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Men’s choir

THE EIGHTY-VOICE Vancouver
Welsh Men’s Choir will be pres-
enting With a Voice of Singing at
the Centennial Theatre, June 19.
Under musical director Robin
Thomas, the choir will be featur-
ing a selection of songs from the

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Welsh traditional, sacred, folk,
musical theatre and light classic
repertoire.

The concert begins at 8 p.m.
Tickets cost $10 for adults,$8 for
seniors and students, and are
available at Ticketmaster outlets.

Piness Is A Warm Gun.

Concrete Blonde blasts butlets

L.A. BAND bites the bullet;
Boston band bites the brain;
Donny bites anyone he can
to prove he’s not a wimp.
** Concrete Blonde — Free, IRS
Records 1989

When tough-tongued Johnette
Napolitano tosses off profundities
like “God is a bullet, have mercy
on us everyone” you just know
that this band isn’t trading in the
usual half-baked escapist pap
pawned off on the pop populace
in these dissonant and desperate

days.

God Is A Bullet is hands down,
the best musical lambasting of that
good ol’ z, °-toting society down
south sinc = :-nnon struck with
Happiness .2 A Warm Gun back in
the dying days of the Beatles.

Concrete Blonde is an L.A.-
based unit. T’-e band looks road
hardened — all tattooed skin (not
those cute little ones you can get
with some bubble gum packs —
ooh so dangerous), stringy
unkempt hair (not the teased
rocker bouffants favored by some
heavy-metal poodles), and sallow

complexions (the true physical et-

chings of rock ‘n’ roll dues duly
paid).
Napolitano’s voice and lyrical

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thrust impart a bone-weary de-
cadence. The boys in the band let

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BECKER

record review

rip with a Californian garage,
free-form heaviness on the best of
the tracks. Check ‘em out guys

and gals.
t#**® Pixies — Doolittle, 4AD/
PolyGram 1989

Dark. Demented. Disturbing.
Boston’s Pixies will either cuff you
on the head and have you high-
tailing it away from your speakers
in disgust or the listening experi-
ence will be something utterly
subversive — each offering the
singular basis for a full-blown
psychotic reaction of a technicolor
nightmare.

Black Francis (aka Charles
Thompson IV), a dropped-out an-
thropology major who looks more
like a cherubic truck driver than
the troubled man responsible for
the acidic screams and misan-
thropic lyrics at the core of this

MOUNTAIN

release, is a rare original.

The unexpected photo art and
lyric booklet accompanying the
disc is a twisted montage of
organic fragments (teeth, bones,
bellies, innards) obsessively jux-
taposed with weathered, found
objects. :

The songs, carried on a wave of
‘60s surfer guitars and circa ’70s
punk mayhem, lurch from harsh
ravers, like Debaser and the
obscure Crackity Jones, to outright
dangerous bursts of spleen ven-
ting, Tame and Dead,

Pixies are a crafty pack of primal
fear-mongering misfits. There is a
place for such go-go ghouls in the
world.

** Donny Osmond, Capitol Re-
cords 1989

Ach, Donny laddie, where have
you been? And what have you
gone and done? First Marie goes
bad, what with the divorce and all,
and new you! We do not need
another George Michael. The
young libidinous and swooning
masses have enough to contend
with from Mr. Michael, he of den-
tal perfection and chronic facial
stubble. And well, Julio has the
matron set all wrapped up. Where

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CONCRETE BLONDE shoot from the lip with one of the-best anti-gun songs since Lennon fired off Hap-

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