P249 CEJFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:16/13 1/14 UB40 Hit the Russian Reggae Trail There are 200,000 Soviet citizens in Moscow, Minsk and Leningrad who are this week getting a dose of rock music with a reggae flavour from UB40. Security was tighter than the summit and the tour was only announced hours before the band flew east. UB40 bjlievj they are the first we;tern "and to undertake a tour of the USSR, although three cities in a country with 11 time zones is only a scratch. They will be playing 10 dates over two weeks and are taking a film crew along.P249 CJJFA( 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:07/59 2/14 A-Ha - Scoundrel Days The long awaited second LP from the hottest thing to conj from Norway. This bunch can do no wrong in the ears of millions of fans and that alone will make a hit of this album. Never mind that there are some pretty strong even funky moments hike. Ignore the clean competence of the playing and the way the vocals have echoes of Ultravox and David Sylvian. Just confound the doubters by making them listen to how good pop music can sound and enjoy it. MoreP249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:18/0h 3/14 A-Ha - Scoundrel Days (2) Their current hit I'vj Been Losing You is on this album and although the r st of the tracks are by no means the same it's a fair bet that if you like this hit you'll like the othersO Side one Scoundrel Days, The Swing of Things, I+ve Been Losing You, October, Manhattan Skyline Side two Cry Wolf, WeWre Looking for the +hales, The Weight of the Wind, Maybe Maybe, Soft Rains of AprilP249 CJEFA( 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:28/49 4/14 45s Brief .... Welcome to the Boomtown-David & David Medium paced cautionary tale reflecting LA rock's obsession with the city. It's already charting in the US but holds more promise than potential here. There is also an album out this week. Hold Me - Rouen 5 dander from Kidderminster. This is their third single on their third label which Lady Bracknell might suggest exhibits carelessness. A little over arranged but with a memorable chorus. It might just make it. Tours nextP249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:09/35 5/14 Rod Stewart concerts rescheduled The concerts that Rod postponed dui to illness are rescheduled in Novjmbjr: 2 Bournemouth BIC (29 Sept tots valid) 3 Bournemouth BIC (30 Sept tots valid) 5 Brighton Conf C (27 Sept tots valid) 6 Brighton Conf C (1 Oct tots valid) Refunds if you can't make the new dates Killing Joke confirm November dates 18 Glasgow 19 Newcastle 21 Manchester 22 Liverpool 24 Bristol 28 Leeds 29 Sheffield 30 BirojnghamP249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:10/58 6/14 Still Loving You - Tom Robinson These are good times for Tom Robinson. Hj's touring, regularly playing New Waves on the Short Waves through the BBC World Service, and he's sitting in for Janice Long on Radio 1. He also has a new LP released which, to cap it all, contains some fine songs. Depending on your point of view Tom's writing is either unsubtle or pulls no punches. His up-front lyricism owes less to pop than to jolt-Ralladrz and I still see him as a troubadour in a tarnished world. MoreP249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:31/41 7/14 Still Loving You - Tom Robinson (2) On this album Tom is ably abetted bz his bbnd the Crew and produces a mix of pace in the tunes incl=ding another good road song (albeit for after the next world war) in Drive all Night. Well worth a listen. Side one Feel so Good/Hurt so Bad, Nothing Like the Real Thing, Still Loving You, Take me Home Again You Tattooed Me Side two Drive all Night, Living in a Love Town, Spain, This Little Romance, The WeddingP249 CJJFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:21/37 8/14 A Dip in the Music Press I spent a month trying to find an edition of Q and when I finally jound one it was #2! Novjmbjr's Q hits the news stands this week jot 'people who are serious about their musicW. There's over 100 album reviews together with articles/interviews on/with Paul Simon, Christie Hynde and Rod Stewart. It's well written stuff although I find it a little like the Face without the fashion and photographs. Check out the piece on plagarism and wonder how anzonj ever managed to have a hit song without litigation.P249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:12/14 9/14 A Dip in the Music Press (2) Smash Hits also interviews Christie Hynde who reckons the charm of the Pretenders was that we looked pretty ugly .... it's nice to have a couple of ugs in there to relate to. Mo1 heads for the studio and finds Duran Duran recording a new LP callud Notorious with producer Mile Rogers. The word is that the new music is the best they've ever done. And after all the foreign travel in last week's press it's nice to get close to home as the Housemartins show us around Hull, from Lasts chippie to the Victoria Pier.P249 CJEFA( 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:23/13 10/14 * ?£+£££k?£+5 A Dip in the Music Press (3) MME reveal that the rather natty choc bar cover for the new Elvis Costello cassette is not on with Cadbury's and stocks are being withdrawn (of the cassette cover that is). Melody Maker gives Virgin a double with pieces on Human League and Heaven 17. Sounds, on the other hand, giver its cover to Alice Cooper who eats a snake on the front of his new LP and iu now declared to be HEAVY METAL. Good news is that hj is using the guillotine on stage again. Will somebody tell mj just what it is about Detroit!P249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:13/55 11/14 Tutu - Miles Davis Miles is always full of surprises. He's sixty years old now but legends can't feel the years and this album explores electro-funk. It actually seems to be a Marcus Miller album since hj wrote most of the music and plays most of the instruments. But Miles is there, blowing almost casually but always in the right places. I could expect no less. Stand-out tracks for mj are Splatch, which was on a recent MME EP, and the Scritti Politti tune Perfect Way.P249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:14/10 12/14 Gig Update Following a letter from Clare Dexter asking about those extra A-Ha dates in Birmingham and London I checked out ticket availability. As of Friday 10th there are a few standing and restricted-view tickets for Birmingham NEC on Jan 16th + Q7th and for the Albert Hall on Dec 29+30+31 and note that the concert on the 31st is a late njghter. PS 2 dates at Brixton Acadjmz which you might fancy are 5 Star on Oct 18 and Iggy Pop on Dec 17th.P249 CJJFA( 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:05/24 13/14 Top of the Pops Rig If you've been dying to get yourself a copy of the new theme tune for Top of the Pops (the rig in biz-speak) your chance is now here. Paul Hardcastle is the man behind the single The Wizbrd which is said rig. TOTP producer Michael Hurll approached Paul when he was appearing on the show last year and asked him to conj up with a new thjmj. The recording is Pigh-tech electronics all painted bz numbers with not a piece of tape in sight (it says here)!P249 CEEFAX 249 Mon 13 Oct 21:15/48 14/14 45s Brief too ... Jumping Jack Flash - Aretha Franklin Is this even better than the Stones? There's some truly striking guitar and of course Aretha's voice. Amazing! Mail it to the Wall - Stacy Lattisaw Stuttery funk from Ms L who hit in 1980 with Jump to the Beat. Mix bz the famous Jellybean but it might not bj agressive enough to hit big. Keep your top 5 albums & single; of 1986 lists coming in to CEETRAX, Rm 7059, BBCtv, LONDON W22 7RJ CEJTRAX is written bz Andy Finnjy