Big Heavy Stuff
| Big Heavy Stuff | |
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 Big Heavy Stuff's Greg Atkinson |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Years active | 1990–2005, 2009- |
| Labels | Volition/Sony, Hypnotized, Redline |
| Associated acts | Ups and Downs Dutiful Daughters The Templebears The Daisygrinders |
| Website | http://www.bigheavystuff.net/ |
| Members | |
| Greg Atkinson Carolyn Polley Eliot Fish Nick Kennedy |
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| Past members | |
| Darren Atkinson Darren Jones Adam Young Dave Trump |
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Big Heavy Stuff is a Sydney-based Australian indie rock band.
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[edit] Overview
Big Heavy Stuff is a four-piece band, featuring Greg Atkinson (Vocals, Guitars), Carolyn Polley (Guitars, Vocals), Eliot Fish (Bass, Vocals) and Nick Kennedy (Drums). The band was established in 1990 and is with the recording label Redline Records (Australia). Greg Atkinson had previously fronted the band Ups and Downs, Eliot Fish and Nick Kennedy were in The Templebears and Carolyn Polley was singer/guitarist for Dutiful Daughters. Eliot Fish is also notable as being a former editor-in-chief of Hyper magazine, a multiple platform video-games interest magazine.
[edit] ARIA Nomination
Big Heavy Stuff received a Best Alternative Release nomination at the 15th Annual ARIA Awards for their album Size of the Ocean.
[edit] Discography
- Pops Like Crazy (1991)
- Chaos (1992)
- Skin a Cat (1993)
- Truck (1993)
- Trouble and Desire (1994)
- Covered in Bruises (1995)
- Birthday (1995)
- Maximum Sincere (1997)
- Bigmouth (1997)
- May (1997)
- Cheating On a Dead Wife (1997)
- Devil's Tongue (1999)
- Two Sisters (2001)
- Size of the Ocean (2001)
- Mutiny (2002)
- Dear Friends and Enemies (2004)
[edit] Disbandment...?
As of January 2006, there is a rumour circulating that the band have parted ways. This was announced on FBi Radio after close to a year of no activity and a long delay in a website update, the last of which was shortly before their last performance at the Come Together Music Festival at Luna Park Sydney.
The group played a reunion show in Sydney on April 18, 2009 at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville. The gig was for the That Then This Now documentary.
They reformed again to support Powderfinger on September 18, 2010 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, as part of Powderfinger's farewell tour.[1]
Greg Atkinson has gone on to form the Worker Bees[2] with brother (and ex-Ups And Downs bandmate) Darren, and more recently, indie chamber pop band Theories of Everything[3].
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Big Heavy Stuff Official Site
- Australian Music Online: Big Heavy Stuff
- MySpace: Official Big Heavy Stuff myspace page
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