Greg's music career

photo: The Pits, 1980 (author on left)

I joined Brisbane punk band the Pits while at high school in 1979. This group explored several punk and post-punk genres and supported bands such as the Go-Betweens and the Fall before breaking up in 1982. After that I helped form the Dum-Dums with vocalist Greg "Tex" Perkins, drummer Greg Gilbert from the Pits and my brother Ian on guitar. After some lineup changes we moved to Sydney in 1983 and played around Darlinghurst with some of the bands of that era. This was great, but I realized music was not going to be my full-time vocation, and I returned to Brisbane to study before heading south again in 1987. In Melbourne I started New Waver and the Spill label and studio, and played in several other outfits, see below.

Groups I've played in:

• The Pits (Brisbane 1979-82)
• Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums (Brisbane/Sydney 1982-3)
• This Five Minutes (Brisbane 1983-4)
• Friends of Terry(Brisbane 1986)
• Gobble-Gobble (Brisbane 1987)
• Dog Fish Cat Bird (Brisbane 1986-7)
• The Gatekeepers (Brisbane/Melbourne 1983-90)
• Thou Gideon (Melbourne 1992-4)
• Solids (Melbourne 1993-9)
• Tedium (Melbourne 1994-6)
• Clag (Melbourne 1995-7)
• San Jose Cow Muzak (Melbourne 1995-6)
• Ninety-nine (Melbourne 1997)
• Old People's Music (Melbourne 1998)
• Fog and Ocean (Melbourne 2000)
• The Cannanes (Sydney 2003-4)
• Flywheel (Melbourne 2004-6)
• New Waver (Melbourne 1990-)
• The Hi-God People (Melbourne 1998-)
• When Worlds Collide (Melbourne 2008-)

Through the Spill label I've worked on a number of Australian releases.

I sometimes guest-announce on the 3CR show Two to the Valley.

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