1980's Band Crash Politics - not only the soundtrack to my late teens early 20's but also my friends.
I spent half my youth following this band around Sydney. My best friend Melissa dragged me along to some seedy pub in Kings Cross, I think it was called the "Persian Room" or the "Manzil Room" one of the two. Dark and dangerous, just where all Mum's and Dad's hope to see their 17 year old daughter spending her Saturday. I went along to please a friend. Little did I know that one night would change the rest of my life and the band would become my friends and take me on a wild journey of love, laughter and loss.
I can't remember any dates of any albums - even thought I was there for most of it. The band was made up of Stuart Paton (vocals, guitar), Andrew Storer (bass), Michael Wood (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Andrew Reefman (drums, vocals). Andrew Storer was later replaced by Ross Farnell. Stuart Paton committed suicide in the early 1990's.
Albums
1989 Mother's Intention
1990 Tails of the Freshmen?
1991 Kiss My Mind
EP
1986 A Taste of Things to Come
Compilations
1988 Young Blood
1989 rooArt Presents
2001 RockArt: The History of rooArt Records
Singles
1986 The Same / Silence in the Air
1987 Stronger Than My Will / Sheep
1988 Stop / Metal Face
1988 Great Smell of Freedom / Yidypb
1990 Never Too Popular / Everything's Not What It Seems
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