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.

Home Up

 

 

MARK IVEY

The Young Savages, The Virgins, The White Elephants.

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R.I.P.

Sadly we farewell two legends of the Melbourne Punk scene.

Mark Ivey - 26 July 2007

and

Geoff Sick - 05 May 2007

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Mark Ivey was good enough to put the following thoughts together for the site in 2004.

Here are his words on the history of the great bands he has been involved with over the years.

It is excellent, I know you'll enjoy reading through it.

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DEAR DAVE, LES AND FELLOW MELBOURNE PUNK ROCKERS,

I STARTED OUT IN 1978 IN A BAND CALLED THE YOUNG SAVAGES AS THE DRUMMER. WE WERE THE FIRST MELBOURNE BAND TO DO SEX PISTOLS AND RADIO BIRDMAN TYPE STUFF. WE PLAYED A FEW GIGS AND WE GOT RID OF THE SINGER WHO WAS A MONGREL, I TOOK OVER THE SINGING POSITION, GOT THE ALIENS (REMEMBER THEM) ROADIE AS DRUMMER AND THEN CHANGED OUR NAME TO THE VIRGINS.

WE PLAYED AROUND MELBOURNE  FOR QUITE A LONG TIME. WE PLAYED WITH X-RAY-Z, THE MODELS (WHO HATED US. SEAN KELLY SAID I WAS SCARY), LITTLE MURDERS, THE LIST IS ENDLESS, THE BLOKES IN X-RAY-Z WERE THE BEST, THEY WERE CYNICAL ABOUT LIFE LIKE US. THE MANAGER OF THE BAND AT THAT TIME WAS GEOFF SICK WHO LATER WAS THE BASS PLAYER IN THE SICK THINGS AND THE WHITE ELEPHANTS. WE WERE BANNED IN THE END FROM EVERY VENUE IN MELBOURNE  MAINLY DUE TO SMASHING OUR EQUIPMENT, DESTROYING BIBLES, ETC.

WE DID A REUNION GIG IN 1981 OR 1982. I CANNOT REMEMBER WHICH. WHAT I CAN REMEMBER IS THAT IN THE CROWD WAS A YOUNG TIM HEMENSLEY (WITH HIS MOTHER) SOON TO GET TOGETHER ROYAL FLUSH, AFTER THE GIG HE APPROACHED ME SAYING HE LOVED THE VIRGINS, WE WERE FRIENDS FROM THAT DAY FORWARD. I ALSO DRUMMED FOR THE Z-CARS FOR A WHILE, AS WELL THE VIRGINS RELEASED ONE TAPE CALLED 1979 OK. IT IS VERY HARD TO GET AS ONLY 100 TAPES WERE DONE.

THE WHITE ELEPHANTS ARE ANOTHER KETTLE OF FISH, WE WERE MANAGED BY NEIL ROGERS (WHO IS NOW IN CHARGE OF 3RRR), THE LINE-UP OVER THE YEARS CHANGED BUT MIKE CHRYSTAL AND MYSELF ALWAYS STUCK IT OUT. MANY HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE RANKS:

GEOFF SICK, DAVE THOMAS (BORED), STEVE FUZESI (LITTLE MURDERS), SEAN GREENWAY, TIM HEMENSLEY, ETC.

I CAN REMEMBER BEING TOLD IN 83/84 THAT GUDINSKI WAS COMING TO CHECK US OUT AT A GIG WE WERE GOING TO DO AT A PUB IN RICHMOND ON THE FRIDAY NIGHT. THE THOUGHT OF BEING IN HIS STABLE REALLY SICKENED US, SO THAT FRIDAY MORNING I BOUGHT A PIGS HEAD FROM THE BUTCHERS SHOP (3DOLLARS, VERY CHEAP BACK THEN, NOW ABOUT 20 DOLLARS) AT THE GIG, WE SUPPORTED PSUEDO ECHO, I PUT THE PIGS HEAD AT THE FRONT OF THE STAGE, WE WERE DOING TV EYE AND  GEOFF SICK SAID "MARK, HERE HE COMES", I KICKED THE PIGS HEAD IN HIS DIRECTION, HE MOVED TO ONE SIDE AND LEFT STRAIGHT AWAY, GOOD RIDDANCE, NO BODY CONTROLS US.

ROB YOUNGER FROM BIRDMAN CAME TO SEE US SOMETIMES, HE WAS  PROBABLY TOLD THAT WE DID I.94 A GREAT BIRDMAN CLASSIC. I ALSO KNOW THAT CHRIS BAILEY FROM THE SAINTS THOUGHT WE WERE OKAY, SO THAT IS GREAT.

WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THE VIRGINS AND THE WHITE ELEPHANTS HAVE INFLUENCED MANY AND THAT MAKES MIKE CHRYSTAL AND MY SELF FEEL PROUD. THE VIRGINS GOT BACK TOGETHER IN 2002, MIKE, MYSELF, GEOFF SICK ON BASS, THE LATE, GREAT TIM HEMENSLEY ON DRUMS. WE HAVE DONE A FEW GIGS, WE ALSO DID A CD THE VIRGINS LIVE AT THE BUILDERS ARMS. GEOFF HAS LEFT AND TIM HAS PASSED AWAY. WE HAVE NOW ON BASS, PETER SHAW (SKIPPY THE BUTCHER), RICK FERRARA (WHITE ELEPHANTS).

ALL THE BEST,

MARK IVEY.

(September 2004)

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