Music

Sustaining the repertoire of heavy original compositions by Faulkner, their healthy combined elements of Sixties power-pop, bubblegum pop, Beatle-esque harmonies, psychedelia & grungey his pickup rock, highlighted per telling guitar operate of Shepherd. Hoodoo Gurus were their better in their string of widely acclaimed pop-rock singles including "My Girl", "Tojo", "Leilani", "Like Wow Wipeout", "Bittersweet" & "What's My Scene?" (a cognomen song reworked when "That's My Team", a todays promotional theme for the National Rugby League. A film clip of "What's My Scene" saw band members come out inside Wests and Cronulla jumpers)

Band history

At first the cult inner-city work, their popularity apace expanded thanks to regular airplay in Triple J and particularly after their distinctively way-out music videos clips began to aired on the countrywide popular indicate Countdown.

Original drummer James Baker was replaced around 1985 by Mark Kingsmill. (Kingsmill's brother Richard Kingsmill is an on-air presenter for the Triple J network and he replaced Arnold Frolows as the network's program director within 2003).

A sacking of Baker upset a bit of die-rock-ribbed fans & critics world health organization felt that a class action was losing touch using its "indie" roots, & Faulkner is said to use at times written a song 'Poison Pen' within response to occasionally of the critical articles in the music click written just about Baker's departure. Baker later on joined The Beasts of Bourbon.

A peak of their popularity was in the mid-to-late 1980s with the albums Mars Needs Guitars, Blow Your systems Cool, & Magnum Cum Louder, although it continued producing music through the mid to late 1990s. It toured Us extensively many days, gained the firm charted in the U.S. across regular exposure in The states college radio (& late MTV) and possibly developed the large fan base within Brazil. Original bassist Clyde Bramley left within 1987 & was replaced by Rick Grossman (passee Matt Finish, Divinyls).

Hoodoo Gurus officially split within 1998 however reformed once in a while for concerts. Within 2004, it freed the freshly album, Mach Schau & began touring once again.

Members

Todays & preceding members of the Hoodoo Gurus: David Faulkner (singer/songwriter) Mark Kingsmill (drummer) Brad Shepherd (guitar player) Richard Grossman (bassist) Kimble Rendall (guitar player, 1981-1982) Rod Radalj (aka Roddy Radar) (guitar player, 1981-1982) James Baker (drummer, 1981-1985) Clyde Bramley (bassist, 1981-1987)

Discography
Albums
Stoneage Romeos (1984) Mars Needs Guitars! (1985) Blow Your Cool (1987) Magnum Cum Louder (1989) Kinky (1991) Crank (1994) Blue Cave (1996) Mach Schau (2004)

Compilations
Electric Soup (1992) Gorilla Biscuit (1992) Electric Chair (1998) Armchair Gurus (1998) Bite The Bullet (1998) Ampology (2000)

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="1"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

| US Modern Rock |- | 1989 | "Come Anytime" | #One (Trine weeks) | Magnum Cum Louder |- | 1991 | "Miss Freelove '69" | #3 | Kinky |}