The Triffids
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Interview by Mat Snow, Q, December 1987
The Triffids, authors of the greatest Australian country and western album, address the darker undercurrents beneath the sparkling antipodean surf. ...
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The Triffids: Irony and Distance
Interview by Clinton Walker, The Next Thing, 1984
THE TRIFFIDS fairly well defy convention; their seeming contradictions only make them stronger. They come from Perth, capital of raunch'n'roll and birthplace of the Scientists ...
The Triffids: Self-Sufficient and Surviving
Profile and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 6 January 1984
THE TITLE of the Triffids' debut album, Treeless Plain, refers, of course, to the Nullarbor. That it also suggests the mood of the album itself, ...
Triffids: Year of the Triffids
Profile and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 27 April 1984
GROWING UP IN PUBLIC was the title of a Lou Reed album a few years back, and although this is a dictum that can be ...
The Triffids: Roses, Knives, Dead Bodies
Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 5 January 1985
MAT SNOW hails the twisted poetry of THE TRIFFIDS while the rest of us wonder — do all the great new bands come from Australia, ...
The Triffids: Kangaroo Courting
Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 18 May 1985
LATE AFTERNOON, the wind’s beginning to whip up a little. Two Triffids sit on the balcony of an Italian cappuccino bar taking in the passing ...
The Triffids: Born Sandy Devotional
Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 21 June 1986
THE MID-'80s motto is that irony has gone mainstream. Self-confidence and hope for the future have evaporated in glittering, actressy despair, to be replaced by ...
The Triffids: The Outer Limits
Interview by Jon Wilde, Sounds, 20 September 1986
Something strange has been growing in the cracked plains of Australia's badlands. JONH WILDE prunes back the weeds and uncovers THE TRIFFIDS, still fertile after ...
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 2 May 1987
OF THE trio of bands lumped together in the ICA's Desert Island Risks series, Australia's Triffids, casters of many a desert bound, flat horizoned vignette, ...
Report and Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 9 January 1988
THE TRIFFIDS HAVE GRABBED CRITICAL ATTENTION WITH THEIR CALENTURE ALBUM AND A REPUTATION FOR REINVENTING ROCK IN ALL SORTS OF WIGGLY WAYS. PAUL MATHUR GRABS ...
The Triffids: Dominion, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 September 1988
THE NEW VENERATION ...
The Triffids: Shaw Theatre, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 14 April 1989
The way of the Triffids ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 15 April 1989
WINDING ITS WAY down the Swan River to the Indian Ocean, Perth is the sort of paradise most of us only get to dream of. ...
Review by Martin Aston, Q, May 1989
THE FIFTH full-length and second major-label album from The Triffids will inevitably receive acclaim from the critical ranks as a multi-faceted alternative to Australia's pub-circuit ...
Interview by Toby Creswell, Juice, 1994
THE DAVID MCCOMB who left Perth with his band the Triffids was still a very young man. Even at those first gigs in the East, ...
The Triffids: Hell of a Summer
Book Excerpt by David Cavanagh, 'Love is the Drug' (Penguin), 1994
HAILING FROM Perth, Western Australia, the five (later six)-piece Triffids lived in London for much of 1984-5 and were part of a brief musical wave ...
Prehistoric Sounds: In Search of an Australian Rock'n'Roll
Overview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 28 December 2004
I'VE STARTED writing this story a hundred different ways and every time I think I might be getting somewhere I end up stumbling across some ...
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, June 2006
Legendary perth band The Triffids are being hauled out of retirement by rabid fans. Guitarist Graham Lee tells Jenny Valentish how he's "lying awake at ...
The Triffids: Still Growing Strong
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, September 2006
Evil Graham Lee brought a ripe swoon to The Triffids' music with his pedal steel guitar. Now, seventeen years after their split, he's witnessing a ...
Guide by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2010
WHEN FRONTMAN David McComb died in 1999, aged 36, from heroin toxicity, it might have been expected that the band's reputation would dwindle. ...
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