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Finley, New South Wales, Australia (1991 – present)

Spiderbait are an alternative rock band formed in 1991 in Finley, New South Wales, Australia which consists of Mark “Kram” Maher (drums, lead vocals), Janet English (bass, vocals) and Damien Whitty (guitar). They have had two top ten albums and another three albums reach the Australian top 40. Their song

Buy Me A Pony was #1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 1996, and the group enjoyed success with their 2004 #1 Australian hit cover of Black Betty.

When you have as big a celebrity fan as Stephen King, you must be doing something right! The three-piece from Finley, New South Wales, Australia, often jump genres from disco-pop (

Stevie,

Calypso) to mutant dance (

Arse Huggin’ Pants) - in the course of a single album, no less. And yet, they still manage to rock like mofos (

Shazam!,

Outta My Head, and - of course - their cover of Black Betty).

The three band members Mark Maher or “Kram” (drums and vocals), Damien Whitty or “Whitt” on guitar and Janet English on bass/vocals come from the small town Finley in southern New South Wales where they jammed together in their youth.

The band moved to Melbourne, Australia where Kram was studying at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Music. The band played its first gig at a loungeroom for a friend’s party. The band soon became part of Melbourne’s punk scene playing gigs at venues like the Tote Hotel in Collingwood, Victoria. They released their first single

Circle K on Au-Go-Go Records with an EP titled P’tang Yang Kipper Bang Uh! following in 1992.

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rock, australian, alternative, alternative rock, aussie
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Top Tracks

1	Black Betty	1,004
2	Calypso full track	175
3	Buy Me A Pony full track	150
4	Ghost Riders in the sky	93
5	Black Betty - Edit	88
6	Fucken Awesome full track	70
6	Tonite full track	70
8	Four on the Floor full track	64
9	Outta My Head full track	61
10	On My Way full track	59
10	Put It Down full track	59
12	Shazam! full track	48
13	5th Set full track	46
14	In This City full track	45
15	Joyce's Hut full track	44

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deadgrave wrote:
last week

great

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sibylla_dixgard wrote:
last month

i just LOVE calypso, makes me think about everything i'm dreamin of

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Untouchable1406 wrote:
September 2009

Spiderbait are shapeshifters in music they can do it all :D

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Koalathekkid wrote:
September 2009

Spiderbait LOVE THEM went to a party and it was FKN Ace is the best tune EVER

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TheGoodSoldier wrote:
September 2009

I first heard Black Betty on NFS :)

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ddtng wrote:
August 2009

Can't agree with you on that one robmosz. Wally Funk was quite a low, had its good points but there was so much crap on that. They did dig themselves out of that nicely with Tonight Alright, though.

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robmosz wrote:
August 2009

@Dr_Wally: The Flight of Wally Funk is a good album. I think it's their most diverse album, with electro and a folky song! My favourite Spiderbait album is Grandslam, so I like their pop music!

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Mark_0ne wrote:
August 2009

NFSU2 ^^

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AlmostOblivion wrote:
July 2009

fuck yes.

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Dr_Wally wrote:
July 2009

Unfinished Spanish Galleon is pretty strong. Riffs, fuzz, a bit punk and bit thrashy, mainly fast rock and roll. I was introduced via this album, still love it - later stuff gets some good variation, adding pop and loops and so on. Love 'em. Still haven't heard Flight of Wally Funk - anyone? Same, different, weak, strong?

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Desmodromiker wrote:
July 2009

Nice group..

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SleepyReaper wrote:
June 2009

Amazing band shame they don't tour in the uk :(

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DonnerStoepsel wrote:
June 2009

lol xD

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herewego13 wrote:
June 2009

Great band!! :)

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darkengan wrote:
June 2009

aussie rules

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Fenizrael wrote:
April 2009

Kram is a sexy beast. Spiderbait have released some consistently good albums since Ivy and the Big Apples. (I haven't heard anything before that)

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Bravepower wrote:
February 2009

The whole idea of the Black Betty music video is that he's the fastest drummer in the world... get it? :)

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CallTheCoroner wrote:
February 2009

The music video for Black Betty has nothing to do with what the actual song means.O.o

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thommyrotten wrote:
January 2009

heard their song "shazam!" on underbelly the other day

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sidxartxa wrote:
January 2009

The track from Death Race pwnz! If they have this fuzzy sound on all the records - welcome to my favs!

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