New Christs

The New Christs are an Australian garage rock band formed in 1980 by founding mainstay, Rob Younger, on lead vocals. Younger was the lead singer for punk rockers, Radio Birdman, and in other hard rock groups, New Race, Bad Music, the Other Side, Nanker Phelge, and Deep Reduction. The New Christs line-up since 2011 is Younger with Jim Dickson on bass guitar, Dave Kettley on guitar, Paul Larsen on drums and Brent Williams on guitar and keyboards. Over their career the group have issued five studio albums, Distemper (1989), Lower Yourself (1997), We Got This! (2002), Gloria (2009) and Incantations (2014). Three former members have died: Stevie Plunder in January 1996, Mark Wilkinson in December 2012 and Christian Houllemare in June 2014.
==Links to Peel==
Peel seemed to have first played the New Christs in December 1984, according to available tracklistings on this site. Further material from the band were played on his radio programmes until 1988. After 1988, Peel seemed to have lost interest in their music.
==Shows Played==
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*05 December 1984: Like A Curse (7") Sonics
;1985
*05 February 1985: Like A Curse (single) Sonics
*08 July 1985: Like A Curse (7") Sonics
;1986
*20 May 1986: Born Out Of Time (7") Sonics
;1988
*15 August 1988: I Swear (LP - Divine Rites) Citadel
*20 August 1988 (BFBS): (JP: 'Now this next is from the New Christs. It's another Australian band. I was going to play you something called I Swear, but I played it on the radio last night here in Britain and to my horror found that it repeated fairly frequently the common word for the process by which most of us got here. Except possibly for Andy Peebles, but the I think the rest of us got here by this means, so I better not play it to you, cause I know easily how inflamed you are. Instead this is, You'll Never Catch My Wave') You'll Never Catch My Wave (LP - Divine Rites) Citadel 
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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