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The Scroungers sound like punk was always supposed to, but rarely did; urgent, raw and dripping with sardonic anger. The fact that the Scroungers (a solo home recording project) grew partially out of Macka’s growing dissatisfaction the Melbourne punk scene of the early 1990s is somewhat ironic. Working in relative isolation and never performing live, Macka recorded a large body of work that is arguably the rawest, high-octane, politically and socially incisive punk rock the country has ever produced. Yet the Scroungers remain unknown to all but a few.

Andrew McIntosh (AKA Macka) was active in the Melbourne punk scene from the late 1980s, and played in a handful of metal and punk bands around this time, most notably the Silent Lunatics. The band had existed with various line-ups since 1989 before Macka was recruited as a vocalist, later covering bass duties as well. The Silent Lunatics played early 1980s UK style punk, with the occasional ska moment (I remember a ska song called “Australia Goes To the Polls” from a gig at the Arthouse in 1992). It was during this time that Macka acquired a Fostex analogue 4-track and a drum machine, and began recording at home songs that he wasn’t able to realise with Silent Lunatics, due to differing musical ideas with the other members. Some of these recordings formed the first Scroungers cassette Your Taxes at Play. Macka’s early recorded efforts were extremely raw and immediate (“Bored, Pissed and Agro” demonstrates this best); this resulted from his inexperience with home recording and cheap equipment, along with a deliberate attempt to create extremely primitive and angry music.
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