'After the commercial failure of the Saints' third album, 1978's Prehistoric Sounds, EMI gave the band their walking papers and guitarist Ed Kuepper and drummer Ivor Hay decided to pack it in and leave London to return home to Australia. Singer and guitarist Chris Bailey, however, wasn't about to throw in the towel, and with Kuepper's blessings he assembled a new version of the Saints and began the long, hard struggle to re-establish the group as one of the world's great rock bands. Bailey's first three a...   [ read more ]

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In the 1970s, Jimmy Norman worked with 'Marty Willson-Piper's tenure with the Saints was apparently a brief one; after adding his estimable guitar prowess to 2005's Nothing Is Straight in My House, the former Church axeman is absent from 2007's Imperious Delirium, with the Saints reconfigured as a scrappy power trio this time out. Chris Bailey's straightforward, elemental guitar figures recall the nervy tone of the band's superb early work, though the songs are wordier and less muscular than the stuff o...   [ read more ]

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The Saints were to Australia what the Sex Pistols were to Britain and the Ramones to America. Picking up the germ planted by the defunct Stooges, MC5, Velvet Underground, and New York Dolls, the Saints sparked the Far East punk rock movement with a blasting, blistering, scorching sound no one had heard before. Moreover, the Saints were blitzing the unsuspecting in their home of Brisbane in 1973, long before the Sex Pistols or the Ramones had even begun. Australians to...   [ read more ]

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