Published archive
Books, Articles, Interviews & Reviews
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Books documenting Radio Birdman and the Australian independent rock scene.
Books
Essays, press cuttings and long-form histories.
Articles
Noise for Heroes - Abberant Records
Aberrant Records by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #17 in the fall of 1989 Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. Aberrant Records has been one of the most fascinating…
Noise for Heroes - Died Pretty (1)
Died Pretty by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #18 in the winter of 1990 Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. At night when the bowling balls swing down once again...…
Noise for Heroes - Died Pretty NFH #14
Died Pretty by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #14 in the fall of 1988. Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. If I had to pick a handful of bands from the current…
Noise for Heroes - Dog Meat Records
Dog Meat Records by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #19 in the summer of 1990 Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. This is the third in a series of articles about…
Noise for Heroes - Exploding White Mice
Exploding White Mice by Steve Gardner Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. this article originally appeared in Noise For Heroes #22 in the winter of 1993 under the…
Noise for Heroes - Exploding White Mice
Exploding White Mice (2) by Steve Gardner Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. This article is going to be fun to write...not that most of them aren't, but there's a…
Noise for Heroes - Kryptonics
Kryptonics by Steve Gardner Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. "Forming a band in Perth has its good points and its bad point as well" , says Ian Underwood , the…
Noise for Heroes - Lime Spiders
Lime Spiders by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #16 in the spring of 1989 - Updated for Divine Rites. "This one originally was just an interview, and I added some bits from a live review and…
Noise for Heroes - New Christs
The New Christs by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #20 in the winter of 1991 Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. "Musicians shouldn't do interviews" , says Rob…
Noise for Heroes - Screaming Tribesmen
The Screaming Tribesmen by Steve Gardner Specially done for Divine Rites. Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. The Screaming Tribesmen have been planning their…
Noise for Heroes - Vanilla Chainsaws
Vanilla Chainsaws by Steve Gardner Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. The Vanilla Chainsaws are a strange case for an Aussie band; they don't play gobs of Birdman…
Noise for Heroes - Waterfront Records
Waterfront Records by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #21 in the fall of 1991 Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. Over the past three years Sydney's Waterfront Record…
Noise for Heros - Happy Hate Me Nots
Happy Hate Me Nots by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #21 in the fall of 1991 Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. I 'm probably going to be a one man crusader for the…
Noise for Heros - Happy Hate Me Nots (1)
Happy Hate Me Nots by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes Many thanks to Steve Gardner who wrote and sent the article. Since Noise For Heroes was a US based fanzine, interviewing bands from…
Noise for Heros - Radio Birdman
Radio Birdman by Steve Gardner Noise For Heroes #19 in the summer of 1990 This article is based on an older article written by Harry Butler which appeared in his DNA fanzine #49 in April of…
Conversations, profiles and first-hand accounts.
Interviews
An Interview With Dennis Thompson by Mike Johnston
PEN UP THE LIMITS - An Interview With Dennis Thompson by Mike Johnston Great thanks to Craig 'just one more fax' Regan who sent the article. One more time ! Mike Johnston , located in Mt.…
Angie Pepper Interview : the Passengers with Angie Pepper" CD liner notes
Angie Pepper Interview : " the Passengers with Angie Pepper" CD liner notes the Passengers were : Vocals : Angie PEPPER from Newcastle AUSTRALIA, Now living in the USA. Guitar: Jeff SULLIVAN…
Birdman Group plan long US, Europe tour by Brendan Donnelly - 1978
Birdman Group plan long US, Europe tour by Brendan Donnelly - Sun Herald, January 15, 1978 Sydney rock group Radio Birdman 's aim to get "a positive audience response" won it a crowd of…
Birdmen enter the New Race by Stuart Coupe - 1982
Birdmen enter the New Race - Rock Beat column by Stuart Coupe - Sun Herald, August 22, 1982 Many people believe that Radio Birdman has been the greatest rock 'n' roll band this country has…
Deniz article from "Time Off Magazine" (Brisbane) by Simon McKenzie - Nov 1996
Deniz article from "Time Off Magazine" (Brisbane) - Nov 1996 An article by by Simon McKenzie - English Many thanks to Craig Regan who sent (and type !) the article. Those who saw Deniz Tek…
Deniz tek by Goose
Deniz tek : Lemon, Issue #14 - 1992 An article by GOOSE Dr Clean, Iceman or Mr Noise the many faces of Deniz tek DenizTek is an extrordinary man. Not because he's just orderred a smoked…
Deniz tek interview - by Phil Harmonik
Deniz tek interview - 1995 by Phil Harmonik (Aural Pleasure) notice : I don't remember where I get this text. If you know, please leave me a note, and i'll put the right credits. G'day and…
Deniz Tek interview by Kim Cooper from "Superdope" - 1996
Deniz Tek and Angie Pepper interview on 19th of January 1991 by Kim Cooper from " Superdope #2 " - Summer1991 San Francisco, CA - English Many thanks to Kim Cooper who wrote the article and…
Deniz Tek interview by Steve Tauschke from "Beat Magazine" - 1996
Deniz Tek interview by Steve Tauschke from " Beat Magazine " - 1996 - English Many thanks to Craig Regan who sent the article. One more time ! "Le Bonne Route" , meaning the good way, is the…
Died Pretty - Bucketfull of Brains #19
Died Pretty : A Special eye for personal views Interview by Jon Storey Bucketfull Of Brains Issue #19 - January 1987 Since I was ensnared by the delights of the "Next To Nothing" EP, I…
Died Pretty - Without A Trace - "Time Off" magazine
Died Pretty : Without A Trace Interview by Simon McKenzie "Time Off" magazine - Nov 1, 1995 Died Pretty 's whirling dervish of a frontman, Ron S. Peno , is visibly excited about the band's…
Frank "Oz" Mills's liner notes from Born Out Of Time
Frank "Oz" Mills 's liner notes from the new New Christs CD " Born Out of Time ". Rob Younger : rock 'n' roll fan, musician, producer. Humble to the point of blushing self-effacement, too.…
interview with Rob Younger - a Divine Rites special
an interview with Rob Younger by Divine Rites Webmaster - Divine Rites - May 22th, 1997 DR : After Distemper, we had to wait 'till 1995 for a new New Christs LP. What happened between these…
interview with Rob Younger by Mary Mihelakos - Beat Magazine #141
an interview with Rob Younger by Mary Mihelakos - Beat Magazine #141 (Sydney) - 22nd July 1997 One of the best kept secrets of 1997 was that The New Christs released a new album, Lower…
Radio Birdman flies again by Nicholas Rothwell - 1981
Radio Birdman flies again by Nicholas Rothwell - The Australian newspaper, April 21, 1981 The rock group Radio Birdman , whose followers almost became a secret society, is soon to rise again…
Radio Birdman Roberto Calabrò - Rockerilla June 1997
Radio Birdman by Roberto Calabrò - Rockerilla n. 202 - June 1997 Poche bands possono vantare l'alone di culto di cui sono circondati i Radio Birdman. La formazione australiana,…
Radios (Re)-Appear : a Deniz Tek interview by Alex Wheaton (dB Magazine - Adelaïde)
Radios (Re)-Appear : a Deniz Tek interview by Alex Wheaton (dB Magazine - Adelaïde) "Twenty years ago today, ' Birdman was in full swing - right in the middle of our time, so that…
Rob's bio for the Woe Betide release
Rob's bio for the Woe Betide release Dear Friends, In my capacity as THE New Christs ' liaison officer, it is my pleasure to advise that their latest compact disc release, Woe Betide , has…
The Birdmen fly again - by Simon McKenzie - Time Out, Jan 97.
The Birdmen fly again by Simon McKenzie - Time Out, Jan 97 When Radio Birdman reformed to tour Australia at the beginning of last year, it marked one of rock's unlikeliest reunions. A bitter…
The New Christs : Bucketfull of Brains #26 - August 1988
The New Christs : Bucketfull of Brains #26 - August 1988 An article by JOHN STOREY Rob Younger was in a string of, arguably, THE most influential bands to emerge from Australia over the last…
The New Christs : by Dave Lornie in Drum Media magazine - April 97
A New Christs Resurrection Drum Media magazine - Sydney, 8.4.97 An article by Dave Lornie Many thanks to Craig Regan who sent the article. It's been a long time - eight years actually -…
The New Christs : by Dave Lornie in Drum Media magazine - April 97
Radio Birdman's New Christ, Rob Younger hits London town An article by Vince Lovegrove Taken, with permission and thanks, from the e-column Lovegrove's Ear On London - 15th April, 1997 which…
The Other Side : Abus Dangereux #U - April 91- French
The Other Side : Abus dangereux #face U - April/Mai 1991 An article by Jim Wylie traducted by Fuzz from Outta Space , and originally published in Heartbeat #11 A l'inverse de ce que beaucoup…
The Sydney Morning Herald - January 12, 1996 - Radio Birdman
Birdman cometh By Barry Divola - The Sydney Morning Herald - January 12, 1996 It was a somewhat surreal moment, to say the least. Just after Tina Arena had punched the air and yelled "whoo!"…
Record criticism, live reports and contemporary reactions.
Reviews
Deniz Tek : Le Bonne Route
THE DENIZ TEK GROUP - LE BONNE ROUTE - 1996 Deniz Tek , Radio Birdman guitarist/composer, began his solo career in 1992 with the recording of Take It To The Vertical in Houston, Texas, with…
Radio Birdman Balmain Town Hall, Sydney - RAM 3/12/76
Radio Birdman Balmain Town Hall, Sydney by Anthony O'Grady - RAM 3/12/76 God I wish the Top 40 sounded like the Radio's Smith and Wesson or There's gonna be a new race ... or, Maelstrom. But…
Reviews - Dodge Main
DODGE MAIN - DODGE MAIN (Alive) by Roberto Calabrò - "Rockerilla" n. 197 - January 1997 I Dodge Main rappresentano invece un divertissement estemporaneo, speriamo destinato a non…
The New Christs — 1997 European Tour
Seven audience reports and the surviving photographs from The New Christs' 1997 tour.
Too much, too soon
Two contemporary voices on Radio Birdman’s impact, preserved with their original context.