Poundah

ORIGINS: Lower Blue Mountains, NSW

GENRE: Indie Rock

YEARS ACTIVE: 1995-1996

 

MEMBERS:

• Jamie Kirk (Vocals, Guitar)
• Mark Alston (Drums)
  
• Chris Alston (Guitar)
  
• Daniel Barnet (Bass)
  

RELEASES:

• Cassette (1995)
  

SUMMARY: Poundah were a short-lived band started by Jamie Kirk and featuring the Alston brothers, who would go on to play in a range of metal, rock and pop-rock bands in the Lower Blue Mountains over the following two decades. Andrew Keiss recorded their demo tape in Glenbrook.

 

SHOWS: 

• Scout Hall, Blaxland - unknown date, 1995
• Barney's Backyard, Blaxland - unknown date, 1995 
• Youth Centre, Blaxland - unknown date, 1995
  
• Jasper, Blaxland Community Hall, Blaxland - unknown date, 1996
  

ORAL HISTORY:

"Jamie was the older brother of my school mate David Kirk. He would take us to gigs, he got 1 guitar lesson to figure out how to solo in pentatonic, then asked myself, my brother, and our friend Barney to play with him. He never told us what the name of the band meant. He was obsessed with Smudge, Lemonheads, etc. He put on a gig in his garage in Mt Riv once, which was fun. All his songs were about the same girl who broke up with him."

Mark Alston, Noise Levels correspondence, 2024

RELATED BANDS: Plastic Dinosaur, Glister, Ubiquitous, Psycoma, Felix of Exile, The Cauldrons