TECHNOTICS

TECHNOTICS
What: Band
Where: Detroit, Michigan
When: 198?
Who: Darryl Miglio, Rick J. Ritts, Keith Anderson

There's very little infos about this synth-wave combo from Detroit, Michigan. They self-released a single in 1983 of weird electro in a d-e-v-o-luted way with a Wall of Voodoo vibe. The single is credit to Darryl Miglio, Rick J. Ritts and Keith Anderson on synthesizers, electronic drums and guitars.
They played live in january 1984 at the Detroit Institute of Arts with The Polish Muslims, Blue Pigs and Other Voices. In may 1984 at The Shores Theatre they played with the Walk Thru Walls (a band that sounds very similar) along with movies projection of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner cartoons between the musical sets.

Technotics - Money Lu$t / Robotized Creatures (7'' 1983 BlueWarp Records) [here]

WHAT IF THINKING

WHAT IF THINKING
What: Band
Where: Detroit, Michigan
When: 1982-?
Who: Gail Baker, Howard Glazer

The Detroit group What If Thinking combines guitar synthesizers, electric percussions and other sounds for a unique blend of experimental, weird techno-pop. Initiated in 1982 as a studio recording endeavor by lead guitarist Howard Glazer and vocalist-guitarists Gail Baker, What If Thinking had its origins in a jazz-fusion group. In fact, Glazer and Baker started a band in 1980 entitled Gail Baker's Catz. The band was a jazz group, that played in the Detroit bar scene for some time. But soon Glazer and Baker wanted to play experimental or fusion jazz, while the other members wanted to continue with the mainstream sound. "We started doing Reality People in our sets and other things that were too wild for jazz clubs. We were too jazz to play in dance bars and too experimental for the traditional jazz clubs, so that lead to the breakup" Glazer said. "I had a friend who just bought a recording studio - it was pretty small, like a garage studio, but we went in there and just messed around for awhile" Glazer said. "Before we knew it, what we had was the beginnings of our first recordings." Glazer said the early stages were only an experiment, but as things became more and more advanced, four songs were recorded and became the first EP.

"It's funny, because there was actually a recording before there was a performing band. We never played anywhere until we came out with our record, then we got an actual band together. If you notice on our record, there were various amounts of people that we used in the studio, so you could say the original band was formed out of our recording project," Glazer said.
The 4-songs EP features the mutant-disco of "Action Action", the electro-extravaganza of "Dancing on Mars", the sloppy warped post-punk of "Reality People" and the slow funk of "Money and Love".
The band began to take shape several months after the release and comprised James Dragon (vocals, keyboards, flute, electronic percussion), Mike Stanton (bass, keyboards), Al Waltz (drums), Glatzer (guitar) and Baker (vocals, guitar, synthesizers). James Dragon gives the group a distinctive sound, with the use of keyboards and self-constructed electronic percussion and Al Waltz began using a combination of electronic and acoustic drums in live performance. The band started to perform live, at the TRAXX in Detroit and at Tom's Foolery, in 1984 they also opened a show for The Gun Club.

In 1985 they released their second single "I Want That Boy / Run Run Run". The main track is a dragging bizzarre technopop tune with female/male vox while the b-side got a lot of devo-esque reminiscence.
After the single they started to recording an LP for Rüde Records that never saw the light.

What If Thinking - What If Thinking ‎(7'' 1983 Dauncy)
What If Thinking ‎- I Want That Boy / Run Run Run (7'' 1985 Rüde Records)
[here]

SAN FRANSISCO (SLASH)

This reportage is taken from the legendary Los Angeles punk fanzine Slash (vol.3 n.5 - 1980). Compiled by Vale and Juno (of Search & Destroy / Re-search fame) it's a nice collection of obscure punk/wave names from the city of San Francisco.

"Incomplete Glossary (A-Z) of Recent Phenomena in the Bay Area"
compiled by Vale and Andrea Juno

ADOLESCENT RECORDS / SEARCH & DESTROY PRODUCTIONS: a merger to release trans-time/avant garde records & cassettess. Scheduled new albums di Factrix / Slava / Sleepers; re-release of Throbbing Gristle's "We Hate You (Little Girls) / Five Knuckle Shuffle", etc. P.O. Box 99350, S.F., CA 94109 or 20 Romolo, No. B, S.F., CA 94133
APPLIANCES: 3 girls 2 guys. R&R plus homemade instruments. Songs like: Miami / Run Me Over With Your Cadillac / Cease to Exist...
BACHELORS EVEN: 2 wry experimentors from NY/Boston: like, rhythm tracks arerecords sawed apart & recombined...Have destroyed TV sets on both coasts...
BAY OF PIGS: "A continuing experiment in merging language & sound" - music/noise experiments plus Andrew on vocal seizures. Influence: Demetrio Stratos, Italian sound poet. New 45: Addiction / Aliens, Forthcoming EP: Polyphrenic Man / The Flux Patrol / The Schizoid Void. Hawaiian lap guitar, guitars trumpet, drums, vocal effects, etc. Other song titles: Revolution of the Senses / Your Climb Photographs / Life After Time / I Feel a Fuck Coming On / San Francisco's a Small Town / Mind Machine..
CAZAZZA, MONTE / TANA EMMOLO: Oakland's genetic terrorists with Something for Nobody - their new EP on Industrial Records...
CLUB FOOT: The place for special performance / music events. Like, Bruce Conner showed films while the Bachelors "played" recently. New LP forthcoming with the LONGSHOREMEN / ALTER BOYS / BAY OF PIGS / NAKED CITY ...
DEB-U-TAUNT BALL: June 21st A summer solstice torchlit ritual for girls by girls. Held under a freeway next to a canal, it included a voodoo metabolic soundtrack by FACTRIX, an emergency flarelined presentation walkway, and an unplanned medieval bonfire, climaxed by appearance of polic. (Unreported post-punk peak event)
DNA: recent NY assult on SF. Basic R&R Tools (12-string guitar, bass, drums) re-invented to blast black sound patterns against stark white space. High-wire Minimalism....
MR. E & THE NECROMANTICS: domination of Hotel Utah, 4th/Bryant. Bomb Threat Graphics...
FACTRIX: "slow motion soundtrack is flesh" from SF's most industrial/experimental 'live' ensemble. New LP featuring Phantom Pain / Center of the Doll / Heavy Breathing / Snuff Box / Eerie Lights...forthcoming
FALSE IDOLS: military / punk madness from Max Volume & cohorts. (415)
GREY MATTER: New Band forming by Heidi (x-VS)
INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS: "4 primitive virgin witches that change instruments / 10-year-old tinkertoy skeleton sound". Carol & Judy from PINK SECTION, Jo Jo Plqnteen (who recently did Child Hood Prostitute at the Savoy) Genvieve from Paris on  sax.
JEORGIA ANDERSON: One woman band, the inventor of Girl's War (Ladies First - Draft Girls!)
LEWD (the New): Satz & Bob from Seattle + Olga & Alex from VS. with songs like Climate of Fear / Walter's Lips (Cronkite) / Go to Hell in Hollywood / Mentally 17 / Public Exectution..
MAGGOTS: 6 or 7 teenagers. New 45 with pet maggot in handmade package: (Let's Get) Tammy Wynette / 2-2-79 ("the date that Sid Vicious died - about him croaking")...
MINIMAL MAN: did soundtrack for Fred Klein's Racktown (sleazy movie of manslaughtering girls on rollerskate), & performed with giant skull at Eureka Theater recently.
NAKED CITY: musician-types "intending to expand to an orchesta.."
NEGATIVELAND: 3-6 from Corcord who've produced experimental LP (S7 from Seeland, Box 54, Concord, CA 94522) with Individual Cover Art. Performed once at Savoy with "baby-attract-home" movie (super 8, mostly overexposed). Autentic suburban frustrations sublimated...
OUT-OF-TOWN-BANDS can get booked in SF at Mabuhay / Sound of Music / Back-Dor-Rock City which Robert Hanrahan books / Club Generic / Club Foot / and the Savoy / in Berkeley at Barrington Hall & the Berkely Square (also a record company).
PALACE OF FINE ARTS where Tuxedomoon & DNA played. "Majestic change, all red drapres & black soudn reflectors. Big white screeen reflected huge shadows onstage. Red rocking chairs. Half the crowd were heckling fools from suburbs who just didn't get it. After the show I was surprised more people didn't walk around the lake..." (Heidi)
PUNK ROCK LIVES: Flipper / Vktms / Tools / Regime / Impatient Youth / Nocturnal Emissions / etc.
RAT, PAUL: since the defunct Geary Temple now booking Independent Halls like the Victoria Theater, California Hall
R&N₂ Productions: "vaudeo incision of crisis data tranfer - rhythm & noise deploys" (tales of life & death from the electronic battleground). Alve at The Compound Sept. 12-13 (415)
ROUGH TRADE: Legenday London Record Company / Store / Distributor now in San Francisco! Mail order catalog: 1412 Grant Ave, SF CA 94133 (415)
SAVOY: wide variety of innovative performances / one of the best atmospheres in SF now
SHOOT A MONKEY: oblique triangle of explorers: Peter Worrall (London), Alan Brown (New Zealand), Jo Jo Planteen (USA) New 45 forthcoming: Islamatic / Mother Is...
SLAVA: Mad synthesizer shaman unleashes arctic hysteria upon a hollow earth soon!
SLEEPERS: Micheal Belfer, Ricky Williams back! plus band. Forthcoming album includes Zenith / The Mind / Let Me Free - "when there's sleep there's no pain..."
SOCIETY DOGS: hardcore anarchist punk band with new 45: Working Class People / Bad Dread. Johnithin Christ on vocals, Joe Dirt (g), Jamil Hell (b), David Del Prado (d). some songs: The Baby Is Dead / Metropolitican Rus / How Can I Miss You When You Won't Even Stay?
STAND THEATER: Sleazy Market St. Moviehouse featuring James bond, Ilse She-Wolf of the SS, etc. now a significant punk burrowing hole...
THREE: new ensemble with films / slides / sound: "we always use something new as soon as we find it." some works: Breakfast of Chairmans (Mao) / Paranoia & Persecution / The Airplane Song (video piece)
TOMMY TADLOCK & THE LOCKETTES: "C&W Punk - combining basic attitudes of shit kickin' southern dixie R&R with punk stance." some songs: Queer & Ashamed/ No Mobility / Don't Blame It on My Mama / Me & My Uniform. from gay subculture.
TONG, WINSTON & BRUCE GEDULDIG: Internationally famous duo's recent SF performances: Against Nature, Schweitzer / Coward, Close to You / Privilegs, The Mermaid, Prostitute (with JoJo), Dancin in the Streets, Water Burns, Frankie & Johnnie
UNDEAD, THE: with the original David Vacant (g), Sid Terror (v), Bob Noxious (d), Larry Conquest (b). Hardcore roots-punk with songs like Hitler's Brain, Supermarket Music, One-Handed Love Affair, Is the President a Moron?, Fido Is a Crotch Sniffer.
UPTIGHTS: Guy Ana, Cary Cruel, Larry Godwin from Eureka with White War, Foxholes, Break the Law, Court of the Dead & other songs
WOLFARINES: "Jimmy" plus R&R band (including Bruce, Dead Kennedys): "Why do you think we have a band - to make music or to make girlfriends?"
WOUNDS: Teenagers from Oakland plus Paul from Petaluma: "We're a band centered around soulful rhythmic patterns, droning overtones; very likeable." / "lifes jsut a bowl of rocks."
ZEV: Important local percussionist / trance innovator with found 'junk' percussion tools. Recently returned from NYC (where his UNS equipment was stolen). 12" 45 on LUST/UNLUST Records "Slat of Heavy Metals." ("Skin on Thigh. Thorns.")
ZRU VOGUE: Palo Alto / Experimenting heavily in percussion - tropical jungle track music wild boar sounds, etc. Forthcoming 45: Nakweda Dream / Kyoo-mye-loh-nim-bas....

ICONOCLAST INTERNATIONAL

ICONOCLAST INTERNATIONAL RECORDS & TAPES
What: Label
Where: Tucson, Arizona
When: 1981-83
Who: Lee Joseph

Lee Joseph was the mover of the Tucson punk scene. He ran the Roads to Moscow record store and was the bass player for The Suspects, The White Pages, Suzan and the Erotics, Jonny Sevin, E.S.S. and Audience Abuse. In 1981 in order to release the tape of Sin of Detachment (him and Chris of Les Seldoms) he founded one of the first Tucson independent punk label: Iconoclast International.
The Iconoclast published from the minimal-wave of Sin of Detachment to the art-punk of Les Seldoms, the devo-esque synthwave of Jacket Weather to the hardcore punk of E.S.S. and the noisey Corporate Whores. To cover the underground local scene IC released two comps, "Valley Fever" (a punk-experimental tape with Les Seldoms, Urban Guerillas, the amazing Chromatics, Phantom Limbs...) and "Town Without Pity" (with Rotte Kappele, Clean Dog, Yard Trauma and others). At the end of 1983 Lee Joseph moved to California and the label morphed into Dionysus Records, jumping on the bandwagon of the 60s garage psych revival.

IC 8201 - Sin of Detachment - The Beauty Within (tape 1982)
IC 8202 - Les Seldoms - What I Did With My Friend (tape 1982)
IC 8204 - AAVV - Valley Fever - A Taste of Tucson's Underground (tape 1982) [here]
IC 8205 - Jacket Weather - It's a Wonderful War (tape 1982) [here]
IC 8208 - E.S.S. - Espionage Sabotage Subversion (tape 1982) [here] 
IC 8302 - Jacket Weather - When Shadows Move (12'' 1983) [here]
IC 8303 - Jim Parks - Lifeboy (tape 1983)
IC 83?? - The Corporate Whores - Revenge of the Whores (tape 1983) [here]
IC 83?? - AAVV - Town Without Pity (tape 1983)
IC 83?? - The Seldoms - Last Tape (tape 1983)
IC 83?? - Yard Trauma - Reptile House (tape 1983)
"Yard Trauma are a very versatile band, in that they deliver slices of industrial, psychedelic, and garage punk material. Aside from a few live tracks, the recording is very! good (like most Iconoclast tapes). These guys are not ordinary!" [review on MRR]

"2 hours south of Phoenix is Tucson. Tucson's scene isn't huge, but it's grwing bigger all the etime. The place to play here is a dive called The Backstage which has been having punk gigs practically every week for about 3 years now. The hangout for Tucson's punks is a small record store called Roads to Moscow, located on the University of Arizona campus. Lee Joseph, the guy who works in and manages the store operates his Iconoclast International cassette tape label out of there.
So far he's got about 10 releases, which ranges from dirge to psychedelia to trash. As far as the bands go, we've got bands to fit the basic factions (hardcore, psychedelia, art-noise). [...] Rotte Kappelle and Les Seldoms take care of the psychedelic faction. R.K. have just released a great tape on Iconoclast, and Les Seldoms, who've been around for 2 years now, have some real old and bad stuff of theirs on an EP out on Subterranean called "Arizona Disease" (Les Seldoms are a completely different band now). Yard Trauma (a Throbbing Gristle-type trash combo) and Clean Dog (an art-punk-media band who include Flipper and Noh Mercy covers in their set) comprise the arty faction." [from Maximum Rock'n'roll n.3 jan-feb 1983 by Slitboy (of Slit fanzine)]

EAST SIDE CLUB

EAST SIDE CLUB
What: Club
Where: 1229 Chestnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
When: 1981-84?
Who: Neil Bartello ?

The East Side Club, in Philadelphia, was a private (membership card required) over-21 club. Along with the Kennel Club, Landmark Tavern, Reviva, Ripley's, Trocadero, Elks Centers, ESC was one of the best new wave / alternative club in Philly. When the Love Club closed, the promoter Bobby Startup began to work at the ESC booking punk/new wave bands. The program was daily with a succession of local bands, american and european acts.
Located in Center City the club was a subterranean big room with low ceiling and many of the flyers and artworks were made by Matt Marello [see here] (singer in the synthpunk band Executive Slacks).
Around 1983 some hardcore kids opened the West Side Club a basement for "all-ages" punk gigs in opposition to the ESC club policy. When the ESC closed (mid-80s) it became the Kurt's, a gay dance club.

Here's a list of gigs 1981-84, it's incomplete, so please help me to fill! 

1981 
jun. 19 - mission of burma / transfactor
jun. 20 - american passions (dc) / outsets (ny)
jul. 10 - bunnydrums / transfactor / head cheese
jul. 11 - bush tetras / ben wah torpedos
jul. 12 - impossible years
jul. 14 - responsible teenagers
jul. 15 - quincy
jul. 16 - the slits / the stickmen
aug. 17 - killing joke / no milk 
aug. 21 - killing joke / earthling (jpn)
aug. 27 - oingo boingo/ the stickmen
sep. 04 - waitresses / impossible years
sep. 05 - raybeats / fats deacon and the dumbwaiters
sep. 06 - classix nouveaux / transfactor
sep. 07 - mother may i
sep. 08 - project b
sep. 09 - suzi combo
sep. 10 - hooters
sep. 18 - a certain ratio / physical push
sep. 19 - our daughter's wedding / roustabouts
sep. 20 - jitterz
sep. 21 - shakin pyramids / no milk
sep. 22 - the unknowns
sep. 23 - duran duran / why things break
sep. 24 - pigbag / the stickmen 
sep. 27 - nikko toy (ny) + fashion show
oct. 02 - konk (ny) / native tongue (aus)
oct. 03 - birthday party / john cooper-clarke / minimalics
oct. 04 - method actors / der mond
oct. 05 - orchestal manoevres in the dark / mother may i
oct. 06 - tantrum
oct. 07 - strays
oct. 08 - charlie normal
oct. 09 - tom verlaine / necessaries (ny)
oct. 10 - the db's / cheap perfume (ny)
oct. 11 - was (not was) / wayne kramer & brides of funkestein / stickmen
oct. 12 - decontrol
oct. 13 - the metrix
oct. 14 - equators (uk) / debteras
oct. 15 - echo & the bunnymen / no milk
oct. 16 - simple minds (uk) / the comateens
oct. 22 - the hooters
oct. 24 - the professionals / the skp's
oct. 25 - misfits / still missing
nov. 01 - reesa & the rooters
nov. 02 - emergency broadcast system
nov. 03 - the score
nov. 04 - the why o's (ny)
nov. 05 - the love dogs
nov. 06 - bush tetras / informed sources
nov. 07 - girls at our best / the offs
nov. 08 - babylon dance band
nov. 09 - tsol / autistic behavior
nov. 10 - the cheaters
nov. 11 - deprogrammers
nov. 12 - no milk / the stickmen / the heathens / wild women of wongo
nov. 13 - medium medium (uk) / mother may  i ? club of rome?
nov. 14 - the blasters (l.a.) / the hooks (ny)
nov. 15 - wkdu birthday live broadcast with the dance and the r.e.m.
nov. 16 - friction
nov. 17 - the moroccos
nov. 18 - new (uk) / china choir
nov. 19 - the facts
nov. 20 - wah! (uk) / new rotics
nov. 21 - mission of burma / united labor
nov. 22 - transfactor
nov. 23 - the suburbs
nov. 24 - the cameras
nov. 25 - the time
nov. 26 - molecules of force
nov. 27 - lenny kaye conncection / the readymades
nov. 28 - the nitecaps (ny) / the roustbouts
nov. 29 - vietnam (athens, ga)
nov. 30 - debteras
dec. 01 - charlie normal
dec. 02 - outside inter-fearance
dec. 03 - the trial
dec. 04 - pere ubu / tymon dogg (uk)
dec. 05 - the human condition / animal and minimalistics // the stick f'ks / the shake ?
dec. 06 - zero boys
dec. 07 - the suburban lawns (la)
dec. 08 - the insiders
dec. 09 - david smith four
dec. 10 - x neighbors & allies
dec. 11 - bunnydrums / physical push
dec. 12 - the cramps / gun club
dec. 13 - wall of voodoo
dec. 14 - emergency broadcast system
dec. 15 - s.k.p.'s
dec. 16 - the stickmen
dec. 17 - late teens
dec. 18 - nash the slash
dec. 19 - anti pasti (uk) / the dead boys
dec. 20 - kevin dunn & the regiment of women
dec. 21 - breu revueu
dec. 22 - edith massey & the evidence
dec. 23 - human switchboard // the proof ?
dec. 24 - the flying squids
dec. 25 - bad brains / informed sources
dec. 26 - the outsets (ny) / certain general (ny)
dec. 27 - iridescent sharks
dec. 28 - the maxxe
dec. 29 - the knobs
dec. 30 - united labor
dec. 31 - gang of four

1982
jan. 01 - executive slacks
jan. 29 - damned (uk) 
feb. 20 - executive slacks / 25 section 
mar. 01 - narthex
mar. 02 - eunichs from munich
mar. 03 - *dance to the music
mar. 04 - johnny thunders / the daughters (boston)
mar. 05 - certain generals / ben wah torpedos
mar. 06 - way of the west / lemmy caution
mar. 07 - *free dancing
mar. 08 - the sharks
mar. 09 - consenting adults
mar. 10 - *dance to the music
mar. 11 - dangerous birds (boston)
mar. 12 - v; (boston) / ozone (ny)
mar. 13 - sic fucks (ny) / red buckets
mar. 14 - *free dancing
mar. 15 - again again again
mar. 16 - the specimens (boston)
mar. 17 - *st. patrick's day dance party
mar. 18 - native tongue (boston)
mar. 19 - fleshtones / hunger project (ny)
mar. 20 - method actors / mother may i
mar. 21 - *free dancing
mar. 22 - the impossible years
mar. 23 - junior mints
mar. 24 - *dance to the music
mar. 25 - the dark (boston)
mar. 26 - medium medium / vietnam (athens, ga)
mar. 27 - informed sources / no cara's / crucial truth
mar. 28 - *free dancing
mar. 29 - green light
mar. 30 - skp's
mar. 31 - *dance to the music
apr. 01 - dancing cigarettes (indianapolis)
apr. 02 - pylon (athens, ga) / the egyptians (providence)
apr. 03 - head cheese / factuals (nashville)
apr. 04 - *free dance nite
apr. 05 - routine 9
apr. 06 - zemi
apr. 07 - *free dance nite
apr. 08 - girlschool (uk) / shrapnel (ny)
apr. 09 - dislocation dance (uk) / friction
apr. 10 - colors (ny) / nu este
apr. 11 - *free dance nite
apr. 12 - the incurables
apr. 13 - the heatens / pete baker's flame breathers
apr. 14 - der mond
apr. 15 - *midnite dance free
apr. 16 - orange juice / againagainagain
apr. 17 - rousers (ny) / hooks (ny)
apr. 18 - *free dance nite
apr. 19 - jitterbops
apr. 20 - wild stares (boston)
apr. 21 - *free dance nite
apr. 22 - wrinkle-muzik (ny)
apr. 23 - gun club / skp's
apr. 24 - no milk / regressive aid
apr. 25 - *free dance nite
apr. 26 - moses magnum
apr. 27 - rhythm of lies
apr. 28 - *free dance nite
apr. 29 - carsickness
apr. 30 - brian brain / skunkadelique
may 01 - fleshtones / digits
may 02 - romeo void / ministry
may 03 - criminal art
may 04 - channel 13
may 06 - clubs of rome
may 07 - mother may i / beau jeste
may 08 - depeche mode / minimalistics
may 10 - the shots
may 11 - duckey boys
may 13 - consenting adults / simon rec
may 14 - the reds / pittsburg late-teens
may 15 - urban verbs / deprogrammers
may 17 - love dogs
may 18 - marty watt / number crowd
may 20 - againagainagain / moot
may 21 - mission of burma / neats
may 22 - pretty poison / narthex
may 24 - racers
may 25 - jitterbops
may 27 - foreplay / baby culture may 28 - bush tetras / fox in sox /  panchromatic
may 29 - autistic behavior / decontrol / proteens
may 31 - private eyes
jun. 01 - not so bop
jun. 02 - *free dance nite
jun. 03 - ben wah torpedos / endorphins
jun. 04 - transfactor / harlequin / network
jun. 05 - a flock of seagulls / club of rom
jun. 06 - *free dance nite
jun. 07 - perfect strangers
jun. 08 - pacific orchestra
jun. 09 - *free dance nite
jun. 10 - moroccos / united labor
jun. 11 - new math (ny) / limbo district (thens, ga)
jun. 12 - professionals (uk) / defects
jun. 13 - *free dance nite
jun. 14 - the shots
jun. 15 - standard deviation
jun. 16 - *free dance nite
jun. 17 - nu este / rhythm of lines
jun. 18 - alan vega / executive slacks
jun. 19 - chelsea (uk) / circle jerks
jun. 20 - *free dance nite
jun. 21 - bad nerves
jun. 22 - eunuchs from munich
jun. 23 - *free dance nite
jun. 24 - skp's / der mond
jun. 25 - b-movie (uk) / the vels
jun. 26 - informed sources / black market baby
jun. 27 - *free dance nite
jun. 28 - james storm
jun. 29 - moses magnum
jun. 30 - *free dance nite
jul. 03 - richard hell & the voidoids / the outsets
jul. 24 - stray cats / executive slacks
jul. 27 - junior mints
jul. 29 - scientific americans / narthex
jul. 30 - pretty posion / tommy keene
jul. 31 - cabaret futura (richard strange, dave winthrop, the passage, pulse, liz finch)
aug. 06 - sex in miami / skunkadelique
aug. 16 - tone controls
aug. 17 - breakers
aug. 19 - standing waves / duckey boys
aug. 20 - chron gen / decontrol
aug. 21 - cosmetic / sensory fix
aug. 23 - beru revue
aug. 24 - the public
aug. 26 - billy idol / regressive aid
aug. 27 - members / pauline black
aug. 28 - executive slacks / prisoners of beat
aug. 30 - bon bon / the jones boys
aug. 31 - endorphins
nov. 12 - the fixx (uk) / the vels
nov. 13 - medium medium (uk) / club of rome 
nov. 26 - r.e.m. / red buckets
dec. 31 - bunnydrums / pretty poison / executive slacks

1983
jan. 02 - *free dance nite
jan. 03 - executives
jan. 04 - neo clan
jan. 05 - *free dance nite
jan. 06 - limbo district (athens, ga)
jan. 07 - uk subs / seeds of terror
jan. 08 - vels / sex in miami (ny)
jan. 09 - *free dance nite
jan. 10 - the guise
jan. 11 - the hens
jan. 12 - *free dance nite
jan. 13 - the future
jan. 14 - neats (boston)/ the fad
jan. 15 - d.o.a. / autistic behavior
jan. 16 - *free dance nite
jan. 17 - eugene chadbourne's shockabilly
jan. 18 - grey dominion
jan. 19 - *free dance nite
jan. 20 - the dark / $3
jan. 21 - the members (uk) / ducky boys
jan. 22 - exploited (uk) / seeds of terror
jan. 23 - *free dance nite
jan. 24 - red shift
jan. 25 - bellevues
jan. 26 - *free dance nite
jan. 27 - interpol
jan. 28 - dolce vita (ny) / ?
jan. 29 - anti nowhere league / little gentlemen
jan. 30 - *free dance nite
jan. 31 - ruin
feb. 05 - black flag / minutemen / nig-heist 
feb. 07 - idles of march / blood farmers 
feb. 08 - dog beans
feb. 10 - band from glad
feb. 11 - informed sources / sex in miami 
feb. 12 - shakin pyramids / beat rodeo
feb. 14 - the fad
feb. 15 - rhythm of lines
feb. 17 - cousins
feb. 18 - nitecaps / single strings
feb. 19 - polyrock
feb. 21 - cadre 8
feb. 22 - experimental products
feb. 24 - blue vipers
feb. 25 - holly and the italians / duckey boys
feb. 26 - gun club / dance factory
feb. 28 - beru revue
mar. 04 - public image ltd.
mar. 25 - the sound
apr. 02 - angry samoans / blunderboys / f.o.d.
apr. 15 - informed sources / replacements / little gentlemen
apr. 16 - die haut / 3 teens kill 4
apr. 18 - ruin
apr. 28 - futurama festival (red buckets, church burners, little glass figures, heathens, crisis to crisis, moroccos, zencons, threashed on classics)
apr. 29 - polyrock / bangles
apr. 30 - martha and the muffins / mother may i
may 01 - flipper / sex in miami
may 02 - plasticland (milwaukee)
may 03 - phil'n' the blanks
may 04 - *free dance nite
may 05 - terminal! party (bunnydrums, ruin)
may 06 - 52nd street (uk) / quando quango (uk)
may 07 - circle jerks / kraut (ny)
may 08 - *free dance nite
may 09 - brains (atlanta)
may 10 - two box turn
may 11 - *free dance nite
may 12 - pretty posion / grey dominion
may 13 - shreikback (uk) / single strings (ny)
may 14 - pride (uk) / cosmetic (uk)
may 15 - *free dance nite
may 16 - the future by r.l. panack
may 17 - scam jam
may 18 - *free dance nite
may 19 - neats (boston) / chemical imbalance
may 20 - specimen (uk) / sic kidz (uk) / sex beat (uk)may 21 - malaria (deu) / khmer rouge
may 22 - *free dance nite
may 23 - ?
may 24 - diseased media
may 25 - *free dance nite
may 26 - the fad / chris moffa and the competition
may 27 - danse society (uk) / executive slacks
may 28 - suburbs (minnesota) / breakfast in bed boston)
may 29 - *free dance nite
may 30 - executives
may 31 - experimental products
jun. 01 - *free dance nite
jun. 02 - november group / joneses
jun. 03 - our daughter's wedding / girls downstairs
jun. 04 - medium medium (uk) / dance factor
jun. 05 - corvairs (ny) / dream syndicate
jun. 06 - a birdseye view
jun. 07 - spring garden music
jun. 08 - *free dance nite
jun. 09 - ruin / janitor mints
jun. 10 - slickee boys (d.c.) / tommy keene / velvet monkeys
jun. 11 - don fury band / initial attack
jun. 12 - dream syndicate / dangerous birds
jun. 13 - flying squid
jun. 14 - flamin bango bangos
jun. 15 - *free dance nite
jun. 16 - new models (boston) / ducky boys
jun. 17 - damned (uk) / lou miami (boston)
jun. 18 - anti nowhere league / flag of democracy
jun. 19 - *free dance nite
jun. 20 - the nults
jun. 21 - crash course in science
jun. 22 - *free dance nite
jun. 23 - executive slacks / church burners
jun. 24 - einsturzende neubauten / laceration team (ny) / the swans (ny)
jun. 25 - madonna (ny) / prince charles and the city beat band (boston)
jun. 26 - *free dance nite
jun. 27 - 10,000 maniacs
jun. 28 - polite quartet
jun. 29 - *free dance nite
jun. 30 - futurama
jul. 01 - the vels / positive craze
jul. 02 - *free dance nite
jul. 07 - ub 40 (uk)
jul. 09 - *free dance nite
jul. 14 - ministry
jul. 16 - *free dance nite 
jul. 17 - damned
jul. 23 - *free dance nite
jul. 30 - *free dance nite
aug. 02 - interplay
aug. 09 - stardard diviation
aug. 15 - t'dochid
aug. 16 - tuff duck
aug. 23 - woz
aug. 30 - carbon
sep. 09 - sisters of mercy / mr. mehta
sep. 16 - stickmen / initial attack / heathens
sep. 23 - pretty poison / fondas / fad
sep. 30 - bunnydrums / here today / dance factor
oct. 04 - paul sears (ex muffins)
oct. 06 - brian brain (uk) / chant!
oct. 07 - november group (boston) / native tongue (boston)
oct. 11 - onyx azza (baltimore)
oct. 14 - david jay (bauhaus) / flaming bango bango's 
oct. 17 - bohemia
oct. 18 - ambush bugs
oct. 20 - futurama festival (the laughing masters..)
oct. 21 - executive slacks / sonic youth / live skull
oct. 24 - persian gulf
oct. 25 - heathens / lungs
oct. 27 - the cramps / sic kidz
oct. 28 - alien sex fiend / sex in miami
nov. 01 - face ditch
nov. 03 - a.p.b. / mother may i
nov. 04 - lords of the new church / fuzztones (ny)
nov. 11 - green on red / red buckets 
nov. 17 - hunters and collectors / opposite sect
nov. 18 - sex gang children / mr. mehta
nov. 21 - diseased media
nov. 22 - o boy
nov. 25 - kissing the pink (uk) / glorious strangers (ny) 
nov. 28 - the sites
nov. 29 - spring garden music
dec. 01 - the chant / the maytags
dec. 02 - dickies (la) / ruin
dec. 03 - *dance nite
dec. 04 - *free dance nite
dec. 05 - the outsets (ny
dec. 06 - 84 rooms (sf) / dead milkmen
dec. 07 - *free dance nite
dec. 08 - girls downstairs / accent on travvel
dec. 09 - the specimen (uk) / blackouts (seattle)
dec. 10 - *dance nite
dec. 11 - *free dance nite
dec. 12 - jones boys / westwind
dec. 13 - freedom fighters (baltimore)
dec. 14 - *free dance nite
dec. 15 - nomadic tools / urban gorillas (minnesota)
dec. 16 - 999 (uk) / mission (baltimore)
dec. 17 - *dance nite
dec. 18 - *free dance nite
dec. 19 - life after bob / incurables
dec. 20 - akimbo slack
dec. 21 - *free dance nite
dec. 22 - dance factor / modern cities
dec. 23 - go betweens (australia) / thefad
dec. 24- *dance nite
dec. 25 - *free dance nite
dec. 26 - gung ho / steve strange
dec. 27 - little glass figures / minor mode / luau's
dec. 28 - *free dance nite
dec. 29 - t'dochid / experimental products
dec. 30 - she (dc) / floor kiss (ny)
dec. 31 - cocteau twins / executive slacks ? girls downstairs ?

1984 
apr. 12 - sisters of mercy
may 07 - circle jerks
jun. 04 - endorphins
jun. 14 - nick cave and the bad seed
jun. 28 - ministry
jul. 01 - *dance party
jul. 02 - the fad
jul. 03 - mcrad / dead milkmen
jul. 04 - *dance party
jul. 05 - the dance (ny) / filter out
jul. 06 - *power 99 dance night
jul. 07 - *dance party
jul. 08 - *dance party
jul. 09 - friction
jul. 10 - happy hour
jul. 11 -*dance party
jul. 12 - test. dept. (uk) / the church burners
jul. 13 - *power 99 dance night
jul. 14 - *dance party
jul. 15 - *dance party
jul. 16 - jamison smoothdog
jul. 17 - tribal rites (ny)
jul. 18 - *dance party
jul. 19 - the cult (uk) / mr. mehta
jul. 20 - *power 99 dance night
jul. 21 - *dance party
jul. 22 - *dance party
jul. 23 - us boy / the clap
jul. 24 - other mothers (athens)
jul. 25 - *dance party
jul. 26 - blood on the saddle (la) / butcher brothers
jul. 27 - *power 99 dance night
jul. 28 - *dance party
jul. 29 - *dance party
jul. 30 - tete noires (minnesota)
jul. 31 - timmi and the african rhythms
aug. 01 - *dance party
aug. 02 - way of the west
aug. 03 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 04 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 05 - *dance night
aug. 06 - g-spot (tx)
aug. 07 - m-faktor
aug. 08 - *dance party
aug. 09 - the chameleons (uk) // dance factor / modern cities ?
aug. 10 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 11 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 12 - *dance party
aug. 13 - ekg
aug. 14 - dickies (la) / decontrol
aug. 15 - *dance night
aug. 16 - agent orange (la) / sadistic exploits / m.ia. (la)
aug. 17 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 18 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 19 - *dance party
aug. 20 - jamison smoothdog
aug. 21 - dv8
aug. 22 - *dance party
aug. 23 - certain general (ny) / band of outsiders
aug. 24 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 25 - *power 99 dance night
aug. 26 - dance night
aug. 27 - smash palace / five story fall
aug. 28 - duck tape / king rhythm
aug. 29 - *dance night
aug. 30 - executive slacks / mr. mehta
aug. 31 - *power 99 dance night
sep. 06 - futurama festival (ben vaughn combo, 150 bolos, life after bob, st. hitler, rodney wittenburg, zen cons)
sep. 08 - asbestos rockpyle / rat at rat r 
sep. 27 - ruin / mcrad
sep. 29 - 45 grave (la) / sadistic exploits
oct. 04 - ministry / front 242
oct. 13 - tones on tail (uk) / modern cities
oct. 18 - sadistic exploits / mydolls 
oct. 20 - moodist / 5 story fall
oct. 24 - black flag / saccharine trust / tom troccoli's dog
oct. 25 - big black (chicago) / duck tape
oct. 26 - the lyres (boston) / what is this? (la)
oct. 27 - meat puppets / stretch marks
nov. 15 - true west / the fad
nov. 16 - rat at rat r / no trend
nov. 17 - decontrol / little gentlemen / psychotic norman

198?
sep. 18 - popular mechanics
apr. 13 - fear magazine presents: heathens 
apr. 22 - bush tetras / cadre 8
apr. 23 - jah wobble / executives slacks
may 15 - initial attack / butcher brothers 

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HELLO HAPPY TAXPAYERS

HELLO HAPPY TAXPAYERS
What: Fanzine
Where: Bordeaux, France
When: 1981-93
Who: Virginie, Caroline Sury, Pat Z., Loux, ??

Fantastic fanzine/magazine out of France, Bordeaux. They released ten issues in ten years and from the third number it became a magazine (with the isbn code). The graphic is very polish and the content are full of informations (a lot of interviews) they covered from punk to industrial, from post-punk to experimental, astonishing are the dossier on Subterranean Records and RRRrecords!
They were a sort of collective of four people with Caroline Sury (later known she formed another art-collective Le Dernier Cri) and Loux (who later formed the band La Machoire).

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 0
Index: article on Flipper, interview with Bill Baxter, comics La Parano des Piranahas / BD, reportage "Sports sex and drugs", text, interview with Fabrice Nataf, The Revillos, The Birthday Party, article on vampires...

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 1
Inside: article on Black Flag, text "Voyage Sans Fin" by Dorothy Belle Hughes, Grafik, text "Mad in Japan", article "Oh Bondage Up Yours", article on Stranglers, interview with Richard Hell, article on Einsturzend Neubauten, Clair-Obscur, Impressions d'une Chrysalide, Irradiation, SPK, Tapageuse Parade, Skin/ Peau, Le Coin Cuisine, Bd/La Parano des Piranhas, Crazy Hearts...

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 2 (mar. 1984)
Inside: L'Oreille est Hardie (reportage on the Poitiers music scene), Placid et Muzo (draw), text: Regards sur un Monde Humide, article & interview with Camera Silens, comic: I Like Food, text: Dick Dick & Dick, article on Bush Tetras, article on Cosy Corner, text: War News Blues, cassette reviews, comic: Barjo Kid est Arrive, collages and interview with Classe X, book and fanzine reviews, comic: Placid, text on Antonin Artaud, interview with Les Exemples, article on You've Got Foetus, text: Macho, interview with The Firm, comic: Derniere Illusion.....

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 3 (dec. 1984)
Inside: reportage "This is Boston not LA", article on Karnage, article on Theatre of Hate, interview with Severed Heads, artwork by Claudine Euxibie, interview with Etant Donnes, article on Wipers, dossier on Subterranean Records, interview with Discorde, comics by Susan Catherine, artwork by Church Police, record reviews, article on Introverts, cassette & fanzine reviews, text: The Persian Poems, Lydia Lunch...

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 4/5 (1986)
Inside: interview with Anti-Scunti Faction, article and interview with Swans, Vague fanzine, article on Sun City Girls, article on Laylah Records, article on The Moodist, collages, interview with Nocturnal Emissions, interview with Sordide Sentimental, Mark Lane, Attrition, "Capitale Sons neufs" dossier with band from Paris, Husker Du, article and interview with Laibach, interview with UT, dossier on Berlin bands, reportage Berlin Atonal, industrial record reviews, article on Algebra Suicide, cinema: Sweet Fucking Movies, record reviews, article on Verdun, dossier on Iceland post-punk, cassette reviews, news, article on RE/Search ...
+ glued to the fanzine this tape Berlin Atonal 1985 [here]

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 6 (apr. 1987)
Inside: Amor Fati, "A" Bomb, Kathy Acker, Big Black, Minimal Man, Kormorany Raj, D. LeBlanc, Nurse With Wound, Nox, Susan Catherine, Black Flag, Honeymoon Killers, Cinema, Video: Bill Viola, R.R.R., Sound War III, Subterranean Records, Kiss Me Deadly, record reviews, address...

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 7 (jul. 1988)
Inside: record reviews, interview with Jean-Louis Costes, Blast First dossier, article on Swans, interview with The Ex, interview with Culturcide, texts, the cinema of Yann Beauvais, interview with Sleep Chamber, text, interview with Sonic Youth, interview with Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, interview with Z'EV, interview with Nox, fanzine reviews, Joubert interview, RRR Records dossier, lyrics, Made in Britain review, record & cassette reviews...

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 8 (dec. 1989)
Inside: record rewies, interview with Henry Rollins, cinema reviews, Une Saison Au Paradis (article about hardcore punk), text "Mon Beau Cygne" by Anette Berr, interview with Naked Raygun, record reviews, Vomir Des Yeux (reviews of independent comics zines), interview with Steve Albini, text "Nus Sous Les Condoleances", interview with Ikue Mori, Susan Catherine comics, Vous Etes Ici poetry, article "Raconteurs D'Histoires", dossier RRR Records, The Ex: Aural Guerrilla, article on Jean-Luis Costes, cassettes reviews....
+ Vinyl 7inch with Smersh, Naked Raygun, A.C. Temple, Blackhouse, Black Jack [here]

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 9 (1991)
Inside: interview with Nausea, article and interview with Rudolph Grey, reportage of Berlin gigs with reviews, article on Of Cabbages and Kings, interview and comics with Charles Burns, article on Jean Marie Boivin, interview Neurosis, artworks by Keiichi Ohta, text by Thierry Dessolas, profile of W.O.O., profile of Foetus, profile of Barkmarket, Cop Shoot Cop, Arsenal, interview with Happy Flowers, text by Jean Rene Lassalle, comic by Herniette Valium, interview with Plaid Retina, article on Cold Meat Industry, interview with Memorandum, interview with Raksha Mancham, article & text of Gravezine, interview with Borbetomagus, record & fanzine reviews, Vomir des Yeux....

Hello Happy Taxpayers No. 10 (1993)
Inside: interview with Circle X, article on Voodoo Muzak, interview and artwork with Graham Harwood (IF Comix), text by Jean Rene Lassalle, article on Jad Fair, article on Krackhouse, article on Arno Schmidt, artwork by Tomeu Cabot, interview with Born Against, interview with Konstruktivists, article on RWA, record & fanzine reviews, artwork by Vomir des Yeux....

[All the issues in PDF here (search for Hello Happy Taxpayers)]

LHASA CLUB

LHASA CLUB
What: Club
Where: Hollywood, California
When: 1982-88
Who: Jean-Pierre Boccara

The Lhasa Club, a small 100-person capacity club in Hollywood, was famous for providing an ecletic program. Jean-Pierre Boccara opened the club in 1982 and started to book punk/new wave band combined with performance artists, cabaret acts, comedians, poets and art-exhibition.  
"All forms would be possible. Whether it was modern dance or a punk band, that's fine, as long as it's entertaining and intelligent." said Boccara about the Lhasa.

In 1984 the Lhasa Club released a live-compilation called "The Lives of Lhasa" which included songs by The Fibonaccis, Pell Mell, Linda J. Albertano, Necropolis of Love, Food and Shelter, Les Toulose, Pink Mink, Michael Peppe, Henry Rollins.

Around 1985, Boccara began to film the performances with the idea to realize a video with 100 performances. He didn't succeed, but thirty years later he released them on internet as "The Lhasa Club Tapes" (with Tomata DuPlenty, Henry Rollins, Marina LaPalma..).

After some issues he had to close the Lhasa Club but re-opened in a bigger venue and change the name to Lhasaland. Later Boccara found the successful and exclusive Cafè Largo and Luna Park.


Here's a list of gigs 1982-85, it's incomplete, so please help me to fill! 

1982
sep. 25 - red wedding
oct. 07 - the bangs 
nov. 13 - food and shelter
dec. 23 - patrick english and flea / alain johannes and hillel slovak (what is this) / dj skood
??? - f-stop fitzgerald (performance)

1983
jan. 09-22 - elisa leonelli (photographs exhibition)
mar. 06 - los lobos / ?
mar. 10 - red wedding / necropolis of love / john fleck
mar. 11 - red wedding / modern sound of quiet
apr. 22 - psychobud / outer circle 
jun. 04 - red wedding / wild kingdom
aug. 06 - red wedding / a blind dog stares
aug. 12 - jane and the hollywood sympathy orchestra
sep. 23 - the commomets
sep. 24 - telekin / kodomo band
oct. 03 - funhouse
oct. 29 - red wedding / league of nations / jimmy smack
dic. 17 - lydia lunch / mnemonic devices
dec. 31 - red wedding / neon
??? - kommunity fk
??? - john rand (performance)
??? - ulysses jenkins (performance)
??? - monica gazzo (performance)
??? - daniel sofer
??? - carole caroompas “mystical unions”

1984
jan. ? - ron dumas (emergency cerimony)
jan. 2 - faith no more / attack group
jan. 20 - christian death
feb. 17 - information
mar. 16 - zoogz rift / earth dies burning
mar. 22 - ed friedman (performance)
jun. 14 - ixna / marina la palma
jun. 21 - fishbone
aug. 01 - nihilist olympic art festival 
aug. 08 - nick cave / ?
aug. 31 - henry rollins / nick cave / kommunity fk
sep. 28 - james white band
oct. 24 - premature ejaculation
nov. 02 - earth dies burning / twisted roots / ss20
nov. 24 - red wedding / pink mink
dec. 01 - the last / ?
dec. 14 - to damascus / minutemen / tragicomedy / nip drivers
??? - the dark bob

1985
mar. 14 - john sex / jane cantillon and the sympathy orchestra / tom rubnitz
jun. 06 - carl stone / david ocker / ann la berge / jonathan gold
jun. 13 - kubist tier / motor totemist guild / vince sula
jun. 20 - kraig grady / marina la palma / harry gilbert / brent wilcox / tom recchion
jun. 22 - chris isaak
jun. 27 - fat and fucked up / charles buel / russel jessum
jul. 19 -  chis d / sylvia junesse / joe nolte of the last / pop art
jul. 26 - hollywood hillibillies / foreign policty / through the looking glass / uncleined
aug. 02 -  the beaf sisters / secret agent / psychic pets / john & jetsy of great guns
aug. 09 - lonesome strangers / the mutts/ the minutemen
sep. 21 - drowning pool

198?
may 26 - red wedding / pleasure mask

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