Regurgitator


LABEL: Valve Records

Australia’s REGURGITATOR started in 1994 and quickly established themselves as an articulate and witty purveyor of the national music scene – assembling a mishmash of funk, punk, electronics and any other style that stuck to the sides… with an unmitigated irony and geeklike nature. After a series of great shows they embarked on their first tour of Europe (with Filter) before stopping in Bangkok to record their first album “Tu Plang” (Thai for ‘jukebox’). “Tu Plang” was released to a great reception in Australia and coincided with a tour with The Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1995 followed by another with Japanese guests the Boredoms. They followed this up with the multi-platinum “Unit” (1997) – an even quirkier mixup with 80s flavours and headed out extensively across Australia, Japan and the US.

After numerous tours and appearances on music festivals (Australia’s Big Day Out, Japan’s Fuji Rock, Britain’s Reading, Hong Kong’s Rock It) and two more albums: “…art” (1999); “Eduardo & Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks” (2001) - they departed from Warner and embarked on an independent career. Their first album in this direction Mishmash (2004) was created from the BAND IN A BUBBLE project – a multiplatform (TV, internet, radio etc) glass recording installation built in Federation Square, Melbourne where the band recorded and lived in full view of the public for 3 weeks. The next album “Love and Paranoia” we recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They then toured Australia, another round on the Big Day Out in 2008 tour plus shows in the UK, Hong Kong, Laos, Vietnam and China. Late 2009 they played a small festival in the Japanese Alps with Hoodoo Gurus… before working with dance choreographer Gavin Webber on the live music/dance/theatrical project Rock Show at QPAC in Brisbane.

In 2010 Quan & Ben relocated to Melboune and set studios up in their new dwellings and then started work amid various distractions on new recordings planning to eschew the typical album release approach for a take it as it comes approach. After a few shows including the 10th birthday of the Brisbane Powerhouse they performed a highly successful live soundtrack to Japanese anime film AKIRA at Sydney Opera House. To coincide with a Sept Australia tour they released the batch of recordings under the title Distractions.

Regurgitator's "UNIT" was recently voted #13 on the industry voted Triple J TOP 100 Australian albums... most decently grouped with Brisbane's other top contenders in this list: THE GO-BETWEENS at #11 with "16 Lovers Lane"; and THE SAINTS at #12 with "I'm Stranded".

A bunch of new material has been recorded and about to flood the channels in conjunction with the August Annual Sail tour.


REGURGITATOR
WEBSITUATION: www.regurgitator.net
RECORDING BOG: http://consume.com.au/regurgitator
MYSPACED: www.myspace.com/regurgitators
YOUTUBE regurgitator's MUSIC BOX: www.youtube.com/user/Regurgitators
FACEBOOKINGS: www.facebook.com/pages/Regurgitator
DEFACEDBOOK: www.facebook.com/pages/regurgitatorontour
TWITS: http://twitter.com/regurgitators
BANDCRAMP: http://regurgitator.bandcamp.com/
SOUNDCLODDING: http://soundcloud.com/regurgitrax
LEASTFM: http://www.last.fm/music/Regurgitator
ILIKING: http://www.ilike.com/artist/Regurgitator