Tag Archives: The Celibate Rifles

Ending up using the intensity and passion of the U2, Hunters & Collectors carved a distinctive path and place for themselves in Australian rock and roll culture. The group was originally produced in post-punk 1981 in Melbourne being a collective rather than music group, an excursion into funk-rock rhythms and …

The Beasts of Bourbon grew from simply being truly a side project to being truly a true supergroup for the Australian pub rock scene. Developing in Sydney in 1983, the initial Beasts lineup comprised Tex Perkins (vocals, afterwards from the Cruel Ocean), Spencer Jones (electric guitar, also with the Johnnys), …

Punk revivalists the Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs formed in LA in 1995, the group — vocalist/guitarist Frank Meyer, guitarist Artwork Jackson, bassist Dino Everett and drummer Mike Sessa — taking their cues from your protean sound of bands just like the Stooges (from whose “Search and Destroy” in addition they copped their …

A fascinating one-time-only music group, New Competition was evidence that great music may appear when “instructors” and “learners” gather. In this situation, the “instructors” had been ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and ex-MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, who became a member of makes with “learners” Deniz Tek, Rob Younger, and Warwick Gilbert, …

Founded by ex-Radio Birdman vocalist Rob Younger, Australia’s Fresh Christs have were able to persevere through many personnel shifts, in addition to Younger’s many commitments generating other bands. In the beginning started like a one-off to record an individual (“Face a fresh God,” 1981, right now worth a lot of …

Roaring from Brisbane, Australia in 1977 using the punk-era classic “(I’m) Stranded,” the Saints, despite going right through numerous incarnations, had been an integral part of rock and roll & move for a lot more than 20 years, thank you mainly with their indefatigable leader (and founder), Chris Bailey. Although …

Australia’s Midnight Essential oil brought a fresh feeling of political and sociable immediacy to pop music: not merely did incendiary strikes like “Mattresses Are Burning up” and “Blue Sky Mine” bring global focus on the plight of, respectively, Australia’s indigenous people and functioning class, however the group also place its …

Playing stripped-down, loud, and accelerated Ramones-inspired guitar rock and roll, the Celibate Rifles had been among the first Australian punk rings to emerge through the post-Radio Birdman/Saints era. Acquiring their cues from these Aussie rings, combined with the American hard rock and roll from the Stooges, MC5, and Blue Oyster …

The Ramones-loving Australian punk-pop group Eastern Dark were formed by guitarist/vocalist Wayne Darroch in 1984. Featuring drummer Geoff Milne and previous Lime Spiders MC Expenses Gibson on bass, the trio combined the three-chord tunefulness from the Ramones with your guitar attack of the Australian compatriots just like the Celibate Rifles …

Lime Spiders were an Australian post-punk device resurrecting the trashier components of ’60s garage area and psychedelic rock and roll with willful reject. Vocalist Mick Bloodstream formed the music group in the first ’80s with guitarist Gerald Corben, bassist Tony Bambach and drummer Ricky Lawson. The music group documented two …