—___! photo Sirdman Records OSAKA, Japan's Boredoms return to Vancouver for the first time since 1994 to play the duMaurier International Jazz Festival on Tuesday night. Japan’s Boredoms love the supermarket Bob Mackin News Reporter JAPAN is known as a civil society where the principle of order is a key underpinning. Unlike this side of the Pacific Ocean, drivers use the left side of the road, white- glove service isn’t a thing of the past and department store employees serenade shoppers at opening time every day. So it’s extremely logical that a band which thrives on chaos, like the Boredoms, would emerge as a backlash to conformity in Asia’s most stable and affluent country. The experimental Osaka musical collective packages a wildly diverse (often absurd) mix of hardcore punk, °70s German techno, acid rock and just plain noise. They owe as much to Yoko Ono and the Sex Pistols for musi- cal inspiration as Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa or George Clinton. The Boredoms are the ideal anti- dote for salarymen secking an escape from Japan's inten- sive work ethic. The band gained recogni- tion on this side of the Pacific earlier this decade when endorsements by Sonic Youth and Nirvana inspired music fans to seck out hard- to-find and costly imported Boredoms’ records. Some of the band’s albums were dis- du Maurier tributed by Warner's Reprise label and the band scorcd a slot on the Lollapalooza tour. For the first ame in tive years, the Boredomys are coming co Vancouver. A North Ametican tour ty pro- mote the current Super ac album brings them to Richard's on Richards in Vancouver Tuesday as part of the duMauricr International Jazz Festival. Yamatsuka Eye, one of five principal members of the Boredoms, has played with jazzman John Zorn and loves jazz like millions of his coun- trymen. But in an e-mail interview from Boulder, Colo., he denied the Boredoms are worthy of being labelled as a jazz combo. Vancouver’s festival isn’t the only jazz gathering on the band’s month-long tour: The Boredoms played the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York June 9 and Eye performed with Zorn. “We have three drummers now, our music has become more trance-psychedelic- hardcore, so we like our audience to danee, and enjoy,” he said threugh a translator. “Audiences in Japan dance bur American audiences just stand still and watch. We like evervone to dance to understand our show.” Super ac was recorded over a tweeyvear period and released fast vear by Calitornia’s Birdman label, All seven selections include the word “super.” “We like the sound of super and we also like super market,” Eve said. “Hr has many different things in onc place, We also like to shop at super markets. Our favourite U.S. store is K-Mart and Wal-Mart.” When not recording with the Boredoms, each of the band’s members does their own thing. Eye is involved with bands like | and Hanatrash. Hilah and drum- mer Eda have a trance band called AOA, while guitarist Yamamoto records with Omoide Hatoba, Rovo and Rashinban. Yoshimi P-We plays with 00100, an all-girl group signed to the Kill Rock Stars label in Olympia, Wash. @ The Borcdoms, with the Lonesome Monsters, are at Richard’s on Richards Tuesday at 9 p.m. Tickets are $20. Call 872-5200 for tick- ets or information of check out the web site . Highway Relocation Bylaw 92 Lillooet Road/Monashee Drive AKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to section 535 of the Municipal Act, the Council for The Corporation of the District of North Vancouver intends by Highway Relocation Bylaw 92, Bylaw 7094, to dispose of a certain portion of office hours. highway in District Lot 614 in exchange for land mentioned in the said bylaw for the purposes of relocating such highway. Bylaw 7094 and plans of the proposed highway relocation may be inspected at the Municipal Hall during regular DATED this 16th day of June, 1999 North Vancouver, B.C. 'OOJEEP GRAND CHEROKEE | wy mpl LIMITED f Chrysler's discount superstore Za € megawheels.com/mouniview _ *6,300$8,500 down or trade depending on options seleced. TP. $24,464 to $26,464 pis taxes, OAC.