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The Australian power-pop band Ice Cream Hands comprised singer/guitarist Charles Jenkins, guitarist Marcus Goodwin, bassist Douglas Lee Robertson and drummer Derek Smiley. Debuting in late 1992 with a self-titled EP, the group issued their first full-length release Travelling…Made Easy a year later. After 1994’s Supermarket Scene EP, Ice Cream Hands issued another stop-gap single release, Olive, before finally resurfacing with their sophomore LP Memory Lane Traffic Jam in 1997.

Michael Witheford, Melbourne January 2000

My introduction to the music of the Icecream Hands was a highly unlikely, and fortuitous one. I had a friend who had seen the group backing Ward Dotson (otherwise known as The Liquor Giants) and tipped me off. As I was spending a year in Tasmania, it surprised me that the band were visiting Launceston, and confused me that they’d been booked to play at a hotel which I knew only as the habitat of blue collar punters, and possibly the occasional strip show, or monstrous cabaret act (always favouring a drum machine sounding like a large trout being thwacked onto a table, and many Billy Joel songs.)

The year was 1994, and there was no way I could have guessed that the enthusiasm I felt about the band’s music that night would continue undimmed right up to the present.

Facing an audience consisting of my friend and I, plus a table of three girls, Icecream Hands played a plethora of clever, melodic, effortlessly mature guitar-pop tunes, and I became an instant fan.

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  • yessmiths

    I just bought The Good China for 9 bucks. Never really listened to them before, but I quite like it.

    4 Apr 2010 Reply
  • TippinMyStuff

    BAD song

    7 Mar 2009 Reply
  • zissisbrisbane

    In my opinion one of the most UNDERRATED Aussie bands.. Love it. I think Broken UFO is my fave album.

    18 Feb 2009 Reply
  • TheMrMilk

    excellent, i love it

    3 Sep 2008 Reply
  • DanAbnrml9

    I'm not sure how I feel about the new album yet (though they always seem to grow on me for years anyway...) but, man, In the Back Seat of a Stolen Car is AMAZING. Flat out excellent.

    11 Aug 2007 Reply
  • DanAbnrml9

    thanks OzSteve... I wound up getting it from Caiman via Amazon. You're right in that the spelling got me...you'd think that a search for ice cream hands would still find icecream hands. I checked NotLame first too because I love them, but no dice.

    14 Jul 2007 Reply
  • OzSteve

    Amazon and CD Universe have it - but at a high price (ridiculously high for imports) www.notlame.com out of Colorado used to stock their material, but I can't find this on their site yet (they are great sellers) Beware different spellings: Ice Cream vs Icecream http://www.amazon.com/Good-China-Icecream-Hands/dp/B000RY6K1W/ref=sr_1_1/102-8339438-5689743?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1184154679&sr=1-1

    11 Jul 2007 Reply
  • DanAbnrml9

    Where on earth can you even buy the album? I live in the US so obviously I'm going to have to get it online, but none of my usual places are turning up with anything.

    8 Jul 2007 Reply
  • OzSteve

    New album The Good China is out, and it's 11 more tracks of pop perfection from the boys - buy it, or suffer through self denial

    5 Jun 2007 Reply