Matana Roberts: Clothed to the Land, Worn by the Sea / Dreamer of Dreams / Always Say Your Name / Nema, Nema, Nema / A Single Man-o-War / As Years Roll By
Second set, pt. 1 – Tectonics
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising
Prince: Housequake
Carole King: I Feel The Earth Move
Stray Cats: Rock This Town
Robert Palmer: You’re Gonna Get What’s Coming
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Cities In Dust (12″ mix)
Leonard Cohen: Avalanche
Second set, pt. 2
Buddy Holly: That’ll Be The Day
Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance
Led Zeppelin: Ten Years Gone
Third set
Siskyou: Violent Motion Pictures
High Dials: Desert Tribe
Micachu & The Shapes: Lips
Eric Chenaux: The Pouget
Lower Dens: Brains
David Byrne & St. Vincent: Lazarus
Black Givre: Skyscraper
Xarah Dion: XXX
Drunken Forest: Lake Chad
Noveller: Entering (live 19 Apr 12)
Stefan Christoff & Nick Schofield: Generation II
Tara Jane O’Neil: This Morning Glory
Bob Dylan & The Band: Nothing Was Delivered, take 2
Last song
Michael Feuerstack: The Devil
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Rodan: Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto
M. Mucci: II
Lower Dens: Alphabet Song
Micachu & The Shapes: Vulture
St. Vincent: Rattlesnake
Siskyou: Bank Accounts and Dollar Bills (Give Peace a Chance)
Au Pairs: Diet
Julian Cope: Screaming Secrets
Black Givre: À brûle-pourpoint
Eric Chenaux: Have I Lost My Eyes
Stefan Christoff & Nick Schofield: Altitude
Third set
Manchilde: Baby Mother
Matana Roberts: The Good Book Says
FKA Twigs: Pendulum
Death Grips: This Is Violence Now (Don’t Get Me Wrong)
Thelma Houston: Midnight Mona
Nona Hendryx: To The Bone (12″ single)
Neneh Cherry & The Thing: Golden Heart (Nymph remix)
Bjork: Dark Matter (Lava Onto Remodel)
Robert Palmer: Best of Both Worlds
Xarah Dion: Asphalte Chaude
Last song
Loscil: Angle of List
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Interview pt. 1
Open Heart
Interview pt. 2
Si
Interview pt. 3
Sadhbh ni Bhruinneaillaigh
Interview pt. 4
Waiting For The Light
Fourth set
Emily Triggs: Home
Bob Wiseman: City of Wood
This Mortal Coil: Caroline’s Song
Bob Dylan: Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) (take 1)
Lottie Kimbrough: Rolling Log Blues
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard: Working Girl Blues
Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt: Hobo’s Meditation
Janis Joplin: River Jordan
Dory Previn: Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign
Beck: Soul Sucking Jerk
St. Vincent: Huey Newton
Last song
Belle and Sebastian: Nobody’s Empire
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A note of explanation: This is an article I wrote for Halifax Today, the newspaper organ of the King’s College University Journalism program. It was published on November 10, 1982. I’ve fixed up some of the typos but it is otherwise unchanged.
Re•Press number one has just hit the stands; it’s Halifax’s newest and most ambitious fanzine to date.
According to editor Gary P. LeBlanc, the magazine is meant to be a focus for alternative music in Halifax – “an alternative to the mainstream bands downtown who play top 40 hits.”
The magazine’s first edition has a striking cover (a picture of grimacing youths lifted from a 1959 Star Weekly magazine). Inside, the layout is a hodge-podge of reviews, articles and opinions about alternative music in Halifax and elsewhere.
The fanzine is the creation of co-editors LeBlanc and KimRilda van Feggelen. They both moved from Toronto to Halifax last year.
Although only van Feggelen is a native of Halifax, both saw a need for a fanzine for the city’s music scene. LeBlanc said the music scene of Halifax is much weaker than in other cities.
A Re•Press editorial blames this problem on “the tendency we all have of labelling things and joining tiny cliques … it makes life ‘safe’.”
Promotional poster for Re•Press (late 1982).
LeBlanc said the music scene is so fragmented in Halifax that he and van Feggelen decided their fanzine would need a broader base than most. This policy lead to a format where an article about the skateboard lifestyle can be found on page 19, while a review of the heavy metal band Rapid Tears takes up the opposite page.
Audience enthusiasm is the only unifying element: “Headbangers show a tendency to get wasted at a concert, while the punks get into dancing,” said LeBlanc.
The skateboarding article stems from one of several rivalling sub-cultures in local high schools. The skateboarders have a whole scene of hardcore music, punk fashion and skateboarding techniques.
But high school student Wade Fleet, vocalist for the Suburban Rebels, has small regard for skateboards. In an interview in Re•Press he called their music “just like the Beach Boys with short haircuts and louder guitars.”
The high school aspect of the fanzine doesn’t stop there. LeBlanc admits a leaning towards younger bands like the Suburban Rebels because Halifax has very few experienced and established alternative bands.
The aim is to bring the new bands to light, and help them get established in the Halifax music scene.
LeBlanc said it was unfortunate that the powerful musicians’ union in Halifax made it difficult for the young bands to find a venue.
A concert by Suburban Rebels, Zeitgeist and Urban Attack was planned for the King’s College theatre on November 13, under Re•Press sponsorship, but fears that the musicians’ union might black-list both the bands and the hall caused the event to be quietly cancelled.
A review of a concert that took place on September 3, 1982 at Saint Patrick’s Center. From Re•Press no. 1.
Photo from a review of a concert that took place on September 3, 1982 at Saint Patrick’s Center. From Re•Press no. 1.
The cover of Re•Press no. 2 (early 1983).
The back cover of Re•Press no. 2 (early 1983).
The back page of Re•Press no. 2 1/2 (February 1983). This issue was a two-pager, recto-verso.
An article about the creators of Re•Press by Paul Withers, published in The Daily News late summer 1983.
Gilda Radner: Let’s Talk Dirty To The Animals (live NYC)
Ann Magnuson: Miss Pussy Pants
Nile Rogers: Beet
FKA Twigs: Hours
Second set, pt. 2 – Spotlight on Martha Wash
Sylvester: I (Who Have Nothing)
The Weather Girls: It’s Raining Men
Black Box: Hold On
Third set
Anita Ward: Make Believe Lovers
English Beat: I Confess
Aaliyah, Vanessa L. Williams, Mary J. Blige, MC Lyte, Coko, En Vogue, SWV, TLC, and Monica, with vocal arrangements by Angie Stone and bass by Meshell Ndegeocello: Freedom (Panther theme) (The Black Bag Mix)
D-Sisive: The Great Mr. Nobody
Loscil: En Masse
Last Ditch On The Left: Not Even Near
James Irwin: Everything Passed Me By
The High Dials: Echoes and Empty Rooms
Julian Cope: Shot Down
Xarah Dion: Fait Divers
Siskyou: Deserter
Loscil: Sturgeon Bank
Notta Comet: Colonial Authorities
Susan Musgrave: Two poems (live at the Atwater Poetry Project 10 Nov 11)
Death Grips: Two Heavens
Noveller: Ends (Glasslands 19 Apr 12)
Sagot: Couleur Jaune
Switches: Fifteen Beers
Noveller: Cyanne (Glasslands 19 Apr 12)
Loscil: Angle of Lull
Nennen: Same Dream
FKA Twigs: Two Weeks
Death Grips: Anne Bonny
Sagot: Avion
Tuxedomoon: What Use
Amrys: Induction
Third set
Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action
White Lung: In Your Home
Julian Cope: Nonalignment Pact
The Stranglers: Something Better Change
Rec Centre: Like I Care
Fazer Daze: Reel
Ernest Gibson: Group Work
The The: Heartland
Neneh Cherry & The Thing: What Reason Could I Give? (the Carmen Villain remix)
Art Bears: The Song of Investment Capital Overseas (Berlin 16 Feb 84 ‘Music and Politics Concert’)
This Mortal Coil: Nature’s Way
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Lazarus
Stefan Christoff & Nick Schofield: Ember
