1927 was an Australian rock band, popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their major hit songs were If I Could, Compulsory Hero and That’s When I Think of You. Lead singer Eric Weiderman was discovered on a tv show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, on a red faces segment.
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It’s because 30 Odd Foot of Grunts was actor Russell Crowe’s musical band before he began a solo career in 2005. The name of the band comes from a phrase heard by Russell Crowe during post-production on the movie Virtuosity. The band has achieved neither critical nor popular success during its time.
Def FX (1990-1997) was an Australian industrial-dance-rock group, formed in Sydney. The core of the group was keyboardist and vocalist Sean Lowry (also a visual artist) and vocalist Fiona Horne (a famous Wiccan and environmentalist). Their music throughout their career can be described as a fusion of elements of psychedelia, industrial, grunge, electronica, and heavy metal, and in their early days, even reggae and disco.
The Whitlams are an Australian band, best known for their songs No Aphrodisiac and Blow Up the Pokies, You Sound Like Louis Burdett and I Make Hamburgers. The Whitlams sound can best be described as piano rock founded in lyrics of charming cynicism. The band’s name is a tribute to former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Early in their career, they performed a small number of shows under the pseudonym The Moody Jews.
Billy Field is an Australian singer and songwriter, best known for his 1981 hit Bad Habits. Another single, You Weren’t in Love with Me, reached the number one position on the Australian record chart. His two main albums include Bad Habits which was released in 1982, and the Best of Billy Field: You Weren’t in Love with Me released in 2005. Field was born and raised in the small Riverina town of Urana New South Wales.
Diana Anaid or Diana Ah Naid is an Australian singer-songwriter, whose real name is Diana Gosper. She released her first album, Diana Ah Naid at the age of 19. Her follow-up album, I don’t think I’m pregnant, was released in 1999, with the singles Love Song for a Girl, Don’t Believe in Love, and Perfect Family. In 2007, she also released a single entitled Cheatin’ on Me and is also the first single to be released from her own record label, Forola Records.
The Screaming Jets is a hard rock band from Newcastle, Australia that was formed by singer Dave Gleeson, bass player Paul Woseen and guitarist Grant Walmsley in 1989. Along with second guitarist Richard Lara and drummer Brad Heaney, the Screaming Jets won a national Battle of the Bands contest run by the youth broadcaster Triple J and a resultant EP, The Scorching Adventures of the Screaming Jets scored an ARIA Award nomination.
Epicure is an Australian rock band from Ballarat, in regional Victoria. Epicure came to national prominence in 2003 when two more of their tracks, Armies Against Me and Life Sentence, were picked up by the Australian radio station Triple J. These songs are featured on The Goodbye Girl album, released in March 2004. Both reached the Triple J Hottest 100, 2003, whilst a third track from the album, Self Destruct in Five, made the Triple J Hottest 100, 2004.
An Australian singer, Peter Blakeley was the lead singer for The Rockmelons in the mid-1980’s. In 1988, he launched a solo career and had a massive hit single in Australia in 1990 with Crying in the Chapel, which is also the video below.
Something for Kate is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia whose members include songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey, drummer Clint Hyndman, and bassist Stephanie Ashworth. Something for Kate was founded in 1994 with Julian Carroll as the original bass player, and they have widespread popularity in Australia.