. NEWS photo Cindy Bellamy NEO MORTE tsand members each bring their own ideas to their music, which they describe as experimental rock and roll. Brothers i . Don Jsaac (back) and Brian (right) are from the North Shore where 7 the band frequently jams. A professional mobile DJ service 3 Accessory sales from blank tapes to record needles, 99° russnays Quembers onty) “Hooks JANE FONDA would cringe at the sound of it. Princess Di’s roya! blood would turn cold. And Shirley MacLaine wouldn’t want to meet Neo Morte in this life or in any other. The North Shore-based group say they’re not a punk or heavy metal band. But their crashing, snarling music belies that claim. And to look at them, one could not mistake them for members of the Mormon Tabernacle, dressed in black, weighed down by heavy chains and spiked dog col- jars. Neo Morte (New Dead), describe their music as revolu- tionary rather than punk. “People say we're punk but we’re more innovative than that. Our music is a more revolu- tionary rock, it’s alternative — experimental rock and roll,’’ says bass player Brian Isaac, who is also the vice-president of a local Irish solidarity committee. Neo Morte’s most recent release, ‘‘Thirty Minute Work-Out,”” (a 29 % minute tape), is a takeoff of fitness guru Jane Fonda’s exercise regime. Not what Fonda had in mind to accompany a good workout, songs like “We Got 5S***," written by band member Nik Normal who makes his living working for a Vancouver crematorium, attacks materialism and modern conveniences. AB CCD-V9 or CCD-VF40 or CCD-F30 with carrying case LCH-V50* onus Video Accessory Kit is yours at no extra cost when you purchase a Sony Handycam “Shirley McLame,”’ written hy Isaac, takes on actress/writer Shirley MacLaine’s new age phi- losophy. The songs attest to Neo Morte’s desire to defy the norm and to expose middle-class sen- sibilities. “1 like to get to the bottom of the truth,” says Isaac. Brother Don Isaac, however, says the more eerie the music the better. “I’ve really been influenced by psycho-murders lately, movies EVELYN JACOB feature writer like Blue Velvet and Psycho. I’ve gotten into the character Dennis Hopper plays in Blue Velvet,” hence his song,‘“Why Can’t ! be Frank.” While Brian says he’s the polit- ically-motivated member of the band, demonstrated in songs like “Gibraltar,” Don tikes to see what he can get away with. “Alice Cooper is my god. | get different ideas from his songs — horror, eerie stuff. | like to ARRAAAAAAAAAAAA ccp-vs $4995 ‘ ‘Local band beyond punk CCD-F40 HandycamPro Handycam with Handycam with + Video 8 Camera wit Buit in Superimposer Superimposer Playback Deck *Auto focus with + Video Camera with Bust in Play #V¥6e08 Camera with Bult in {2 Témm Macto Zoom Leng a Digt Paatack Deck «2 Page Buttin © Variable Speed Shutter # Crystal Digital Superimposer Autofocus with Clean Freeze Frame, Frame by Frame ‘6x Power Macro Zoos Lens Advance and Slow Kotion #kdvanced Eat Search & Insert Edt Fade In and Fade Out Functions *DatelTime Generator “7051 595 throw hooks into my songs.” And though Neo Morte’s music is sometimes hard to categorize — half political, half complete nonsense — lyrics are important to them — surprising, because many of the words just blurr by. “Our lyrics either shock, sur- prise, or make you !augh. But what we’re really interested in is intelligidle lyrics,"“says Don. Intelligibie or not, lyrics like “Once | was domestic, the house and the wife/ Whole situa- tion was plastic, it twisted my life/ The only solution, short of total despair/ Was to short circuit my brains out so ! couldn't care,”’ typify Neo Morte’s com- plaint-laden attitude. Brian, however, denies the band is fueled by anger. To the band’s credit, the members have backed up their political rhetoric by playing for a recent International Greenpeace benefit and a ‘Rock against prisons’’ benefit at Crab Beach. And with tongue placed firmly in cheek, Neo Morte often points out the ridiculous in today’s modern world: ‘‘We_ hate Shirley MacLaine/She’s got something wrong with her brain/Another guru we can all disdain/ Her logic is her bane. And how can one argue with that. Bonus Video Accessory Kit Includes: # Video Light © Rechargeable Battery Cleaning Cassette Tape Lens Protector * Cleaning cloth # Video Cassetie CCD-F30 * Ths offer vald only at participating Sony of Canada Authorized Dealers between . November 9, 1988 and December 31, 1989 :