Bloodloss
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| Also known as | Zulu Rattle |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Bloodloss were an Australian post-punk, grunge band formed in 1982. The original line-up were Martin Bland on drums, Renestair E.J. on guitar and saxophone, Jim Selene on bass guitar and Sharron Weatherill on lead vocals and guitar. They issued five albums, Human Skin Suit (June 1988), The Truth Is Marching In (1990), In-a-Gadda-Da-Change (1993), Live My Way (March 1996) and Misty (1996).
Bloodloss were formed in Sydney late in 1982 as a post-punk, grunge band by Martin Bland on drums (ex-Chaos, Head On, Crawling Eye, Acid Drops), Renestair E.J. (a.k.a. Eric Reynolds) on guitar and saxophone (ex-Head On), Jim Selene on bass guitar (ex-Spell) and Sharron Weatherill on lead vocals and guitar. Bland and Renestair E.J.'s earlier Adelaide-based group, Head On, are described by Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, as "a loud, Detroit-fuelled punk band in the vein of The Stooges and MC5." Renestair E.J. had relocated to Sydney while Bland remained in Adelaide to briefly join Crawling Eye and then Acid Drops before also moving to Sydney.
Bloodloss had a run of temporary drummers prior to Bland joining.AllMusic's Ned Raggett described the group's sound as "loud blues/Vegas/punk craziness." Late in 1983, when Stuart Gray (a.k.a. Stu Spasm) joined on guitar and vocals, the group changed their name to Zulu Rattle. They issued a sole track, "Terror Train", on a various artists' compilation album, Strawberry Hills (1984), via Green Records. In March 1984 Bland and Gray left to form Salamander Jim alongside Tex Perkins and Zulu Rattle disbanded.
Bland returned to Adelaide in 1985 where he rejoined Selene, who was a member of Primevils with Dave Mason on guitar and vocals (ex-Head On, Acid Drops) and Su Severin on guitar (ex-Crawling Eye). That line-up issued a single, "I Saw My Name" (November 1986), which was co-written by Bland, Mason, Severin and J Syrokos. Bland and Gray formed a noise rock group, Lubricated Goat, in 1986 in Sydney. Renestair E.J. joined Primevils prior to recording their debut and sole album, Chicken Factory, which was released via Greasy Pop Records in May 1987.
Back in 1986 Renestair E.J. and Weatherhill reformed Bloodloss in Adelaide by recruiting Charlie Tolnay on lead guitar (ex-Grong Grong, also in King Snake Roost), Andrew Stosch (a.k.a. Andrew Foley) on drums and Chris Wiley on bass guitar (from Fear and Loathing). They issued a music cassette, Bloodloss, in that year.
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