There are 4 bands from Charlotte, N .C. that I know about .

FETCHIN' BONES is a 4-piece with Hope-vocals, Aaron-bass, Mitch-drums (ex-ANTI-SEEN), and a new guitarist . They play medium to fast. ANTI-SEEN has Joe Young- guitar, Jeff Claton (Jet Leppard)-vocals, and bass player and drummer I don't know . They are great guys who are- always working really hard to keep the scene going . Their band is total noise/thrash, and they usually knock over their equipment and smash a guitar when they finish a set. This report is coming to you from Columbia, S .C . from the guitar player of DEATH ROW . We are one of two punk bands in this city . We formed about a year Laura-vocals, consist of ago and Larry-bass, Chelsea-drums, and Bill-guitar . About half of what we play is very fast and short hardcore ; the other stuff is more diverse, including some punk/funk and a song that combines country and punk (not like X or RANK AND FILE) . We play, on the average, twice a month, but have only gigged here a couple of times because theere's nowhere to play (there's a couple of redneck bars where people ask us to play "Free Bird"). we've just put together a 30 minute/20 song cassette that we're selling . Most of our songs are about the way things are going generally, especially in terms of society falling apart and thw world heading towards nuclear war . Even though a lot of what we say sounds pessimistic, I don't think that overall that's how we look at things . For instance, we have a song called "Death Row" that says the finger's on the button, it's ready to blow . How does it feel to be on death row?" Now that sounds pretty pessimistic, but the point of it is to take a sobering look at what's going down in the world, including what can be done about it . That song doesn't say what specifically can be done about it, partly because it ' s nut a po itical mane esto (we need political manifestos, but not in the middle of songs) . But we definitely want to get people thinking about what life is all about and questioning why things are the way they are . Well, I guess that's enough tooting our own horn for one letter ; anyone who wants to get in touch with us can write to : DEATH ROW/ 1624 Enoree Ave/ Columbia S .C . 29205. The other band in this city is BLOW-GOS. Their leading light, singer, and guitar player is John Wooten . Their music reminds me of WIRE and other "throbbing nihilist" bands (I don't know if they will like this characterization) . we played with them once outside the Univ . of S .C. student center, and had a good time. ETCHIN' BONES

The almighty Metroplex is still in operation and will take travelling hardcore bands . It is THE place to play because it gives kids a chance to play and enjoy the music. Anyone interested can contact them at (404)525-9193 . Contact NEON CHRIST, Social Crisis label, and/or Flailing Dove by writing me at 3696 Greentree Farms Dr/ Decatur GA 30034, or Jimi Demer at 641 E Morningside Dr/ NE Atlanta GA 30324. Thanks, Kip DuVall .

NRG are three young guys who play a lot like the PISTOLS, but are developing a sound of their own . We played with these 3 bands and also a very hard band from Boone, NC called the OPPOSITION at a show in Boone (home of Appalachian State Univ, for you football fans) called "Punk In The Hills" . It was a great show, well attended, and organized by a fellow named Scott . I had given myself a mangy haircut the day before, and one guy at the show was overheard telling someone else that 'he thought I had a cross cut out in my hair. Oh boy! Not so--no Christian, or for that matter, Krishna, punks here . We also have a friend in Charlotte who has a band called SOCIAL SAVAGERY-his name is Clay and he's the singer . The other personnel change constantly . But they had it together enough to play with us and WHITE CROSS at a party in a garage about 10 miles outside of Charlotte (afterwards, their drummer quit, with the words "Heavy metal lives!). The only other band from around here I know to tell you about is called RED MENACE . They're from Orangeburg (40 miles from Columbia), and have Connie-vocals, Steve-guitar, and I don't know the names of the rh thm section.

Lots has happened since last you heard from this hell-hole . AVOC broke up ; our last gig being our best . I've formed NEON CHRIST, a 4-piece thrash band, and we intend to diversify by getting into funk (with scratchin') and metal . We're mainly concerned with getting out an anti-authoritarian/ anti-drug message, and in having some fun while we're young enough to get away with it . We also promote all the hardcore shows here because we're devoted to the scene . Jimi (drums) and I have finished with the first issue of our Flailing Dove fanzine. Ratlanta magazine (P .O . Box 720341/ Atlanta GA 30358) is still hangin' in there too . Our singer, Randy, also has a newsletter called Dicharge (P .O . Box 5351 Young Harris GA 30582), which is very well written. Only a few copies left of DDT's 7" . They are still planning to record their LP, but at present are content with their rippin' shows that they consistently put on . They have become truly great and they earned that accolade . NEON CHRIST is planning our record right now, which will be on our Social Crisis label . We will also help out DDT if we can . It's all about helping each other .

DEATH POW Here's the zine situation . New Breed is really a gonzo rag . The brainchild of Jef Clayton, it can be obtained for only $1 and postage by writing to 3135-I central Ave/ Charlotte NC 28205 . Living In Fear, " Columbia's only slamzine", is chock full of all sorts of neato artwork and comix, as well as provocative essays and superior reviews . It may be obtained by forwarding a SASE with 544 attached to : 111 Church St/ Columbia SC 29201. I hope that anyone who wants to wiil write . living in South Carolina is like rowing a leaky boat down a river full of piranhas--it's only a matter of time . If bands are playing in the Southeast, let us know and we'll try to set up a show here. The punk kids here really appreciate the few shows that happen . Any missionaries out there?? Bill Martin, and Chelsea S

However, Oirland's best new band, beyond SLAUGHTER doubt, are from a small punk hotbed in LEGALISED County Westmeath, the town of Mulligar, or "Boring Town", as our heroes CATHOLIC GUILT proclaim it in their song . Starting off by playing their first gig to 15 bemused locals in their pub, they recently released a 17-traEEI Tape of pounding, raucous anthems. Another great band are LEGALIZED SLAUGHTER from Dundalk, who've had a tape released by Psycho-Faction in England . Diogheda, another town with high unemployment and a big punk presence has ELAND-Hi! My name is Gerry Molyneaux, a number of promising punk outfits, the and I run (should say ran, due to lack of most talked about being EXILE IN THE finances) New Carnage fanzine . Much of KINGDOM, whose tape aroused much our outlay deals with new and upcoming interest when it got aired on the national crucified tarantulas to government officials punk outfits, especially those raucous, radio RTE . and swastica-emblazoned letters to Jews nihilistic bands who like to express their with blades inside them . Obnoxious and frustrations, utter contempt, and out-of- line to say the least . NME Ianeled abhorrance of the present dire situation in them as "Irish Iremongers" . SPEW JERKZ, Europe, and the pseudo- political world in an Oi! band, are more enterprising, and general. just finished a tour. Most of the punks and skinheads here are Dublin, the capital, boasts 2 really good intermingled (not often passively) in the clubs where punks get a good listen-in, main urban metropolises of Cork, Dublin, Faces and McGonagles . Come along to any Galway, Derry, Waterford, Bray, of these on the weekend, and you'll be Portadown, etc . Gigging is still difficult lucky to get in after 9 o'clock . Other for bands because punk is still classed as hangouts include Bruxelles and a number "subversive" and "extremely vicious" by of new wave and Oi!-oriented cellar clubs. the local authorities who control the halls. Since the publicized murder of a punk by And this view is re-inforced by the a skinhead in 1977, punk has had a bad extremely volatile and unruly attitude and name here . But this has now changed. reaction of the police to any attempts by Why? Perhaps complacency . Gig violence punks or skins to organize any gigs or has now diminished since the disbanding of festivals themselves . Nevertheless, the city some of the bigger skinhead gangs like the of Cork will see visits by the likes of Rattlesnakes, Nun Attacks, Scum, RIOT/CLONE, DISORDER, BLITZKREIG, Skullcaps, F Troop, Feet First, Black and MAJOR ACCIDENT, thanks to the Catholics, etc. heroic efforts of local punx who work in Back to bands, Ireland's recent Oi! and run gigs at three clubs in the city exports, CONTROL ZONE, from Omagh, (Phoenix Bar, Bodega Club, Downtown County Tyrone, heralded their appearance Kampus) . Gigs are run on a week to week on the London recorded United Skins LP. basis, featuring such vociferous anti-talent Also, they played with VICTIM, BASTARD non-entities as EUPHORIC VOID, SQUAD, TRAITOR, and MONKEY SPANNER UNKNOWN WRECKS, URBAN BLITZ, MEAN at a 2000 large gig that was aggro free. FEATURES (Oil), and the LEGION (Oil). Other better known Belfast bands include Cork's former #1 hardcore outfit, VERMIN, the OUTCASTS (who in Dublin alone On the sujeconTorTety punk outfits can no longer hold claim to being the most outdraw any other band) and DEFECTS. here know no bounds it seems, at least not sought after band, because they are now From Derry come the RIP-OFFS, a great in the tiny town of Tuam, County Galway, behind bars for writing anti-government live band, the SECT (ex-mods), and TEEN which has a population of 9000 and 2 graffiti all over local courts . IDOLS . Derry is also the home of a 111 extremely vulgar punk bands, SPEW brilliantly popular zine called All Systems JERKZ, and BLACK REVOLVERS, who Go, which is CRASS- oriented and well landed themselves in trouble after posting -1~Z1_ ~111~t_111111111~11111~

Forty miles east of Cork lies the city of Waterford, the home of DARKEST HOUR. in 4 months, this band has managed to arouse more interest/distaste than anything in years . as well as gigging, they've managed to construct a 4-track studio from an old unused shack .

Skinheads (IRA) being arrested by plainclothes police after clashes with N .S .I .W .P ,(Nazi) skins at a recent football match

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woth a read. Dublin's punk scene has emerged as the "sick man" of Ireland's scene . A lot of cancelled gigs, mini-war between punx, skinheads (Oil), rudie-skinheads (ska), mods, and rockabillies .

Rock Musicians Say They Hatched Reagan Hoax n

London Two members of a British anarchist rock band said yesterday that they spliced together a tape recording of a concocted conversation between President Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that U .S . officials had described as Soviet props. panda. Andy Palmer, 27, and Pete Right, 34, guitarists for the band Crass, brought the Iwo-minute tape to London bureau of the Associated Press a day after a British newspaper, The Observer, reported that Crass had made the recording as a hoax . It is a hoax " Palmer said . "We _ intended R to be a hoax, but what we said in the tape we believe is true ." The poorqualhy recording that the musicians played yesterday seemed to contain the same odd die toque as a tape that U .S. officials said last summer was an apparent Soviet forgery. The musicians said they went to the Associated Press yesterday because they had seen AP stories about the tape In US. newspapers.

The jumpy, clipped converse. lion on the recording leaped from topic to topic . At one point, Reagan urged restraint In the dispute with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, and criticised Thatcher's actions in the conflict . M another point, an incredulous Thatcher questioned Reagan about nuclear war in Europe and the president said, in conflict, we will bunch missiles on allies for effective limits dolt of the Soviet Union ." Questioned about the tape last summer, the State Department said in a statement that It was a fake, with Reagan ' words taken from a speech on nuclear disarmament and

NAPSALM SUNDAY's brilliant tape is out, whilst PARANOID VISION' : tape has sold out . They've signed for an EP on Bluurg. DRUNKEN JURY are another band with an EP out and another on the way . Other good bands to watch are INSANE YOUTH, VERMIN, BACK FROM THE DEAD, SYSTEM AGENTS, the ABNORMAL (Oil, racist), PENIS FEATURES, The PIN, The SUSPECTS, BURNING CROSS (racist, crappy), etc . With the upsurge of punk all around the country, perhaps Dublin will pull itself outside and blow a few eardrums . Ta Ra!

Thatcher's from an unknown source. "11tls type of activity fits the pattern of fabrications circulated by the Soviet KGB, although usually they involve fake documents rather than tapes," the statement said. "From the drift of the tape, the evident purpose was to cause problems for Mrs. Thatcher, by blaming her for the sinking of the British destroyer Sheffield, and also for us by stirring trouble on the INF(Inter mediate Nuclear Forces talks in Genova) issue." Palmer noted yesterday that the CIA and the (pate Department

took the recording seriously. "All this thing about the KGB shows that the techniques they (the Americans) use aren't quite as Infallible as we think they are," he said.

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