| BAND: The Black Assassins |
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Bio:
The Black Assassins were an early '80s punk band from Brisbane, Australia.
Keen exponents of the have a go and do it yourself ethos of the era, The Black Assassins formed in the middle of 1981, one week before their first gig. Many of the scores of new Brisbane bands of the time would rehearse for six months to try to sound good enough before venturing out for a public performance. The Black Assassins however, were very inexperienced musicians and knew no shame. They had three rum-soaked rehearsals during their first week to get a set of 8 songs together before hitting the stage at the QIT Campus Club in Brisbane . It was a highly entertaining but musically mutilated performance.
The Black Assassins kept their identities secret, adopting composite names of infamous assassins and wearing black balaclavas and indulging themselves to excess.
The Black Assassins went on to play a total of 14 gigs in and around Brisbane during the following year before the bass player and guitarist moved to Sydney and formed the band Mutant Death in July 1982. The Black Assassins continued to play sporadically during the rest of the eighties if they happened to wash up in the same town at the same time.
The band was highly theatrical and usually pre-spent all the money they were paid for gigs on props and costumes for their performances. Their songs and stage act were energetic and highly political, focussing issues of the day, having fun with imagery evoked by their name and the topics of their songs. It often involved doing things with dummies of corrupt politicians and interaction with members of the audience.
The Black Assassins didn?t take themselves seriously and aimed to have as much fun as they could while they played. Sometimes it worked and they sounded good and people danced. Other times they could sound pretty atrocious. Probably one of their best sounding gigs was their support of the Dead Kennedys at Brisbane?s Festival Hall in 1983.
23 years late the Black Assassins finally got round to releasing a CD of the songs from the the early 80s at the end of 2005.
You can find out more about The Black Assassins at:
http://www.blackassa ssins.net
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Members:
Lee Harvey Hinckley - Drums & Vocals,
Ruby Oswald - Bass & Vocals,
Mohammed El Jackal - Guitar & Vocals,
Sirhan Chapman - Keyboards & Vocals
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Influences:
The Saints, Razar, The Riptides, X (that's the Australian band X), Radio Birdman, The Ramones, The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, The Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols, Earl Vince & The Valiants, Gang Of Four, and a host of others.
We admired all of these bands bet set out to create our own distinct sound.
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Added: 17/08/2007 06:51:29
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