THE KELPIES

Punk band The Kelpies lasted for just under a year and a half but, from March 1981 to August 1982, but emerged as one of the most frenetic–and notorious–bands to hit the punk scene in Sydney. Given so many of the band’s membership had already earned their stripes in a multitude of earlier acts (including the Bedhogs, Suicide Squad, Swankers, Aftermath, Vic Vomit and the Varicose Veins and Black Runner), this put them in good stead with the gig-going public, but from the outset their shows were frequently plagued by violence, resulting in the band often being banned from venues just as quickly as they had sold them out. In 1982 they cut a single on the Phantom label, ''Take Me Away / Second By Second''. In 2003 the Kelpies held a reunion show at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney. A compilation album 'Television' was released in 2003.

 
Members

Jim Atkins [James Gelding] (vocals), Mark Easton (guitar), Brian Conolly (guitar), Con Murphy (bass),

Ashley Thomson (drums).

References

http://gascanmag.com/2014/08/the-gascan-interview-ashley-thomson-of-the-kelpies/