Ash Wednesday (musician)

Ash Wednesday is an Australian musician.

Wednesday played synthesizers for JAB (1976–1979) and Models (1979–1980). In 1980 he released the single "Love By Numbers". He formed the experimental band The Metronomes with Al Webb and Andrew Picouleau . During the early 1980s he was a member of Modern Jazz, a purely improvisational musician group that played to randomly generated techno beats. In 1988 he became a member of the band Crashland .

Wednesday moved to Berlin in 1992 , where he worked with Nina Hagen . He was involved in the preproduction and programming for their album Freud You ("Bee Happy") (1995).

From 1997 to 2014 Wednesday was a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten , but not in their studio productions. However, he is represented on the live album 09-15-2000, Brussels and numerous live recordings of the Perpetuum Mobile tour from 2004.

In 1999 he moved back to Melbourne and founded The Tingler (with Crashland singer Lyn Gordon ) and the Machine Poets (with Garry Gray and Andrew Picouleau ).

Web links

• Official Ash Wednesday page
• Official Einstürzende Neubauten page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Messandnoise.com: Lethal Weapons 30 years on: The characters and true stories behind 'Lethal Weapons', the just-reissued Australian punk compilation from 1978.
2. ↑ discogs.com: Nina Hagen - Freud you
3. ↑ ^{a b} discogs.com: Ash Wednesday