Amoeba Music

By Oliver Hall

Brisbane, Australia’s Saints played fast, wild, sharp-toothed garage rock that got them categorized as a punk band when their first records appeared in the late 70s.  While singer Chris Bailey’s scornful delivery, guitarist Ed Kuepper’s blurs of distorted chords and drummer Ivor Hay’s forward-driving beat resembled punk, the band had other ideas, and displayed a wide-ranging creativity on the three albums they made before breaking up in 1978.  Bailey has continued to lead numerous different lineups of the Saints on tours and shelves full of records since the original band’s breakup, and the three original Saints reunited for a handful of shows in the first decade of the new... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Alternative/Indie, Punk

City Of Origin:

Brisbane, Australia

Formed Date:

1974