★Eminent Vinyl
1978
The first ever official release by this legendary Melbourne post-punk band who only ever existed for a number of months in 1978, but who cast an important and influential light in Australian (and global!) music, influencing the likes of the Boys Next Door/Birthday Party and The Models, the group's membership and its diaspora reading like a who's-who of crucial Australian music of the past 50 years.
In the band was a young Rowland S. Howard, who would soon go onto join the BND/Birthday Party; Oll…
Theme Of Discontent
Never heard of Canberra's Samuel D. Rich, who rocked our nation's capital for approximately a mere 18 months circa 1973 - '74? No? That's OK. Up until about a year ago, nor had we. They - they were a band - played with a host of luminaries of the day - everyone from The Aztecs, Stevie Wright, Buffalo, Hush and Bakery to Mackenzie Theory and beyond, recorded this album then split up. Through a rather bizarre chain of events, these unreleased recordings landed in our lap from band member Geoff Ros…