SEVEN STORIES

Seven Stories future members Michael Boundy, Sue Oliver and Andrew Tanner were involved in the Adelaide music scene from the late 1970s. They were sessions musicians at the Good God recording studio, which was run by Rod Boucher and Chris Adams. In 1978 Tanner contributed drums and vocals to Good God recordings, later moving to guitar in the band, The Retreads, which released a self-titled album, in 1980. Boundy played bass guitar for the bands, Thumbs Up and then The Retreads (with Tanner) before joining Perfect Strangers in 1980. In 1984 Tanner composed a track, "Dreams and Visions", which became a banner song for the Uniting Church's National Christian Youth Convention in Adelaide in 1985. "Dreams and Visions" is about Pentecost and is still used by Australian congregations.

Michael Boundy on bass guitar, Sue Oliver on percussion and backing vocals and Tanner on guitar and lead vocals joined up with Jeff Algra on drums, percussion and backing vocals, Glyn Lehmann on keyboards, accordion, French horn and backing vocals to form the rock group, Tall Stories, in Adelaide, in 1986. Their first major recording was a self-produced, self-distributed 12" mini-LP 'Sleeping Through Another War', released in 1987. Oliver left during that year.

Gaining commercial airplay, a major breakthrough came with the signing of the band by CBS Records (now Sony) to a five-year deal. Around 1989 the band changed its name to Seven Stories, to avoid confusion with a United States band, Tall Stories. CBS re-released ''Sleeping Through Another War'' in 1990. The single was also released in the Netherlands. The deal led to the critically acclaimed 'Judges and Bagmen' album in 1990. All ten tracks were written by Tanner, and it was recorded between October and December of the previous year with Kevin Moloney producing at Platinum Studios, Melbourne. Rolling Stone's reviewer, in January 1991 stated, "it is the music which makes 'Judges and Bagmen' such a compelling album". Additional musicians on the recording are Vika and Linda Bull and Broderick Smith.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1991 Seven Stories were nominated for Breakthrough Artist – Single for "Sleeping Through Another War" (1990). "Sleeping through Another War" and "Walk through Babylon" were released by CBS as singles off the album. The band toured extensively throughout Australia supporting artists such as Midnight Oil, INXS, The Black Sorrows, Hothouse Flowers, Hunters and Collectors and Paul Kelly.

High-profile producers T-Bone Burnett and Boom Crash Opera's Richard Pleasance were engaged by Sony for Seven Stories' second album, 'Everything You Want (Nothing That You Need)' (1993), which provided two singles, "Is That It?" and ". Although he contributed to the album, Lehmann had officially left the band by the time of its release, leaving Algra, Boundy and Tanner as the remaining core. The band toured Europe and North America to support the album. Guitarist David Carr, engaged to augment the band for this recording, relates the band's sudden abandonment by Sony: "We toured that album very successfully, recorded a JJJ Live at the Wireless and had a string of singles before the whole of Sony was instructed to 'drop everything' and divert all energy to making Mariah Carey number one." Seven Stories subsequently disbanded in 1994. Seven Stories reformed for a one-off performance in Adelaide in April 2012.

Members

Andrew Tanner (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Glyn Lehmann (keyboards), Michael Boundy (bass), Jeff Algra (drums, percussion), Sue Oliver (percussion, vocals), David Carr (guitar)

SINGLES

Sleeping Through Another War

8 JUL '90

#68

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Stories_%28band%29

http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/