With Peter PIx and Tim Tonkin (another member of Star Ring), Neil Pike formed an 80s-style pop group called Secret Society and worked very hard for several years trying to gain some measure of commercial success. In 1986 they released their first single ''Brave New Way / (We All) Get What We Want'' on the Powderworls label. By 1988, they’d played extensively up and down the east coast pub-rock circuit, appeared on the classic Australian pop TV show Countdown (the only unsigned act to have done so), been signed to a publishing deal by Warners Music, released the “first independent CD in the world” (which just means they were stupid enough to spend their publishing advance on it), received a two page spread in the Australian newspaper about Neil’s innovative use on stage of a Macintosh computer, supported Joe Cocker at the Brisbane World Expo’88 to a crowd of some 40,000 people… and yet still remained essentially broke. They broke up not long after.
Members
Neil Pike (vocals guitar), Tim Tonkin (bass), Peter Pix (guitar), Andy Kirkcaldy (drums)
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