Stinky Fire Engine

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Very little was ever conventional about Stinky Fire Engine. The "band" was conceived in 1988 by Wayne Davidson for the Toytown compilation Fingernails. At that stage the SFE sound was basically audio collage using nicked bits of records (mainly kids albums) - each song formed a sort of story from the assembled bits and pieces. Originally SFE was going to be a magazine, and the sound collage tracks were an extension of that plan. Apart from the audio collage tracks a lounge-pop casio track called Theme From Stinky Fire Engine was recorded and included on the Jiving In Ljubljana compilation cassette. In 1989 SFE were asked to perform live. An interesting prospect given that there was very little by the way of music, or indeed of band. Wayne had no desire to take to the stage by himself for this event - so Dianne Currier, Kate Dermody and Glenn O'Neil were recruited for the purpose of the live performance. Glenn was the only new SFE member who was technically a musician. Glenn only lasted in the band for this one performance (but not because of the reason that he was a musician...). After the show Wayne, Kate and Dianne continued on as SFE, although unconventionally all songwriting, recording and SFE product was made only by Wayne. Kate and Dianne were however an integral ingredient of the band, not only to help create the illusion that there actually WAS a band but with the enormous amount Kate & Dianne brought to live performance with visual concepts, themes, percussion a

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Too Much Ash

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Library Records 1998 - 2003: Disc One, The 7" Single Years, 1998 - 2000

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Library Records Compilation disc 1

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Library Records Compilation (Disc 1)

Picnic

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Giant 7"

Disco City Holiday

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Clover Club - A Clover Compilation 1

Picnic U.S.A.

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Disco City Holiday 7"

Giant

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Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic Music of the '70s & '80s, Vol. 1

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