17 - Friday, March 6, 1987 - North Shore News

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GO FOUR 3 players Steve Quinn (on left, left photo), Roxanne Heichert, Gord Badanic and Ian Noble are set
to appear tonight at UBC’s Student Union Building. Next week, the four will jump into their Chevy van and
start touring the American West Coast. Cameraman Dan Nowak (right photo) shoots Go Four 3’s video which
is currently being filmed on the North Shore and in Vancouver.

NV ROCK BAND
TAKES ON THE
U.S. WEST COAST

IT WAS a dark Manitoba night as the band Go Four 3 was
“booting along in the middle of nowhere’’ across the
Prairies and along the Trans-Canada Highway.

NEWS photos Nall Lucente

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_ “There were these two cows that

had escaped from the field,”
recalls drummer Ian Noble. ‘‘We
sort of missed one but hit the
other. Two tons of prime rib.’’

The band members were unhurt
and their 1977 Chevy van escaped
without a dent. ‘“‘They were going
to slaughter the cow soon. | think
they did it the next day.’’

Now operating out of a house
on Bowser Avenue in North Van-
couver, Go Four 3 formed in Feb-
ruary 1984 from the remnants of a
60s girl group The Debutantes.

“We don’t have any
other jobs. If we
don’t play we don’t
get paid. It’s a
junny equation that
way.”’

—drummer Ian Noble

{In January 1987, the four-
member band released Six Friends,
its second disc.

A tite of Six Friends stems from
the philosophy of singer Roxanne
Heichert, who believes everyone
needs six friends to be pallbearers
at funeral time.

“Six close friends in life is a ma-
jor accomplishment,’’ theorizes
Noble, 24. ‘‘If you’ve got six close
friends in life you’ve done pretty
well I'd say."*

The latest release after their Go
Four 3 debut EP, the 12-song Six
Friends is a compilation of raw
pop that leads to comparisons with
The Jam and The Cult.

By STEPHEN BARRINGT
News Reporter

Following a March 6 concert at
the UBC Student Union Building,
Go Four 3 heads south for a six-
week tour of unexplored territory
on the American West Coast.

“This will be our first time and
it’s going to take a lot of work to
just be noticed down there,’’ No-
ble admits. ‘‘But I look forward to
a good response.”

When he was nine years old, a
paper route helped pay for Noble’s
first drum kit. ‘I’ve been playing
the drums since —- that’s all {’ve
wanted to do.””

Self-managed, band members
Noble, Heichert, Steve Quinn and
Gord Badanic put in 12 hours a
week in rehearsals and are booked
on a hectic touring schedule.

“We don’t have any other jobs.
If we don’t play we don’t get
paid,’’ Noble says with more than
a note of humor. ‘It’s a funny
equation that way.”’

Another Canadian tour slated
for early summer will see the Go
Four 3 members hopping in their
van and heading off to conquer 10
provinces and a territory.

“To me its a paid vacation — I
get to sec places | haven’t seen be-
fore.”’

The group’s distinctive name
comes from old Air Force jargon
for landing on an aircraft carrier:
on scope, on target, perfect land-
ing. Coined by a pilot, Go Four 3
“sounded good’’ and ‘‘just sort of
rolls off the tongue,’’ says Noble.

An early name suggestion of
Aileron was axed. As for another
suggested name of Ejector Seat,
“it was sort of ejected’’ and quick-

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