Schvendes are a 5-piece band from Perth, Australia, known for writing dark bluesey songs about dark things (and rubbish collections) featuring guitars, keyboards and cello. Schvendes released their debut LP - 'Sweet Talk Your Enemies' on Good Cop Bad Cop Records with distribution through Inertia in June 2008.
Fusing powerful rock riffs with the occasional dance beat, techno breakout and metal blast, Glass Empire (formerly The New Black) are intent on creating music that isn't bound by genre barriers or expectations.
Melbourne-born multi-instrumentalist, producer, performer and songwriter Hugo Race is an eclectic and prolific artist who has lived and worked in the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy since 1988. He was a founding member and powerful transient element of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds (1983), with whom he started working in the terminal stages of the legendary Birthday Party (he appears on five cds of the Seed's catalogue). In Melbourne he founded the Wreckery (1985) who went on to become on of Australia's seminal cult bands of the 80s, releasing with the White, Rampant, and Citadel labels.
Crime & the City Solution were a rock group headed by Australian singer/songwriter Simon Bonney and active between the years of 1977-1991. Despite roots dating back as far as 1978, Crime & the City Solution did not truly emerge until 1984, coming to life in the wake of the dissolution of the seminal Birthday Party. Crime & the City Solution had many members over the years, which can be divided into four distinct line-ups: Sydney in 1977-78, Melbourne in 1979, and two groupings in Berlin. The only common member in all four line-ups was Bonney.