Slash, April 1978

Bibliography   72 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 UK & Ireland weeklies UK & Ireland magazines UK & Ireland newspapers US newspapers US rock magazines US music magazines US magazines US alternative weeklies European magazines European newspapers Canada  •  Mexico  •  Asia Australia  •  New Zealand South America  •  Africa Blogs  •  Fanzines  •  Books Online publications Slash   1977 May 1977 October 1977 December 1978 April 1978 July 1979 January 1979 March 1980 April Fanzines  Alternative Rhythms Alternative Ulster Austin Vanguard Aware Back Door Man Barbed Wire Beat It! Beyond Belief Blaze Blitz! Bucketfull Of Brains Burnt Offering Candybeat 504 Censur City Chains Clubland Costello Fanzine Cripes Despair Deviation Street Elvis Costello Chronicles Elvis Costello Info. Service Final Notice Fröken Äsping Gabba Gabba Gazette Gabba Gabba Hey Ghast Up Grinding Halt Hamburger Orgienpost Hannover Spargel Heat High Roller Hoopla Imagine In The City Jet Lag Juice K-79 Kingdom Come Kvinde Hader Klub Larm Live Wire Living In Paradise Loaded Look At The Time Maximum Rock'N'Roll Moods For Moderns Negative Reaction New Pose Nerve No Fun Noise Noise For Heroes Nürtingen Slit Omaha Rainbow On The Beat Ostrich Overthrow Ox Fanzine Pig Paper Poser Public Enemy Raw Power Record Digest Safety In Numbers Shades Shews Slash Sniffin' Glue Snot Rag Spuno Street Fever Substitute Summer Salt Surfin' Bird Talking In The Dark Terminal Wool City Rocker — Stiffs Live Claude Bessy What a month! Either sampler LPs or useless first shots by various oddballs. This one is a live record of the Stiff artists on tour, with Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Shop, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Wreckless Eric and the New Rockets and Larry Wallis' Psychedelic Rowdies. This may be Stiff's last attempt at cashing in on Costello and Lowe since the two are no longer on the label. If you like these various groups this album will thrill you forever as it thrilled the enthusiastic audiences they played to; if not, skip it, pal, it won't make you change your mind. A couple of mild highlights on first side: "Semaphore Signals" by Wreckless Eric (who follows it with a horrendous country western turd of a tune) is a bit John Cale-like in intensity and sound, and "Police Car" by Larry Wallis is kind of good but slow and predictable. Side 2 has Elvis Costello doing below average stuff (not much of it) and Ian Dury doing limey disco and music hall. Everyone joins in for the "Sex drug rock n roll and chaos" grande finale. The chaos bit is not a concession to punk ideals. It's a description of the overall effect of the song on your ears. More good time music having just the opposite effect on the listener Slash, No. 9, April 1978 Claude Bessy reviews Live Stiffs. Images Page scan. Cover.

External links

• Wikipedia: Slash (fanzine)
• Wikipedia: Claude Bessy (writer)