Due to popular demand MODELS AND BOOM CRASH OPERA TEAM UP FOR THE
DOUBLE A SIDE TOURCatch both bands together for the first time in
years
About Boom Crash Opera -
These here are crazy times. But Boom Crash Opera are one band you can
rely upon.
The producer of their debut album told them: “The most important
thing a group can do is stay together. Keep it together and you can do
anything you want.
Boom Crash Opera took those words to heart, proudly becoming one of
Australia’s most-loved bands, with 13 Top 50 singles and five Top 50
albums.
As founding member Peter Farnan says, “We sounded like our name.”
It’s an intoxicating mix of indie pop and stadium rock, with
unforgettable hits such as
‘Great Wall’, ‘Hands Up In The Air’, ‘City Flat’,
‘Onion Skin’ ‘Get Out Of The House’, ‘The Best Thing’ and
‘Dancing In The Storm’.
Nearly four decades after the band began, the start of ‘Onion
Skin’ remains an irresistible rallying cry:
Keep it in! Cut it out! Kick it out!
About MODELS -
When they formed, Models were hailed as one of the most innovative and
imaginative Australian bands. Four decades later, nothing has changed.
Well, that’s not quite right – a lot of things have changed, but
not the band’s approach to making music.
Models have always done things their own way.
As the authors of The 100 Best Australian Albums (which featured
MODELS’ The Pleasure Of Your Company)
[https://modelsband.com/discography/the-pleasure-of-your-company/]
stated: “Melbourne electronic outfit Models followed a distinctly
perverse and disjointed course from the outset.”
The band actually had a “no singles” policy when they started
– which annoyed Molly Meldrum. In 1980, Molly stopped his car on
busy Chapel Street in Melbourne when he spotted a couple of Models.
“He blocked traffic for several minutes to berate us,” singer Sean
Kelly chuckles, “telling us that we were doing no one
any favours and that our song ‘Happy Birthday IBM’ could’ve
been a hit!”
(Molly didn’t hold a grudge, later calling Models “one of
my favourite bands from the Countdown era”.)
Models rescinded their “no singles” policy with their second
album, Local &/or General, and their chart-topping run of hits
includes I Hear Motion, Big On Love, Barbados and Out Of Mind Out
Of Sight.
Models are that rare breed of bands – one that has successfully
straddled critical acclaim, cult appeal and commercial success.
“Alongside The Boys Next Door/The Birthday Party, Models were one of
the first Melbourne bands to rise out of the ashes of that city’s
hothouse punk/new wave explosion of the late 1970s with a clear vision
and wider appeal,” says Ian McFarlane, author of The
Encyclopedia Of Australian Rock And Pop.
Models were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2010.
“We might go into hibernation occasionally – actually, quite a
lot,” Sean Kelly says, “but we have never broken up.”
MODELS HAVE CONTINUED TO RECORD, recently releasing two EPs, GTK
[https://modelsband.com/discography/gtk/]and MEMO
[https://modelsband.com/discography/memo/]. And live, the band pays
tribute to the pop genius of James Freud, who died in 2010.
The songs still sound fresh. “We don’t think of them as being
old,” Andrew Duffield says.
Models never go out of style
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