Pinky Beecroft – vocals, keyboards
Pinky does most of the vocals, writes most of the songs and plays a bit of piano. His birthday is January 14. He is a big fan of Leonard Cohen. Most days his favourite movie is The Swimmer. He once was a FIFA kid but gradually made the move to ProEvo and then, surprisingly, returned to FIFA, but 07, not 08. His eyes are brown/black and his right foot is larger than his left.
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After a lifetime of living without too much thought for the future, he is now starting to think about it a lot. This has much to do with the White Russians, and the notion that maybe they’re exactly what he was looking for, all along. Pinky’s previous bio was different. At the time he was calling himself P-Badger and p-bidgey and it went something like this: i grew up if you can call it that in a bad
place got shot 11 times maybe more who cares how or why it was nothin'
they never gave me no chance left school dunno when sold crack smoked
it did some crazy mixed-up shit ran wiv a crew pain man fear anger pain
resentment. Pinky Beecroft: vocals, keyboards, previously frontperson in Machine Gun Fellatio and matthew and irregular person on the ABC-TV show The Glasshouse and stuff like that. There will, most likely, be more bios here soon. SUBMIT YOUR OWN BIO: email your biography of pinky beecroft with subject PINKY BIO to pinkybee@yahoo.com |
Nick Stewart – guitars
- Founding member/songwriter and guitarist of Brisbane bands
george and Elixir.
- Nick played on all the george albums, including the ARIA
award-winning "Polyserena."
- Nick played guitar on Amiel's debut album, "Audio Out" (FMR 03),
including her #1 hit Lovesong.
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MISCELLANEOUS WEIRDNESSES OF NICK STEWART: Elixir performed/recorded with Michael Franti on the Marvin Gaye classic What's Goin' On' (Released on The Panel Live '01). george performed at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup 2003 (in front of an estimated audience of 1.6 billion viewers worldwide). Nick performed at the Final of the Australian Tennis Open, 2005. Nick's got some weird hard-on for big-ticket sporting events. Nick played with Jon Lord (Deep Purple).... at a performance of Jon's Concerto For Group & Orchestra with The Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House for The Festival Of Sydney 2003. Also performed the concerto with Jon Lord and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra........ and with the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, with Paul Mann (London Symphony Orchestra) conducting. Nick toured Australia and Germany with Amiel, 2003-2004 Recorded Quiet Heart with The Go-Betweens and Man Overboard with Deborah Conway for FMR's Heritage Recording series, 2002. <-- PHOTO BY BILL CHANT (c) 2007 Bill
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Apart from all this goddamn felafel, Nick is hotbuttered, barefoot, plays rockin’ guitar and is very well-spoken. Which is nice.
Christian McBride – drums, bv’s
Born on the Central Coast of NSW, Christian was brought up in a musical family. Aged 4 he was forced to sing harmonies with siblings. After busting the bass drum skin on his first kit aged 9 or 10, he went on to have his first professional work playing musicals - including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Grease, and Man of La Mancha. This did the young Christian's head in, and things got weird.
Eventually Christian got himself arrested at the Central Coast Leagues Club for offending a passing car-load of policemen.
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Christian defended himself in court and reportedly told the Judge: "Listen, Your Honour, I only did it because I'm a true existentialist." Whether this was a case of genuine pretentiousness or a ploy to confuse the NSW judiciary, nobody knows. The young Christian was in fact found to have an unhealthy obsession with Heidegger and Wittgenstein, books by Hunter S. Thomson and coffee with cute girls who wouldn't give him the time of day. Christian was punished accordingly and has since had time to reflect and reach new levels of maturity. Christian studied at the Australian Institute of Music Cert Mus (perf). He then joined indie popsters Field Day, toured the east coast several times and enjoyed some Triple J airplay. But word is that Christian, deep down, is a jazzer. He has explored the dub and experimental worlds in several configurations including The Dub Assassins, The Denial Project and various solo and duo experimental noise ventures. Whether these were all cases of genuine pretentiousness or a ploy to confuse the NSW music industry, nobody knows. Christian loves: The Necks, The Dirty 3, Frank Zappa, Brian Wilson, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Led Zeppelin, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Tom Waits, Phillip Glass. |
Ben T – bass
WRITE BEN T'S BIOGRAPHY AND SEND IT TO: pinkybee@yahoo.com
All entries welcome.
HERE'S ONE FROM ANDREW SWIFT, sent to us just this week:
Ben T is a man. A man with a long, long middle finger. If ya know what I'm sayin'. He also has straggly hair, and a beard, and come to think of it looks a lot like a friend of mine from high school. Which, if he's as drunk as I usually am, are all the marks of a fine bassist. That and the ability to play bass.
Photos of Ben T. welcome too! Here's one to kick off with:
And here's another, from Mr A West:
Ben T's Biography
Ben T was born in 1847 in Fizzburgle Pennsylvania as a result of a
carnal union between several university professors and a tree with a
large hole in it. It is rumoured that a two-headed goat was involved,
though it is unknown whether as a participant, an onlooker, or merely
to reassure the multitudinous toads for which this region is known.
Indeed, Ben T's first job was as to hold the hands of the more nervous
Toads in the area. He was outstandingly good at this, possibly as a
result of developing toad-handing gloves (US Pat 231146) which enabled
the digital manipulation and reassurance of up to eleven amphibians at
any time.
Life was good. He had won some parents in a competition run by the
Pennsylvania Pleonast, a weekly newspaper published every eight or nine
days, lately mentioned in the Guinness book of records as the
longest-published newspaper to be written entirely by drunks. (114
years) His parents were entirely satisfactory, except for the problem
that they were, after all, Americans. Still, in the pre-television era,
Americans were sometimes capable of holding sustained conversations
involving thinking, and Ben T fondly recalls discussing existential
problems, or questions involving the finer points of particle physics,
with Old Rancher Sam, his father, or Hootin' Shootin' Annie, his doctor
mother.
Life was good, except for the gun battles. Pennsylvania was not very
close to the Wild West, but even in the single-action Colt days there
were enough bullets flying around to keep everybody happy. Indeed,
sometimes there was so much lead in the air that it affected the
weather.
By 1893 Ben T was a microbiologist, and he had married the first of his 14 wives.
(To be continued)
Copyright: A West
(Educated Person with Beard)