Noise in my Head: Voices From the Ugly Australian Underground

Author: Jimi Kritzler
This volume documents the music, songwriting, aesthetics and struggles of fifty of Australia’s most innovative and significant bands and artists currently at the creative peak of their careers, providing rare insight into the critically heralded cult music scene in Australia. The author, Jimi Kritzler, is personally connected to the musicians he interviews: their discussions cover the musicians’ struggles with drugs, involvement in crime and the death of band members.The book is complimented by previously unpublished photographs of all bands interviewed.The Australian underground scene in the last five years has been heralded not only in Australia but also in Europe, and particularly in America. Known as the ‘Australian Invasion’, many of the bands interviewed in this book have received a great deal of hype and press in America, with many of the bands signing to American record labels. Bands featured in the book, such as The Drones, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Royal Headache, Uv Race, Circle Pit, HTRK, Lost Animal, Oren Ambarchi, Total Control, Witch Hats, Deaf Wish, Blank Realm, New War, Holy Balm, Fabulous Diamonds, The Garbage and The Flowers, Straight Arrows, xNoBBQx, Naked on the Vague, Kitchen’s Floor and My Disco are all on American record labels, and have toured America at least once. Eddy Current Suppression Ring even lent their song ‘Memory Lane’ toan American telecommunications company advertisement, which was played repeatedly during the Super Bowl. While that may indicate the influence of the band in America atthe more mainstream end of the spectrum, at the other end, Eddy Current Suppression Ring are a culturally significant and revered underground band, who play to thousands of people at any given show.