Amunda
{{short description|Australian rock band}}
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| origin = Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
| years_active = 1985–present
| label = CAAMA Music
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Amunda are a rock band{{Cite journal | title = Outback Rockers | journal = Herald Sun | date = 27 Jan 1996 }} from Alice Springs formed in 1985.[http://www.greenleft.org.au/1993/85/4772 Cultural Dissent, Green Left Weekly issue #85 27 January 1993] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126040435/http://www.greenleft.org.au/1993/85/4772 |date=2009-01-26 }} Amunda takes on the 'civilised' world{{cite book|editor= Warren Bebbington|title=The Oxford Companion to Australian Music |year=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-553432-0 }} The band's name is based on Mbantua, the Arrernte word for meeting place, which is associated with the spring at Heavitree Gap in the MacDonnell Ranges at Alice Springs.{{cite web|url=http://www.vibealive.com.au/vibe.asp?PageID=1528 |title=Amunda |publisher=Vibe |access-date=2008-12-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728141622/http://www.vibealive.com.au/vibe.asp?PageID=1528 |archive-date=2008-07-28 }}{{cite book|author=Peter Dunbar-Hall, Chris Gibson |title=Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places :Contemporary Aboringinal Music in Australia|publisher=UNSW Press|year=2004|isbn=0-86840-622-8}}
In 1992 they played at the Adelaide Fringe Festival,{{Cite journal | last = Farrant | first = Darrin | title = From Alice Springs with high hopes | journal = The Age | date = 16 Feb 1993 }} in 1995 the Port Fairy Folk Festival{{cite web| url=http://www.portfairyfolkfestival.com/index.php?section=9&pid=201 |title=Port Fairy Folk Festival : Acts 1995–1999|publisher=Port Fairy Folk Festival|access-date=2008-12-24| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081205104425/http://www.portfairyfolkfestival.com/index.php?section=9&pid=201| archive-date= 5 December 2008 | url-status= live}} and in 1996 the band played at the Adelaide and Sydney legs of the Big Day Out.{{cite web|url=http://www.bigdayout.com/history/pastbdolineups.php |title=Past Big Day Out Lineups |publisher=Big Day Out |access-date=2008-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217110318/http://www.bigdayout.com/history/pastbdolineups.php |archive-date=17 December 2008 |url-status=dead }} They have supported bands including Cruel Sea, Weddings Parties Anything, Ed Kuepper and Things of Stone and Wood.{{Cite journal | title = Trio in centre of the action | journal = Sunday Herald Sun | date = 10 Sep 1995 }}
Members
- Paul Ah Chee – vocals/guitar
- Rachel Perkins – vocals
- Stanley Satour – vocals/bass guitar
- Gerry Laughton – vocals/lead guitar
- Nick Guggisberg – vocals/drums
- Daniel Plain – drums/vocals
- Bill Davis – keyboards
- Kusha Homer – backing vocals
- Rhonda Ross – backing vocals
Discography
=Studio albums=
=Compilation albums (contributing artist)=
- Beat the Grog (1988) – CAAMA ("Wonder What". Also includes "Ain't No Use In That" by Paul Ah Chee and "Who's Goin' Wipe Their Tears" by Daniel Plain)
- AIDS: How Could I Know (1989) – CAAMA ("How Could I Know")
- Sing Loud, Play Strong (1990) – CAAMA ("1788")
- From the Bush (1990) – CAAMA ("Alice Don't Grow So Fast")
- From the Bush II (1992) – CAAMA ("Heart Beat")
- Our Home, Our Land (1995) – CAAMA ("Climbing The Mountain")
- 25th Anniversary Compilation (2006) – CAAMA ("Climbing The Mountain")
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090126033309/http://www.greenleft.org.au/1992/74/2319 Cultural Dissent, Green Left Weekly issue #74 7 October 1992] Music from the red heart
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