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| Creator : | Screaming Believers (Musical group) | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Adelaide | ||
| Publisher : | Greasy Pop Records | ||
| Date of creation : | c1984 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Sykes, Ken Burdett, Graeme | ||
| Format : | Sound recording | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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Greasy Pop boss Doug Thomas referred to The Screaming Believers as 'the best band this town has ever seen' (Kelton, p. 63) Formed in 1981 and ended in 1992. McFarlane describes their songs as 'brimming with refined songs and highly proficient, melodic guitar thrash'. The line up included Ken Sykes (guitar, vocals), Graeme Burdett (guitar) (1982-1985), replaced by John Cavuoto, formerly of The Innocents, (1985-1992), Rees Hughes (bass) (1982-1985) replaced by Cloudy Kattern (1985-1988), Craig Rodda (drums), Paul Hughes (vocals, saxophone) and Jodie Peterson (bass) (1988-1991) . Their first album with Greasy Pop was Communist mutants from space which won praise for the Screaming Believers. A distribution deal with Big Time Records resulted in 50,000 copies being pressed for sale in the USA. Their second Greasy Pop album, Refugees from the Love Generation in 1987 gained the band European attention and a recording contract was offered in 1989 by Megadisc for 3 albums. McFarlane suggests it is 'a great shame that they failed to attract a wider audience'. Cavuoto went on to play with The Ninth Wave and Vegans in Leather, Burdett to the Garden Path and Rodda played with the Ists, Double Wammy, The Crackling Static Fuzz and Vic Conrad and the First Third amongst others. The band has reformed for a number of shows since their 'official' break up. Discography: |
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| Related names : | rock music |
| Coverage year : | 1984 |
| Period : | 1980-2000 |
| Further reading : | Day, David. SA great it's our music 1956-1986, Glandore, S. Aust. : D. Day and T. Parker, 1987 Kelton, Tim. Underground in the City of Churches : rock music in South Australia, Adelaide : WAV Publications, 1986 McFarlane, Ian. The encyclopedia of Australian rock and pop, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1999 Spencer, Chris.Who's who of Australian rock, Noble Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2002 Sly, David. Screaming out for attention, The Advertiser, 31 August 1989, page A03 Strong belief in themselves, The Advertiser, 13 March 1986, page 60 |
| Internet links : | NKVD Records - Greasy Pop article |
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