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| - Powderfinger
- The_Church_(band)
- All_About_Eve_(band)
- Jack_Frost_(band)
- Tactics_(band)
- Patti_Smith
- Peter_Koppes
- Steve_Kilbey
- The_Reels
- The_Venetians_(Australian_band)
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| Subject
| - Musical groups established in 1980
- ARIA Award winners
- Australian alternative rock groups
- ARIA Hall of Fame inductees
- Australian Capital Territory musical groups
- Australian New Wave musical groups
- Australian post-punk groups
- College rock groups
- Jangle pop groups
- Neo-psychedelia groups
- Parlophone artists
- The Church (band)
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| abstract
| - Australian indie rock band formed in Canberra in 1980.
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| - The Church is an Australian psychedelic rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave, neo-psychedelia and indie rock, their music later came to feature slower tempos and surreal soundscapes reminiscent of dream pop and post-rock. Glenn A. Baker has written that %22From the release of the 'She Never Said' single in November 1980, this unique Sydney-originated entity has purveyed a distinctive, ethereal, psychedelic-tinged sound which has alternatively found favour and disfavor in Australia%22. The Los Angeles Times has described the band's music as %22dense, shimmering, exquisite guitar pop%22.The founding members were Steve Kilbey on lead vocals and bass guitar, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper on guitars and Nick Ward on drums. Ward only played on their debut album and the band's drummer for the rest of the 1980s was Richard Ploog. Jay Dee Daugherty (ex-Patti Smith Group) played drums from 1990 to 1993 and was replaced by Tim Powles, who has remained with them ever since. Koppes left the band from 1992 to 1997 and Willson-Piper left in 2013. He was replaced by Ian Haug, formerly of Powderfinger. Kilbey, Koppes and Powles also recorded together as %22The Refo:mation%22 in 1997.The Church's debut album, Of Skins and Heart (1981), delivered their first radio hit %22The Unguarded Moment%22 and they were signed to major labels in Australia, Europe and the United States. However, the US label was dissatisfied with their second album and dropped the band without releasing it. This put a dent in their international success, but they returned to the charts in 1988, with the album Starfish and the US Top 40 hit %22Under the Milky Way%22. Subsequent mainstream success has proved elusive, but the band retains a large international cult following and were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in Sydney in 2011. The Church continue to tour and record, releasing their 24th studio album, Further/Deeper, in October 2014.
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| homepage
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| - 4fcb7864-42dd-4dcf-b269-6da0d9042956
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| wikipedia
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| myspace
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| schema:genre
| - Post-Punk
- Progressive Rock
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