Australian Music History

Bands – P

Australian Bands starting with P

  • Kevin Borich’s Party Boys – NYE 2010

    13 February 2011

    The Party Boys have been a concept that has always provided audiences with an opportunity to see fantastic musicians having a bit of fun. The latest incarnation is no exception. I hade the pleasure of…

  • Peculiar Clerk

    12 April 2009

    About March 10 1979 to March 09 1984(Thanks to Martin Odgers for putting me onto this info) Peter Keen and Rob Manego went to the same High School in an Outer Western Suburb of Sydney.…

  • Peculiar Clerk update from Peter Marples

    29 April 2010

    Peculiar Clerk has been a popular band since it was added about a year ago. I remember seeing them at the Chester Hill Hotel around 1980 and they left a great impression. It was a…

  • Pseudo Echo

    21 February 2012

    Pseudo Echo is a Melbourne based band originally active from 1982 to around 1998. They reformed around 2000 & still perform at the time of writing. Formed by school friends Brian Canham & Pierre Gigliotti,…

  • Psyclone Smyle

    01 October 2012

    Formed in the summer of 1989 by a close group of high school friends, Psyclone Smyle were conspirators of Sydney’s anti-shoegaze movement, playing their part in the local rise of the funk metal genre. Emerging…

  • Skeleton Crew – Propaganda

    07 November 2016

    Way back in 1986 I was the sound engineer for Bandanna. Their manager was a guy called Steve Rondo who owned the “Rock Depot” rehearsal studio in Liverpool. Steve would keep an eye out for…

  • The Party Boys

    17 February 2007

    About Ex-Mondo Rock member Paul Christie formed Party Boys in 1982 as an occasional “supergroup” consisting of some of Australia’s finest musicians. The concept was that Christie would employ players (all of whom had other…

  • The Prisoners – 1979

    08 March 2012

    The Prisoners were a short-lived Sydney-based Punk Rock band that emerged soon after Punk Rock band Rocks had disbanded. Bill Webb (a.k.a. Bill Posters) in early 1979 had approached his fellow Rocks‘ guitarist Peter Davie…