The Flaming Hands - 1984 - The Flaming Hands FLAC

 

 

Real World/Break Down And Cry/Out Of My Hands/Wild Boy/Open Windows/New Day/Cast My Love/Tunnels And Trains/The Edge/Cross My Heart

 

 

Led by singer Julie Mostyn and astute songwriter/guitarist Jeff Sullivan, the Flaming Hands were one of the great inner-city Sydney (Australia) bands of the early 80s. The band’s intense yet tuneful blend of 1960s soul, R&B and psychedelic pop attracted a loyal following.

 

The band signed to the Phantom label and issued the delightful I Belong To Nobody single in September 1980, featuring soul covers originally recorded by The Marvelettes and Soul Incorporated. By the time the first single was released, Paul ‘Sluggo’ Maheno had joined on sax.

The new line-up issued the Lobby Loyde-produced Wake Up Screaming single in March 1981, which coincided with another line-up change, with Sullivan, Mostyn and Sluggo being joined by newcomers Grant Conner (bass), Peter Bull (keyboards) and Alan Brown (ex-Proteens) on drums. The new line-up supported The Clash at their epic seven night stand at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre during February 1982, during which time The Clash’s manager, Bernie Rhodes became something of a Flaming Hands fan.   The band issued a new single, It’s Just That I Miss You a month later. By the end of the year, however, Sullivan and Mostyn had grown dissatisfied with their lack of progress and inability to gain a major record deal and broke up the band. Bull later joined Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls, while Sullivan and Mostyn started to put together a new band called Tunnels and Trains, but a year later had reverted to the name The Flaming Hands. The band signed to Big Time (through EMI) and prepared to record an album. With the help of INXS members Andrew Farriss and Garry Beers, Sullivan and Mostyn recorded the 12″ single Cast My Love (October 1983) and the 7″ single The Edge (March 1984).   By 1984, Flaming Hands consisted of Sullivan, Mostyn and Sluggo. With assistance from session players the band completed their self-titled debut album, which also spawned two more singles, Break Down And Cry and Out Of Our Hands. By mid-year the band had returned to the live arena with a line-up of Sullivan, Mostyn, Sluggo, Tim Leitch (keyboards), DC Robertson (bass) and Michael Prowse (drums).   At the end of 1985, with still only a cult following to show for five years of perseverance, Sullivan and Mostyn finally laid Flaming Hands to rest.   Bio source: nostalgiacentral.com Vinyl rip: RAM

Various - 1990 - Young Blood (2xCD) FLAC

CD 1
The Trilobites-All Hail The New Right   
The Faith-Heaven   
Martha's Vineyard-Unravelling   
Who's Gerald?-Pins And Needles   
Violet Town-Down At The Tip   
Tall Tales And True-You Got Your Troubles   
Crash Politics-Bitter Rain   
Hipslingers-Psycho   
The Sundogs-Sleep
Souls In Isolation-Poltergeist   
1313 Mockingbird Lane-Battledress   
The Hummingbirds-Hindsight





CD 2
Ratcat-You Get Me By
The Skolars-In The Half Light    
Kings Of The World-Halloween    
The Swarm-Scarlet    
Skinny-Sound Visual    
The Mark Of Cain-Battlesick 
Plug Uglies-All Done In    
Shrinking Violets-It's Never Too Late    
The Upswing-Primitive Creatures    
Fear Of Falling-Your Place    
The Convertibles-Lovin' My Baby    
Falling Bodies-Don't

N0!sew0rks - 1992 - Greatest Hits FLAC

No Lies/Take Me Back/Welcome To The World/Love Somebody/Burning Feeling/Touch/Simple Man/Voice Of Reason/In My Youth/Freedom/Miles And Miles/Hot Chilli Woman/R.I.P. (Millie)/Take You Higher/Let It Be (Live)



    In 1981 Jon Stevens relocated to Sydney where he signed a deal with the Big Time label. He recorded his second, self-titled album in Los Angeles with American session players. It yielded two singles in 1982, a reworking of “Jezebel” and “Lover My Love”, but neither was successful.

    Jon Stevens then formed The Change with guitarist Stuart Fraser (ex Feather and Smith). They played the occasional Sydney pub gig, and with the help of bass player Steve Balbi (on loan from the Kevin Borich Express), recorded an independent single “Forever Young”/”Out There” in 1984. By 1985, drummer Kevin Nicol (ex Dial X) had joined Stevens and Fraser, and they began to lay plans for a new band. They recruited Balbi as a permanent member, and added newcomer Justin Stanley on keyboards. He had been writing songs with Balbi. This new line-up, completed in 1986, was known as Noiseworks.

 Noiseworks built up a strong following on the Australian pub-rock circuit, and in 1987 were signed by CBS. Their self-titled debut album was released in July 1987 and peaked at number 2 on the Australian Albums chart. From it came 5 singles.

    The second album “Touch” was released in November 1988 and reached number 4 on the Album Charts. Four singles were released from this album.

    By the end of 1989, the band had commenced work on its third album. They were now signed to Sony, and when the album was presented to them, they rejected it. The album was reworked and finally made an appearance in July 1991 as “Love Verses Money”. This album debuted at Number 1 on the Album Charts and the single “Hot Chilli Woman” became the band’s biggest hit, reaching number 7 on the Singles Chart. In all, 5 singles came from this album.

    At the start of 1992, Jon Stevens, joined the Australian cast of the revived stage musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the role of Judas. Jon appeared alongside the rest of the cast on a CD and single from the show. The show ran for 84 nights and was performed across Australia to more than a million people, making Jon a household name.

This stint with the show basically put an end to Noiseworks. The band played its last gig at Selinas in Sydney during March 1992. That gig produced the band’s final single, a cover of the Beatles “Let It Be” (Live). This song appeared on the Greatest Hits CD released in October 1992.




Noiseworks reformed in September 2007, with Scott Aplin on keyboards in place of Stanley, for a national tour with The Choirboys and Balbi's project Move Trees.

Jon English - 1978 - Words Are Not Enough (Single) WAVE RE-POST

Words Are Not Enough/Up To No Good


This single is off Jon's 1978 Album of the same name Words Are Not Enough the single made #6 on the Australian charts the B-Side is a non album track. For those of you that are interested in the artwork the back and front of the picture sleeve are the same so I have only scanned one side.

Don Lane - 1980 - I Need You FLAC

I Need You/Babe/She Believes In Me/She/September Morn/Just The Way You Are/Should've Never Let You Go/The Rose/She's Out Of My Life/I Still call Australia Home


Seeing a Yank on Australian television is nothing new — countless American TV shows fill the airwaves. However, in 1965 Australia was introduced to a man that, while being an American, would be 100-per cent Australian. That man was Don Lane.

Don Lane, real name Morton Donald Isaacson, first came to Australia as a fill-in host for Irish comedian Dave Allen after he was sacked from his popular Sydney late night talk show. It was apparent after a few episodes that the Nine network had found something special, and he became the official host of Sydney Tonight otherwise known as The Tonight Show because of it’s striking resemblance to the United States The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

 The show was a hit, and Don would perform music, comedy sketches and would help break technological ground when he and In Melbourne Tonight host Graham Kennedy would perform via split screen together over coaxial cable from their respective studios in Melbourne and Sydney. It was during one of these split screens that Graham held up a sign that said, “Go home, Yank” that sent Don into hysterics.

After the first show had been cancelled, Don returned to the US for a bit before returning to Australia to host a benefit. During his time here popular TV show host Ernie Sigley publicly criticised his boss Kerry Packer. Kerry flew Don to Melbourne, fired Ernie and hired Don to replace him in the same afternoon.  Don became the host of In Melbourne Tonight and chose Bert Newton has his sidekick, and TV history was made. The show was renamed The Don Lane Show and gave Australian TV some of it’s most memorable moments.

 These moments included comedian Robin Williams’ first TV talk show interview and ‘that’ moment when Don lost his cool at magician James Randi after Don took offence to comments James made about show regular Doris Stokes.
From 1975 to 1983 Don Lane was the top dog of Australian television with his amazing singing ability to start and end each program, as well as some of the memorable guests on TV. It came to an end when new management at Nine wanted to cut expenses. Don ended a massive two-hour tribute show with one of the most amazing, and emotional, renditions of Peter Allen’s Once Before I Go.

To this day there still hasn’t been a show that could out entertain The Don Lane Show and there probably never will be.