We were worried that we weren't going to have anything to tell you about this record - but thankfully the U of L has done the amazing work of digitizing past newspapers. This clipping from 1979 explains why this single sounds so much like UK pub rock: [center][img width=644px]//7ca49eb9f67ba1319ef136f9d52cd8b8.cdn.bubble.io/f1739842102029x714007676883815300/richtext_content.png[/img][/center] 8 Thursday, Oct. 18, 1979 THE ENDEAVOR [b]Barn packed for concert[/b] By LORRAINE PAWLIVSKY Endeavor Staff Writer Over 600 music fans packed The Barn Sunday evening to take in LA-FM's second live concert presentation. The crowd, encouraged to participate, did almost as excellent a job as folk singer Peter Archer and rock band Nikki Cruze. Archer, originally from England and now living in Lethbridge, performed his own music to an enthusiastic mixed crowd of college students and the local public. With encouragement from the audience he played his own brand of songs such as Almost Home; Heartbreaks, Milkshakes and Fries; and Purely for the Money. The crowd, especially the local people, seemed to enjoy the A & W love song, Heartbreaks, Milkshakes and Fries because it probably reminded them, as it did me, of cruising Mayor Magrath Drive on a Saturday night and drinking gallons of rootbeer and searching for the love of one's life. Nikki Cruze, a local band shooting for the big times, quickly took over the reins of the crowds' attention and did a near professional job. The first four of five songs were well received by the crowd but after that they were just a dance band playing for an audience on chairs. The band will be playing at a cabaret at The Barn Nov. 3 and perhaps the response will be better. Tony Solowjow, keyboardist and lead singer, leaves no doubt about his exceptional talents. With such credits as a television appearance on CBC and performing in larger cities, who would think not? His lead vocals for the two Cheap Trick hits, Surrender and I Want Your to Want Me, would have made the original group jealous. With a better defined style and of course, the practice all musicians need, this group might make it. They received an encore from a crowd that deserved more than one more song. Two would have been more appropriate especially for those standing near the entrance without chairs. Southern Sound recorded the concert along with the cheers, hoots, stomping and the odd phrases thrown out by the boisterous fans. The performance will be aired on CILA-FM Lethbridge at a later date.
