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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 15. July 9 1979

Sunshine from the Frogs

Sunshine from the Frogs

Finally, a ray of sunshine, the Wide Mouthed Frogs; a group of very cute and able females. As a support band in a small theatre, they are great, fantastic. They actually try and put on a show as well as rendering, very well, a number of classic "songs by the girls" (Leader of the Pack, etc). At one stage — wow! they even had two dance boys — which at least showed a spark of originality (in the context), and the group generally have a measure of technical ability unmatched by any other Wellington group, if only their music was a little stronger. When they play everybody in the room sits down, which is rather a drag considering that Radio Windy plays such music 24 hours a day.

Christchurch has supplied two outstanding bands to the Rock Theatre, both of which have appeared in the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, in the case of '3D', for the last time — their's was a farewell before moving off to Australia.

As with Bon Marche, the other Canterbrians, their speciality is the performance of quite well known, new wave songs, it was a comment on Wellington audiences that an excellent band like 3D attracted so few. It's in comparison with groups such as these the Wellington talent seems to full, 3D produce a sound which is distinctive, clean and obviously targetted to the constituent of the audience. When they played at the Rock Theatre it was following Smashed Executive — it was music after noise.