Skyhooks
Biography
In the mid Seventies Skyhooks shook and shaped Australian rock almost as much as the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
The glitter rock period of music did not sit well with Australian music, which is steeped in being singers and bands having to be able to cut it in front of an audience. In the Seventies no self-respecting new Australian band would dare stand in front of an audience in make-up, glitter and stacked heels and hope to be taken seriously. Melbourne's Skyhooks decided to parody that side of music rather than follow it. They dressed in an assortment of costumes, but what they wore had nothing to do with the music they performed, which was pure sex drugs and rock and roll, in songs that spoke about the world around them as it a was, right down to the names of the streets and suburbs the band and their audience came from. The songs, written by bassist Greg Macainsh, spoke louder than the costumes. Instead of being the intended parody the costumes, only helped to separate Skyhooks from everything else happening in world and Australian rock.
The group's first audiences were the intelligentsia surrounding Melbourne University. They were adopted by the suburban punks. The band was as exciting as the songs were clever.
Selected Discography
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