The book on Love we kkk Hole — Celebrity Skin, Geffen Records/Universal 1998, DGSSD-25164 Courtney Love flavours the pot with an ambitious attempt “to redefine every- thing about the California sound, from the California boy and girl to the beach and sun.” In the process sunny Love and friends risk the fall back to musically sater ground and let rip a hum- miable bunch. Yet the acidic, pained spirit of 1994’s Live Through This remains ready to jock into the brain with © the raw intensity of a roller coaster ride‘ through a black hole courtesy of some dark - lyrics. Love’s still got her demolition heart. Savor the snappy trauma, (DREVIEWS * kx Roy Forbes — Crazy Old Moon, AKA Records 1998, AKA CD 1004 More pretty, country- tinged, blucs-intused songs from an e North Vancouve songwriter who once, ’ spirited known as Bim. 2 tasty guitar If, treats his fans To some of rhe region's finest musicians: Jerry Adolphe on drums, Doug Edwards om bass, Salvador Ferreras on percussion, Miles Hill on bass, Robbic King on keyboards, Claire Lawrence on sax, John Reis-hman on mandolin, Brad Turner on trumpet and Calvin Vollrath on fiddle. Stony Plain label artist Cindy Church drops in for harmony vocals. The dise features a rol- licking reworking of I’m On The Edge, a track trom his UHF incarnation. xkkk& The Tragically Hip — Phantom Power, Universal Music 998. UMSSD 81083 It is a thing of beauty to behold a greap of creatwe people at the top of thei craft. Phantom Power with richly d ed, evoza- tive poctry, energizcd and driven aloft by guitar, drum and bass. The effect is twofold: mind feeds, body charges on the visceral. Nice trick if you can swing it. The Hip have. eee GARBAGE holds an auro- graph session, 4-5:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 21 at the A&B Sound store located at 556 Seymour St. Their latest disc, Verston 2.0, is 2 platinum seller in Canada. The group plays Monday night ar The Plaza of Nations with guests Girls Against Boys. oo HEAR an “English village band” at the upcoming Village Harvest Festival, on Sunday afternoon, Sepz. 27. Jiggery Pokery, led by Edgemont residents Eric and Betty Armstrong, is an }]-member group that The stuff that surrounds you > W. LEQOL | Friday, September 18, 1998 — North Shore News — 27 4 ) ‘CEEP BREE Y SKIN HOLE bandmembers Melissa Auf der Maur, Courtney Love, Patty Scheme! and Eric Erlandson go for a sunny California sound on the new CD Celebrity Skin. promises to make “a large joyful sound” with squeeze- boxes, fiddles, trambones and tubas. Betty, the band’s dance caller, vocalist and spoon player, is steeped in the wis- dom of English and North American folk tradit‘ns. Eric, lead vocalist, guitarist and mandolin player, has been performing and run- ning folk clubs for years. aoe SINGER-songwriter i’erer Graham Gaudreau performs songs and stories from his live recording Headsore Tales at the Vancouver Fringe Festival this weekend. Gaudreau, a professional actor, suffered traumatic brain injury on May 28, 1994 after his VW bus crashed on the Upper Levels “aahblivion” to “actcep- tance” of living with trau- matic brain injury. Catch the actin at the Grandview Park outdoor stage tonight at 9:15 p.m. and Sunday at 11:45 a.m. Gaudreau will also host a special concert and live recording Sunday Sept. 20, 7 p.m. at Trinity-St, Marks Church, 1805 Larch. 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