THE END

The Gap is a suburb in Western Brisbane named after the hole in its inhabitants' aesthetic sensibilities. It takes just one person to break the cycle and that person was Gap High student and guitarist, Brett Myers. ''I used to play bass in high school bands. The End started in late 1979, I had just bought my first electric guitar. I had a friend called Andrew Massey who was a bass player and he lived in my street. He came over and asked me if I wanted to join a band. I said as long as it wasn't with the guy down the road. I used to hear him playing Led Zeppelin songs!''

That guy was drummer Colin Barwick, who with Massey on bass and Murray Davis on keyboards formed the first line-up of The End. Myers said: ''I wasn't into jamming, so to play anything I had to teach them all these Velvets songs. We played lots of parties, but we'd finish an average of about one song out of ten. It was a real thrash but it was coming from a different direction to everyone else. In those days no one was playing the sort of music I liked. If there had been another band playing it, I probably wouldn't have started. We used to do a lot of Stooges stuff as well, and New York Dolls. Then I saw the Fun Things and they were doing that stuff really well, so we stopped''.

The new, "wimpy" End started exploring space and dynamics rather than power. In most cases such a development would have us running fast in the other direction, but if there was one guitar player whose non-obvious choices we enjoyed the challenge of watching through the eighties, it was Mr Myers. The End took on Malcolm Cole on violin and keyboards, and swapped Massey for Johnathon Liekliter on bass and recorded their only single ''My Confession / White World''. Myers moved to Sydney in 1982 and reformed the band with new members: David Rowley on drums, Jonathan Purcell on guitar (ex-Moving Parts) and Cameron Hume on bass. Citadel released a compilation album in 2013 '...Was The Beginning'. Brett Myers would later become a member of Died Pretty.

Members

Brett Myers (vocals guitar), Colin Barwick (drums), Andrew Massey (bass),

Murray Davis (keyboards), Malcolm Cole (violin keyboards), Johnathon Liekliter (bass),

David Rowley (drums), Jonathan Purcell (guitar), Cameron Hume (bass)

References

http://wallabybeat.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/the-end-my-confession-7-13199-1981.html