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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham, 9th December, 1994

VENUE: Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham

DATE: 9th December, 1994

TIME: 9pm

OTHER: $6 entry.

BANDS:

Stalin's Organ
Oppressed Earth
Scum of the Earth

Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham, 2nd September, 1994

VENUE: Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham

DATE: 2nd September, 1994

TIME: 8pm

OTHER: $6 entry.

BANDS:

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, Newtown, 14th May, 1994

VENUE: Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, Newtown

DATE: 14th May, 1994

TIME: 7:30pm

OTHER: $5 entry. Black Rose benefit.

BANDS:

Smut
Subversion
Omnicide
Feral Dreams
Stalin's Organ

Vic on the Park, Marrickville, 5th March, 1994

VENUE: Vic on the Park, Marrickville

DATE: 5th March, 1994

TIME: 3pm

OTHER: $4

BANDS:

WWXXIV
Madhouse
Feral Dreams
Unclean
Bloodclot
Black Steel God
Stalin's Organ

Monday, June 10, 2024

Not So Big Day Out, Hornsby Youth Club, Hornsby, 11th December, 1993

VENUE: Hornsby Youth Club, Hornsby

DATE: Saturday, 11th December, 1993

TIME: 3pm

OTHER: Not So-Big-Day Out, organised by Cosmic Snail. All Ages. Free entry.

BANDS:

Mergatroid
Subversion
Minute Minder
Stalin's Organ
Melancholy
Savage Cabbage
Scum of the Earth
Drain
Crumble
Baby Jesus Hitler

Friday, June 7, 2024

Punx Picnic, Sydney Park, St Peters, 3rd April, 1994

VENUE: Sydney Park, St Peters

DATE: Sunday, 3rd April, 1994

OTHER: Punx Picnic

BANDS:

Subversion
Omnicide
Stalin's Organ
Bloodclot
Smut
Feral Dreams
Unclean

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Iron Duke, Alexandria, 2nd May, 1996

VENUE: Iron Duke, Alexandria

DATE: Thursday, 2nd May, 1996

TIME: 8pm

OTHER: $4. Organised by Oxford Babylon.

BANDS:

Smut
Stalin's Organ
Injured Head
Noisam

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Stalin's Organ

ORIGINS: Mount Colah, NSW

GENRE: Punk

YEARS ACTIVE: 1992-1998

MEMBERS:

Christie (Vocals)
Claire (Vocals) [1992-1993]
Fran Toller (Drums)
Stuey [1992-1993]
Simon (Bass) [1992-1994]
Derek Martin (Guitar) [1994-1998]
Muzza (Bass) [1995-1998]
Nathan Summers (Bass) [1995]

RELEASES:

Scratch and Bite (1994) [Split with Feral Dreams] - Download Here.

1. Sex Girls
2. Brainless Bimbos
3. Puppet Factory
4. Stalin's Song
5. Executives Wife

Keep On Babble On (1995) [Oxford Babylon Radio Skid Row Compilation] - Download Here.

1. Judge Me
2. Fried Brains and Veins to Go

The Core Sessions (1995) [Trans Alien Recordings Compilation] - Download Here.

1. Death by Vomit
2. Woy Woy Blues
3. Aussie Wonder Camp
4. Mental Anguish

6079 (1997) [Red Rag Records Compilation] - Download Here.

1. Syndrome
2. Hammered Opinion
3. Liposuctions for the Fat & Insecure
4. Knives

Transplant Clinic (1996?) [Lost Demo] - Download Here.

1. Domestication Obliteration
2. Sex Lashings
3. Butthole Circus
4. Murray's Song
5. Liposuction
6. The Bold and Beautiful
7. Period Boy
8. Sweet Child
9. Hole in the Wall
10. Hammered Opinion
11. Sesame Street Scandal
12. Organ Anthem
13. Pick It Lick It Flick It Roll It
14. Grandma
15. Boredom
16. Braindead

SUMMARY: When the band Bullwinkles Revenge finished around 1991, some band members (Fran, Simon, Stuey) decided to continue as a new band with dual female vocalists (Christie, Claire). The band was considered to be part of the Cosmic Snail collective. Also playing under the name Bullwinkles Revenge at first, the band soon became Stalin's Organ, and eventually the lineup reshuffled to settle as a four piece with Christie and Fran as the only original members. The band was very active throughout the mid-90s, often playing multiple shows in Sydney each weekend. They finished up around 1998 with a final show at the Kings Cross Hotel.

SHOWS:

PCYC, Hornsby - unknown date, 1993
Not So Big Day Out, Hornsby Youth Club, Hornsby - 11th December, 1993
Vic on the Park, Marrickville - 5th March, 1994
Glebe Rower's Club, Glebe - 7th March, 1994
Punx Picnic, Sydney Park, St Peters - 3rd April, 1994
Dancing Fools All Ages Show, Newtown Neighburhood Centre - 14th May, 1994
Vulcan Hotel, Ultimo - 21st May, 1994
Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham - 2nd September, 1994
Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham - 9th December, 1994
The Tivoli, Brisbane - 14th January, 1995 [QLD]
Lewisham Hotel, Sydney - 11th March, 1995
The Golden Ox, Redfern - 18th March, 1995
Pembroke Street, Epping - 25th March, 1995
Thunderfest '95, Eastwood Masonic Temple, Eastwood - 1st April, 1995
Feedback, Newtown - 2nd April, 1995
Feedback, Newtown - 16th April, 1995
Hardcore Nation, The Phoenician Club, Sydney - 13th May, 1995
Punk and Disorderly Chapter 13, Street Level, Blacktown - 17th November, 1995
Waterloo Tavern, Sydney - 9th December, 1995
Rainforest Benefit, 1A James Lane, Sydney - 17th December, 1995
Lewisham Hotel, Sydney - 27th January, 1996
Iron Duke, Alexandria - 2nd May, 1996
Hardcore Nation, The Phoenician Club, Sydney - 6th May, 1996
Addison Road Community Centre, Marrickville - 29th June, 1996
Punk Files, Annandale Hotel, Annandale - 27th November, 1996
Kings Cross Hotel, Sydney - unknown date, 1998
Punx Picnic, Sydney Park, St Peters - 1st July, 2000 [Reunion show]

ORAL HISTORY:

FRAN: Dave and Pat (from Bullwinkles Revenge) didn't want to continue so just me, Simon and Stuey were jamming... we got together a set list and then convinced my then-girlfriend Christie and Simon's girlfriend Claire to do duel vocals.

Francesco Fran (Drums), Noise Levels Correspondence, 2024

DEREK: I saw Stalin's Organ in '93 at Hornsby PCYC. They were played a Crass cover, 'Shaved Women'. I loved them straight away. Got to known Fran at that show and he asked me to come and have a jam with them. Fran and I became really close and ended up living together for years. Claire had stopped singing at that point.

Derek Martin (Guitar), Noise Levels Correspondence, 2024

SIMON: We would like to establish ourselves as an entertaining energetic live act, not just music, but a good live show, and just have a good time really... We're more of a social band than a polished, political shock tactic band.

Simon (Bass), Loaded to the Gills Issue 5, July/August 1994

CLAIRE: Christie and I write the lyrics, except the obviously simple ones... Money's not important, but having a good time is. We do it because we enjoy it. Whatever messages we are trying to get across we always try to make it witty.

Claire (Vocals), Loaded to the Gills Issue 5, July/August 1994

DEREK: We played a shit ton, a couple of times a week for a while there. We did a tour of Adelaide at the end of '94 and when we got back Justin left the band... We were always super busy doing shows. The Phoenician Club Show for Hardcore Nation was epic. It was the biggest crowd Stalin's Organ played to. That was rad.

Derek Martin (Guitar), Noise Levels Correspondence, 2024

NATHAN: I played bass in Stalin's Organ for only a few months as I was playing drums in SMUT and Savage Cabbage at the same time and was fairly occupied with several bands. Stalin's Organ's first bass player Simon had left and another bass player ended up joining them more permanently after me; a fellow called Murray who was originally from Coffs Harbour. I did a few gigs with Stalin's Organ, including a big one at the Phoenician Club and an all ages show at a Church Hall in Epping. It was fun playing bass in the band ideally it would have been good to have played longer as I have always been friends with the Stalin's Organ people, but I had a bit much on my plate. We all used to play together as bands a fair bit. In particular, I remember SMUT and Stalin's Organ doing a tour of Canberra in 1994.

Nathan Summers (Bass), Noise Levels Correspondence, 2024

DEREK: We were all so young. Nothing was hard. We just had a fucking ball. They were really good times. So many shows. I loved those days. Fran was fucking hilarious... he always had some off the wall shit going on. The Adelaide trip sticks out to me because I'd grown up there and to go back with mates in a band was so good. We had a great time.

Derek Martin (Guitar), Noise Levels Correspondence, 2024

DEREK: They were good times. Some of the stuff off Transplant Clinic was great... 'Domestication Obliteration' was the first song I wrote for Stalin's Organ. We had the intention to release Transplant Clinic but other than a few tapes it got neglected. There was a picture of a cartoon punk with his heart nailed to his head on the cover - with 'Stalin's Organ - Transplant Clinic' written above and below. It was the first tattoo I ever got, hahaha. I guess I thought it was funny... we were kids. It was funny.

Derek Martin (Guitar), Noise Levels correspondence, 2025

DEREK: In the end it naturally fizzed out. We all decided we needed to do something new. We'd got better at what we were doing and our tastes and direction changed.

Derek Martin (Guitar), Noise Levels Correspondence, 2024

NOTE: Photos supplied by Sim Shame.

RELATED BANDS: Bullwinkles Revenge, Groin, Bastardos, The Last Hemeroids, Beertruck, Poospoon, 12 Day Fixx / No Justification, Savage Cabbage, World on Welfare, Dead by Dawn, Hippycrits, Vae Victis, Dark Horse, Cream Soda, Cooking with Gas, SMUT, Groovinator, Anarchists Anonymous, Magnet, Mad Cowboy Disease, Burn Em Down, Red Planet Repairs, Metal Ace, Dropzone

Punx Picnic, Sydney Park, St Peters, 1st July, 2000

VENUE: Sydney Park, St Peters

DATE: Saturday, 1st July, 2000

TIME: 12pm

OTHER: Punx Picnic

BANDS:

Recalcitrate
Stalin's Organ
The Last Hemeroids,
Mallet
Sewer Cider
Dropzone
Victimised

Friday, March 22, 2024

Thunderfest '95, Eastwood Masonic Temple, 1st April, 1995

VENUE: Masonic Temple, Eastwood

DATE: Saturday, 1st April, 1995

TIME: 4pm

OTHER: Thunderfest '95: Storming the Temple. $9 entry. All Ages.

BANDS:

Volatile
Mortality
Aftermath
Terrible Virtue
Unclean
Cryogenic
Stalin's Organ
Vanadium
T.H.B.

Hardcore Nation, Phoenician Club, Sydney, 13th May, 1995

VENUE: The Phoenician Club, Sydney

DATE: Saturday, 6th May, 1996 - later changed to 13th May, 199

TIME: 4 pm

OTHER: $9 entry. 'Hardcore Nation'. Organised by Crankbox Productions and Sonic Chaos.

BANDS:

Magnacite [Did not play?]
Toe to Toe [Did not play?]
Flycop
Oppressed Earth
Unclean
Worm [Did not play?]
Injured Head
Subversion
Stalin's Organ
Mindcrack

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Golden Ox, Redfern, 18th March, 1995

VENUE: Golden Ox, Redfern

DATE: 18th March, 1995

TIME: 8:30 pm

OTHER: All Ages. Radio Skid Row 88.9 Benefit.

BANDS:

Price of Silence
Subversion
Stalin's Organ
Fly Cop

ORAL HISTORY:

"The venue looked like its walls were lined with tin foil."

Luke Crew, Noise Levels discussion, 2024

"All the walls were covered in some silver plastic that would be so flammable; the entry was very narrow too. I was mindful of my escape route in case the joint went up in flames."

Clint Chapman, Noise Levels discussion, 2024

"I remember stashing our gear in what would have been the kitchen. Still had all the deep fryers and shit. Yeah. Wouldn't have taken much..."

Derek Martin (Stalin's Organ guitarist), Noise Levels discussion, 2024