Song Of the Day: May 29, 2005
The Holy Rollers-Lifestyle
Easter Records 45, 1985
Whether the name on the label is the Holy Rollers, the Beautiful Losers, or his own, a Greg Dear songwriting credit is an assurance of quality. Not exactly like the Birdman lovers or the shiny hard pop bands that were so prevelant in Australia at the time, Dear seemed to be mining some fairly trad American sources in a similar fashion to that of US bands like Zeitgeist (later the Rievers). Actually, there were a number of Australian bands doing this, Harum Scarum, Porcelain Bus...but I digress. While we feel pretty confident that we have the 7" realm covered, but we're still trying to track down the LPs, which seem to be a tough score. There's one by the Beautiful Losers, and at least one by the Holy Rollers...can anybody tell us more?


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Greg Dear recorded this 7" with his band the Holy Rollers for bassists Kim Williams label Easter records. They also did a S/T lp on Easter. He followed it up withe self released "Second Hand" 7", The Beautiful Losers "Ten Lies" 7" and The "Lover/Saint" lp as Greg Dear and the Beautiful losers. He also did some cassettes namely "Faith and Fiction" and "5 + 8 = 13". He is now known as Dr Greg Dear, Dr of Psychology at Edith Cowan University.
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