Special Sauce

ORIGINS: Lower Blue Mountains, NSW

GENRE: Melodic punk

YEARS ACTIVE: 1998

 

MEMBERS:

• Jamie (Vocals, Bass)
• Aaron Baker (Guitar)
• Ivan Lisyak (Drums)

SUMMARY: Special Sauce was a shortlived melodic punk band influenced by the '90s Californian punk sound. The band didn't play any shows as they broke up when Aaron and Ivan went across to the re-formed Hassle Brigade in 1999.

 

ORAL HISTORY:

IVAN: I was playing in a band with Aaron called Special Sauce, and it was something that a mate of his, Jamie, had started... Jamie was working with my dad and my dad was like, Jamie's looking for a drummer.

Ivan Lisyak, Noise Levels podcast Episode 1: The Hassle Brigade, 2024

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