Phill Calvert
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| Genres | Post-punk, alternative rock |
| InstrumentTemplate:Pluralize from text | Drums, percussion |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| LabelTemplate:Pluralize from text | Mute |
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Phillip Calvert (born 11 January 1958) is an Australian rock drummer and producer best known for his playing in the post-punk band The Birthday Party with Nick Cave.
History
At the private boys' school Caulfield Grammar in the early 1970s, Calvert met vocalist Nick Cave and guitarist Mick Harvey and formed a rock band with other students, playing parties and school functions. The band picked up Cave's friend Tracy Pew on bass, and after they finished secondary school they named themselves The Boys Next Door in 1977.[1] After making recordings for local independent labels Suicide (a subsidiary of Mushroom Records) and Missing Link, and playing hundreds of live shows, the band left for London in 1980 and renamed themselves The Birthday Party, signing first to 4AD Records and then to Mute Records.[2]
After his split with The Birthday Party in 1982, Calvert joined the UK group The Psychedelic Furs, touring the U.S., but never recorded with them.[3] He left before they recorded Mirror Moves in 1984.
He returned to Melbourne and in 1985 became a founding member of the rock group Blue Ruin.[4][5] They recorded five LPs with Calvert and travelled to the UK. Calvert split with Blue Ruin in the late '80s. Blue Ruin reformed with Calvert for some shows in 2006.
Guitarist Ben Ling and Calvert have also co-produced the Melbourne band Witch Hats on releases Wound of a Little Horse (2006), Cellulite Soul (2008) and Solarium Down the Causeway (2009). In 2015 Calvert launched the label Behind the Beat Records with associate Ben Ling.[6] The first artist on the label is Seri Vida.
As of 2020 Calvert makes assemblage sculpture in collaboration with his wife Julia under the name "Kitty Calvert".[7][8]
Selected discography
Albums
- The Boys Next Door - Door, Door (1979)
- The Birthday Party - Hee Haw (EP) (1980)
- The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire (1981)
- The Birthday Party - Junkyard (1982)
- The Birthday Party - It's Still Living
- The Birthday Party - Live
- The Birthday Party - John Peel Sessions
- Blue Ruin - Such Sweet Thunder (1986)
- Blue Ruin - Flame (1987)
- Blue Ruin - Strange Things In The Corner (1988)
- Blue Ruin - Lighthouse Girl (1989)
- Blue Ruin - I'm Gonna Smile (1990)
- The Sunday Kind - The Sunday Kind (1993)
- Sugarhips - Sugarhips (1999)
- Bulletproof - Exciting Real Life Drama (2002)
- The Enthusiasts - I Hate Everybody (2006)
DVD
- The Birthday Party - Pleasure Heads Must Burn
As producer
- The Enthusiasts - I Hate Everybody (2006)
- Witch Hats - Wound of a Little Horse (2006)
- Witch Hats - Cellulite Soul (2008)[9]
- Witch Hats - Solarium Down the Causeway (2009)
- Seri Vida - To be Free (2012)
- Masses - Horde Mentality EP (2014)[10]
- Seri Vida - The Wait (2015)
- Masses - Moloch (2016)
- Astrid Munday - Beauty in the Ordinary (2020)[11]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Boys Next Door, 1978".
- ^ Beavan, Z. Ed. Mute Records: Artists, Business History. 2018. Bloomsbury USA. p.93 footnote 5
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."After a rather long silence, the PSYCHEDELIC FURS are about to unleash a new album". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1 May 1984. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rising from Ruin". 10 February 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Blue Ruin".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."People: Phill Calvert". Behind The Beat Records. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."We Turn Pre-Loved Vintage Treasure into Beautiful (Or Scary) Sculptures and Wall Art". 18 February 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kitty Calvert Assemblage Sculptures". 12 April 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Witch Hats - Enter Stage Left".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."100% on Point Post-Punk! Masses: Horde Mentality Review + Stream - CVLT Nation". 28 February 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Beauty in the Ordinary: A musical love letter to the late Tony Cohen". 11 September 2020.
Further reading
- Inner City Sound, Clinton Walker (2005)
- Bad Seed: A biography of Nick Cave, Ian Johnston (1995) Template:ISBN
- The Birthday Party & other epic adventures, Robert Brokenmouth (1995)
- Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue (2020)
External links
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