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The Manikins
12+ albums
Garage PunkGarage Rockswedishrockgarage
about
There are two bands with this name. 1: A Garage/Punk band from Nyköping, Sweden. http://www.myspace.com/therealmanikins 2: Manikins Manikins (should be written without article were members of the same class of Perth bands (The Cheap Nasties, the Scientists and The Victims) whose members graduated from their own local rock and roll high school around the turn of the ‘70s and moved on. In Manikins' case, they broke up, reconstituted and re-located to Melbourne and – arguably, if you're a fan of the sort of music we celebrate here – went on to lesser things. There's something to be said for splendid isolation - and back in the ‘70s, places didn't get much more isolated than Perth. Manikins themselves were direct descendents of The Cheap Nasties - one of Australia's first punk bands and originally formed by Kim Salmon. They broke up amid acrimony and Salmon swam upstream to ultimately lead the Scientists. The Manikins , on the other hand, briefly gave a home to Dave Flick (nee Faulkner), after his time with the Victims and en route to becoming a Le Hoodoo Gurus founder. This posthumous release originally came out in the early ‘80s as "Live Locally", a cassette only effort that captured the band prior to its embracing commercialism and signing to CBS (by which time singer Robert Porritt and drummer Mark Betts were the only original Manikins left standing). It might even be a dub of "Live Locally" that was passed on to the Bar some years ago. "The Manikins" was recorded live
