Rainbird Festival, Katoomba Showground, 9th December, 1995

VENUE: Katoomba Showground, Katoomba

DATE: Saturday, 9th December, 1995

TIME: 10am

OTHER: Rainbird Festival. Tickets from Ticketek.

BANDS:

• Bundass Koori Musicians
• Tribe
• Futile
• Mosaic
• Unfinished Business
• Indecision
• Knuckle Head
• Doudoumba
• Aqua Velva
• Flameboa
• Leadbedder
• Pau-Brasil
• Tincuna
• Magic Lunchbox
• Soul Tree
• Anon
• Busted Cherries
• Elf
• Spasm 
• G-Men
• Temple Gods
• Mother Hubbard
• Pablo Percusso
  
• Sonido de los Andes
• Feelhive
• Knut
• Floyd Vincent and the Childbrides
• Tang
• King Clam
• Colin Stevens
• Insurge
• Dr Seuss
• Vicious Hairy Mary
• Rhythm Method
• Jackie Orszacky and the Grandmasters
• Wunjo
• Reggae Templation
  

Axolotl, 15th Sept, 1995

VENUE: Axolotl Band Cafe, Werrington, NSW

DATE: Friday, 15th September, 1995

TIME: 7pm

OTHER: All Ages, $3 entry

 

BANDS:  

• Spasm
• ? - unknown band
• ? - unknown band
• ? - unknown band
   

 

 

Spasm

 

ORIGINS: Lower Blue Mountains, NSW

GENRE: Punk

YEARS ACTIVE: 1994-1995

 

MEMBERS:

• Ben
• Aaron Baker (Guitar)
  
• Kurt
  
• Ben Brady (Drums)
  

RELEASES: 

• Live on the Orient Express (1995)
• 1. Rapunzel
• 2. Sportstar
• 3. Effwit
• 4. Mr Potatohead
• 5. The Cave
• 6. Skinny Joe
• 7. I Hate Americans
• 8. Iron Bar
• 9. Smurfette
• 10. Virus
• 11. Badmistake
• 12. 4th Fret
• 13. Shivers
• 14. Judy is a Lesbian Convert
• 15. It Aint Easy Been'n Cheesy
• 16. Spasmic Kipper
• 17. Get Effed
• 18. Caught
  

SUMMARY: Some (maybe all) of the band went to Wycliffe Christian School together. The band potentially formed around 1994, maybe earlier. Ben Brady and Aaron Baker went on to form The Hassle Brigade almost immediately after Spasm broke up.

 

SHOWS: 

• The Axolotl Bands Cafe, Werrington (All Ages show) - Friday, 15th September, 1995
• Rainbird Festival, Katoomba Showground, Katoomba - 9th December, 1995

RELATED BANDS: The Hassle Brigade, Special Sauce, Fuznut/Offset, Badanga, Huntsman, Strength Within, Easy Company, Baby Fist