Michael
Becker

Gavin Friday — Shag
Tobacco, Island Records
1995

Listen to this and you'll
hear who has been influenc-
ing the U2 sound of recent
vintage. It’s their decadent
Dublin pal Gavin Friday.

Shag simply drips with
dark sensuality. Friday is a
twisted crooner and above all
else a gifted story-teller with
a sure knack for unsettling
dispatches, “here she comes
like a child with a gun, she
makes you feel like you're
the only one....”

: Sweet Smells
| of Spring |
| Pot Pourri

Maurice Seezer,
Friday's loyal musical
writing and arrange-
ment partner, con-
tributes keyboard and
accordion embellish-
ments for an overall
effect that places the
duo as the natural heirs
to the creative impulses
of Kurt Weil.

Attention T Rex
fans, the disc contains a
hip cover of Marc
Bolan’s Slider.

Simultaneously old,
new, borrowed and blue, this
tare concoction may be expe-
rienced first-hand on Monday
at The Starfish Room.
Opening for Gavin Friday is
The Legendary Jim Ruiz
Group, one of those slick new
lounge acts popping up way-
wiggy out there in retro-
groovy land.

Cibo Matto — Viva! La
Woman, Warner Bros.
1996

I can’t get enough of this
strange disc.

Two swingin’ young
Japanese chicks from The
Big Apple do Portishead
,without the narcosis.

“Clever sampling — they . 9

trolied for choice snip-
pets from
Morricone, Paul Weller,
“ Machito and his Afro
“Cuban Jazz Ensemble
“and Duke Ellington —
combine with intoxicat-
ing thythm and really
quirky poetic lyrics with
a healthy emphasis on
mi food. “We are taking

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the depraved villains
populating his chilling

folk fables and epic
accounts of — death-
dealing —_anti-heroes

who are only truly alive when
snuffing out others.

: Cave brings P) Harvey,
Shane MacGowan and Kylie
Minogue along to help bury
the corpses with a cover ver-
sion of Dylan’s Death [s Not
The End.

Light at the end of the tun-
nel? Who knows, I'm stilt

trying to shake off the night--

somata

Sunday, March 31, 1996 ~ North Shore News -2t

gee aa rimgnk & rarhin “a

(guitars and tin whistle) and
John Reynolds (guitar and
vocals) to the line up.

On April 19 Eddie Coffey
& His Coffey Mates (the
original Newfies) breeze into
town for some “good ol’
lachrymose Newfie soul.”

April 20 sees UHF —
Shari Ulrich, Bill Henderson
and Roy Forbes at the theatre.

EXSCITING
WORLDS §

sugar water shower..." Pass
the white pepper ice cream,
please.
Nick Cave And The Bad
Seeds — Murder Ballads,
Reprise Records 1996

Evil permeates this black
romp through the wicked
heads of assorted fiends and
their hapless prey.

Cave is ever the intelligent
gore-hound. He fleshes out
with passion and precision

mares.
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