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No Night Sweats
12+ albums
post-punkAustralian Post-Punk
about
Hardly anyone heard No Night Sweats outside the circle of post-punk Sydney. They didn't fit easily into the mould of what a band performance should be like. There were no instruments on stage, except for a cassette player and, even when the music was playing, there were very few highly rhythmic numbers. They often played in battered suits and dirty bow ties and, when not actually frightened to death on stage, were sorta lounge-like : Sinatra with a synthesiser big band backing, coming to a dive near you, real soon. As Wild West slowly dissolved, Phil Turnbull bought a 4 track reel-to-reel and started recording a series of multi-tracked instrumental numbers. All of these were in pale imitation of Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" of which he'd been enthralled for years but replacing Wyatt's whirling, reedy organ sound for the slightly harsher, ring-modulated growl and whomping bass of the Arp Odyssey. They sounded great to him, even as they were recorded, with some gorgeous chord changes backed by massed, buzzing synth drones and frills. I didn't really know where to take these pieces until it became apparent that my (somewhat thin) mid range voice blended seamlessly with the fluid upper bass displayed by one Patrick Gibson, esq. I'm not certain of how we actually decided to do it or even how we determined the final format of the band. I do remember a couple of rehearsals in Patrick's Darlinghurst bedsit where the duo plus cassette player theme echoed fantastically off the thick
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albums
Beyond The Southern Cross
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Trax Anthems 2
Anthems
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IHM: Pancakes
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Terrace Industry: M Squared Box 1980-1983 CD4
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Terrace Industry: M Squared Box 1980-1983
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Terrace Industry [M Squared Box 1980-1983] CD4
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IHM
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TRAX 0983 - ANTHEMS
Come and See The Silly Work
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Sydney Post-Punk #3 - M2 and the Whole Sick Crew
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Unreleased