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The Triffids never enjoyed the same mainstream success as many of their peers, but there are few bands in this country who have been as acclaimed and influential.
Their evocative songs were driven by the perfect poetry of David McComb, who wrote about Australia with a kind of desolate beauty that has never truly been matched.
Behind him was a band whose music painted pictures almost as vivid as their frontman s words. The weeping steel guitars of Evil Graham Lee, the spacious textures added by Jill Birt and Robert McComb among the many ingredients that made this band so special.
In late-1991,
David McComb had just moved back to Australia, and started shopping around for a record deal after a couple of years of working on solo material in London. I ve been thoroughly immersed in doing demos and spent half the time just involved in horrible business wranglings and things like that, he told triple j s Richard Kingsmill about his recent time in the UK. It s quite a relief to be out of all that.
FireFox NVDA users - To access the following content, press M to enter the iFrame. I really like London. I really like England. I enjoy living there for every other reason except the music industry. That, in itself, is the technical reason why I was there.