Kenya to Irish parents, and guitarist Ed Kuepper, raised in Germany. Of the Saints were a pair of literal outsiders: vocalist Chris Bailey, born in Resent the fact that Cave stole PJ Harvey away from me, so it’s personal. Known enough that more (king) ink needn’t be spilled on him. Though the band and its precursor unit the Boys Next Door were in business fromġ976 on, they didn’t release their first LP until 1980. But none of these bands ever stayed together long enough toīirthday Party, you ask? There are a few things to consider. Several magnificent albums and singles during a productive four-year stretch in Scientists, recorded most prolifically, with their core line-up producing
All of them had fairly slimĭiscographies ironically, the act probably least known in the U.S., the The Saints, Radio Birdman, and the Scientists. Rock Wizards of Oz? For this Down Under face-off, I’ve selected three contenders: Managed to make their way off the island, but if they hit the AmericanĬonsciousness, it was for little more than a nanosecond during their heyday. Several attitude-filled bands bent on doing things their own damn way. The vast but not terribly populous island continent, fires were started by ‘70s were fertile days for rock ‘n’ roll in Australia. Listening today to the hot new Grown Up Wrong! comp by Sydney’s Lipstick Killers, whose lone officially released single was produced by Deniz Tek of Radio Birdman, it occurred to me that my old Music Aficionado faux faceoff between Australia’s pioneering bands of the ‘70s (all of which I dearly love) has disappeared into the online ether.
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