The Eastern Dark

The Eastern Dark

Infobox musical artist 2
Name = The Eastern Dark


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Background = group_or_band
Origin = Australia
Genre = Australian rock
Years_active = 1980 -
Label = Half a Cow
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The Eastern Dark is an Australian rock band who formed in the 1980s as an offshoot from another Australian band, The Celibate Rifles. cite web | title=allmusicguide.com | work=All Music Guide Profile | url=http://wc06.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:aiftxqe5ldhe]

History

The band was formed in 1984 when then Celibate Rifles bassist James Darroch decided to leave and form his own band. cite web | title=australianmusiconline | work=Australian Music Online | url=http://www.amo.org.au/artist.asp?id=1175] Darroch switched from bass to guitar and enlisted drummer Geoff Milne and former Lime Spiders backing vocalist Bill Gibson. on bass. After some rehearsals the three became The Eastern Dark, named after a place in The Phantom comics.cite web | title=australianmusiconline | work=Australian Music Online | url=http://www.amo.org.au/artist.asp?id=1175] The three piece began touring in May 1984, quickly garnering local support, and releasing their first single, "Julie Is A Junkie/Johnny And Dee Dee," in July of 1985.

With Rob Younger as producercite web | title=australianmusiconline | work=Australian Music Online | url=http://www.amo.org.au/artist.asp?id=1175] the band recorded the EP "Long Live The New Flesh!" in 1986. On March 4, 1986, on the way from recording to a gig in Melbourne, the band's van went off the road and Darroch was killed. "Long Live the New Flesh!" was released posthumously later that year, and the band's complete recorded output was collected as "Girls on the Beach" in 1989. Another collection, "Where Are All the Single Girls?" was released on Half A Cow Records in 2000.

Discography

*"Long Live the New Flesh!" [EP] (1986)
*"Girls on the Beach" (1989)
*"Girls on the Beach (With Cars)" (1990)
*"Where Are All the Single Girls?" (2000)

References

External links

* [http://www.amo.org.au/artist.asp?id=1175 The Eastern Dark at Australian Music Online]


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