; fun back into : rock and rolil Never ones to stand pat, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe remain masters at reworking an apparent one dimensional electropop formula into all keyboards for guitar and demonstrates a previously untapped knack for pop songcraft full of wit, harâ€" monies, hooks and stellar playing, especially from guiâ€" tanst Will Schwartz and drumâ€" mer Lynn Perko. They add the instrumental prowess to mateâ€" mial that, while seeningly lighthearted and lightweight, has plenty of substance. Speaking of putting some fun back into rock and roll, along comes imperial Teen with a surprisingly infectious batch of pop songs. Surprising because no one would ever associate anything on Seasick with the hard rock crunch of Faith No More, the fullâ€"time gig of IT frontman Roddy Botâ€" New Mansions is a typical Fastbacks outing, though a generally more inspired one than their last album, Answer The Phone Dummy. Leader Kurt Bloch and company are as quirky and cavalier as ever and it‘s hard not to get caught up in the frivolity and spirited playing of the whole thing. At the other end are the Fastâ€" backs, Seattle‘s 6 pop merrymakers > who, in their own copy, ramshackle style, remind us that there are a heck of a lot worse ways to earn a Iiving. being a rock star are almost unbearâ€" At one end of the modern rock spectrum you have the likes of Pearl Jam and Oasis, perpetually sullen rockers who would have us believe that the burdens of Pet Shop Boys Free Public Lecture "The Voice of the Silence" Friday, October 25 â€" §:00 p.m. Here Bottum trades in his New Mansions in Sound Adult Recreation Centre 185 King St. S. Discoteca, which features ,{M M , f the percussive wallop of the Wv + - e h group SheBoom, is the best F 4 example of the Boys‘ newâ€" mee. e C . O mememameeeeneny drummer Mickey Hart. Lowe and Tennant don‘t Mirphin treat the tradition with nearly iniiitiiznn the reverence those artists do, which shouldn‘t come as a surâ€" tongueâ€"inâ€"cheek approach. instead they cleverly weave the African influence in and around Lowe‘s buoyant synâ€" thesizer arrangements and Tennant‘s soulless, coollyâ€" Gabriel to Grateful Dead sorts of interesting variations. With Silingual, they turn in mmm n tmmmenmen miniinonemenmenpeitnmtsmamrpmeneran uo ncea i aicals ons NOC O OO OO Loo arrortieninatcons e comeh on on oumctosonensen c enameemnar Moinere eineneineeine en Ee d i c is Oct. 28 at 8 pm. Tickets available at The Centre she laughs, "they never vate person. 1 would like son who happens to be and her husband raise St. John has always & that most actresses dre career oriented. But so She has appeared in f Rome and Neil Simon‘s in Who‘s Been Sleeping oim?'mi Although her career extensive, she has many horseback riding on the was a young man unde perhaps a minute‘s dura ing from Wagner‘s eyes dier responding to the s immediate reaction pou established Wagner as a St. John, who was bot ing at age four and per many as 1,000 radio sho first television movie ev include Prince Valiant, Song in My Heart, star The Arrival (LIVE H Video) is an enjoyable sciâ€"fi thriller about a r2 telescope astronomer | ton, Natalie Portman Home Video). The exc cast includes Matt Dill gles), Uma Thurman (1 ous Liaisons), Timothy (French Kiss), Rosie O‘1 (Now and Then), Laur (Down Periscope), Mir When Willie, a strug dub pianist, returns hc a high school reunion, memories of friendshig girls they loved, and gr up, surface as Willie an pals rehash the past in Richard Masur and Tristar Home â€" . . Video), a very funny . ied ind ty N M iB ';‘" peared at theatres _ quiddy, but is well worth the price of a n the story of a man wh n‘t have enough time job, a wife (Andie Ma Green Card) to whom devoted, and his two « He thinks he may have his problem when he « himself, more than on learns that his solutior more trouble that his j lem. Also with Harris Y "I have never been tie "doning > . 3““;12,1':-.45