The album features live fan favourite "Genius". Perske was replaced by Nat Nykyruj on drums before the album appeared.
In March 1995, Frenzal Rhomb released their first studio album, Coughing Up a Storm, on Shock Records' sub-label Shagpile Records. In October of that year, they released a single, "Sorry About the Ruse", on their own label, How Much Did I Fucking Pay For This Records? The group were the local support act on the Australian leg of separate tours by United States punk rockers Bad Religion, The Offspring, and Blink-182. The E.P featured an alternate cover depicting rabbits on the flipside of the liftout to appease record stores or people who may have been offended by the original artwork.
The E.P also features fan favourites "Chemotherapy", and a cover of the TV series theme "Home And Away". One of its tracks, "I Wish I Was as Credible as Roger Climpson" (aka "Roger"), attracted attention of its subject, Roger Climpson – a Seven News anchor on TV – who posed with the group for a photo. The EP was described as having "good songs but it sounds like it was recorded under a doona" and had the group banned from some radio stations and retail outlets. National youth radio station Triple J criticised the group as being immature and told them to "grow up". Its cover had "a graphic drawing of the offending flaccid appendage draped over a sesame seed bun with lashings of bloody sauce." Posters with a similar image that advertised the group had them banned at some venues. In March 1994, the band issued a seven-track EP, Dick Sandwich. They played at the Sydney venue for the Big Day Out in January. By 1993, the group's line-up was Feltham, Whalley, Ben Costello on guitar and Karl Perske on drums. The band was formed to take part in a battle of the bands and at that stage was not seen as a permanent project.The name is a reference to a band member's pet rat, which in turn was named for the Fresnel rhomb, which is a prism-like device invented by the 19th Century French engineer, Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Whalley had commenced a Bachelor of Arts course in philosophy at Sydney University when he formed Frenzal Rhomb as a punk rock band. Feltham and Whalley had been school mates at St Ives High School in St Ives. History 1992–1995: Formation to Coughing Up a Stormįrenzal Rhomb formed in 1992 in the Sydney suburb of Newtown with Alexis 'Lex' Feltham on bass guitar and Jason Whalley on vocals. Frenzal Rhomb have also toured in the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, Japan, South Africa, Israel and Taiwan. The group has supported Australian tours by The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and Blink-182. Two of the group's albums have entered the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart: A Man's Not a Camel (1999) and Smoko At The Pet Food Factory (2011). In 1996, Lindsay McDougall joined the line-up on lead guitar and backing vocals.
Self Righteous Brothers, Mindsnare, Nancy Vandalįrenzal Rhomb is an Australian punk rock band that formed in 1992, with Jason Whalley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar during this entire period.
Tickets available from | Much Did I Fucking Pay for This, Shock, Shagpile, Fat Wreck Chords, Liberation, Epic, Sony, Epitaph Check out the new “Cunt Act” video here: Please clap.
And enjoy the video, as crafted by Frenzal Rhomb collaborator and enabler Mr Fox Trotsky. Learn it, coz your kids are gonna get it tattooed on their faces. Perfect for you end-of-year summer hit compilations. Can’t your l33t haxxor mates wikileak it from Assange’s Trumpified arsehole? If not then here, as a gesture of goodwill, is a gift a song in fact. “Oh but it’s not out until 26th May” I hear you say. But don’t take my word for it, I’m just a computer-generated bio-writing algorithm Frenzal Rhomb downloaded from the darknet you should just listen to the album. 20 songs clocking in at just over 30 minutes, but what they lack in length they make up for in brevity.Īnd it sounds fucken rad. Recorded once again by Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Black Flag) and Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado, Hi-Vis High Tea is a concept album about a whole bunch of different concepts. And just like a ninth child to a religious family, they’re really getting good at it. Yep, Frenzal Rhomb, the most hospitalised band in the world (Seriously, everything from broken drumming arms and detached guitar-playing retinas to an actual pig-borne tapeworm in the lead singer’s brain), are releasing their ninth full-length punk rock record. Hey good news everyone: Frenzal Rhomb have made a new album, and booked a tour to go with it!