Fred Negro left The Editions in 1983 to form punk rockers, I Spit on Your Gravy on vocals and drums. Initial line up included Jason "The Big J" Banner on guitar, Mark "Sausage Fingers" Carson on bass guitar, and Scotti "Stix" Simpson on vocals and drums. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described their early performances as "shambolic, drunken affairs, replete with on-stage brawls and members barely able to stand upright, let alone play their instruments". Negro was often dropping his pants in public and would deliver other on-stage obscenities.
In February 1985 the group issued their debut six-track mini album, 'St.Kilda's Alright', which they co-produced with Paul Elliott for Man Made Records at York Street Studios. It included a ten-page booklet, Suck This Fred Nile, that local police declared was obscene and confiscated all available copies due to Negro's debauched cartoons and photocopied pornographic images. As for the music itself, McFarlane declared it was "desperately inept and sounded like it had been recorded at the bottom of a dam". Also in 1985 Phil "Grizzly" Miles joined I Spit on Your Gravy on rhythm guitar and vocals.
The band was signed by Virgin, and they recorded the album 'Fruit Loop City' in 1987 adding Di Jones and Sindy Virtue on vocals. The album was co-produced by Miles and former Bakery guitarist Peter "Poyt" Walker. The single lifted from the album was ''Piranha / Mans Not A Camel''. They disbanded in the next year, Negro and Miles promptly formed Gravybillies, as a country music, spoof band.
Members
''Let's Go Buy A Pizza'' 1984 Soft Option Records
''Piranha / Mans Not A Camel'' 1987 Virgin
'St. Kilda's Alright!' 1985 Man Made Records
'Fruit Loop City' 1987 Virgin
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Negro
I would love to get their entire back catalogue in a lossless format, whether they start selling it on Bandcamp or I find the FLACs somewhere or I buy a scratchless CD or LP somewhere and digitise it myself. Great memories here.
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