By TANIA PHILLIPS
THEY were one of the big names of the ’80s in Australasian music, even if you didn’t know their name, you could hum one of their songs (and chances are it then stuck in their minds).
Yep the band that brought you Computer Games, Blue Day, Castaway, But You Don’t Care, Graffiti Crimes, People, Falling In and Out, Space Race and It Only Hurts When I’m Laughing is back and playing the Cooly in the New Year.
The guys are planning to once again Honour the pact they made with each other a couple of years ago: “We will get together and perform at least a few times each year.”
Last May, Mi-Sex stormed through a weekend of gigs, one at Lizottes Central Coast, the other at The Basement in Sydney’s CBD. Both shows were a critical and commercial success – after the encores were over, the word was out: Mi-Sex are back!
The band, with Noisework’s Steve Balbi on vocals, proved they had lost none of the fire, passion and musicianship that propelled them to the top of the Oz music scene back in the day.
They’d swept the annual Countdown awards, charted hit after hit, including number one with the prescient ‘Computer Games,’ their albums had gone platinum and the ‘House Full’ went up outside every venue they played.
However, with the accidental death of former brilliant frontman Steve Gilpin near Mullumbimby in ’92, Mi-Sex had been put to rest and the lights switched off.
However a birthday party gig for one of the band members got them thinking.
But the band’s resurrection only began after one of the Mi-Sex guys saw Balbi in the ‘Ziggy Show’ recently. Suddenly the lights clicked on and gradually came back up – now they’re now dazzling bright again!
Who: Misex
When: Saturday 11 January
Where: Coolangatta Hotel, Coolangatta
Interested?: Tickets from www.thecoolyhotel.com.au or 07 5589 6888
