For the uninitiated, Tales From the Australian Underground Volume 2: 1977 – 1990 charts the evolution of the Australian alternative sound beginning with the big bang of 1976 and the debut recordings of both Radio Birdman and The Saints, right through to the digital and alternative-mainstream crossover of the early ’90s.

Using 7 inch records in the main to provide the storyline, Tales uncovers a bevy of vinyl treasure in the quest to tell the truth. Radio Birdman, The Saints, The Birthday Party, Tactics, Scientists, Sekret Sekret and the Triffids are just some of the acts making the graduation from volume one, whilst Teenage Radio Stars, SPK, The Singles, Sacred Cowboys, Severed Heads, Salamander Jim, Ollie Olsen, Primitive Calculators, feedtime, The Stems and the Widdershins are just some of the thirty-four debutantes. In total, 45 tracks from forty-five underground stars, with 24 of those tracks appearing on CD for the very first time.

Some of the highlights include:

Teenage Radio Stars – Wanna Be Your Baby
The debut CD release for the teenage pre-Models Sean Kelly and James Freud

Thought Criminals – More Suicides Please
The classic track from a 1978 punk rock Roger Grierson, the ex-MD of FMR

Shy Impostors – At the Barrier
The debut CD release for the pre-Sunnyboys Richard Burgman and Peter Oxley

Sekret Sekret – Chimes
The debut CD release from this track from the pre-Cruel Sea Danny, James and Ken

Salamander Jim – Hot Cakes For Daddy
The debut CD release from this inspirational Tex Perkins led band of the mid-eighties

Ollie Olsen – Win/Lose
The debut CD release for this one time Whirlywirld track – taken from the seminal Dogs in Space soundtrack

Primitive Calculators – Pumping Ugly Muscle
The debut CD release for this Dogs in Space soundtrack favourite

The Hummingbirds – Alimony
The debut CD release for this much loved indie hit of the eighties

Ed Kuepper – Everything I’ve Got
The classic Ed track

This release comes as a 2CD set complete with a 36 page full-colour booklet containing photographs, every single cover, and in-depth look at each and every track. It’s an exhausting and dialectic exercise compiling Tales From the Australian Underground but someone has to do it, right?

TRACKLISTING:

Disc One:

1. Radio Birdman: New Race (orig version)
2. The Saints: Know Your Product
3. Teenage Radio Stars: Wanna Be Your Baby
4. Thought Criminals: More Suicides Please
5. Boys Next Door: Dive Postion
6. The Hitmen: I Am The Man
7. SpK: Mekano
8. Little Murders: Things Will Be Different
9. The Riptides: Tomorrows Tears
10. Seems Twice: Non-Plussed
11. The Singles: Love Of Loves
12. Shy Impostors: At the Barrier
13. Tactics: Second Language
14. Surfside Six: Can’t You See the Sign
15. The Birthday Party: Blast Off
16. Machinations: Arabia
17. Dropbears: Fun Lovin’
18. The Particles: The Trumpet Song
19. Minuteman: Voodoo Slaves
20. Sacred Cowboys: Nothing Grows in Texas
21. Sardine v: Stuck On You
22. Severed Heads: Dead Eyes Opened (album version)
23. Laughing Clowns: Everything That Flies
24. Hoodoo Gurus: Lets All Turn On
25. Scientists: Solid Gold Hell

Disc Two:

1. Sekret Sekret: Chimes
2. The Triffids: Raining Pleasure
3. Screaming Tribesman: A Stand Alone
4. Salamander Jim: Hot Cakes For Daddy
5. Lime Spiders: Out Of Control
6. David Virgin: Give it Up
7. Inner Sleeves: End it All
8. Tall Tales & True: Wasted Life
9. Toys Went Beserk: Guns At My Head
10. Ollie Olsen: Win/Lose
11. Primitive Calculators: Pumping Ugly Muscle
12. feedtime: Don’t Tell Me (7″ version)
13. Happy Hate Me Nots: Salt, Sour & Brighton
14. The Stems: For Always
15. Hummingbirds: Alimony (original version)
16. Widdershins: Now You Know
17. Died Pretty: Everybody Moves
18. Proton Energy Pills: Less Than I Spend
19. Lightning Scary: Kim Salmon top button
20. Ed Kuepper: Everything I’ve Got

It is with great pride that Feel Presents announce the release of The Good That’s Been Done – the first ever anthology for Sydney group the Happy Hate Me Nots.

The 2CD set covers the band’s entire career and includes all the A-sides, a selection of b-sides, live favourite and tour-de-force Blue Afternoon, their cover of Bob Marley’s Lively Up Yourself, previously unreleased demo recordings and live tracks. All packaged with a 12 page full colour booklet, The Good That’s Been Done is the definitive Happy Hate Me Nots release.

The roots of the Happy Hate Me Nots lie in Positive Hatred, a Civic Hotel era Sydney punk band, who performed their Clash and Stiff Little Fingers inspired originals to a bunch of third generation punks looking for kicks. Following the demise of that band, Paul Berwick and Positive Hatred drummer Neil Toddie, joined up with pals Peter Lennon (bass) and Tim McKay (guitar) in 1983, to form hi-energy pop band the Happy Hate Me Nots. Toddie would later leave and be replaced by future Toys Went Beserk drummer Mark Nicholson. Nicholson and Lennon would both depart in 1986, replaced by Mick Searson (drums) and Christian Houllemare, formerly bassist for French band Bad Brains – no, not the US crossover hardcore-reggae group – not long after he had relocated to Australia.

Drawing influence from The Jam, The Sound, The Clash and a variety of other mod, punk and post-punk influences, the Happy Hate Me Nots would then produce a succession of passionate power pop recordings including the classics Salt Sour & Brighton, Don’t Move Too Far and Praise For Fortune, all released on the burgeoning Waterfront record label, home to contemporaries The Eastern Dark, Ups & Downs, Hard-Ons and Ratcat.

The band’s only full-length album Out was released in August 1988 and the Happy Hate Me Nots found their first (and only) American release via influential independent label Rough Trade around the same time. A restructure within that label at their San Francisco base, however, reduced the likelihood of a planned US tour, which unfortunately slowed the band’s momentum. A final single I Could See It Coming and then mini-album A Place to Live would follow in 1991, before what can only be called a premature retirement took place.

The ‘Hate Me Nots had shaped their sound in the mid 80′s period when a new rock beast was growing worldwide but had yet to become embraced by a more mainstream audience. The resulting “Indie Crossover” which helped the success of bands like The Hummingbirds, Ratcat and You Am I, had not yet occurred, but the HHMNs were part of the Australian contribution to that magic moment. We can now pay respect to these innovators by giving them a presence in today’s market.

If you missed the Happy Hate Me Nots the first time around then there is no reason to miss them now.

Feel Presents is proud to release Happy Town Sounds (Singles, Live & Rare), the debut CD release and first ever long player for seminal Sydney group Sekret Sekret.

Serving as the missing link between electronic pioneers SPK and mainstream chart toppers The Cruel Sea (guitarist/songwriter Danny Rumour served time in both while SS frontman David Virgin was the co-writer on the first three impossibly rare SPK singles), Sekret Sekret confused, bemused and delighted Sydney audiences from their birth late in 1979 until their untimely demise some five years later. Along the way SS, produced enough material to fill three quality albums yet, typical of the times, only managed to release four independent singles including the noted underground classic; New King Jack.

But all that has changed now, via the research and diligence of Feel Presents archivist Tim Pittman and founding Sekret Sekret member Des Devlin. Between them, the pair have unearthed some 32 tracks – 23 of which have never before been released in any format. These include:

*All four singles (and their b-sides); Charity, New King Jack, Girl With a White Stick, Just to Love You.

*Two Triple J radio sessions recorded at Sydney’s infamous Rock Garden (1980) and the Trade Union Club (1983).

*Two further desk recordings – again from 1980 and 1983.

*The lone remaining track from a 1981 demo session.

Additionally, and as with all Feel Presents archival releases, this 2CD collection comes with a 28 page booklet chronicling the rise of the band from the ashes of Sydney’s infamous punk pit, The Grand Hotel, and such legendary outfits as Johnny Dole and the Scabs, The Broken Toys, Blackrunner and SPK, right through until their eventual collapse and subsequent rebirth (via three of the original five members) under the altogether more successful banner of The Cruel Sea. It’s a fascinating story, one that has yet to feature in any of the recent flurry of Australian revisionist CD’s or books doing the rounds and, an important one at that.

Tales from the Australian Underground highlights selections from the previous careers of acts like Hoodoo Gurus (The Victims & Fun Things), Gangajang (The Riptides), The Cruel Sea (Sekret Sekret), Dave Graney (The Moodists), Big Heavy Stuff (Ups & Downs), You Am I (The Bamboos), Tex Perkins, (Thug), Dirty Three (Venom P. Stinger) as well as classic early releases from Radio Birdman, The Saints, The Scientists, Triffids, Died Pretty, The Mark Of Cain and the Hard-Ons.

In addition, Tales from the Australian Underground includes a selection of seminal tracks, previously unreleased on CD. Featured among others are Pel Mel, Sunnyboys, Sardine, Psycho Surgeons, The Leftovers, Do Re Mi, The Numbers, Tactics, X and Wet Taxis.

Besides offering up an indie “best of”, Tales from the Australian Underground gives the listener an insight into the sounds and musical styles that were developed over the highlighted period. From raw rock ‘n’ roll and punk roots, to the eclecticism of the eighties. All documented in an extensive 36 page booklet and 2CD collection. Essential for anyone serious about their music.

TRACKLISTING:

Disc One:

1.Radio Birdman: Burned My Eye (orig version)
2. The Saints: This Perfect Day (orig version)
3. The Victims: I’m Flipped Out Over You
4. The Riptides: Sunset Strip
5. Psycho Surgeons: Horizontal Action
6. The Leftovers: Cigarettes & Alcohol
7. La Femme: Chelsea Kids
8. The Scientists: Frantic Romantic
9. Numbers: Government Boy
10. Tactics: Standing By the Window
11. Lipstick Killers: Hindu Gods Of Love
12. Fun Things: When the Birdman Fly
13. The Passengers: Face With No Name
14. The Visitors: Brother John (orig version)
15. The Birthday Party: Happy Birthday
16. Laughing Clowns: Sometimes (I Just Can’t Live With Anyone)
17. The Mark Of Cain: Lords Of Summer
18. Someloves: Know You Now
19. The Celibate Rifles: Johnny
20. Cosmic Psychos: Lost Cause
21. Plunderers: I Didn’t See Them At All
22. Hard-Ons: Just Being With You
23. Do Re Mi: Standing On Wires ?

Disc Two: ?

1. Scientists: We Had Love
2. The Moodists: The Disciples Know
3. Triffids: Beautiful Waste
4. X: Half Way Round the World (orig version)
5. Lighthouse Keepers: Ocean Liner
6. The Moffs: Another Day in the Sun
7. Died Pretty: Ambergris
8. The Eastern Dark: Julie is a Junkie
9. The New Christs: No Next Time
10. Ups & Downs: The Living Kind
11. Ed Kuepper: Also Sprach the King of Euro-Disco
12. Bamboos: With Which to Love You
13. Wet Taxis: Sailors Dream
14. Thug: Dad
15. Venom P. Stinger: Walking About
16. God: My Pal
17. Flaming Hands: I Belong to Nobody
18. Sunnyboys: Love To Rule (orig version)
19. Sekret Sekret: New King Jack
20. Pel Mel: No Word From China
21. Makers of the Dead Travel Fast: Taels of the Saeghors
22. Sardine: Sudan

To witness the Sunnyboys performing at any number of pubs, clubs or festivals in Australia during the early eighties was to experience one of this country’s great live acts. From their debut in Sydney on August 15th 1980, supporting inner-city faves The Lipstick Killers, right through to their final headline performance on December 24th 1984, they oozed passion, energy, charisma and sweat. Lots of sweat. ‘Hi-energy’ and ‘dance’ were the expressions typically used to describe their shows, long before those terms were hijacked and applied to completely different musical genres. Night after night, venue after venue, the band left a writhing mass of sweat-soaked, deliriously happy bodies.

In frontman and guitarist Jeremy Oxley, they had a songsmith to equal the Easybeats’ Vanda & Young before him and silverchair’s Daniel Johns after him. Backed by a stellar band that included his brother Peter Oxley on bass, Peter’s school friend Bil Bilson on drums and Richard Burgman on guitar, Jeremy delivered passionate, concise pop-rock songs that perfectly captured the feelings and thoughts of youth and young adults all over the country. They were Jeremy’s songs all right, but the band was very much the sum of its considerable parts, ruling the roost in inner city Sydney as well as throughout much of greater regional Australia.

Along the way, the Sunnyboys produced a tidy sum of classic singles, including the top forty hits Happy Man, Alone With You, You Need A Friend and the controversial Show Me Some Discipline. What was more astonishing perhaps was the quality of the b-sides. Culled for the most part from their first album sessions, songs like Guts of Iron and Stop & Think were A-sides in anyone else’s language, but for Jeremy, whose gift was in full flood, they were just more seemingly effortless ‘dance’ tracks that didn’t make the cut.

This Is Real is the definitive Sunnyboys release. A 2CD set that for the first time brings together all those classic single A and B sides plus a selection of rare and previously unreleased studio tracks plus a full live CD drawn from three radio broadcasts in the band’s peak years of 1981 to 1982 plus a full 36 page full colour booklet.

That enough for ya? Let’s break it down:

CD 1: Singles A&B, Rare and Unreleased

• Includes all four tracks issued on their debut self-titled EP in December 1980: Love to Rule, What You Need, The Seeker and Alone With You
• Every single they ever issued from Happy Man to Comes As No Surprise. All original single versions. No album versions.
• All the single B-sides, many taken from the classic first album recording sessions. All these are on CD for the very first time and include live favourites Stop & Think, Guts Of Iron and Pain
• The ultra rare Tell Me What You Say taken from the limited edition vinyl version of their debut album plus an alternate mix of first album favourite My Only Friend
• 21 tracks in total – 13 of these released on CD for the first time.

CD 2: Live 1981 – 1982

• A full 21 song, 70 minute set drawn from three high quality radio broadcasts.
• Live at Bombay Rock, Melbourne for EON FM in January 1981.
• Live at the Governors Pleasures Tavern, Sydney for Triple J FM in February 1981.
• Live at the Family Inn, Sydney for Triple J FM in February 1982.
• PLUS a cover of the Beatles’ Birthday taken from the Mushroom Evolution Concert at the Myer Music Bowl in January 1982.
• Only four of the twenty ones songs have been released before and only one of those on CD.

Extras:

• As with the previous Feel Presents release Tales From the Australian Underground, This Is Real will be accompanied by a 36 page full colour booklet including rare photos, poster and handbill art as well as a 10,000+ word biography. This biography outlines in full detail the band’s rapid rise from their first show on August 15th 1980, their signing to Mushroom Records in February 1981, the platinum success of their debut album and the consequent struggle and pressures faced by the band as the demands for more and more hits and success brought them to a close of business in December 1984. For the very time also, the full story of singer, songwriter, guitarist, Jeremy Oxley’s tragic struggle with schizophrenia is disclosed. A read worthy of a book in its own right.
• In homage to the band’s debut album when, on release, it came on yellow vinyl in a yellow sleeve in a limited edition of just 2000 copies, This is Real will also be released in a limited edition run of just 2000 double CD’s in a unique slip cover and with each of those first 2000 CD’s featuring a graphic unique to the limited edition. This is Real will be available post the first 2000 without the slipcase and featuring different CD graphics.

Tracklisting:

Studio Side

1. Love to Rule (12″ EP version)
2. Stop & Think (single B-side)
3. To the Bone (single B-side)
4. The Seeker (12″ EP version)
5. What You Need (12″ EP version)
6. Tomorrow Will Be Fine (single B-side)
7. Happy Man (single A-side)
8. Alone With You (Single A-Side: mono radio mix)
9. Guts of Iron (single B-side)
10. Physical Jerk (single B-side)
11. My Only Friend (alternate mix)
12. Tell Me What You Say (bonus track off limited edition yellow vinyl debut lp)
13. You Need A Friend (single A-side with extended outro)
14. No Love Around (single B-side)
15. This Is Real (single A-side)
16. Pain (single B-side)
17. Show Me Some Discipline (single A-side – original version)
18. Love in A Box (single A-side)
19. Comes As No Surprise (single A-side)
20. Bottom Of My Heart (single B-side)
21. You Need A Friend reprise (extended version of Individuals’ outro)

Live Side

1. Why Do I Cry
2. Guts Of Iron
3. Love to Rule
4. Strategy Idol
5. Tomorrow Will Be Fine
6. My Only Friend
7. Alone With You
8. What You Need
9. I’m Shakin’
10. Tunnel Of Love
11. I Don’t Want You
12. Happy Man
13. I Can’t Talk to You
14. The Seeker
15. I Want to Be Alone
16. Let You Go
17. Thrill
18. I’m No Satisfied
19. Trouble in My Brain
20. You Need A Friend
21. Happy Birthday

Deluxe 2CD set chronicling the entire career of this alterna-chart topping outfit from Sydney circa: 1984 – 1989. Resplendent in all it’s pyschedelic glory, ‘The Collection’ captures the band’s entire recorded output including:

*The original 6-track demo: 11 – 5 (never before released on CD)

*Their indie chart topping singles ‘Another Day in the Sun’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘The Traveller’

*The complete ‘Moffs’ mini-album and their only full-length LP ‘Labyrinth’

*The covers, including their little heard take on The Byrds ‘Eight Miles High’ and the previously unreleased version of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band’s
‘Do What You Do’

* Rare later day demos

In total a whopping 30 tracks, some 11 of which are released here on CD for the first time. All gloriously remastered for the digital age by Moffs mainman Tom Kazas and Sydney mastering maestro William Bowden.

But wait, there’s more; a 26 page book booklet describing The Moffs rapid rise from the southern Sydney beach suburb of Maroubra to darlings of the inner-city to world wide noteriety courtesy of their indie smash 7″ ‘Another Day in the Sun’. Complete with rare photos, handbills and poster art – all documented and researched by Feel Presents musical historian Tim Pittman.

The Moffs were always the odd men out at Sydney label Citadel Records. Sure they shared their label mates predilection for a good paisley shirt and pointed Beatle boots (Lime Spiders, The Stems et all) but the comparisons stop just about there. While their contemporaries took inspiration from the US side of the Atlantic and, for the most part, sixties and seventies garage rock, The Moffs took their influence more from the UK and the mod, psychedelic and prog-rock scenes of the same time. As a result it set them apart from the ‘garage-rock’ pack that swept Australia in the mid-eighties, but did them no harm as release after release topped the Australian independent charts (including a whopping 16 weeks for their 1985 debut chart-topper ‘Another Day in the Sun’) and drew blubbering praise from both the UK and European press.

“This is the best of the flawless series of Citadel singles (a dozen superb 45s to date) and believe me the competition is fierce! I demand a whole Moffs LP immediately, if not sooner, in the meantime BUY THIS RECORD!” Bucketful of Brains UK

In May 2005, Henry Rollins performed his 8th Spoken Word tour of Australia. The first three dates were at the York Theatre in Sydney’s Seymour Centre. All three shows were filmed and and some post-show interviews were filmed as well resulting in Live in the Conversation Pit the first ever Henry Rollins Spoken Word DVD filmed entirely in Australia.

The Sydney dates were shows 44-46 of the 25 Years of Bullshit Tour which took in 11 countries from January to December 2005. Henry Rollins is a huge admirer of Australia having travelled here some 26 times in total, covering Spoken Word performance, Rollins Band tours and promotional tours.

Late in 2005, Henry was approached by the Big Day Out to appear at the 2006 travelling festival marking Henry’s first appearance on that event since the inaugural event in Sydney way back in 1992. On that event he appeared as guest vocalist for Sydney band, the Hard-Ons. This time Henry will appear in Spoken Word mode and the second and consequently 3rd – 7th times he will have performed his art at such an event, the one previous time being as a breakfast date to 5000 metal fans at the UK version of Ozzfest. Henry had no hesitation of accepting the challenge set by the Big Day Out this summer. and will deliver all his barb, wit and charm to an unsuspecting teenage set this summer.

Released to coincide with the Big Day Out, highlights from this compelling 150 minute DVD include The Time I Was Funny, The King of Rock n Roll and the hilarious and daunting story of Henry’s solo travels across the great Russian winter wonderland, Siberia. If it’s lectures and pieces of prose you are after then you are at the wrong place. Often misconstrued by the ignorant as a serious bode delivering lectures in an Army Major-like fashion, Henry Rollins is a very funny and very smart man delivering critically observant takes on the life around him. Sometimes political, sometimes sociological but always utterly entertaining. No lectures here.

Formed in Adelaide in 1985 and featuring the brothers John and Kim Scott at the helm, The Mark Of Cain eschewed all contemporary influence of the time and instead dug deep into the likes of Joy Division, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Big Black, Black Flag, Gang of Four and Magazine, as well as authors like Herman Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Colin Wilson, Fydor Dostoyevsky and John Fante in creating a dark and brooding, intellectual take on post punk.

Consequently, these albums, (released respectively in 1989 and 1991) sounded like nothing else on the planet let alone Australia at the time. Local Adelaide release also meant the albums remained largely buried and unrecognised – even within the Australian underground – until their re-release in 1998 via BMG as part of the 4CD box set The Complete Recordings. The albums then remained in print for a time but were eventually deleted. Despite those set backs, both albums found release in Europe in the early nineties via German label Normal. Whilst more recently, uber fan Henry Rollins released his beloved Battlesick on his own 2.13.61 label for North America.

“Music that is aggressive but lacks intellectual intensity is just dull music played hard by careless people. The Mark Of Cain albums Battlesick and The Unclaimed Prize are airstrikes executed with mission specific precision by careful men whose objective is to overwhelm and neutralize. They are cursed with power.” - Henry Rollins

Since that time the band has gone on to considerable success, namely with the album Ill At Ease (1996) featuring the radio hits First Time, LMA, Interloper, The Contender and Pointman as well as the groundbreaking remixes album – Rock and Roll (1997) and This is This.. (2000) the band’s most recent album and the first to feature John Stanier the former drummer for Helmet and current drummer for Tomahawk.

The Unclaimed Prize, recorded just months after Battlesick but delayed a release until 1991, contains the classic R & R (later remixed for Rock and Roll), the endless groove of Wait For Me, as well as Cripple and Shadows two tracks recorded in Adelaide and featuring just the Scott Brothers and a drum machine and mixed by Steve Albini (ex-Big Black, Rapeman) in Chicago. It must be noted also that The Mark Of Cain were the first Australian band to work with Albini, recognising his genius long before the likes of even Nirvana or Page and Plant came to the same conclusion. Ill At Ease also shows the depths of the band’s influences and reveals a cover of Alan Vega (ex-Suicide singer) classic Viet Vet. As harrowing as it gets.

For insights into the lyrics and workings of The Mark Of Cain, check out the website tmoc.com.au

THE UNCLAIMED PRIZE

1. Fire in Her Heart
2. Four Grey Seasons
3. Drive On
4. Wait For Me
5. The Unclaimed Prize
6. UCD
7. Long Haul
8. Cap On John
9. R&R
10. Shadows
11. Cripple
12. Tell Me
13. Viet Vet

Formed in Adelaide in 1985 and featuring the brothers John and Kim Scott at the helm, The Mark Of Cain eschewed all contemporary influence of the time and instead dug deep into the likes of Joy Division, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Big Black, Black Flag, Gang of Four and Magazine, as well as authors like Herman Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Colin Wilson, Fydor Dostoyevsky and John Fante in creating a dark and brooding, intellectual take on post punk.

Consequently, these albums, (released respectively in 1989 and 1991) sounded like nothing else on the planet let alone Australia at the time. Local Adelaide release also, meant the albums remained largely buried and unrecognised – even within the Australian underground – until their re-release in 1998 via BMG as part of the 4CD box set The Complete Recordings. The albums then remained in print for a time but were eventually deleted. Despite those set backs, both albums found release in Europe in the early nineties via German label Normal. Whilst more recently, uber fan Henry Rollins released his beloved Battlesick on his own 2.13.61 label for North America.

“Music that is aggressive but lacks intellectual intensity is just dull music played hard by careless people. The Mark Of Cain albums Battlesick and The Unclaimed Prize are airstrikes executed with mission specific precision by careful men whose objective is to overwhelm and neutralize. They are cursed with power.” – Henry Rollins

Since that time the band has gone on to considerable success, namely with the album Ill At Ease (1996) featuring the radio hits First Time, LMA, Interloper, The Contender and Pointman as well as the groundbreaking remixes album – Rock and Roll (1997) and This is This.. (2000) the band’s most recent album and the first to feature John Stanier the former drummer for Helmet and current drummer for Tomahawk.

As far as content goes, Battlesick contains the band’s tour de force and live anthem of the same name, as well as classics like The Hammer – later remixed for the Rock and Roll remixes collection (BMG, 1997) – and the epic Summertime. This new edition also features both sides of the bands first single Can You See Now?/The Lords of Summer originally released on the Phantom records label in 1988.

For insights into the lyrics and workings of The Mark Of Cain, check out the website www.tmoc.com.au/

BATTLESICK

1. You Are Alone
2. Attrition
3. The Last Judgement
4. Dead Man’s Mail
5. Call In Anger
6. The Setback
7. Battlesick
8. The Hammer
9. Wake Up
10. Visions Of Love
11. Summertime
12. Can You See Now?top button
13. The Lords Of Summer

Contemporaries of The Triffids, Wet Taxis, The Particles and the Laughing Clowns, The Lighthouse Keepers released their first single, the classic Gargoyle, in March 1983 and followed that with a further two singles (including Ocean Liner), a mini-album and a full length album before finally pulling up stumps with a sold out farewell show at Sydney’s Graphic Arts Club in March 1986. Noted Australian music scribe noted of the Lighthouse Keepers…

“In Australia where a sense of light and space is much more relevant than any amount of gothic/industrial Hunters & Collectors or Nick Caves, bands like The Lighthouse Keepers along with, say, their Hot records labelmates The Triffids, put a uniquely off-centre spin on post-punk. They may even have invented Australian lo-fi! Certainly, they remain one of the best bands ever to have come out of Canberra, and that’s no faint praise when stacked up against the likes of Tactics and The Church.”

To help promote the new release original members Greg Appel, Juliet Ward, Stephen ‘Blue’ Dalton and Stephen O’Neil have agreed to reform with an album launch planned for Sydney at the Sandringham Hotel on September 9th. Tickets on sale now.

1. Lip Snipe Groin
2. Springtime
3. Gargoyle
4. Love Beacon
5. Wheels Over The Desert
6. A Time Of Evil
7. Ocean Liner
8. Lighthouse Keepers
9. No Reason
10. Wilderbeast
11. Evil Touch
12. Torture Road
13. Ode To Nothing
14. Seven Years
15. Whisky & Gin