Grey Daturas

Infobox musical artist
Name = Grey Daturas


Background = group_or_band
Origin = flagicon|Australia Melbourne, Victoria
Genre = Experimental
Noise
Noise Rock
Years_active = 2001 - current
Label = Heathen Skulls
Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings
Emperor Jones
Neurot Recordings
SMD Records
Crucial Blast
20 Buck Spin
Throne
Rocket Recordings
URL = http://www.greydaturas.com
Current_members = Bonnie Mercer
Robert Mayson
Robert MacManus

Grey Daturas are a noise rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The band formed in 2001, originally performing improvised music to 16 mm film projections. They cite their influences as The Stooges, Earth, John Coltrane, John Cage, Darkthrone, and DNA. Band members include Robert Mayson, Bonnie Mercer and Robert MacManus.

"Copper / Silver", their collaboration with United States band Yellow Swans, was voted as one of the best 'avant rock' releases of 2005 by "The Wire" magazine.

Discography

*"The Grey Daturas" CD (Black Mountain/Sonic Advisor, 2002)
*"Live Volume 1" 3inch CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003)
*"Live Volume 2" 3inch CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003)
*"Dead in the Woods" CD (Crashing Jets, 2004)
*"Copper / Silver" 2 x CDR (collaboration with Yellow Swans) (Jyrk, 2005)
*"All I See is Nothing" CD-EP (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2005)
*"Yellow Swans / Grey Daturas Australian Tour EP" CD-EP (Heathen Skulls, 2005)
*"Live at the Rob Roy Hotel" 2 x 3inch CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2006)
*"Blood Trail" CD-EP (Heathen Skull, 2006)
*"Copper / Silver" 2 x 12inch LP (collaboration with Yellow Swans) (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2006)
*"The Black Plague" CD (split with Wolf Eyes) (Heathen Skulls, 2006)
*"The Black Plague" 12inch LP (split with Wolf Eyes) (Conspiracy, 2006)
*"Path Of Niners" CD (Heathen Skulls, 2006)
*"Grey Daturas / Shearing Pinx" cassette (split with Shearing Pinx) (isolatednowwaves, 2006)
*"Live in Austin" CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2007)
*"Path of Niners" CD-EP (UK re-issue, Rocket Recordings, 2007)
*"Dead in the Woods" CD (US re-issue, Crucial Blast, 2007)
*"Dawn of the Catalyst" CD-EP (Split with France's Monarch) (20 Buck Spin, 2007)
*"Dawn of the Catalyst" 12inch EP (Split with France's Monarch) (Throne, 2007)
*"Owly Claw Hammer" 12inch EP (Emperor Jones, 2007)
*"Dead in the Woods" CD (Japanese re-issue, SMD Records, 2008)
*"Return to Disruption" (New Album due out in February 2008 on Heathen Skulls and Neurot Recordings)

External links

* [http://www.greydaturas.com/ Grey Daturas website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/greydaturas Grey Daturas @ MySpace]
* [http://www.geocities.com/diagnosis_dont/ diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/diagnosisdontrecordings diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings @ MySpace]
* [http://www.myspace.com/heathenskulls Heathen Skulls @ MySpace]