The Fauves
The Fauves are an Australian rock band formed in 1988. The band are known for their witty lyrics, melodic pop-rock and often satirical or evocative exploration of Australian themes.
Their album Future Spa was nominated for Best Alternative Album in the 1997 ARIA awards but lost to Spiderbait's Ivy and the Big Apples. They played at the Big Day Out in both 1993 and 1997.
In 2007 they played their 1000th Show and in 2008 they celebrated their 20th Anniversary Gig at The Espy in Melbourne.
History
The band was formed in 1988 by four school friends from Mt Eliza High School on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne. The initial line-up consisted of: Andrew Cox (guitar, vocals), Philip Leonard (guitar, vocals, brass), Andrew Dyer (bass) and Adam Newey (drums). The band took its name from the short-lived French art movement Fauvism which was characterised by both its intensity and infatuation with colour.
In 1990 the band released a 5 track 12" vinyl only EP This Mood Has Passed, as well as a 7" vinyl only single Fireman 451 / Daughter Abroad. In 1992 the band released 2 six-track CD EPs on Shock Records, The Scissors Within and Tight White Ballhugger.
The Fauves (album)
The Fauves is the seventh studio album by Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne indie band The Fauves.
The album is notable for its brevity and the fact that it only contains three songs by Phil Leonard ("The Doctor").
Track listing
(all songs by The Fauves)
Personnel
References
Podcasts:
The Fauves
ALBUMS
- When Good Times Go Good released: 2008
- Nervous Flashlights released: 2006
- The Fauves released: 2004
- Footage Missing released: 2002
- Thousand Yard Stare released: 2000
- Lazy Highways released: 1998
- Future Spa released: 1996
- The Young Need Discipline released: 1994
- Drive Through Charisma released: 1993
- The Scissors Within released: 1992
- Dress ups released: 1992
- Prefer Others B-Sides 1995-2002 released:
Lazy Highways
Released 1998- Surf City Limits
- Ocean Hearted
- The Charles Atlas Way
- Long Load
- Girlfriend for Life
- Campfire King of Course
- Playing Like Millionaires
- Wear the Label on the Outside
- Kickin' On
- The Greek Aesthetic
- Extra Virgin
- What's Five Cents Buy?
- Don't Give Me the It's Not You It's Me
- Sunbury '97
- Show You Round the Compound
Future Spa
Released 1996- Big Brother Age
- Don't Get Death Threats Anymore
- Self Abuser
- Sentimental Motel Journey
- Dogs Are the Best People
- I Love the Fight Game
- Understanding Kyuss
- That's the Lifestyle
- Skateboard World Record
- Tying One On
- I Wrote You a Power Ballad
- Dragster for Christmas
- Suddenly Looked and Realised
- Tighter Than I Like / [untitled] / Everybody's Getting a 3 Piece Together
Drive Through Charisma
Released 1993- What About the Kiss?
- Inland Sea
- Blue September
- Crumbling
- Circumcision
- A Moment's Ornament
- People Hater
- In a Time of Plague
- Vibrosonic
- Out of Season
- Italian Movies
- Net Weight, One Pound
- Reflecto Boy
- The Man Who Never Sleeps
- I Saw the Birth of Jesus
- On a Trip to Sydney
- The Rapids
- On the World's Last Day
- Cavalry Fought
- The Asylum
- Fade Behind the Green
- Runaway
Prefer Others B-Sides 1995-2002
- When the Tour Went Pro
- Common Assessment Task
- The Dirt-Bike Option
- Get Into Retail
- Suitcase of Carter Browns
- It's Been a Long Time Since I Felt That Thrill
- Giving Up Drinking
- Bigger Than Tina 2
- Coming Home
- Borg
- Glomesh
- Aim to Please
- Photo Albums
- Monster Truck Show
- Hand Solo
- Easy (Easy)
- Marijuana Is God's Currency
- It's Not '74 Anymore
- Hanging Rock
- Working FOH
- He Needs His Own Tonight Show
- You're the Voice
- All My Friends Are Getting Married
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by Brett Anderson
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by Cheez
The 2 Of Us
by: SuedeLying in my bed, I think of you
That song goes through my head, the one we both knew
In each line lies another line full of sacred sound
But you're outside where the companies dream and the money goes round
Lying in my bed.
Watching my mistakes,
I listen to the band they said that it could be the 2 of us
The snow might fall and write the lines on the silent page
But you're outside making permanent love to the nuclear age
Two silhouettes by the cash machine make a lovers dance
It's a tango for the lonely wives of the business class
Lying in my bed
Watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
Lying in my bed
With nothing much to say so I listen to the man
He said that it could be the 2 of us
I heard you call from across the city through the stereo sound
And so I crawled there sickeningly pretty as the money went round
Lying in my head watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
And the drums beat in my head
Pianos chime the sound in this prison of the house
And as the illness comes again can you hear me through the rain
As I listen to the band?
As I sing the silent song
Mime each lonely word
Please listen to the man he said that it could be the 2 of us
Alone but not lonely, you and me