Screamfeeder's Kitten Licks

Released in 1996, Kitten Licks catapulted Brisbane indie-rock three-piece Screamfeeder into the ''90s alternative-rock boom alongside Powderfinger, silverchair, You Am I and Regurgitator. International tours, regular festival shows, and TV appearances followed. And yet, commercial success for Screamfeeder was comparatively short-lived. By the end of the decade, the band''s outlook was bleak: at a career standstill and unable to record under their own name. This is the story of how Kitten Licks was made, how it was swept up into ''90s mythology and what the journey tells us about the fickle nature of music production in Australia, namely: how to survive it.>

List of contents

1. Static from the Stars
2. Madmen to Screamfeeder
3. Side A
4. Side B
5. This Is It
6. Consistently Intermittent
7. Some Mysterious Transaction
8. If I Transmit Long Enough
Cast of Characters
Selected Discography
Endnotes
List of References
Acknowledgements
Index

About the author

Ben Green is a research fellow at Griffith University, Australia. He is the author of Peak Music Experiences: A New Perspective on Popular Music, Identity and Scenes (2021) and co-editor of Popular Music Scenes: Regional and Rural Perspectives (2023).

Ian Rogers is a senior lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. A popular music studies scholar, he is the author of Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory (with Andy Bennett, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Ben Green, Dr. Ben (Research Fellow Green, Dr. Ian (Senior Lecturer Rogers, Ian Rogers
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2024
• EAN: 9781501393280
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-9328-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: 33 1/3 Oceania
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Queensland, Rock, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Brisbane, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, Music reviews & criticism, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Music reviews and criticism