Icehouse are an Australian

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band, formed in

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in 1977 as Flowers. Initially known in their homeland for their

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style, the band later achieved mainstream success playing new-wave and

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music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. The name "Icehouse", adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people. Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesisers particularly the

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(" Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("

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", 1982) and Fairlight CMI ('' Razorback'' trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. Their best known singles on the Australian charts include " Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "

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", " Electric Blue" and "

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"; with Top Three albums being ''

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'' (1980, as Flowers), '' Primitive Man'' (1982) and '' Man of Colours'' (1987). Icehouse was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)

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on 16 August 2006. ARIA described Icehouse as "one of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties... With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces..." Icehouse has produced eight top-ten albums and twenty top-forty singles in Australia, multiple top-ten hits in Europe and North America and album sales of over 28-times platinum in Australasia alone.

1977–1980: Flowers

Flowers were formed in Sydney in 1977 by Iva Davies (vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, oboe), a classically trained musician, and their main creative force; with bass player Keith Welsh. Davies was working as a part-time cleaner at a Lindfield squash court managed by Welsh's mother, they lived nearby and were both interested in forming a band. Additional musicians used by Flowers in 1978 were Michael Hoste on keyboards and Don Brown on drums. The band built up a strong following as a live act around the pub circuit, providing distinctive cover versions of songs by Roxy Music, David Bowie,

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, T-Rex, Ultravox and

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. The band performed at

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on 28 July 1979, with The Numbers and British group XTC. By the middle of 1979 John Lloyd (ex- Paul Kelly and the Dots) replaced Don Brown on drums, with Anthony Smith (who was sometimes called Adam Hall), on keyboards, replacing Michael Hoste who remained associated with the band and later rejoined. After signing to the independent Regular Records label, distributed by Festival, Flowers released their debut single in May 1980, " Can't Help Myself" (written by Davies), Note: requires user to input song title e.g. CANT HELP MYSELF which hit the Australian Top 10 in June 1980. This was followed by their debut album ''

'', which reached No. 4 on the National albums chart and became one of the year's biggest selling albums in Australia. The album, co-produced by Cameron Allan ( Mental As Anything's producer) and Davies, made use of synthesisers, including the

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, Solina Strings and

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. Hoste co-wrote four tracks with Davies and played additional keyboards, with Smith continuing to provide the main keyboards. Further singles "

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" and " Walls" from ''Icehouse'' also hit the Top 20. Flowers' popularity was recognised when they were awarded the 1980 '' TV Week'' / ''

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'' Rock Awards ' Johnny O'Keefe New Talent Award' ahead of The Dugites,

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and

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. They were also nominated for 'Best Album' and 'Best Album Cover' for ''Icehouse'' but lost on both to Cold Chisel's '' East'', Iva Davies was nominated as 'Best Songwriter' but lost to Cold Chisel's Don Walker. At the award ceremony, Flowers performed "

" with Davies framed within a cube of white neon tubing. In early 1981, Flowers signed to

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for European, Japanese, UK and U.S. releases; they had to change their name due to legal restrictions and to prevent confusion with a Scottish group The Flowers. Their last performance under the name Flowers was on 27 June 1981 at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, they chose the name of their album to become known as Icehouse.

1981–1989: Icehouse

As Icehouse, the band spent the second half of 1981 touring the UK, Canada and the U.S., whilst Chrysalis released most of their Flowers material under the name Icehouse. The single "Icehouse" was released in Europe and created some interest in the UK, partly because of a video directed by Russell Mulcahy, while in the U.S. the song peaked at No. 28 on the ''

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'' Top Tracks chart in 1981. "Icehouse" had been written by Davies when he lived at 18 Tryon Road, Lindfield in an old, cold flat of a two-storey mansion – across the street was a dishevelled house which had its lights on all night peopled by short-term residents. Davies later learned it was a half-way house for psychiatric and drug rehab patients. The first U.S. single "We Can Get Together" peaked at No. 62 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. A single-only release, " Love in Motion", was recorded by Davies using the

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, and became the first new recording credited to Icehouse; it hit the Australian Top 10 in November 1981. Icehouse split up late in 1981, Keith Welsh later becoming manager of Australian bands Do-Ré-Mi and Boom Crash Opera.

1981–1983: ''Primitive Man'', ''Fresco EP''

In January 1982 Davies recorded '' Primitive Man'' essentially as a solo project, it was co-produced with Keith Forsey who had worked with

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and later worked with

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. Forsey supplied additional percussion; Davies supplied vocals, guitars, keyboards (Prophet 5), bass and programmed the Linn drum machine. Released on September 20th, 1982 as an Icehouse album, ''Primitive Man'' reached No. 3 on the National album charts and provided their international breakthrough single, "

" which peaked at No. 7 in Australia, No. 2 in Switzerland, No. 5 in Germany and top 20 in UK, Sweden and Netherlands. The album was less successful in the U.S where it peaked at number 129 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and the song "Hey Little Girl" appeared on the ''Billboard'' Top Tracks chart for one week at number 31. Another single " Great Southern Land" made the Australian Top 5, it was later featured in the 1988 Yahoo Serious film '' Young Einstein'', and remains their most popular song according to listeners of Triple M in 2007. To promote ''Primitive Man'' on tour, Davies re-assembled Icehouse with Hoste and Lloyd, and new members: Robert Kretschmer (guitar, backing vocals),

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(bass guitar, backing vocals) and Andy Qunta (keyboards, backing vocals). ''

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'' was a five-track EP released in 1983 by this line-up, they supported David Bowie on the European section of his Serious Moonlight tour. '' Love in Motion'' was released in 1983 by Chrysalis for the UK market, it was the ''Primitive Man'' album with "Love in Motion" replacing album track "Break These Chains". Back in 1982, Russell Mulcahy had directed two of their video clips: "Hey Little Girl" and "Street Cafe" (released February 1983), after these Mulcahy asked Davies to record the score for his film '' Razorback''; it was entirely instrumental, and featured Davies' first recorded use of the Australian designed Fairlight Music Computer. The trailer for the movie was released in 1983, the film itself in April 1984.

1984–1986: ''Sidewalk'' and ''Measure for Measure''

Icehouse's third studio album ''

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'' was released in 1984 and peaked at No. 8 on the National albums chart with singles " Taking the Town" peaked at No. 29 in May, "Don't Believe Anymore" peaked at No. 31 August and "Dusty Pages" peaked at No. 82 in November. Davies used the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesiser exclusively. Davies was commissioned to compose and record the score for the Sydney Dance Company production of Graeme Murphy's work ''

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''. Davies only used Kretschmer, with percussion being supplied by Masaki Tanazawa. ''Boxes'' was first performed live at the

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on 7 November 1985. After the ''Boxes'' project, Icehouse was Davies, Kretschmer, Pratt and Qunta with former Members member Simon Lloyd (sax, trumpet, keyboards) and

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(drums, percussion). In 1986, their fourth studio album, ''

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'' featured

as an additional performer; it provided the Australian singles of " No Promises" No. 19, "Baby, You're So Strange" No. 12, "Mr. Big" No. 14 and "Cross the Border". Further inroads into the U.S. market occurred with "No Promises" peaking at No. 9 on ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock chart and "Cross the Border" reaching No. 19. In Canada, "No Promises" reached No.61. On tour for ''Measure for Measure'', Icehouse were Davies, Kretschmer, Lloyd and Qunta with Glenn Krawczyk on bass (replacing new member Vito Portolesi after nine shows) and Paul Wheeler on drums. On 14 August 1986 their performance at New York City's The Ritz was recorded as ''Icehouse: Live at the Ritz'', directed by

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and broadcast on U.S. TV on 9 September 1987 and on Australian TV on 15 November 1987; it was released on VHS and NTSC formats. Jopson was subsequently used to direct four music videos for Icehouse. Stephen Morgan replaced Krawczyk on bass during 1987.

1987–1989: ''Man of Colours'' and ''Great Southern Land''

Their best-selling album is 1987's '' Man of Colours'', which contained the Australian hit singles "Crazy" which peaked at No. 4 in July, " Electric Blue", co-written by Davies and

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of U.S. band Hall & Oates, peaked at No. 1 in October, "

" No. 12 in December, "Man of Colours" No. 28 in February 1988 and "Nothing Too Serious" No. 29 in May 1988. It was the first Australian album to have five singles charting in the top 30, it remained at No. 1 on the Australian album charts for eleven weeks and has sold over 700,000 copies. In Canada, "Crazy" reached No. 22, "Electric Blue" reached No. 10, and "My Obsession" reached No. 84. With U.S. chart success for "Crazy", which reached No. 14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 10 on its Mainstream Rock chart, and "Electric Blue" peaked at No. 7 Hot 100 and No. 10 Mainstream, the band had reached their zenith of popularity, the album ''Man of Colours'' reached No. 43 on the ''Billboard'' 200. ''Man of Colours'' was lauded in Australia during 1988, it won two ARIA Awards, 'Album of the Year' and 'Highest-Selling Album'. The associated song " Electric Blue" won 'Most Performed Australasian Popular Work' at the

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(APRA) Music Awards in 1989 for its writers, Davies and Oates. The cover artwork, designed by Davies and Kretschmer, depicts a human figure holding three different coloured flowers. The only Icehouse releases for 1989 were a single "Touch the Fire" which reached No. 13 in Australia in November and a compilation double album / video collection '' Great Southern Land''. December 1989 saw the release of "Jimmy Dean" as a single which reached No. 47 on the ARIA singles charts.

1990–present: Iva Davies and Icehouse

1990–1992: ''Code Blue'', ''Masterfile''

Qunta left at about this time with Icehouse recording their next album, '' Code Blue'' released in October. Singles released from the album were "Big Fun" which peaked at No. 47 on the ARIA singles charts in August, "Miss Divine" at No. 16 in October and "Anything is Possible" at No. 49 in January 1991. For ''Code Blue'' recording, Icehouse were Davies, Lloyd, Morgan and Wheeler, for touring they added guitarist

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and keyboardist Roger Mason (ex-

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). In 1992, EMI released a compilation, '' Masterfile'' containing a new version of "Love in Motion" also released as a single featuring Davies in a duet with

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of Divinyls.

1993–1995: ''Full Circle'', ''Big Wheel'', and ''Berlin''

'' Full Circle'', an entire album of remixes was recorded during 1993, it included the track "Shakin' the Cage" which was released on the ''

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'' EP in early 1993 and was followed by their seventh and final studio album, '' Big Wheel'' in November, which contained the singles "Satellite" in October and "Big Wheel" in March 1994, while the ''Full Circle'' album itself was not released until December 1994; neither albums nor singles had any Top 40 chart success. By 1995, Davies was again involved with the Sydney Dance Company, this time with their production of ''Berlin''. The musical score was a collection of cover versions of songs by David Bowie,

, Simple Minds, The Psychedelic Furs,

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, Roxy Music, XTC, Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground,

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, The Cure and

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, which saw Davies collaborating with pianist

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in the development of the music. Sessions were released as '' The Berlin Tapes'' under the name Iva Davies and Icehouse in 1995 on DIVA (Iva Davies own label) / Massive Records for Australian release and Warner Records for international release in 2002. As well as recording the ballet score, Davies and Icehouse performed live at each performance, ''Berlin'' ran for two seasons. During 1999 Davies, together with Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon, composed ''The Ghost of Time'' as an expansion of "Great Southern Land" into a forty-minute performance for

's part of the worldwide millennial celebrations. On New Year's Eve in 1999, Davies (vocals, guitar), Tognetti (violin),

(bass), Krawczyk (drums) ROM=Pari ( Taiko – Japanese drums) and Sydney Symphony Orchestra performed ''The Ghost of Time'' on the northern forecourt of

alongside

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and was televised around the world on CNN and other news networks. Davies had released the solo album, ''The Ghost of Time'' earlier in December 1999.

2001–2010: ''Bipolar Poems'', remasters

Davies has been working since 2001 on a proposed Icehouse album to be titled '' Bi-polar Poems'' with certain tracks available between 2004 and 2008 from the Official Iva Davies – Icehouse website including "Your God Not Mine". As of 2022, the album is still unreleased, and no updates on the album's progress -- if any -- have been issued in over a decade. In 2002,

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covered "Don't Believe Anymore" from ''Sidewalk'' for their album '' Torch The Moon'', which enjoyed moderate radio success. During 2002, Davies digitally remastered all of Flowers' / Icehouse's studio albums adding bonus tracks to each—they were released by Warner Music Australia. In 2003 Iva Davies contributed "Ghost of Time" and other music to the film score of the

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epic '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World''. In 2004, ''

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'', which was ''The Berlin Tapes'' repackaged from the Australian and Japanese versions, was released. On 16 August 2006, Icehouse were inducted into the

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alongside

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, Divinyls and Rose Tattoo. Icehouse performed on 21 September 2007 with the line-up: Davies, Paul Gildea (guitars), Steve Morgan (bass), Peter Maslen (drums) and Glen Reither (keyboards, saxophone). Icehouse / Flowers featured on Triple M's 2007 Essential Countdown with 14 songs including: "Great Southern Land" at No. 13, "Don't Believe Any More" No. 78, "Street Cafe" No. 187, "Love in Motion" No. 327, "We Can Get Together" No. 428, and "Electric Blue" No. 454. From 15 June 2008, Davies was a judge on Seven Network TV series ''

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''. Davies commented on the status of Icehouse: The grand final show of ''Battle of the Choirs'', broadcast on 3 August 2008, had Icehouse provide a rare live performance of "Great Southern Land". For the performance, Icehouse were Iva Davies (vocals, guitar), Paul Wheeler (drums, percussion), Paul Gildea (guitar), David Chapman (guitar), Steve Bull (bass guitar); they were supported by the three grand-finalist choirs. On 14 March 2009 Icehouse reformed for Sound Relief benefit concert at the

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. Sound Relief is a benefit concert for victims of the Victorian Bushfire Crisis and the Queensland Floods. Appearing with Icehouse at the Sydney concert were, Coldplay,

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, Josh Pyke, Little Birdy, The Presets, Wolfmother, You Am I and additional artists. 4 June 2009: Icehouse performed at the Sacred Heart Mission's "Heart of St Kilda Concert". The concert featured some of Australia's finest performers – Kate Ceberano,

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, Icehouse,

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, Mick Molloy, Tex Perkins, Tim Rogers,

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, Ash Grunwald,

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, Blue King Brown, Dan Sultan, Scott Wilson, Brian Nankervis, Julia Zemiro,

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and

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. On stage with Iva were Paul Gildea (guitar), Paul Wheeler (drums), Steve Morgan (bass) and Glen Reither (sax/keys).

2011–present: ''Icehouse'' 30th anniversary, ''White Heat: 30 Hits'' and ''DubHouse Live''

On 6 April 2011, Icehouse and Universal Music Australia publicly announced a new partnership for sales and distribution of the band's material. Accompanying this were details of the planned issue of a 30th-anniversary edition of the band's debut album ''Icehouse''. This release marks the first time any of the band's catalogue has been available for commercial download. The album was released on 20 May 2011 digitally and as a multi-disc set. On 7 July 2011, the band issued a press release about the forthcoming release of a new greatest hits compilation, titled ''White Heat: 30 Hits''. The album was released on 26 August 2011. Since 2011 Icehouse have started to play regular live gigs again around Australia. One of the most recent was at 3 December Homebake 2011 concert, performing under the moniker of "Icehouse Plays Flowers", where they played songs from their first two albums (both released singles and unreleased songs) — "Icehouse", "We Can Get Together", "Skin", "Boulevard", "Great Southern Land" and "Sister." Keith Welsh joined them on stage, playing bass-guitar. Black-and-white original PR photos from the early 1980s were flashed as a backdrop behind the band as they played. On 12 July 2012, the entire Icehouse studio catalogue was reissued. ''Primitive Man'' and ''Man of Colours'' also received a bonus DVD to celebrate their 30th and 25th anniversaries, respectively. The band will be promoting the two anniversary albums with the "Primitive Colours" tour. On 4 and 7 December, Icehouse performed two shows at the Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne and the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, respectively, under the moniker of "DubHouse performing reggae-styled versions of classic Icehouse songs and old reggae favourites". These concerts spawned the release of a live album released in January 2014. They also performed a 40th Anniversary concert at the Roche Estate, in the NSW Hunter Valley in March 2017. The full concert is available for free on YouTube, and is highly recommended for any fans to watch. On 9 February 2020, Icehouse played the St. Kilda Festival in Melbourne, Flowers had played the 1st festival in 1980, so for the 40th anniversary Icehouse played the majority of the Flowers album plus a few covers that they would have played back then, a recording of the concert was released in October 2020 as ''Icehouse Plays Flowers''. In 2021, a remix of "Hey Little Girl" was released by Australian duo Mark Vick and Danny Muller, with the record credited to The Antipodeans Vs Icehouse. In 2022, they performed "Great Southern Land" and "We Can Get Together" on the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia.

Members

Current members * Iva Davies – lead vocals, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, oboe (1977–present) * Paul Wheeler – drums, percussion (1986–present) *

– rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1990–present) * Steve Bull – bass guitar, backing vocals (2009–present) *

Michael Paynter Michael Paynter (born 29 January 1986), is an Australian singer-songwriter. Paynter has released five singles, " Closer", "A Victim Song", " Love the Fall", "How Sweet It Is" and "Weary Stars". Paynter competed in the second season of ''The Vo ...

– keyboards, additional guitars, backing and lead vocals (2011–present) * Hugo Lee - saxophone, keyboards (2021-present) Former members * Keith Welsh – bass guitar, backing vocals (1977–1981) * Don Brown – drums (1977–1979) * Michael Hoste – keyboards (1978, 1982–1983) * Anthony Smith (aka Adam Hall) – keyboards (1979–1982) * John Lloyd – drums, percussion (1979–1984) * Bob Kretschmer – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1982–1989) *

– bass guitar, backing vocals (1982–1986) *

Andy Qunta Anderson Amos Temba "Andy" Qunta (born 9 January 1951) is an English singer, songwriter, composer and musician. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Qunta is best known as the keyboardist of the Australian rock band Icehouse from between 19 ...

– keyboards, keytar, additional guitars, backing vocals (1982–1988) * Gary Hughes – keyboards (1983–1984) * Simon Lloyd – saxophone, trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals (1984–1991) * Glenn Krawczyk – bass guitar (1986) * Steve Morgan – bass guitar, backing vocals (1987–1989) * Roger Mason – keyboards (1989–1990) *

Tony Llewellyn Tony Llewellyn is an Australian musician. He signed with WEA and released an album, ''The News'' in 1989. Llewellyn was the keyboard player in Icehouse from 1991 until 2004. His single "Pick You Up" was engineered by Guy Gray and he was nomina ...

– keyboards (1991–2004) * David Chapman – rhythm and lead guitar (1993–1995) * Max Lambert – piano (1995) * Adrian Wallis – cello (1995–2004) * Glenn Reither – keyboards, saxophone (2007–2021) Timeline ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:20 PlotArea = left:90 bottom:90 top:0 right:20 Alignbars = justify DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1977 till:01/07/2022 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy Legend = orientation:vertical position:bottom columns:4 ScaleMajor = increment:4 start:1977 ScaleMinor = increment:1 start:1977 Colors = id:Band value:black legend:Band_name id:Vocals value:red legend:Lead_vocals,_oboe id:BVox value:pink legend:Backing_vocals id:Wi value:gray(0.5) legend:Wind_instruments id:Cello value:darkblue legend:Cello id:LGuitar value:teal legend:Lead_guitar id:RGuitar value:green legend:Rhythm_guitar id:Piano value:purple legend:Keyboards id:Bass value:blue legend:Bass id:Drums value:orange legend:Drums id:album value:black legend:Studio_album BarData = bar:Flowers text:"Flowers" bar:Icehouse text:"Icehouse" bar:Iva text:"Iva Davies" bar:Simon text:"Simon Lloyd" bar:Adrian text:"Adrian Wallis" bar:Bob text:"Bob Kretschmer" bar:Paul2 text:"Paul Gildea" bar:David text:"David Chapman" bar:Michael text:"Michael Hoste" bar:Anthony text:"Anthony Smith" bar:Andy text:"Andy Qunta" bar:Gary text:"Gary Hughes" bar:Roger text:"Roger Mason" bar:Tony text:"Tony Llewellyn" bar:Max text:"Max Lambert" bar:Glenn2 text:"Glenn Reither" bar:Michael2 text:"Michael Paynter" bar:Hugo text:"Hugo Lee" bar:Keith text:"Keith Welsh" bar:Guy text:"Guy Pratt" bar:Glenn text:"Glenn Krawczyk" bar:Steve text:"Steve Morgan" bar:Steve2 text:"Steve Bull" bar:Don text:"Don Brown" bar:John text:"John Lloyd" bar:Paul text:"Paul Wheeler" PlotData= width:11 bar:Flowers from:start till:01/07/1981 color:band bar:Icehouse from:01/07/1981 till:end color:band bar:Iva from:start till:end color:lguitar width:3 bar:Iva from:start till:end color:vocals bar:Iva from:start till:01/01/1981 color:rguitar width:7 bar:Iva from:01/01/1993 till:01/01/1995 color:rguitar width:7 bar:Iva from:01/01/1981 till:01/01/1982 color:bass width:7 bar:Iva from:01/01/1988 till:01/01/1989 color:piano width:7 bar:Iva from:01/01/1990 till:01/01/1991 color:piano width:7 bar:Iva from:01/01/2004 till:01/01/2007 color:piano width:7 bar:Keith from:start till:01/01/1981 color:bass bar:Keith from:start till:01/01/1981 color:BVox width:3 bar:Don from:start till:01/01/1979 color:drums bar:Michael from:01/01/1978 till:31/12/1978 color:piano bar:Michael from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1983 color:piano bar:Michael from:01/01/1978 till:31/12/1978 color:BVox width:3 bar:Michael from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1983 color:BVox width:3 bar:Anthony from:01/01/1979 till:01/01/1982 color:piano bar:John from:01/01/1979 till:31/12/1984 color:drums bar:Bob from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1989 color:rguitar bar:Bob from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1989 color:BVox width:3 bar:Guy from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1986 color:bass bar:Guy from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1986 color:BVox width:3 bar:Andy from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1988 color:piano bar:Andy from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1988 color:rguitar width:7 bar:Andy from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1988 color:BVox width:3 bar:Glenn from:01/01/1986 till:31/12/1986 color:bass bar:Simon from:01/01/1986 till:01/01/1991 color:wi bar:Simon from:01/01/1986 till:01/01/1991 color:BVox width:3 bar:Steve from:01/01/1987 till:01/01/1989 color:bass bar:Steve from:01/01/1987 till:01/01/1989 color:BVox width:3 bar:Paul from:01/01/1986 till:end color:drums bar:Roger from:01/01/1989 till:01/01/1990 color:piano bar:Paul2 from:01/01/1989 till:end color:rguitar bar:Paul2 from:01/01/1993 till:01/01/1995 color:lguitar width:7 bar:Paul2 from:01/01/1989 till:end color:BVox width:3 bar:Tony from:01/01/1991 till:01/01/2004 color:piano bar:David from:01/01/1993 till:01/01/1995 color:rguitar bar:David from:01/01/1993 till:01/01/1995 color:lguitar width:3 bar:Max from:01/01/1995 till:31/12/1995 color:piano bar:Adrian from:01/01/1995 till:01/01/2004 color:cello bar:Steve2 from:01/01/1989 till:end color:bass bar:Steve2 from:01/01/1989 till:end color:BVox width:3 bar:Gary from:01/01/1983 till:01/01/1984 color:piano bar:Glenn2 from:01/01/2007 till:01/02/2021 color:piano bar:Glenn2 from:01/01/2007 till:01/02/2021 color:wi width:3 bar:Michael2 from:01/01/2011 till:end color:piano bar:Michael2 from:01/01/2011 till:end color:bvox width:3 bar:Michael2 from:01/01/2011 till:end color:rguitar width:7 bar:Hugo from:01/02/2021 till:end color:wi bar:Hugo from:01/02/2021 till:end color:piano width:3 LineData = layer:back color:album at:10/10/1980 at:06/09/1982 at:26/06/1984 at:21/04/1986 at:21/09/1987 at:11/11/1990 at:25/10/1993 at:23/10/1995

Discography

* ''

'' (1980) (as Flowers) * '' Primitive Man'' (1982) * ''

'' (1984) * ''

'' (1986) * '' Man of Colours'' (1987) * '' Code Blue'' (1990) * '' Big Wheel'' (1993) * '' The Berlin Tapes'' (1995) (as Iva Davies and Icehouse)

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The

ARIA Music Awards The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...

is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. They commenced in 1987. Icehouse were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006. , - , ARIA Music Awards of 1987 , ''Measure for Measure'' ,

ARIA Award for Highest Selling Album The ARIA Music Award The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industr ...

, , - , rowspan="5" , ARIA Music Awards of 1988 , rowspan="2" , ''Measure for Measure'' , ARIA Award for Album of the Year , , - , Highest Selling Album , , - , Themselves , ARIA Award for Best Group , , - , rowspan="2" , "Crazy" , ARIA Award for Single of the Year , , - , ARIA Award for Song of the Year , , - , ARIA Music Awards of 1991 , Iva Davies and David Barnes for ''Code Blue'' by Icehouse ,

ARIA Award for Best Cover Art The ARIA Music Award for Best Cover Art, is an award presented within the Artisan Awards at the annual ARIA Music Awards. The ARIA Awards recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", and have been given by the Aus ...

, , - ,

ARIA Music Awards of 2006 The 20th annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) were held on 29 October 2006 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex. Presenters on the night includ ...

, Themselves ,

APRA Awards

The

APRA Awards APRA Awards may refer to one of two awards ceremonies: *APRA Awards (Australia) *APRA Awards (New Zealand) The APRA Music Awards are several annual and two-yearly award ceremonies run in New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association ...

are held in Australia and New Zealand by the

to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually. , - ,

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, "Electric Blue" (Iva Davies, John Oates) by Icehouse , Most Performed Australasian Popular Work , , -

Countdown Awards

'' was an Australian pop music TV series on national broadcaster ABC-TV from 1974–1987, it presented music awards from 1979–1987, initially in conjunction with magazine '' TV Week''. The TV Week / Countdown Awards were a combination of popular-voted and peer-voted awards. , - , rowspan="4" , 1980 , rowspan="2" , ''Icehouse'' , Best Australian Album , , - , Best Australian Record Cover Design , , - , Themselves , Best New Talent , , - , Iva Davies – Flowers/Icehouse , Best Recorded Songwriter , , - , rowspan="5" , 1982 , '' Primitive Man , Best Australian Album , , - , " Great Southern Land" , Best Australian Single , , - , Themselves , Most Popular Group , , - , Iva Davies – Flowers/Icehouse , Best Recorded Songwriter , , - , Iva Davies (Icehouse) , Most Popular Male Performer , , -

Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Icehouse won one award in that time. (wins only) , - , 1987 , Icehouse , Rock Group of the Year , , -

References

External links

Official Icehouse – Iva Davies website
lapsed as from 13 July 2008, archive copy a

from 5 July 2004
Spellbound – Icehouse
a comprehensive fansite
Flowers – Icehouse
The new official Iva Davies website as of 26 April 2011 * *
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