Punk, Punk Rock, Hardcore, Thrash, Aussie, Australia, Old School, Alternative, Independent, Regression, Regression Fanzine, Fanzine, Emo, Bastard Squad, Bloody Sods, Bombscare, Charter 77, Legless, The Worst, Distorted Truth, Dayglo Abortions, Rule 303, Slick 46, Glen and the peanut Buttermen, A-Krop, Ardent, If Need Be, Kamikaze, Macauly, Nahende Vernichtung (Belgium), Off By Heart, Seconds From finishing, Sixty Miles an Hour, Arm The Insane, Bodies, Box of Fish, Charred Remains, Civil Dissident, Condemned, Cosmic Psychos, Depression, Dick Nasty, End Result, Exploding White Mice, Extremes, Fear and Loathing, Fifth Column, GASH, Godnose, Hard Corpuscles, Hard Ons, H-Block 101, Hi-End Audio, I Spit On Your Gravy, Justified Hatred, Macauly, Mad Flowers, Meanies, Mob Vengence, Mouthguard, Murder Murder Suicide,  NFL, No Escape, Perdition, Permanent Damage, Plonker, Polit Buro, Progression Cult, Psychotic Maniacs, Psychotic Turnbuckles, Quick and the Dead, Royal Flush, Scum, Slakjaw, Society's Victim, Skunks, Standard Union,  Start, Threshold Of Pain, Toe To Toe, Vicious, Vicious Circle Where’s The Pope, World War XXIV, Corporate Body, Manslaughter, Public Nuisance, Sick Things, Spew Forth, The Virgins, White Elephants, Z Cars, Zorros, Boys Next Door, Chosen Few, JAB, La Femme, Lethal Weapons, Negatives, Noisy Boys, Proles, Squadron Leader, Teenage Radio Stars, The Babeez, The News, The Reals, Tch Tch Tch, True Wheels, TV Kids, Wattage, XRayZ, Young Charlatans, The Melbourne Punk Directory, Reactor Records, Apito, DNA, Anti Climax, Bodies, Bootboys, Brady Bunch, Charred Remains, Civil Dissident, Corpse Grinders, Criminal Youth, Death Sentence, Depression, Dogs Of War, End Result, F.B.I., Fifth Column, Genocide, I Spit On Your Gravy, Jazz Sluts, Jehovah Pogo, Justified Hatred, M16, Mad Flowers, Murder Murder Suicide, No Escape, Non-Conformists, Out Of Order, Permanent Damage, Polit Buro, Psychotic Maniacs, Royal Flush, Society's Victim, Scum, The Mess, The Start, The Tribe, Vicious Circle, Young Offender, South Australia, Western Australia, Sydney, Queensland, Victoria, Melbourne, Decline, Street Punk, Gutter punk, Melbourne, Geelong, Victoria, New South Wales, Sydney, Queensland, Brisbane, South Australia, Adelaide, Western Australia, Perth, Aqua Nuggets, Beanfeast, Bone Crusher, The Affected, Butt Ugly, Damnation, Dweebs , Forcefed, Forgotten Generation, Fridge, Growing Concern, Labotomy Scars, Mouth, Nation of Hate, No Comply, Poppin Mammas, Providence, Seaweed Gorillas, Snark, Steadfast, Subzero, Tucknot, Two Years Old, Unclean Spirits, Walsh Street Cop Killers, Zambian Goatherders, A.S.V.V., Beanflipper, Bodyjar, Buzzbomb, Caustic Soda, Cretins Puddle, Devotchka, Fallout, Farenheit 451, 4Qm, Gameover, H-Block, Headcase, Kill, Kurgan, Magnacite, Mindsnare, Mid Youth Crisis, Mutiny, Myside, Next Step, No Grace, No Idea, Nihilistic View, Oddball, One Inch Punch, Scroungers, Self Reliance, Silpheed, Smut, Sphyzein, Stand Against, Trigger, Vicious Circle, Warsore, Without A Reason, Wrongbody.

Punk, Punk Rock, Hardcore, Thrash, Aussie, Australia, Old School, Alternative, Independent, Regression, Regression Fanzine, Fanzine, Emo, Bastard Squad, Bloody Sods, Bombscare, Charter 77, Legless, The Worst, Distorted Truth, Dayglo Abortions, Rule 303, Slick 46, Glen and the peanut Buttermen, A-Krop, Ardent, If Need Be, Kamikaze, Macauly, Nahende Vernichtung (Belgium), Off By Heart, Seconds From finishing, Sixty Miles an Hour, Arm The Insane, Bodies, Box of Fish, Charred Remains, Civil Dissident, Condemned, Cosmic Psychos, Depression, Dick Nasty, End Result, Exploding White Mice, Extremes, Fear and Loathing, Fifth Column, GASH, Godnose, Hard Corpuscles, Hard Ons, H-Block 101, Hi-End Audio, I Spit On Your Gravy, Justified Hatred, Macauly, Mad Flowers, Meanies, Mob Vengence, Mouthguard, Murder Murder Suicide,  NFL, No Escape, Perdition, Permanent DamaGeoff Sick, Sick Things, Legend Killers, terrorize, ge, Plonker, Polit Buro, Progression Cult, Psychotic Maniacs, Psychotic Turnbuckles, Quick and the Dead, Royal Flush, Scum, Slakjaw, Society's Victim, Skunks, Standard Union,  Start, Threshold Of Pain, Toe To Toe, Vicious, Vicious Circle Where’s The Pope, World War XXIV, Corporate Body, Manslaughter, Public Nuisance, Sick Things, Spew Forth, The Virgins, White Elephants, Z Cars, Zorros, Boys Next Door, Chosen Few, JAB, La Femme, Lethal Weapons, Negatives, Noisy Boys, Proles, Squadron Leader, Teenage Radio Stars, The Babeez, The News, The Reals, Tch Tch Tch, True Wheels, TV Kids, Wattage, XRayZ, Young Charlatans, The Melbourne Punk Directory, Reactor Records, Apito, DNA, Anti Climax, Bodies, Bootboys, Brady Bunch, Charred Remains, Civil Dissident, Corpse Grinders, Criminal Youth, Death Sentence, Depression, Dogs Of War, End Result, F.B.I., Fifth Column, Genocide, I Spit On Your Gravy, Jazz Sluts, Jehovah Pogo, Justified Hatred, M16, Mad Flowers, Murder Murder Suicide, No Escape, Non-Conformists, Out Of Order, Permanent Damage, Polit Buro, Psychotic Maniacs, Royal Flush, Society's Victim, Scum, The Mess, The Start, The Tribe, Vicious Circle, Young Offender, South Australia, Western Australia, Sydney, Queensland, Victoria, Melbourne, Decline, Street Punk, Gutter punk, Melbourne, Geelong, Victoria, New South Wales, Sydney, Queensland, Brisbane, South Australia, Adelaide, Western Australia, Perth, Aqua Nuggets, Beanfeast, Bone Crusher, The Affected, Butt Ugly, Damnation, Dweebs , Forcefed, Forgotten Generation, Fridge, Growing Concern, Labotomy Scars, Mouth, Nation of Hate, No Comply, Poppin Mammas, Providence, Seaweed Gorillas, Snark, Steadfast, Subzero, Tucknot, Two Years Old, Unclean Spirits, Walsh Street Cop Killers, Zambian Goatherders, A.S.V.V., Beanflipper, Bodyjar, Buzzbomb, Caustic Soda, Cretins Puddle, Devotchka, Fallout, Farenheit 451, 4Qm, Gameover, H-Block, Headcase, Kill, Kurgan, Magnacite, Mindsnare, Mid Youth Crisis, Mutiny, Myside, Next Step, No Grace, No Idea, Nihilistic View, Oddball, One Inch Punch, Scroungers, Self Reliance, Silpheed, Smut, Sphyzein, Stand Against, Trigger, Vicious Circle, Warsore, Without A Reason, Wrongbody.

 

 

"Melbounre Punk Directory"   1977 - 1997.

Concept and words by Hungry Dave

Thanks to the following people who have contributed and helped.

Contributors: Clinton Green, Nicole Lindsay, Andrew Macca, John Feedback, Frank Smec, Seanocide, Clinton Walker, Phil Macdougall, Gary McGillivray, John Bastard, Mark Ivey, Paul Macgro, Vicki Marks, Brian Farnan, Russell Hopkinson, Darren Smith, Peter Cave, Eddie Liquorish, Shaun Whitmore, Steve Weir, Matti Harrod, Steve Davis, Dave Weir, Glen Thackray.

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Part 1:  1977 to 1979   "In The Begining"

Part 2:  1980 to 1981  "Second Wave"

Part 3:  1982 to 1984  "Hardcore"

Part 4:  1985 to 1987

Part 5:  1988 to 1991

Part 6: 1991 to 1994

Part 7: 1995 to 1997

(Just click on the headings)

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A huge thanks to Dave “The Legend” for putting this together. I really appreciate his time, huge effort and in sharing his knowledge of the scene through the Regression website. I know it will be a great source of historical referencing for a lot of people not just in Australia but around the world.

I hope this will inspire others to contribute in someway in the attempt to preserve the history of an inspiration time of music in Australia. I’d be rapt if we have similar histories for other States around the Country. Please contact us if you have anything, small or big to contribute.

Regression@optusnet.com.au

Note: The author, Hungry Dave would like to point out/acknowledge that certain information on these bands have been sourced from various underground publications. Harry Butler/DNA, Ian Mcfarlane/Prehistoric Sounds, Clinton Walker/Inner City Sound, Alby and Zol/Regression and Maximum Rock and Roll. No offence is intended.

This directory is a rough guide to bands that were punk influenced, punk related or had punk attitude, between the years of 1977 - 1997. 

This is not meant to be perfect. All comments/criticisms are welcomed.

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The M.P.D. Band List.

Aardvarks Afterbirth

Aftermath

Alligator Parade

Anti Climax

Aqua Nuggets

Armageddon

Arm The Insane

A.S.V.V.

Aversion Therapy

Balrog

Bastard Squad

Beanfeast

Beanflipper

Bodies

Bodyjar

Bone Crusher

Bootboys

Bored!

Boys Next Door

Brady Bunch

Butt Ugly

Buzzbomb

Caustic Soda

Charred Remains

Chaotic Firing Squad

Children Of Sorrow

Chosen Few

Civil Dissident

Cold Blooded Chaos

Condemned

Corporate Body

Corpse Grinders

Cosmic Psychos

Cretins Puddle

Criminal Youth

Damage Case

Damnation

Death Sentence

Depression

Despised

Devotchka

Dogs Of War

Dweebs

End Result (1982-84 reference)

End Result (1985-87 reference)

Extremes

Fallout

Farenheit 451

F.B.I.

Fifth Column

Foot and Mouth

Forcefed

Forgotten Generation

4Q

Fridge

Gameover

Gas Babies

G.A.S.H.

Genocide

Growing Concern

Hardcore Revolution

Hard Corpuscles

H-Block

Headcase

Helium

Human Waste

Internal Haemorrhage

I Spit On Your Gravy

JAB

Jazz Sluts

Jehovah Pogo

Justified Hatred

Kill

Kurgan

Labotomie Scars

La Femme

Legend Killers

M16

Mad Flowers

Magnacite

Manic Ideas

Manslaughter

Mental Health (Hellth)

Mid Youth Crisis

Mindsnare

Mouth

Murder Murder Suicide

Mutiny

Myside

Nastie Pasties

Nation of Hate

Never Mind the Gravies, here’s the Grinders

New Barbarians

Next Step

Nihilistic View

Nobody’s Victim

No Comply

No Control

No Escape

No Grace

No Idea

Noisy Boys

No Idea

Non-Conformists

No Remorse

Nursery Crimes

Oddball

One Inch Punch

Out Of Order

Permanent Damage

PFA

Polit Buro

Poncho Estrada

Poppin Mammas

Proles

Providence

Psychotic Maniacs

Public Disgrace

Public Nuisance

Punchbag

Rat Race

Renegade

Root Beer

Royal Flush

Scroungers

Scum

Seaweed Gorillas

Self Reliance

Seminal Rats

S.I.C.

Sick Things (1980-81 reference)

Sick Things (1985-87 reference)

Silent Lunatic

Silpheed

Skippy the Butcher

Slaughterhouse

Slush Puppies

Smut

Snark

Society's Victim

Sourpuss

Spew Forth

Sphyzein

Squadron Leader

Stand Against

Steadfast

S.T.P.

Subversive Pigs

Subzero

Suffer

Tch Tch Tch

Teenage Radio Stars

Terrorize

The Affected

The Babeez

The Dorks

The Editions

The Meanies

The Mess

The News

The Negatives

The Outfit

The Reals

The Start

The Squad

The Tribe

The Virgins

Tombstone Hands

Trigger

Trevor

True Wheels

Tucknot

TV Kids

Two Years Old

Unclean Spirits

Utter Stench

Venom P. Stinger

Vicious Circle (1982-84 reference)

Vicious Circle  (1995-97 reference)

Walsh Street Cop Killers (1991-94 reference)

Walsh Street Cop Killers (1995-97 reference)

Warp Spasm

Warsore

Watercow

Wattage

White Elephants

Without A Reason

Wrongbody

XRayZ

Young Charlatans

Young Offenders

Zambian Goatherders

Z Cars

Zorros

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If you were in a Punk band and it’s not listed here.

or.... You were in one of the mentioned bands and can elaborate on it.

 or.... If you are able to add any information at all to this.

Please contact us

Regression@optusnet.com.au

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Part 1:  1977 to 1979   "In The Begining"

Part 2:  1980 to 1981  "Second Wave"

Part 3:  1982 to 1984  "Hardcore"

Part 4:  1985 to 1987

Part 5:  1988 to 1991

Part 6: 1991 to 1994

Part 7: 1995 to 1997

(Just click on the headings)

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