBERS 'Four Track EP' (Virgin) The sound of the suburbs is guaranteed to being a large smile to any face. SIMPLE MINDS 'I Travel' (Virgin) A re-release from the time when they lived up to their name - all fast and frantic for no apparent reason.. |
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Page 19 PETE TOWNSHEND 'Scoop' (Atco B 0063) THE WHO'S Pete Townshend's latest album is a two record set of his old demos. Old Who and solo favourites like 'Magic Bus ' and 'Behind Blue Eyes' are shown in their original skeletal form. The album traces Townshend's songwriting development almost from the 'My Generation' days through to their latest vinyl atrocities like 'It's Hard'. There is a strange fascination from seeing how the various tracks evolved — in the same way people are intrigued with the sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo. But most may feel comfortable with the proper dynamic recordings of Townshend's career. + + + Mike Gardner |
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Page 28 Stuart Adamson - Big Country. Profile FULL NAME: William Stuart Adamson NICKNAME: None DATE OF BIRTH: April 11, 1958 PLACE OF BIRTH: Manchester EDUCATED: Beath High School, Cowdenbeath HEIGHT: Six foot WEIGHT: 10 stone COLOUR OF EYES: Dirty grey/green y/blue y/bro wn FIRST LOVE: Diana Rigg FIRST DISAPPOINTMENT: Diana Rigg when I grew up FIRST PERFORMANCE: Crossgates Miners Welfare Institute with a band called Tattoo FIRST LIVE SHOW SEEN: Led Zeppelin FIRST RECORD BOUGHT: 'Death Of A Clown' — Dave Davies MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Leonard Cohen and Bill Nelson INSTRUMENTS PLAYED: Guitar and synthesisers HERO: Stan Laurel HEROINE: Sandra — my wife FAVOURITE BOOKS: Dice Man — Luke Reinhart, 'Coming Up For Air' — George Orwell, 'The Chrysalids' — John Wyndham FAVOURITE FILMS: 'One Over The Cuckoo's Nest', 'Mean Streets', 'Horse Feathers 'Marathon Man' FAVOURITE TV SHOWS: 'Coronation Street', 'Grange Hill' BEST LIVE SHOW SEEN: U2, Nils Lofgren FAVOURITE CLUBS: Baseball clubs FAVOURITE FOOD: Cooked breakfasts FAVOURITE CLOTHES: Knickerbockers HAIRCUT: Grim FAVOURITE DRINK: Lager IDEAL HOME: The one I live in IDEAL HOLIDAY: A week in bed IDEAL CAR: Don't like cars MOST FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE: Falling off a motorbike WORST EXPERIENCE: Flying FUNNIEST EXPERIENCE: Me SUPERSTITIONS: Don't wear socks with holes when there's an R in the month FANTASY: To be Andrew Carnegie MOST HATED CHORE: Shaving AMBITION: To grow a beard |
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Page 35 Secrets of success THERE ARE those who have the knowledge and those who don't. Or, as Spear Of Destiny like to say, "You're either on the Shuttle or you're off the shuttle." Those who have the knowledge have a secret denied to the rest of us. This can make them smug or confusing or incomprehensible. A man with a secret walks safe within his private knowledge while a smile plays around his features. Such a man is Kirk Brandon, formerly of Theatre Of Hate. The features are, of course. extraordinary. The ears seem to stand at right angles to the head, the teeth jut out of the smile and the eyes are staring and quite blue. It is also the face of a ham. Spear Of Destiny have abandoned Theatre Of Hate, if not their fans. Their music is relentlessly and full of the folk melodies that decorate their debut single, 'Flying Scotsman'. In Leeds, Spear Of Destiny play their fourth or fifth date and the faithful appear utterly confused. The T Of H lookalikes, those bohemian-beat punks with the caps and turned-up jeans, are there in plenty but they seem unable to follow Kirk's new drift. Slow song follows slow song, colourful but ultimately monotonous, and Kirk loses the audience. That smile begins to play around his face. After all, he has the secret. "We went too far too quickly," Kirk decides in the dressing room. "The problem with T Of H was that the guys behind me always used to thrash the hell out of it. Fifty per cent of the people who come probably expect that. There's so much power and soul in these new songs, to speed them up would kill them." THE NEXT morning, Kirk explains himself at length. I don't always follow him but then, haven't had the same visions. "The youth are even more advanced than they think they are," Kirk intones, staring me into silence. "The majority of the audience are more advanced than I. It's just simply that I'm aware that they are and they aren't yet. I'm not going to give them a sermon but I wish to reach them contrary to how most performers do. I don't think most performers know anything. I've spent a lot of time pronouncing words so that they can be heard. I don't do it lightly." Kirk has faith in the youth. In his mythology, they will come to replace the "old bastards, the governments, landowners. secret societies, religions - the people that own everything." This is very optimistic, very 60s. "The young now are the old of tomorrow and if they have the right directives in their heads, they won't be like the old bastards that's around now. Going around all these little clubs around the world, clubs where the young men go, the same feeling is there in every club. It's there, it's alive, it's growing, preparing for itself. Now is the time of learning, not the time of action..." It is ten in the morning and I am hopelessly lost. What, Kirk, is it? What's growing? "The Spirit Self's been around a long long time now," says Kirk. A long silence follows. "How long nobody knows. In the past the forces that be decided to completely cloud everything so that everything fogged. It's only now that it's clearing up: we helping it to open up. The old bastard still rules and 'We, like lesser men, struggle beneath his legs.' Throughout the ages, the consciousness moves forward. Not just the small groups who're very aware but the world as a whole. There's an incredible opening up going on right now. It's coming very quickly and people should aware of that. Those who are are beacons, transmitters. This is a passing age that's passing quicker than anybody can believe. You have to lose the old, the old morality, the old thinking, to go forward. Tomorrow's coming anyway. If you stand in its way, it'll crush you..." KIRK, ISN'T all this a trifle hard for the layperson to follow? What has this to do with Spear Of Destiny? What is this spear? "It has to do with Christ," says Kirk mysteriously. He's not some stupid bastard stuck up in churches: he had a lot of bottle. Christ came along and he illuminated things for people. Through him, it is possible. He showed the way in a moment when civilisation was completely clouded over. Established religion came to break Him into pieces and Longinus, the Roman, grabbed the spear in compassion and stuck it in Christ's side so that blood and water flowed. They put Christ on that cross to stop it, to stem the flow. That spear is the symbology of the flow of humankind. All the world's religions turn Christ into this deity. this figure of worship. But he was a man and he is coming again. It is coming; it is the end, the ultimate beginning. The point where Alpha and Omega Cross..." Kirk has the secret. Interviewing him is like talking to a Jesus freak who has seen the light. Like any convert, Kirk is complete. Whether this will help his music or not is another matter. The crowd in Leeds didn't appreciate the songs from the forthcoming 'Grapes Of Wrath' but maybe it was a bad night. Kirk didn't play 'Westworld' and he remained determined. "If I cut my own legs from under me, so be it. If I don't use the spear, it'll kill me." Perhaps it'll kill him if he does. Either way, he has his secrets. by Mark Cooper Photo: SPEAR OF DESTINY'S KIRK BRANDON: is this the most incomprehensible feature ever to appear in RECORD MIRROR? |
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Page 42 Top Singles as used on Top Of The Pops Week ending April 2, 1983 Photo of Clare Grogan entitled "CLARE: a sweet smile at 7" 2, 5, 2 Let's Dance, David Bowie, EMI America 4, 4, 3 Speak Like A Child, Style Council, Polydor 13, 31, 6 Fields of Fire, Big Country, Mercury 22, 15, 3 Visions In Blue, Ultravox, Chrysalis 24, --, -- Two Hearts Beat As One, U2, Island IS109 38, 61, 2 The House That Jack Built, Tracie, Respond 90, --, -- Market Square Heroes, Marillion, EMI EMI5351 (This week / last week / weeks in chart) Compiled by Gallup Big Country - Fields of Fire, uploaded by adamcharney. Page 43 Tracie Who owns the house that Jack built? Who owns the house that he built? Who owns the house that Jack built? Dont you know that we own the house that he built? (And the house that Jack built) Is crumbling away The house that he built is a derelict (And the house that Jack built) Is sliding away And if you hold to the side then you go down with it Reapeat Chorus And the house that Jack built Has taken its toll And all the lives swept underneath the carpets (And the house that Jack built) Is more than deceased It's made bitter young minds and a home for hatred Reapeat Chorus Is it my imagination, or living foundation We've got nothing to lose Reapeat Chorus twice On Respond Records Music and words: Barry/Robinson © 1983 EMI Music Publication Ltd. Tracie - The House That Jack Built, uploaded by thecatkeaton. N.B. Produced by Paul Weller (The Jam, Style Council), who also played bass guitar. Mick Talbot (Style Council) played keyboards. |