We start with 80s LA post-punk band Afterimage ( website ) and Just a Laugh (Demo) from 1981, collected on compilation Faces To Hide (Independent Project Records 2024). Buy here Next up, probably one of the finest Australian bands of all times, The Go-Betweens, and the beautiful He Lives My Life, from their seventh LP, their comeback after 11 years apart doing solo work, The Friends Of Rachel Worth (Circus 2000), with help from American indie rock bands Sleater-Kinney and Quasi as well as new bassist Adele Pickvance. Royal Family And The Poor. Originally formed 1978 by Michael Anthony Keane (sound effects) and Arthur McDonald (vocals), their sound was created by dismantling a radio receiver and wiring it up to a small analog synthesizer & connecting them both to an old stereo gram. This could then be manipulated by moving magnets around the receiver in the radio. In fact the oblique band moniker soon became the identity of just one man, Michael Anthony Keane, wh...
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