- Sardine v
Sardine v (or just Sardine) was an Australian
post-punk band, formed byIan Rilen (ex-X ,Rose Tattoo ) andStephanie Rilen (aka Stephanie Russell Falconer) APRA Works search: http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch] inSydney in1980 . They broke up in1983 and Ian Rilen went back to playing with X.The band formed after Ian bought a keyboard for his children. "I didn't know [Stephanie] played until I bought a keyboard for the kids and I was writing songs in my room at the house. She just walked by and played a line on the keyboards. I said: 'Do that again'." [http://www.i94bar.com/ints/rilen3.html]
Although hard-working and popular live (playing to crowds of 800-1000), the band's recordings were never up to suitable quality and they failed to make it big. A video of 1982 version of Sardine performing "Sudan" (written by Falconer) ] on ABC-TV's "Countdown" is available on YouTube [http://youtube.com/watch?v=H9e2MdYTDf0] and shows Ian Rilen on guitar, Stephanie Rilen on keyboards and lead vocals,
Johanna Pigott on bass guitar.
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