Poison City Records is teaming up with seminal indie-rock darlings, Screamfeeder to re-issue the band’s entire album discography on vinyl over two years.
To celebrate this year’s issue of their four classic 90s albums, the band will undertake a short national tour focusing on songs from their spiky, immediate debut Flour, the crushing, seminal Burn Out Your Name, 1995’s oddball indie rollercoaster Fill Yourself With Music and the 1996 smash Kitten Licks.
Chief songwriters Tim Steward and Kellie Lloyd will also perform sideshows in each city, digging deep through Screamfeeder’s back catalogue as well as highlighting their more recent work. In an era of brightly coloured teen pop, your ears are going to be sizzling with the sounds of some true heavyweight 90s Aussie indie-rock.
Nine years after their last CD release (2005's Delusions Of Grandchildren) the band have amassed an ongoing swathe of independent releases including a 40 song B-Sides collection, and 7 live albums.
With the reception to these releases running hot, and a return to the stage for a brief tour with The Breeders in 2013, we’re overjoyed that these albums will finally be available on vinyl for the very first time! (or in the case of ‘Burn Out Your Name’ – again).
“My first introduction to Screamfeeder had nothing to do with their music. One day around 1994, I arrived at my local high school, embarrassingly forgetting it was a casual dress day. A friend (who had recently introduced me to Magic Dirt, The Meanies and the world of Au Go Go Records) passed me one of his old tees to throw on for the day.
On that smoke stained, well worn t-shirt was the band name 'Screamfeeder’. I hadn’t heard their music at that stage, but the name struck a chord with me. It wasn’t until our next family trip to Geelong, I was able to stop at the local record store (Chaos Records) to buy the “Fingers & Toes’ single and went about playing that thing to death over the next few months. Soon after I tracked down copies of “Flour’ and “Burn Out Your Name’.
A year or so later, I moved out of home and into the murky world of mid-90′s Geelong rock. My first good friend among that Geelong scene also happened to be a Screamfeeder fan and we regularly skipped uni, hung out at the beach in Torquay and drank our way through many a house party, with “Burn Out Your Name’ and “Kitten Licks’ a crucial part of our daily soundtrack. I guess everyone has a few of those bands that draw you back to a time and a place, songs that you never tire of and albums that still light a spark many years on.
For me, Screamfeeder is one of those bands – angsty, gritty and quirky enough, but always with those great pop hooks and perfectly off-kilter melodies. It’s a total buzz to be working with Screamfeeder on these vinyl re-issues all these years down the track. I hope by giving these albums the vinyl treatment they deserve, we reignite a certain nostalgia among the band’s older fans.
Shit, if we’re lucky, we might even introduce some new people to one of Australia’s underground indie-rock treasures.” – Andy (Poison City Records)
Screamfeeder Tour Dates
Tim and Kellie Saturday, October 4th Sydney: Gasoline Pony MarrickvilleTim and Kellie Thursday, October 16th Adelaide: The Grace Emily
Screamfeeder Friday, October 17th Adelaide: The Jade Monkey
Screamfeeder Saturday, October 18th Melbourne: The John Curtin Hotel
Tim and Kellie Sunday, October 19th: Bar 303
Brisbane TBA
