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Two indie bands, two concerts coming this weekend; The New Zealand band, Garageland, play at Sig Ep while indie favorities, Promise Rings take on Panarchy

By Dorothy Hui | April 3, 1998

The Hanover music scene comes alive this weekend with the New Zealand band Garageland playing on campus Saturday and the Promise Rings on Sunday. The New Zealand quartet began three years ago, when classmates Jeremy Eade (guitar/vocals), Mark Silvey (bass) and Andrew Gladstone (drums) came together for jam sessions that soon grew into something bigger. Taking their name from the early Clash anthem "Garageland," the band recruited Silvey's sister Debbie (guitar) to expand their sound and then proceeded to record a demo.

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Steve Miller concert is best of the year

By Lou Scerra | April 3, 1998

Last night's Steve Miller Band concert in Leede Arena was the best of the year. Period. Miller and his five-member band proved that they can still rock and roll as they played to a mixed crowd of college students, bikers, high school students and middle-aged adults who were trying to relive their past. "Guitar," as he is referred to, came out immediately and responded to yesterday's preview article in The Dartmouth. "Don't you worry, we are going to play all those songs and more tonight," he said. He opened up with several ballads including "Country Girl" and "Goin' to the Country," but the crowd was waiting for him to break into something to which they could sing along. They received their wish when the band played "Dance, Dance, Dance" which included a beautiful trio between Miller, his pianist and Norton Buffalo on the harmonica. The crowd was jumping by that point but when they immediately launched into "Swingtown," the atmosphere was upgraded to absolutely electric. Miller and his band are on the sixth date on their Space Cowboy tour in between their stops in New York and Boston. "Living in the USA," in the words of one onlooker, was "nasty." The guitar rifts were wonderful and the harmonies were still sound after all these years. After a 15-minute intermission, Miller returned to his roots and played three blues tunes which is how he began his career. They returned back to some of their more popular songs with very upbeat renditions of "Abracadabra" and "Serenade." It became glaringly apparent that the lyrics "Abracadabra, I wanna reach out and grab ya" are just about the best that he ever wrote. Miller and the other five closed the second half of the concert with the geographically witty "Rock 'N Me" and the wind machine-filled "Jet Airliner." Even though they are in thirtieth year together, they looked fresh enough to be in their first, and all of the true Miller fans in the audience knew what would follow in the band's encore. "Take the Money and Run" was as fast as ever performed, yet still technically sound.

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Marley concert lights up Leede

By Shialing Kwa | March 5, 1998

I stood in line outside Leede Arena at about 7:30, feeling cold and wet, attempting to cast vicious glances at the group of nine-year-old boys standing in front of me, and I wondered if all of this was an indication of how the concert itself would be. Thankfully, I'm jamming on my way back to the dorm three hours later, high on awesome music and second-hand smoke.

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Hatcher '99 starts new drama troupe

By Ki Mae Heussner | March 5, 1998

Dartmouth's newest drama troupe, Pretty How Town Productions, was created for two reasons: to increase student involvement and to benefit charity. In the words of its founder, Andy Hatcher '99, "I had this two-part idea: one was to encourage more student drama, the other was to create a philanthropic acting company that would raise money for local charities." Even the title of the drama troupe enforces the idea of more student involvement in campus drama.

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