Frederick John Negro (born 1959) is an Australian

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, and

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. He has fronted numerous rock, punk and country bands.

Biography

Frederick John Negro was born in 1959 and grew up in

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. In 1979 Negro formed a post-punk group, The Editions, on drums with Roz Dear on vocals, John Durr on guitar and David Yob Hoban on bass guitar. By the following year Dear was replaced by

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on vocals. From 1981 to 1982 they issued three cassette albums, ''Aggression'', ''Recession'' and ''Obsession'', on their own label, Orgasm Records. Negro left The Editions in 1983 to form punk rockers, I Spit on Your Gravy on vocals and drums. Initial line up included Jason "The Big J" Banner (Australia's 8th best guitarist) on guitar, David Yob Hoban on bass guitar, and Scotti "Stix" Simpson on vocals and drums. Australian musicologist,

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, described their early performances as "shambolic, drunken affairs, replete with on-stage brawls and members barely able to stand upright, let alone play their instruments". Negro was often "dropping his pants in public" and would deliver "other on-stage obscenities". In February 1985 the group issued their debut six-track extended play, ''St Kilda's Alright'', which they co-produced with Paul Elliott for Man Made Records at York Street Studios. It included a ten-page booklet, "Suck This Fred Nile", that local police declared was "obscene" and confiscated all available copies due to Negro's "debauched" cartoons and photocopied pornographic images. As for the music itself, McFarlane declares it was "desperately inept and sounded like it had been recorded at the bottom of a dam". Also in 1985 Phil "Grizzly" Miles joined I Spit on Your Gravy on rhythm guitar and vocals. They issued a studio album, ''Fruit Loop City'', in June 1987, which was co-produced by Miles and Peter "Poyt" Walker for

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. They disbanded in the next year, Negro and Miles promptly formed Gravybillies, as a country music, spoof band. Late in 1987 Negro and Miles formed a rock group, The Band Who Shot Liberty Valance, with Phil "Good-One" Bryant on drums and Trevor Pennington on bass guitar (both ex-Corpse Grinders); and Terry Fosters on harmonica. McFarlane described this group as "lager louts howere the ultimate charmless, inner-city party band". In October 1988 they issued an album, ''Outlaw Death Lager Drinkers from Hell'', on Virgin Records. This group broke up in 1989; Negro and Fosters formed The Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre, which "continued the drunken hillbilly theme". The line up included Paul Barnett on bass guitar, Garry Mansfield on guitar; and former bandmate, Simpson on drums. * Shonkytonk (vocals) *The Fuck Fucks (vocals) * Squirming Gerbil Death (vocals) *The Twits (vocals) * They Might Be Negroes (vocals) * The Eggs (vocals) * 57 Pages of Pink (vocals) * The BlackMolls (vocals) * Little Freddie and the Pops (vocals) In 1988 he formed The Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre, a country-punk fusion group with Garry Mansfield (guitar), Paul Barnett (bass), Scotty Simpson (drums) and Terry Foster (guitar, harmonica); they disbanded in 1993.

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-influenced I Spit On Your Gravy had also disbanded by the end of the 1980s but Fred has maintained a significant underground presence in

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with regular appearances in his other bands, and today contributes a weekly 'Pub Strip' to the

street press, and until major renovation in 2009 MC'd the long running

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Discography

Albums

* I Spit On Your Gravy, ''Fruit Loop City'' LP (Virgin Records, 1987) *

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, ''Outlaw Death Lager Drinkers From Hell'' LP (Virgin Records, 1988; rereleased on CD by Turkeyneck Records, 2008) *

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, ''Desperate Football'' LP/CD (Shagpile Records/Shock Records, 1992) *

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, ''...Here'' CD (Shock Records, 1997) *

, ''Millennium Buggery'' CD (I Envy Us Records, 1998) * Shonkytonk, ''I Can't Believe It's Not Butter'' CD (Shonkytonk Record Company, 1998) *The Twits (without Fred), ''Albert Road'' CD recorded a
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on 30 June and 32nd (1999) *The Twits, ''The Twits Play Music'' CD (Pure Pop Records, 2002) *The Twits, ''She May Look Clean, But...You Can't Beat The Axis If You Get VD'' CD (Pure Pop Records/Inertia, 2005)

EPs

* I Spit On Your Gravy, ''St Kilda's Alright!'' 12" EP (Man Made Records, 1984; rereleased on Polyester Records in 1989) *

, ''Contact Pool'' 12" EP (Shock Records, 1990) * I Spit On Your Gravy, ''St Kilda's Still Alright!'' CD (reissue on Turkeyneck Records with the ''Eat Your Head'' compilation tracks and unreleased live material, 2002)

Singles

* I Spit On Your Gravy, ''Let's Go Buy A Pizza'' 7" flexi (giveaway with Soft Option magazine, 1984) * I Spit On Your Gravy, ''Pirahna/Man's Not A Camel'' 7" (Virgin Records, 1987) *

, ''Bourbon Bound/Sorry Orry'' 7" (Shock Records, 1991) *

, ''Drink Myself To Life/The Mystery Of The Inca Cave'' 7" (Shagpile Records/Shock Records, 1992) *

, ''T.I.T.S. (This Is The Show)'' 7" (2000)

Cassette-Only Releases

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, ''Obsession'' (Orgasm, 1982) *

, ''Recession?'' (Orgasm, 1982) *

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''Live At The Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda'' (Polyester Records, 1988)

Compilations

* I Spit On Your Gravy, "Violent Fluff"/"Done To Death" on ''Eat Your Head'' LP (No Master's Voice, 1984; reissued on CD by Au-Go-Go Records, 1997) * I Spit On Your Gravy, "Let’s Go Buy A Pizza" on ''Life Is A Joke Vol 2'' LP (Weird System Records, 1986) *

, "Tattslotto Song"/"Rubber Band Rave" on ''The Polyester Tape'' cassette (Polyster Records, 1986) *

, "You Can't Speak To Me Like That" on ''SWAPO Benefit Recorded Live at Melbourne University 3/8/86'' LP (Doc Records, 1987) *

, "Dostoievski (I Wanna Be Clive Robertson's Dick)" on ''Lemon 3'' cassette (giveaway with the third issue of Lemon fanzine, 1990) *

, "Hey Hey We're The Fuck Fucks"/"Hangin' Round The House"/"Happy" on ''Here Come Eleven Nuns (One With A Bucket Of Chips For Me)'' CD (Buggertoe Records, 1996) * Shonkytonk, "Brand New Appliance"/"I Hate Collingwood (But I Love You)" on ''Here Come Eleven Nuns (One With A Bucket Of Chips For Me)'' CD (Buggertoe Records, 1996) * Squirming Gerbil Death, "Up To My Brim In Rim" on ''Here Come Eleven Nuns (One With A Bucket Of Chips For Me)'' CD (Buggertoe Records, 1996) * Shonkytonk, "I'm Off Ya!"/"Soldering Iron" on ''Weened On A Pickle Soaked In Bile'' CD (Buggertoe Records, 1997) * Squirming Gerbil Death, "Catholic School"/"Peakhour Frottage"/"Squirming Gerbil Death" on ''Weened On A Pickle Soaked In Bile'' CD (Buggertoe Records, 1997) * I Spit On Your Gravy, "The Ballad Of Scotty Stix Simpson" on ''Drunks, Guns And Livestock In The Streets: Live At The Turkeyneck Bar & Grill 1979-2001'' CD (Turkeyneck Records, 2001) *

, "Ballad Of Rockin' Gomer" on ''Drunks, Guns And Livestock In The Streets: Live At The Turkeyneck Bar & Grill 1979-2001'' CD (Turkeyneck Records, 2001) *

, "You Can't Speak To Me Like That" on ''Drunks, Guns And Livestock In The Streets: Live At The Turkeyneck Bar & Grill 1979-2001'' CD (Turkeyneck Records, 2001) * They Might Be Negroes, "The Legend Of Football Mouth" on ''Drunks, Guns And Livestock In The Streets Vol II: The Masked Wrestling Years 1978-2002'' CD (Turkeyneck Records, 2003)

Published work

Artwork appears in: Piranhas in love / Fred Negro and Elizabeth Reale. Melbourne: Two Spaniards Press, 2018. *''InPress'' Magazine. Pub: Dharma Media, ABN 54 078 943 003. *M.Walding and N.Vudovic (Eds). ''The Poster Art of Australian Popular Music'' Pub: Sept 2005 MUP, Miegunyah. . Honorary appointments:
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artist in residence Illustrations for *

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- ''The Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami'' y David Friend and Simon Morley Published by Random House 2000

Film work

* Lesbo-A-Go-Go dir

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, Brisbane, 2003. B&W/Colour, 52 mins. Appeared as 'Vision from Hell'.
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**"''More entertainment value in its minuscule budget than a hundred Matrix Reloadeds...''" Boris Lugosi, ''Girls Guns And Ghouls'' **"''Ugly, reprehensible and morally repugnant. And I made the film.''" Andrew Leavold, writer/director *''Fred Sounds'', dir. Rohan Pugh, 2003 *''Fred's Love'', dir. Rohan Pugh, 2005 *

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, dir. Mark Butcher, 2006 ( I Spit On Your Gravy live footage)

References

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External links

Official website

Melbourne Punk Legend Hospitalised After Tram Incident

Inpress Respond To Social Media Storm Over Comic Strip

The Man Behind the Band: Fred Negro, Melbourne Music Week 2016

Fred Negro Discogs

Fred Negro St Kilda News

FRED NEGRO – St Kilda’s Alright Art Exhibition

Fred Negro IMDB profile

Fred Negro - LastFM

Punk a Photographic Journey The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene - I Spit on Your Gravy

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Fred Negro on TROVE
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