THREE BANDS SLATED

IN ITS SECOND RUN at bringing the sometimes
fresh, always interesting breath of original Van-
couver area music to the North Shore, Whispers
presents a Monday to Wednesday selection of the

reconstituted, the jocular, and the totally female.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

Opening Monday will be
Body Electric a combination
of veteran musicians whose
various trips through the
rock and roll success wringer
left each with soured
expectations.

Frank Ludwig, ex-
Trooper, ex-Randy
Bachman’s Iron Horse
keyboardist, says he met Bob
Buckley and David Sinclair,
ex-Straight Lines members,
at Litthe Mountain Sound
Studios in 1983, each at the
tail end of collapsed groups.
They compared musical notes
and found, ‘‘success was not
all it’s cracked up to be. But
we're musicians and we all
still like music, we just
wanted to get back to enjoy-
ing it again.”'

Together, they set about
recapturing that temporarily
lost musical joy in Buckley's
home recording studio. The
results were shopped around
until Attic records signed the
band, and the first Body
English album was released
in 1984. A&M records has
since worked out a distribu-
tion deal with Attic, and
albums like Body English
have subsequently been given
new promotional push. Both
the album and the band have
received solid critical ap-
proval in eastern Canada.

With the addition of drum-
mer Ross Friesen from 3-D,
the keyboard-based
Mainstream pop sound of
Body Electric was ready for
‘rollicking live execution.

Ludwig says the Whispers
New Sounds North Side
original music venue is a
great trend: ‘‘We’ve all been
in this game long enough to
know that playing Top 40 is a
dead end game.”’

Tuesday’s New Sounds
selection will be the ir-
Trepressible Beverly Sisters,

135 West 1st St.
North Vancouver
980-7722

drums, would have been con-
sidered far too strange to
play an established club
venue a few years ago: ‘‘bul
people have changed. Au-
diences are no longer ex-

Chance to hear new sounds

Bolero Lava.

The band’s first single on
Vancouver's independent Mo
Da Mu record label,
“Inevitable’’, is into its third
pressing. Plans are afoot to

photo submit

OPENING WHISPERS’ second New Sounds North Side on Monday night will be the origixial
techno-pop of Body Electric. The band is a combination of veteran musicianship and 80's pop
production. (Left to right) Frank Ludwig, ex-Trooper keyboardist, David Sinclair, ex-Straight
Lines guitarist, and Bob Buckley, ex-Straight Lines, keyboards and vocals.

six Lower Mainland chaps
who danced into the rock and
roll business three and a half
years ago, ‘‘because it was
fun, not because we had to,”
says Beverly bassist Don
Jones.

The band’s sound reflects
its sisterly philosophies: a
blend of melodic dance music
interspliced with radical
changes of pace: country
songs with funk choruses.

Jones says the band, which
now includes the locally
renowned Andy Graffitti on

Coast appearance
of international re-

Next week
Albert Dipstick
& the Teenbeats

clusively interested in
spandex bands like Lover-
boy, they are much more
open to original sounds."’

The Beverly Sisters are out
to entertain, says Jones, **We
have a good time and aur au-
diences have a good time. As
the song says, girls just want
to have fun.’’

Rounding out this second
New Sounds installment,
Wednesday night, will be the
five-piece female pop and
psychedelia-influenced

release a new Lava single in
late August.

Bolero Lava has been
together two years, building
critical and popular acclaim
for its infectious pop rhythms
behind the intelligent lyrical
content of its songs and the
vocals of Vanessa Richards.

This will be the first North
Shore appearance for all
three bands.

Whispers New Sounds
North Side ticket informa-
tion: 986-7944,

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