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The Triffids

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The Triffids were an Australian alternative rock and pop band, formed in Perth in Western Australia in May 1978 with David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist. [1]

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Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Acuff's Rose

Acuff's Rose were an Australian country rock group formed in 1991 by Jack Coleman on bass guitar, James Hurst on drums, Martin Lewis on guitar, Kay-Louise Patterson on keyboards and vocals, and Jeff Williams on vocals and guitar.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin is an Australian independent publishing company, established in Australia in 1976 as a subsidiary of the British firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd., which was founded by Sir Stanley Unwin in August 1914 and went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century.

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AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors.

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Alsy MacDonald

Alan MacDonald is an Australian rock musician and lawyer, best known as the drummer of the 1980s band The Triffids, where he performed under his nickname 'Alsy'.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Andrew McGowan

Andrew Brian McGowan (born 1961) is an Australian scholar of early Christianity and an Anglican priest.

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Anthrax (American band)

Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981 by rhythm guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Dan Lilker.

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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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APRA Top 30 Australian songs

APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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ARIA Hall of Fame

Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has inducted artists into its annual ARIA Hall of Fame.

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Arts Centre Melbourne

The Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly officially called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central Melbourne suburb of Southbank in Victoria, Australia.

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Australasia

Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia).

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Australasian Performing Right Association

The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is a copyright collective representing Australian and New Zealander composers, lyricists and music publishers.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Made

Australian Made was a festival concert series held during 1986–1987 in the six state capitals of Australia and featured local rock acts Mental as Anything, I'm Talking, The Triffids, The Saints, Divinyls, Models, Jimmy Barnes and INXS.

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Australian Melodrama

Australian Melodrama is a compilation album by folk rock group, The Triffids, released in 1994.

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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Australian Rock Database

The Australian Rock Database was a website with a searchable online database that listed details of Australian rock music artists, albums, bands, producers and record labels.

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Bad Timing and Other Stories

Bad Timing and Other Stories is the second official recording by The Triffids, released as a 7" extended play in April 1983.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Beautiful Waste

"Beautiful Waste" is a single released by Australian folk rock group, The Triffids in February 1984.

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Beautiful Waste and Other Songs (Mini-Masterpieces 1983–1985)

Beautiful Waste and Other Songs is a compilation album by The Triffids, released in 2008.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bill Drummond

William Ernest Drummond (born 29 April 1953) is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer.

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Billy Bragg

Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Born Sandy Devotional

Born Sandy Devotional is an album by The Triffids, released in March 1986.

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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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Bury Me Deep in Love

Bury Me Deep in Love is a single released by Australian folk rock group The Triffids from their album Calenture.

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Calenture (album)

Calenture is the fourth studio album by Australian rock group The Triffids, it was released in November 1987 and saw them explore themes of insanity, deception and rootlessness—the title refers to a fever suffered by sailors during long hot voyages.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Carus and The True Believers

Carus and The True Believers were an Australian folk, country, roots and reggae band formed in 1995 in Perth.

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Charles Jenkins (musician)

Charles Jenkins is a musician based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Charlie Owen (musician)

Charles Lothian Lloyd "Charlie" Owen is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Chris Abrahams

Christopher Robert Lionel Abrahams --> (born 9 April 1961 in New Zealand) is a Sydney-based pianist, best known for his jazz work.

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Chris Wilson (Australian musician)

Christopher John Wilson (born 1956) is an Australian blues musician who plays harmonica, saxophone, guitar and vocals.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Craig Leon

Craig Leon (born 7 January 1952) is an American-born record producer, composer and arranger currently living in England.

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Craig Mathieson

Craig Mathieson (born 1971) is an Australian music journalist and writer.

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Curtin FM

Curtin FM 100.1 is a radio station based in Perth, Western Australia.

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Curtin University

Curtin University (formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology) is an Australian public research university based in Bentley and Perth, Western Australia.

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David McComb

David Richard McComb (17 February 19622 February 1999) was an Australian rock musician.

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DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre (born Peter Finlay in 1961) is a writer who wrote the novel Vernon God Little.

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Divinyls

Divinyls (often incorrectly referred to as The Divinyls) was an Australian rock band that was formed in Sydney in 1980.

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Dobro

Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

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Domino Recording Company

Domino Recording Company (also known as Domino Records, generally known as Domino) is a British independent record label based in London.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dungeon Tape

Dungeon Tape is a cassette tape by Australian folk rock group The Triffids.

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Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

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Eric Bogle

Eric Bogle AM (born 23 September 1944) is a Scottish-Australian folk singer-songwriter.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media Limited (formerly John Fairfax and Sons) is one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties.

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Field of Glass

Field Of Glass by The Triffids was released as a 12" extended play in 1985.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Gil Norton

Gil Norton (born in Liverpool) is an English record producer known for his work with alternative rock bands such as Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, Tribe, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Feeder, The Distillers, Maxïmo Park, Counting Crows, Terrorvision, The Triffids, Del Amitri, James, The Feelers, The Beekeepers, Twin Atlantic, General Fiasco, Span and Intergallactic Lovers.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England.

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Golden Opportunities 2

The Golden Opportunities 2 is a free downloadable EP by indie rock band Okkervil River, containing the covers of five songs – the product of a one-day studio session, recorded onto a two track tape by Danny Reisch at Premium Recording in Austin, TX.

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Good Morning Good Morning

"Good Morning Good Morning" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and recorded by the Beatles, featured on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Graham Lee (musician)

Graham Francis Lee (born 11 December 1953) is an Australian rock musician and record producer, best known as the steel guitar player of the 1980s band The Triffids, where he was nicknamed 'Evil Graham Lee'.

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Greece

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hasselt

Hasselt is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital of the province of Limburg.

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Heart transplantation

A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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Hunters & Collectors

Hunters & Collectors are an Australian rock music band formed in 1981.

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I'm Talking

I'm Talking was a 1980s Australian funk-pop rock band, which featured vocalists Kate Ceberano and Zan Abeyratne.

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Ian McFarlane

Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999).

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Icecream Hands

Icecream Hands (also seen as Ice Cream Hands) were a power pop band formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 1992 as Chuck Skatt and His Icecream Hands with Charles "Chuck Skatt" Jenkins as lead singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist, Arturo "Arch" Larizza on bass guitar, his brother Dom "Benedictine III" Larizza on lead guitar and Derek Smiley on drums.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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In the Pines (album)

In The Pines is an album by The Triffids, released in August 1986 and reached No.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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INXS

INXS (a phonetic play on "in excess") were an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Jack Brabham (album)

Jack Brabham is a cassette tape by Australian folk rock group the Triffids.

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Jill Birt

Jillian Margaret Birt (born in Tambellup), is an Australian rock musician and architect.

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Jimmy Barnes

James Dixon Swan (born 28 April 1956), known better as Jimmy Barnes is a Scottish-Australian rock singer and songwriter.

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Jimmy Little

James Oswald Little, AO (1 March 19372 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher from the Yorta Yorta people and was raised on the Cummeragunja Mission, New South Wales.

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John Kennedy (Australian musician)

John Francis Kennedy (born John Kennedy 1 July 1958) is an English-born Australian musician and singer-songwriter–guitarist.

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John Kinsella (poet)

John Kinsella (born 1963) is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor.

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John O'Donnell (music journalist)

John O'Donnell (born 1962) is a long-standing member of the Australian music industry.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works written using the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

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Judith Lucy

Judith Mary Lucy (born 25 March 1968) is an Australian comedian and radio, television and film actress and personality and author, known primarily for her stand-up comedy.

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Kathimerini

I Kathimerini (Η Καθημερινή,, meaning "The Daily") is a daily morning newspaper published in Athens.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Kevin Mitchell (musician)

Kevin Edward Mitchell, also known by the stage name of Bob Evans (born 1 October 1977), is an Australian singer-songwriter; Mitchell uses the moniker for his primary solo project.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian-British singer and actress.

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Lawson Square Infirmary

Lawson Square Infirmary was a 12" extended play released in November 1984 by the Triffids and James Paterson under the collaborative project of the same name.

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Leederville, Western Australia

Leederville is a locality within the City of Vincent in the Perth metropolitan region of Western Australia.

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Liberation Music

Liberation Music is an Australian record company and label, started in 1999 by Michael Gudinski and Warren Costello, based in Melbourne.

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Like a Version

Like a Version is a weekly segment on the Australian radio station Triple J. It involves Australian and international artists playing live in the Triple J studio, typically performing one of their own songs and then a cover version, hence the name of the segment.

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List of awards

A list of orders, medals, prizes, and other awards, of military, civil, and ecclesiastical conferees.

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List of Neighbours characters

Neighbours is a long-running Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985.

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List of The Triffids Compact Cassettes

The Triffids - Cassettes #1-6 Between 1978 and 1981, with a shifting roster of musicians, Australian folk rock group The Triffids independently released six cassette tapes.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (originally spelled low-fi and alternately called DIY) is an aesthetic of recorded music in which the sound quality is lower than the usual contemporary standards (the opposite of high fidelity) and imperfections of the recording and production are audible.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Long Way to the Top

Long Way to the Top was a six-part weekly Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) documentary film series on the history of Australian rock and roll, from 1956 to the modern era, it was initially broadcast from 8 August to 12 September 2001.

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Love in Bright Landscapes

Love In Bright Landscapes is an anthology by Australian folk rock group, The Triffids, which was released in 1986.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Martyn P. Casey

Martyn Paul Casey (born 10 July 1960) is an English-born Australian rock bass guitarist.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne High School

Melbourne High School is a selective-entry state school for boys in years 9 to 12 located in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra.

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Mental As Anything

Mental As Anything are an Australian new wave/pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976.

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Michael Hutchence

Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian musician and actor.

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Mick Harvey

Michael John "Mick" Harvey (born 29 August 1958) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer.

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Mick Thomas

Michael James Thomas (born 7 February 1960, Yallourn) is an Australian singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist and hotelier.

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Models (band)

Models are a rock group formed in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1978 and went into hiatus in 1988.

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Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne.

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Music festival

A music festival is a community event oriented towards live performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, or locality of musicians, or holiday.

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Music history

Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical viewpoint.

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Music journalism

Music journalism (or "music criticism") is media criticism and reporting about popular music topics, including pop music, rock music, and related styles.

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Neighbours

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Niall Lucy

Niall Lucy (11 November 1956 - 5 June 2014) was an Australian writer and scholar best known for his work in deconstruction.

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Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Noble Park, Victoria

Noble Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district.

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Not Enough Rope

Not Enough Rope were a five piece folk-rock band that came from Perth, starting in 1994 before their break-up in 2001.

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Okkervil River

Okkervil River is an American rock band led by singer-songwriter Will Sheff.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Paul Kelly (Australian musician)

Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player.

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Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs.

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Peel Sessions (The Triffids album)

Peel Sessions was recorded by Australian folk rock group The Triffids for The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Perth International Arts Festival

The Perth Festival (previously Perth International Arts Festival) is Australia's longest running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Prahran, Victoria

Prahran (/pɛ'ræn/, also known colloquially as "Pran") is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Punk subculture

Punk subculture includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film.

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Raining Pleasure

Raining Pleasure is an indie/rock band originating from Patras, Greece, often credited with spearheading the newest wave of Greek bands with English lyrics.

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Raining Pleasure (EP)

Raining Pleasure by Australian folk rock group The Triffids was released as a 12" extended play in 1984, and reached No. 95 on the Australian Charts.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.

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Ravensthorpe, Western Australia

Ravensthorpe is a town 541 km south-east of Perth, 40 km inland from the south coast of Western Australia.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Reverie (EP)

Reverie is the official debut recording by The Triffids, released as a 7" extended play in November 1982.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Richard Lowenstein

Richard Lowenstein (born 1 March 1959) is an Australian film-maker.

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Ricky Maymi

Ricky Rene Maymi (is an American rock musician, best known as an original member of the psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

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Robert McComb

Robert Harold McComb is an Australian musician who played guitar, violin, organ, and other instruments with Perth-based rock group The Triffids, from 1979 to 1989.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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RocKwiz

RocKwiz is an Australian television live music trivia quiz show, focused on rock music and featuring different guest artist musicians who perform live in each episode.

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Roskilde

Roskilde, located west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand, is the main city in Roskilde Municipality.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Sally Seltmann

Sally Mary Seltmann (born Sally Mary Russell, 11 September 1975), is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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SBS (Australian TV channel)

SBS is a national public television network in Australia.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father

Sgt.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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Son of Dungeon Tape

Son of Dungeon Tape is a cassette tape by Australian folk rock group The Triffids.

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Spanish Blue

Spanish Blue is the second single released by Australian folk rock group, The Triffids in 1982.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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St Leonards, New South Wales

St Leonards is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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St. James Infirmary Blues

"St.

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Stand Up (The Triffids song)

Stand Up is the debut single released by Australian folk rock group, The Triffids in July 1981.

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Stephen Street

Stephen Brian Street (born 29 March 1960 in Hackney, London) is an English music producer best known for his work with The Smiths, The Cranberries and Blur.

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Steve Kilbey

Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954) is an English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for the rock band, The Church.

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Stockholm (The Triffids album)

Stockholm is a live recording by Australian folk rock group, The Triffids, released in July 1990 and is the final official recording by the band.

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Sunnyboys

Sunnyboys is an Australian power pop/post-punk band formed in Sydney in 1980.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival is a major arts festival in Australia's largest city, Sydney that runs for three weeks every January, since it was established in 1977.

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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and The Band.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Black Swan (The Triffids album)

The Black Swan is the fifth and final studio album by The Triffids, released in April 1989 and peaking at No.

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The Blackeyed Susans

The Blackeyed Susans are an Australian rock band, which formed in Perth in 1989.

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American musical project and band led by frontman Anton Newcombe.

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The Church (band)

The Church are an Australian psychedelic rock band formed in Sydney in 1980.

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The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham.

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The Fall (band)

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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The Jackson Code

The Jackson Code are an Australian rock band, formed in Perth in 1989.

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The Kill Devil Hills

The Kill Devil Hills are an Australian acoustic, country-tinged rock band formed in 2003 in Fremantle by founding mainstays Brendan Humphries and Steve Joines.

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The Laughing Man (band)

The Laughing Man is a pop group from Wuppertal, Germany.

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The Man (Bill Drummond album)

The Man is an album recorded and released by Scottish musician and music industry figure Bill Drummond in 1986.

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The Monochrome Set

The Monochrome Set are an English post-punk/new wave band, originally formed in Hornsey, London in 1978.

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The Necks

The Necks are an experimental jazz trio formed in 1987 by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass.

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The Panics

The Panics are an indie rock band originally from Perth, Western Australia, and currently based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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The Paradise Motel

The Paradise Motel are an independent Australian rock band which formed in Hobart in 1994.

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The Reels

The Reels is an Australian rock–indie pop group which formed in Dubbo, New South Wales, in 1976, disbanded in 1991, and reformed in 2007.

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The Saints (Australian band)

The Saints are a rock band, originating in Brisbane, Australia founded by Chris Bailey (singer-songwriter, later guitarist), Ivor Hay (drummer), and Ed Kuepper (guitarist-songwriter) in 1974.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Toby Creswell

Toby Creswell (born 21 May 1955) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer.

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Toby Martin

Toby Martin (born 5 August 1975), is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, academic, and lecturer at New York University Sydney.

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Treeless Plain

Treeless Plain is the debut album by The Triffids, released in November, 1983.

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Trick of the Light (The Triffids song)

Trick of the Light is a single released in January 1988 by Australian group The Triffids from their album Calenture (November 1987).

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Triple J

Triple J (often triple j) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 34 which began broadcasting in January 1975.

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Uncanny X-Men (band)

Uncanny X-Men are an Australian pop/rock band which formed in Melbourne in 1981, and temporarily disbanded in 1987.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything were an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1999.

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West Australian Music Industry Awards

The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM).

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Wet Wet Wet

Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish band formed in 1982.

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Wide Open Road (song)

"Wide Open Road" is a single released in 1986 by Australian folk rock band The Triffids from their album Born Sandy Devotional.

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William Bell (singer)

William Bell (born William Yarbrough; July 16, 1939) is an American soul singer and songwriter.

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Youth Group

Youth Group is a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia.

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100 Best Australian Albums

The 100 Best Australian Albums (a.k.a. One Hundred Best Australian Albums) is a compendium of rock and pop albums of the past 50 years as compiled by music journalists Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell.

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1001 Songs

1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them is a compendium of notable popular recordings collected by Australian rock journalist and critic Toby Creswell.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triffids

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