Martin Armiger
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Martin Armiger is an Australian musician.
Armiger was born in the UK. He came to Australia as a child, and later studied at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.
By the early 1970s, he had decided that he wanted to make music his career, and over a period of several months made a concentrated push to bring his guitar playing to a standard that would assist this aim.
Having moved to Melbourne, Victoria, he involved himself in the music scene there, playing guitar in the local band the Bleeding Hearts and then becoming a key member of Australian rock band The Sports, which had local chart success in the mid-late 1970s. The Bleeding Hearts appeared at Melbourne venues such as The Kingston Hotel & The Tiger Lounge (Hotel) both located in Richmond (Melbourne). Martin played a white Fender Stratocaster while in the Bleeding Hearts.
Subsequently Armiger moved to New South Wales, where his main work since the early 1980s has been composing and playing music for films and TV. Martin didn't appear on stage with The Sports at the Mushroom 25 year anniversary concert (1996?) held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) due to having a broken leg at the time.
Notably, he also composed the news theme for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) which has been in use on that channel since early 2005.[1]
he then became head of Film Comp. at the australian Film Television and Radio school (aftrs)
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