TWO Ipswich bands that were part of the scene that developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s known as the Bremerbeat will reform for 4ZZZ’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
The Colours and Splat Acrobat return for two shows at Banshees Bar on November 15, presented by 4ZZZ’s Heyday.
Springfield Lakes announcer Kristin Black, who hosts the 4ZZZ show every Saturday with Kellie Lloyd from Screamfeeder, will also be playing at the Banshees show.
Kristin, who plays in The Double Happiness, has formed The Heydaisies, a supergroup of Ipswich and Brisbane women, for the event.
Heydaisies features Kristin along with Michelle Bowden from Batswing Saloon, Gravelrash and Chopper Division, Ildi Putnoki from Post No Bills and Blood Party, Alana Mannix who played with Kim Salmon, Koko Uzi and Cross Town Collective.
Adele Pickvance, Lisa Kunde and Heather Anderson will also share the stage as guest artists with the Heydaisies.
Kristin said the idea for the show came from Splat Acrobat member Frank Henry.
“Frank was a Bremer High boy from the Class of ’85. He has been on the Triple Z board and a big Triple Z listener,” Kristin said.
“He contacted me about Heyday putting on a show to celebrate bands that have come out of Ipswich, particularly the Bremerbeat, which was the collective of bands that came out of Bremer High mostly in the early eighties.
“People like Andrew Palmer and Mitchell Kunde, who were in The Colours and Shaun McGrath who was in The Skeletones, The Toy Watches, Vacant Rooms, The Pinups, The Lemmings and the Pits; there were heaps of bands that all knew each other through Bremer High.
“Anyone reading Time Off Magazine in the late seventies and early eighties would be reading about venues such as The Curry Shop, The 279 Club, Hotel Brisbane, Sally’s, Sensoria, Pinocchio’s, The Outpost, The Tube Club, The Love Inn, Amyl’s Nitespace and 4ZZZ Joint Efforts at Queensland Uni to name a few.
“The Bremer Beat show will be a night of nostalgia and Zed favourites as part of 4ZZZ’s 50th birthday celebrations.
“We had The Colours and Splat Acrobat on the bill and I thought we needed female presence on the lineup so I reached out to Michelle Bowden and she is one of the most well-connected women in music in Brisbane. She basically assembled The Heydaisies and it has just been this wonderful experience learning covers of songs that have been very big songs on Triple Z since the eighties.
“Ipswich punches above its weight. Banshees Bar is the hub of nightlife in the ’Switch and Ipswich has had some really good artists in the last decade with bands like Coalfalls and Soviet X-Ray Record Club. There are some really cool sounds coming out of the ’Switch.”
The Colours headline The Bremer Beat with the original lineup of school friends; guitarists Ian Davies and Andrew Palmer, vocalist Mitchell Kunde and drummers Russell Sky and Dave Harden.
The Colours received airplay on 4ZZZ in the 1980s with their song Blue Shirt, which was only recorded and released on LCMR Records in 2022 after they reformed for the Return To White Chairs 3 show in 2021.
Splat Acrobat played some of their first shows at the old Murphy’s Hotel and released two albums and an EP between 1990 and 1994.
The Bremer Beat is on at Banshees Bar & Artspace on November 15.
