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Radio Birdman
Radio Birdman are an Australian punk rock band formed by Deniz Tek and Rob Younger in Sydney in 1974. Classic Rock magazine describes them as "Australia’s first influential punk band".
Deniz Tek and Rob Younger formed Radio Birdman in the mid-1970s (around 1974) in Sydney, Australia, having recently left their former projects, TV Jones and the Rats. They recruited classical keyboard player Philip "Pip" Hoyle, drummer Ron Keeley, and bassist Carl Roke. The band took their name from a mondegreen of the phrase “Radio 'burning'” in The Stooges' song "1970".
In 1975, after facing rejection from various venues and performing in rented garages and community halls[citation needed], Radio Birdman secured a residency at the Oxford Tavern[citation needed] at Taylor Square in Sydney. They eventually took over the venue's management, renaming it The Oxford Funhouse. By then, Carl Roke had been replaced by former Rats member Warwick Gilbert.
Radio Birdman developed a following within the emerging Sydney punk scene. With the help of Rock Australia Magazine editor, Anthony O'Grady, the band selected a recording studio and recorded an EP, Burn My Eye, and their first album, Radios Appear, both produced by John Sayers and Charles Fisher at Trafalgar Studios in Annandale.
Under Michael McMartin's management, Trafalgar Studios signed the band and financed the recordings. Radios Appear was critically acclaimed, earning 5 stars in the Australian edition of Rolling Stone. The album was influenced by Detroit bands of the late 1960s, such as MC5 and the Stooges. The album's title comes from the Blue Öyster Cult song, "Dominance and Submission", from their 1974 Secret Treaties album, which influenced Radio Birdman's sound. Radios Appear was played on Sydney station 2JJ (Double Jay). Released on the newly-created independent label Trafalgar Records, the album was sold by mail order and distributed by band members and friends to a few record stores, never achieving widespread sales or commercial success.
Several years after the initial release and following the band's breakup, Trafalgar Records licensed the recordings to WEA, who took on the album and gave it a wider release. However, sales remained limited.
When Sire Records president Seymour Stein came to Australia to sign Brisbane punk band the Saints, he saw Radio Birdman and invited them to join his label. Under Sire, licensed by Trafalgar, Radio Birdman released a new version of Radios Appear featuring a mixture of re-mixed, re-recorded, and some new material.
As the punk movement in Australia continued to grow, the underground scene at the Funhouse began to attract some outsider groups, including the Sydney chapter of the Hells Angels. Following a concert at Paddington Town Hall with the Saints and the Hot Spurs in April 1977, Radio Birdman left the Sydney scene, playing sporadically in other cities and working on new material.
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Radio Birdman
Radio Birdman are an Australian punk rock band formed by Deniz Tek and Rob Younger in Sydney in 1974. Classic Rock magazine describes them as "Australia’s first influential punk band".
Deniz Tek and Rob Younger formed Radio Birdman in the mid-1970s (around 1974) in Sydney, Australia, having recently left their former projects, TV Jones and the Rats. They recruited classical keyboard player Philip "Pip" Hoyle, drummer Ron Keeley, and bassist Carl Roke. The band took their name from a mondegreen of the phrase “Radio 'burning'” in The Stooges' song "1970".
In 1975, after facing rejection from various venues and performing in rented garages and community halls[citation needed], Radio Birdman secured a residency at the Oxford Tavern[citation needed] at Taylor Square in Sydney. They eventually took over the venue's management, renaming it The Oxford Funhouse. By then, Carl Roke had been replaced by former Rats member Warwick Gilbert.
Radio Birdman developed a following within the emerging Sydney punk scene. With the help of Rock Australia Magazine editor, Anthony O'Grady, the band selected a recording studio and recorded an EP, Burn My Eye, and their first album, Radios Appear, both produced by John Sayers and Charles Fisher at Trafalgar Studios in Annandale.
Under Michael McMartin's management, Trafalgar Studios signed the band and financed the recordings. Radios Appear was critically acclaimed, earning 5 stars in the Australian edition of Rolling Stone. The album was influenced by Detroit bands of the late 1960s, such as MC5 and the Stooges. The album's title comes from the Blue Öyster Cult song, "Dominance and Submission", from their 1974 Secret Treaties album, which influenced Radio Birdman's sound. Radios Appear was played on Sydney station 2JJ (Double Jay). Released on the newly-created independent label Trafalgar Records, the album was sold by mail order and distributed by band members and friends to a few record stores, never achieving widespread sales or commercial success.
Several years after the initial release and following the band's breakup, Trafalgar Records licensed the recordings to WEA, who took on the album and gave it a wider release. However, sales remained limited.
When Sire Records president Seymour Stein came to Australia to sign Brisbane punk band the Saints, he saw Radio Birdman and invited them to join his label. Under Sire, licensed by Trafalgar, Radio Birdman released a new version of Radios Appear featuring a mixture of re-mixed, re-recorded, and some new material.
As the punk movement in Australia continued to grow, the underground scene at the Funhouse began to attract some outsider groups, including the Sydney chapter of the Hells Angels. Following a concert at Paddington Town Hall with the Saints and the Hot Spurs in April 1977, Radio Birdman left the Sydney scene, playing sporadically in other cities and working on new material.