indie alternative punk, rock & post-punk Australian Music.
For people who were there, somewhere between 1975 and 1984, or those who have rediscovered this era of great music. This site contains great Australian indie/alternative vinyl that was either financed by the bands themselves or by some of the ground breaking, risk taking small record businesses of this time.
"Inner City Sound describes the years 1976-1981
of punk/post-punk music in Australia. The Inner City Sound is a distinct
movement towards an Australian rock of its own invention and identity."
Clinton
Walker, from his book of the same name, originhally published by Wild &
Woolley Pty Ltd 1982.
This site takes its name from and is inspired
by Clinton Walker's book but not formally linked to him or the book
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The classic document
of punk and postpunk music in Australia
Inner City Sound edited by Clinton Walker paperback, 192 pages, with 285 photographs ISBN: 1-891241-18-4 The bands that emerged from the punk scene of the late 1970s in Australia, including the Saints, the Birthday Party, Radio Birdman and the Go-Betweens are among the most important bands of their time. Inner City Sound is the classic documentary account of the explosive development of that scene in the inner cities of Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. Fanzine and newspaper articles, illustrated by 285 photographs, vividly portray the creative ferment of the period and the dozens of bands that sprang up in the wake of the punk pioneers, including the Scientists, Severed Heads, Hunters and Collectors and many more. Inner City Sound was first published in Australia in late 1981 as the postpunk scene was approaching its zenith, but soon fell out of print. Yet it became so sought after over the years that it has been bootlegged like the rare singles listed in its discography, and its influence was so seminal that it helped shape the Australian indie rock scene of the following decade. With this new edition, Inner City Sound is now in print officially for the first time in over 20 years and for the first time ever outside Australia. What's more, original editor Clinton Walker has added an additional 32 pages of articles and photographs, taking the story through to 1985, a period in which the careers of Nick Cave, the Go-Betweens and the Triffids, for example, began to flourish internationally. |
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To coincide with this new edition,
a double CD of classic music from the period, INNER CITY SOUNDTRACK, will
be released in Australia by Laughing
Outlaw Records. Copies will be available elsewhere from Verse Chorus
Press or through the usual import channels. tracklist.
Inner City Sound is a 2CD set stand-alone companion piece to the cult book of the same name. Produced and annotated by Clinton Walker and re-mastered by the master himself, Don Bartley ? and including an extraordinary hand-drawn fold-out family tree poster ? Inner City Sound provides proof positive that Australia contributed as much as anyone to the D-I-Y revolution of the late 70s/early 80s: Over forty tracks, restored to a virgin vinyl glory, that still ring fresh and true, a mix of classics and rarities, many appearing on CD for the first time. Bristling with urgency and originality, this is an instant classic twenty years in the making. |
Music over the net. Commmencing
sometime soon is ‘Inner City Sound’, a new program featuring all Australian
independent & alternative music released between 1975 and 1984. This
program comprises all vinyl indie/alternative 7”, 12” eps, lps and cassettes.
Nearly all of this music has not been re-issued onto CD, and may never
be.
There will be specials featuring new and current CD re-issues. Questionnaire
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“a Selection” Accountants AC/DC Acrylic Chewies Adelaide punk Agents Airlord Aliens Allniters Angels Apartments / Peter Walsh Chris Bailey Beasts Of Bourbon Birthday Party Bleeding Hearts Box Of Fish Boys Next Door Brisbane alternative Cub Callaway Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Celibate Rifles David Chesworth Church Club Ska Cold Chisel “Composite Signals” soundtrack Comrades Of War Corpse Grinders **** **** (Cough Cough) Crackajacks Crime & the City Solution Critics Cruel Sea Cybotron Dagoes Dead Can Dance Tex Deadly & the Dum Dums Died Pretty “Distant Violins” Do Re Mi “Dogs In Space” Dorian Gray Dresden War Crimes Drop Bears Dubrovniks Dynamic Hepnotics Ears Eastern Dark Editions The End Equal Local Essendon Airport Exiles Farriss Brothers Fast Cars Fast Forward Flaming Hands Flowers James Freud & the Radio Stars Frontier Scouts Fun Things Gatekeepers Geeks Go-Betweens James Griffin Grong Grong “Growing Pains” Hardons (Queensland) Hard Ons Hitmen Hoi Polloi Hoodoo Gurus Rowland S. Howard Hugo Klang Hunters & Collectors Icehouse Igniters Immaculate Consumptive Introverts INXS JFK & the Cuban Crisis Jimmy & the Boys J.M.M. The Johnnys Paul Kelly & the Dots Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls Kelpies Kids In The Kitchen Kill The King The Kingbees Ed Kuepper La Femme La Fetts Last Words Laughing Clowns Laughing Hands “Leaving Home For A Party On The Roof” The (Fucken) Leftovers “Lethal Weapons” Lighthouse Keepers Peter Lillie Lime Spiders The Limp Lipstick Killers ‘little bands’ Little Murders Lonely Hearts Machinations Madroom Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast Manikins Matt Finish Mental As Anything Meo 245 Metal Mercenaries Metronomes Midnight Oil Missing Link Models Moffs Moodists Mustard Club “Mysterious Kitchens” Nauts Negatives New Christs New Race News No No Nonsense The Nothing Numbers Once Upon A Time “One Stop Shopping” Orchestra Of Skin & Bone Orphans “Oz New Wave” Melbourne 1978 “Paths Of Pain” Peak Pel Mel Angie Pepper Perdition Perth punk The Pits Plays With Marionettes Positive Hatred Press Primitive Calculators “Queensland In Quarantine” Quick & the Dead Hugo Race Radio Birdman Rah Rah The Flag Reels Relatives Riptides Riverina Playboys Rockets Ron Rude Rose Tattoo Sacred Cowboys Saints Salamander Jim Sardine v Scapa Flow Scattered Order Schism Scientists Scream Screaming Tribesmen Sekret Sekret Severed Heads Sick Things Silent Type Singles Skel-e-tones Skunks Skyhooks Slugfuckers “Sound Of Sydney” Spare Change The Spell SPK Split Enz Sports Spy v. Spy Stilleto Strange Idols Strange Tenants Stupidity Sunday Painters Sunnyboys Survivors Systematics Tablewaiters Tactics Tame O’Mearas Tch Tch Tch / Tsk Tsk Tsk Teenyweenys Terminal Twist Terse Tapes These Cars Collide These Immortal Souls Thought Criminals Louis Tillett Tombstone Hands Toy Love Trench Gashes Triffids / David McComb The 2 Johnnies Urban Guerillas various artists Verge Victims Violet Lightning Visitors Voices Voigt/465 Dave Warner From The Suburbs Wet Taxis Whirlywirld “Who Owns The Chocolate Bar” Wild West Wildlife Documentaries World War XXIV Wreckery X Xero / Xiro XL Capris X-ray-Z Ya Ya Choral Young Charlatans Young Docteurs Young Modern Zorros Search
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