New Christs
Australian garage rock band / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The New Christs are an Australian garage rock band formed in 1980 by founding mainstay, Rob Younger, on lead vocals. Younger was the lead singer for punk rockers, Radio Birdman, and in other hard rock groups, New Race, Bad Music, the Other Side, Nanker Phelge, and Deep Reduction. The New Christs line-up since 2011 is Younger with Jim Dickson on bass guitar, Dave Kettley on guitar, Paul Larsen on drums and Brent Williams on guitar and keyboards. Over their career the group have issued five studio albums, Distemper (1989), Lower Yourself (1997), We Got This! (2002), Gloria (2009) and Incantations (2014). Three former members have died: Stevie Plunder in January 1996, Mark Wilkinson in December 2012 and Christian Houllemare in June 2014.
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Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Genres | Garage rock, garage punk |
Years active | 1980 (1980)–1981 (1981), 1983 (1983)–1984 (1984), 1987 (1987)–1990 (1990), 1992 (1992)–2001 (2001), 2006 (2006)–present |
Labels | Green, Blue Mosque/Festival, Citadel, Lance Rock, Laughing Outlaw |
Members | Rob Younger, Jim Dickson, Dave Kettley, Brent Williams, Paul Larsen |
Past members | see Members |