Icehouse (band)

Icehouse is an Australian rock band, originally formed under the name Flowers in 1977. The band plays include new wave and synthpop and in both the United States and Europe scored several top 10 hits. Their biggest hit in Europe was Crazy 1987.

In August 2006 the band was recorded in the ARIA Hall of Fame. In Australia, the band had 28 times a platinum album. Since 2006, Man of Colours the best selling album in Australia by a Australian band.

Contents

 * 1 History
 * 2 Members
 * 3 Discography
 * 3.1 Albums
 * 3.2 Singles
 * 3.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 4 External links

History
Icehouse was founded in 1977 by Iva Davies and Keith Welsh. Their band was originally called Flowers and quickly built a reputation within the Pub Rock circuit, with covers of Roxy Music , David Bowie , Lou Reed , T. Rex , Ultravox and Brian Eno . In May 1980 Flowers released through independent record label Regular Records their first single; " Can not Help Myself " [5], the Australian top 10 made ​​it. This was followed by their first album, Icehouse, which took fourth place in the national charts in Australia and was one of the best-selling albums of that year. The album did include use of synthesizers . The album Flowers among others produced the Countdown Rock Awards of TV Week on.

Flowers early 1981 signed a contract with Chrysalis Records to release their albums including Europe, Japan and the United States. This, however, they had to change their name to avoid confusion with the Scottish band The Flowers. [6] The last show of the band under the name Flowers was on 27 June 1981. Thereafter, the name was officially changed to Icehouse. [7]

Icehouse as the band toured throughout the remainder of 1981 by the United Kingdom , Canada and the United States. The single "Icehouse" was a reasonable success in Europe and America, thanks in the video.[8]

The second album from the band, Primitive Man, was initially a solo project Davies. This album contained the single "Hey Little Girl", which the band broke through internationally. These include the Netherlands took the top 20. Another single from the album, " Great Southern Land ", was used in the film Young Einstein , [9]

In 1987 Icehouse released her most financially successful album ever out, Man of Colours, featuring the singles "Crazy", " Electric Blue "," My Obsession "," Man of Colours "and" Nothing Too Serious ". The album was in Australia eleven weeks in first place in the charts, and was the first album that spawned five singles all reached the top 30. [10]

In the 90s decreased the success of Icehouse. Davies did include collaboration with Sydney Dance Company . Albums like Code Blue and Big Wheel were moderate successes. In 1995, Iva Davies released the album The Berlin Tapes under the name Iva Davies and Icehouse.

In March 2009 Icehouse performed during the Sound Relief benefit concert.

Members [ edit ]

 * Iva Davies (1977--): vocals, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, oboe
 * Keith Welsh (1977-1981): bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Don Brown (1977-1979): drums
 * Michael Hoste (1978, 1982-1983): keyboards
 * Anthony Smith (aka Adam Hall) (1979-1982): keyboards
 * John Lloyd (1979-1984): drums, percussion, backing vocals
 * Bob Kretschmer (1982-1989): guitar, backing vocals
 * Guy Pratt (1982-1986): bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Andy Qunta (1982-1988): keyboards, backing vocals
 * Glenn Krawczyk (1986): bass
 * Simon Lloyd (1986-1991): saxophone, trumpet, keyboards
 * Steve Morgan (1986-2004, 2009-): bass
 * Paul Wheeler (1986-2004, 2009-): drums, percussion
 * Roger Mason (1989-1990): Keyboard
 * Paul Gildea (1990-2004, 2007-): guitar
 * Tony Llewellyn (1991-2004): keyboards
 * David Chapman (1993-1995): guitar
 * Max Lambert (1995): piano
 * Adrian Wallis (1995-2004): cello
 * Steve Bull (2007): bass
 * Peter Maslen (2007): drums
 * Glenn Reither (2007-): keyboards, saxophone