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Artist
Madder Lake
12+ albums
Progressive rockaustralianaustralian blues-prog-rockrockunder 2000 listeners
about
MadderLake was formed when two parallel friendships combined. Brenden Mason & Kerry McKenna who meet at high school in 1965. Michael Fettes and Jac Kreemers who formed their friendship approximately the same time. All four shared an artistic background and an undeniable love for music. It was at Tech school they all meet and immediately bonded with music. John Mckinnon was a friend of Jac’s, who was welcomed by the four as a fifth member. Initially the band starting performing under the name San Sebastian, and the song list consisted of various covers the band liked as opposed to the run of the mill tunes. All songs that were performed were arranged and modified to the absolute max. Nearly to the point of unrecognisable. It was the light bulb flashed and the band came to the realisation that all this work that was being channelled into covers should be focused on original material. Hence the name change to Madder Lake, re equipping with new gear and starting the adventure of an original band. By 1971 Madder Lake had started gigging, describing the band was difficult and finding gigs was proving just as difficult. The band approached Consolidated Rock an agency that was one of the main players at that time. A luke warm reception was given on the request for work. Thru sheer persistence the Madders began gigs at privately run functions , to the point of work was becoming reasonably regular and a following started to develop. Word got around and Consolidated Rock took anoth
