Jimmyjrg/sandbox/4 | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 |
| Instrument | drums |
| Formerly of | the Saints, the Last Words , Young Charlatans, Laughing Clowns, The Birthday Party, Paris Green |
Jeffrey Wegener (b. 1955) is an Australian musician, who played drums in such bands as the Saints, The Last Words, and Laughing Clowns.
Career
editFollowing a short period as drummer for the Saints in Brisbane with Ed Kuepper, Jeffrey Wegener left the band in 1975.[1] He then joined one of Sydney's first punk bands The Last Words as an original member, but left again after only a few months.[2] Wegener next moved to Melbourne to join Young Charlatans with Rowland S. Howard and Ian ‘Ollie’ Olsen.[3]
After the Saints broke up, Ed Kuepper formed a new band in 1979 with Wegener, Bob Farrell and Ben Wallace-Crabbe, called Laughing Clowns.[4] After several tours and albums, they broke up in 1984 while recording their final album Ghosts Of An Ideal Wife.[3] Around this time, the Saints had reformed, and Wegener joined again as drummer in 1985,[5] after briefly sitting in for The Birthday Party.[6]
After some years struggling with addiction and spending some time in jail, Wegener returned to playing drums again in the early 2000s, and reunited with Kuepper again for a series of performances.[7][8] This led to the formation of a new trio, Kowalski Collective, with Peter Oxley, and the release of an album Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog in 2007.[9]
In 2019, Wegener performed as part of a duo with Australian jazz saxophonist Mark Simmonds, which would transpire to be Simmonds' last gig before he died.[10][11]
References
edit- ^ Walker, Clinton (2005). Inner city sound : punk and post-punk in Australia, 1976-1985. Verse Chorus Press. ISBN 1-891241-18-4. OCLC 1001828822.
- ^ McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop". Archived from the original on 2004-08-09. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ a b McFarlane, Ian (1999). The encyclopedia of Australian rock and pop. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2. OCLC 40499862.
- ^ Walker, Clinton (August 1979). "Laughing Clowns". Roadrunner. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ Walker, Clinton (1985-03-29). "Sant beats the skin but not his breast". The Age. p. 41. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
- ^ Coupe, Stuart (1983). Birthday Party back on brief tour. The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 84.
- ^ Blackman, Guy (March 27, 2006). "Ed Kuepper and Jeffrey Wegener". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Zuvela, Danni (September 30, 2005). "Ed Kuepper and the Len Lye legacy". RealTime issue #69 Oct-Nov 2005 pg. 43.
- ^ "Yellow dog yowls live". The Courier Mail. November 3, 2007.
- ^ Shand, John (2020-09-21). "Sonic meteor who raced across our skies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ "Mark Simmonds Freeboppers - Fire". Birdland Records. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
External Links
edit- Jimmyjrg/sandbox/4 discography at Discogs