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unusual facts about Radio Birdman


Alone in the Endzone

"Alone in the Endzone" was the only single from Sydney, Australia's punk band Radio Birdman's album Living Eyes.


Eskimo Pie

The seminal Australian punk band Radio Birdman have a song called "I-94" on the EP Burn My Eye which contains the lyric "Eskimo Pies comin' to you, Yeah burning to you straight from hell".

Mach Pelican

In eleven years, Mach Pelican played 800 shows, touring with bands such as The Buzzcocks, Radio Birdman, Rancid, The Hard Ons, Butthole Surfers, Guitar Wolf, Supersnazz, The Donnas, You Am I, The Spazzys and The Porkers.

Punk rock in Australia

During 1974, Radio Birdman formed in Sydney, led by another immigrant, Detroit-born medical student Deniz Tek.

The Angie Pepper Band

She married Radio Birdman co-founder Deniz Tek, and they played together in the short lived Angie Pepper Band whose ranks included a future Hoodoo Guru in Clyde Bramley and a former Saints drummer in Ivor Hay.

The Leaving Trains

The Leaving Trains, that same year, would also do their final live performance at The Knitting Factory in Hollywood as a backup band for Australian punk pioneer Rob Younger, performing songs Younger had done with Radio Birdman and The New Christs.

The Screaming Tribesmen

After relocation to Sydney, and a number of line-up changes the band settled on its most successful lineup of Medew, ex-Radio Birdman & The Hitmen guitarist Chris Masuak, bass player Bob Wackley & drummer Warwick Fraser (ex-Feather & Hoi Polloi) who replaced Michael Charles after the recording of the Date With A Vampyre EP.


see also

Rob Younger

Radio Birdman was one of the first punk bands in Australia, formed alongside Deniz Tek in Sydney, 1974.