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Holy Water (The Triffids Song)
"Holy Water" was the third single taken from Australian rock group The Triffids' ''Calenture (album), Calenture'' album, and was released in August 1988. It was produced by Craig Leon (The Ramones, Blondie (band), Blondie, The Bangles) and was written by lead guitarist and lead singer David McComb. This was one of only two tracks (the other was "Bury Me Deep in Love") that resulted from Leon's production of the band's fourth album. The production costs of Leon's efforts were more than the total costs of the band's break-through album, ''Born Sandy Devotional''. The record sleeve however credits the production to Gil Norton who produced the remainder of the album with the band. The single was released as 7", 12" and CD single versions by Island Records but failed to chart in either Australia or the United Kingdom. Background "Holy Water" is the third single from Australian folk rock group The Triffids' fourth studio album, ''Calenture (album), Calenture''. It was released in August ...
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The Triffids
The Triffids were an Australian alternative rock and pop band, formed in Perth in Western Australia in May 1978 with David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry fo"The Triffids" Retrieved 19 December 2009.Spencer et al, (2007) 'Triffids, The' entry.Australian Rock Database entries: * The Triffids:  * The Blackeyed Susans:  * Four Hours Sleep:  * John Kennedy  * Lawson Square Infirmary:  * Graham Lee:  * David McComb:  They achieved some success in Australia, but greater success in the UK and Scandinavia in the 1980s before disbanding in 1989. Their best-known songs include " Wide Open Road" (February 1986) and " Bury Me Deep in Love" (October 1987). SBS television featured their 1986 album, '' Born Sandy Devotional'', on the ''Great Australian Albums'' series in 2007, and in 2010 it ranked 5th in the book '' The 100 Best Australian Albums'' by Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieso ...
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Graham Lee (Australian Musician)
Graham Francis Lee (born 11 December 1953) is an Australian musician and record producer, best known as the steel guitar player of the 1980s band The Triffids, where he was nicknamed 'Evil Graham Lee'.Australian Rock Database entries: * Graham Lee:  * Lawson Square Infirmary 1984:  * Paul Kelly Band 1984–1985, 1994:  * Love Gone Wrong 1984–1985  * The Triffids 1985–1989:  * Dave Graney and The White Buffalos 1990:  * Crown of Thorns 1991:  * The Blackeyed Susans 1992–1993:  * David McComb 1994:  He was born and grew up in Kenilworth, Queensland, and graduated as a Primary School Teacher in Brisbane. Lee left Brisbane in 1980 and went travelling around Asia and Europe for three years. He moved back to Australia in 1983 and settled in Sydney where he met The Triffids. They'd heard his dobro work on Eric Bogle's first album which contained the legendary track, "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", and invited him to guest on a ...
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Lennon–McCartney was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (1940–1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942) of the Beatles. It is the best-known and most successful musical collaboration ever by records sold, with the Beatles selling over 600 million records worldwide as of 2004. Between 5 October 1962 and 8 May 1970, the partnership published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by the Beatles, forming the bulk of their catalogue. Unlike many songwriting partnerships that comprise a separate lyricist and composer, such as George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, or Elton John and Bernie Taupin, both Lennon and McCartney wrote lyrics and music. Sometimes, especially early on, they would collaborate extensively when writing songs, working "eyeball to eyeball" as Lennon phrased it. During the latter half of their partnership, it became more common for either of them to write most ...
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Jill Birt
Jillian Margaret Birt is an Australian rock musician and architect. Birt was the keyboardist and vocalist of the alternative rock and pop band, The Triffids from 1983 to 1989. In 2008, The Triffids were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame. Biography Early years Jillian Margaret Birt was born in Tambellup, a rural agricultural region of Western Australia 317 km south east of Perth. Her parents were grain and sheep farmers. With her two older brothers, Birt was raised in a deeply religious household. Birt attended the local Tambellup Primary School and then boarded at the Methodist Ladies' College in Perth. After secondary education Birt studied fine arts and formed an all-girl punk band, What Are Little Boys Made Of. Later she was a member of Precious Title. The Triffids 1983–1989 In April 1983, Jill Birt became a member of the alternative rock and pop band, The Triffids, replacing the band's original keyboardist, Margaret Gillard. ...
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Raining Pleasure (EP)
''Raining Pleasure'' is a record released in 1984 by the Australian folk rock group The Triffids as a 12" vinyl EP. It reached No. 95 on the Australian Charts. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. Its seven tracks were co-produced by the group with Nick Mainsbridge who also supplied trumpet. Although the EP has not been in print for some time, selected tracks appeared on the '' Love in Bright Landscapes'' (1986) and ''Australian Melodrama'' (1994) compilations, while all seven tracks were compiled on '' Beautiful Waste and Other Songs'' in 2008. Further details McComb said of the recording, "All of these songs are hysterical exercises to try and deceive people into thinking that the narrator is feeling one way, when it can be a damning indictment of the narrator of the song. He's the person mouthing off, covering up this great big hole. Mr. Butcher it was who said 'bluster emptily', which is the fe ...
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Treeless Plain
''Treeless Plain'' is the debut album by The Triffids, released in November, 1983. The album was recorded at Emerald City Studios, Sydney, Australia in twelve midnight to dawn sessions, during August through to September 1983. It was the band's first release after signing with Hot Records. A remastered version of the album, with seven bonus live tracks recorded in 1983, was released in Australia in June 2008 through Liberation Music. Details David McComb later said, "I don't think it's a great record, but at least we tried to do a few things that pub bands wouldn't normally do. For a lot of the underground scene all across Australia, we just weren't hard rock enough. We used to have a thing against pedals." Elsewhere, he said, "I wouldn't have wanted it rawer, and I wouldn't have wanted it any slicker. It doesn't sound like it was rushed at all. We just wanted a crispness and brightness, and a sort of relaxed feeling. The usual criticism is that there's too much variety, to wh ...
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Tribute Album
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The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of counterculture of the 1960s, 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat music, beat and 1950s rock and roll, rock 'n' roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band also explored music styles ranging from folk music, folk and Music of India, Indian music to Psychedelic music, psychedelia and hard rock. As Recording practices of the Beatles, pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's Baby boomers, youth and sociocultural movements. Led by primary songwriter ...
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Domino Recording Company or simply Domino is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press. History Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP '' Rocking the Forest'', licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK. Many of the early releases were by American artists who in the US were signed to Drag City (Smog, Will Oldham, Royal Trux), a relationship which continues to this day. Success was not immediate, as labels such as Domino, who were releasing ...
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