Brendan Kibble aka "Wig" (born 16 October 1963) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his work with the Bam Balams and the Navahodads.
Kibble's first bands were the Brisbane punk rock outfits Alphabet Children (1979–80) (vocals), Flying Squad (1980–81) (vocals, guitar), Vampire Lovers (1981) (guitar) and The Horde (1982) (vocals, guitar).
After playing in The Horde, in 1983 he briefly played guitar in a line up of the Brisbane band The Headstones.
In 1984 Kibble left Brisbane and moved to Sydney, where he formed the Bam Balams , who released an album, an EP, and several singles. The Bam Balams split in 1992.
Over the next few years, he acted as producer for several Pyramidiacs records: the "Krunch!" EP (1993), the "Solo Una Vez" EP (1993) and the All You Want LP (1994) (which he also played guitar on).
In 1994 he started playing live again, in the band Surry Hills 2010, who took rock'n'roll songs and played them in full country/honky tonk style. Later in 1994, Kibble teamed up with Chris Flynn (ex The Headstones, The Dubrovniks) and they formed Motorhank. This band took country songs (mainly Hank Williams tunes) and played them in a hard rock style.
In 1995 Kibble and Motorhank's bass player Karl Dogbox formed the Navahodads. The band released two albums and had tracks on various compilation albums.
In 2002-03, Kibble played guitar in a band fronted by Rob Younger, the Nanker Phelge, playing 1960s British Invasion, beat, and r&b covers.
The Navahodads split up in 2003, and Kibble moved to Austin, Texas, from 2007 to 2011 he fronted The Texreys a Garage rock band. The Texreys released one album. From 2012 to 2015 he fronted Power Pop/Rock band The Go Wows, who released two albums.
The Bam Balams
Singles:
"Deliver My Love" (Citadel Records) 1985
"No-One Else" (Citadel Records) 1986