Mixed Relations
Mixed Relations | |
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Genres | Reggae |
Years active | 1989- |
Labels | Red Eye |
Associated acts |
No Fixed Address Coloured Stone Yothu Yindi Mental As Anything Blackfire Tall Tales and True |
Members |
Bart Willoughby Murray Cook Leroy Cummings Alvin Duffin Alice Haines Vanessa Lucas Brenda Gifford Selwyn Burns Sharon Carpenter Sue Irvin Meg Briansky Rachel Perkins |
Mixed Relations are an Australian band formed by Bart Willoughby. They play a mixture of reggae, pop, rock and jazz.
Mixed Relations have toured extensively throughout the Aboriginal communities, Australian cities, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, USA, Europe and Hong Kong. Mixed Relations was chosen as the closing act for the 1989 inaugural Invasion (aka Survival) Day Concerts at La Perouse, Sydney and then every Invasion Day concert until its final date at La Perouse in 1994. Their single Aboriginal Woman was #89 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1993.[1]
Bart Willoughby was a member of No Fixed Address, Coloured Stone and Yothu Yindi. Murray Cook joined Mental As Anything. Selwn Burns played with No Fixed Address, Coloured Stone and Blackfire. Vanessa Lucas was a short term member of Tall Tales and True.
Discography
- Take It Or Leave It ep (1992)
- Aboriginal Woman single (1983)
- Love (1983)
References
- McFarlane, Ian (1999). Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2.
- Warren Bebbington, ed. (1997). The Oxford Companion to Australian Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 553432 Check
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