Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab | |
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Birth name | Glenn Dormand |
Genres | Pop, alternative |
Occupation(s) | Musician Songwriter Television presenter Radio presenter |
Instruments | Keyboard |
Years active | Since 1990s |
Associated acts |
Machine Gun Fellatio The Whitlams |
Glenn Easton Dormand, better known as Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab, is an Australian songwriter, musician, record producer, remixer, TV presenter, radio announcer, and video director. He is best known as one of the founding members of the band Machine Gun Fellatio, and for his presenting work on MAX. In 1998, he won an ARIA Music Award for Song of the Year for "No Aphrodisiac" (co-written with Tim Freedman and Matt Ford). Chit Chat has also won an Inside Film Award and has been nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award.
Chit Chat began his musical career with the band Vrag. He was the lead singer and lyricist during the group's existence from 1988 until 1994. Vrag's four full members and two part-time vocalists would later form Machine Gun Fellatio (MGF). The only non-Vrag band member to be in MGF was Pinky Beecroft. In 2006, Vrag reformed and performed a show at Sydney's Annandale Hotel
Chit Chat and 3k Short started the band in 1996 and undertook songwriting, producing and management duties until the group split in 2005.
Their first release, Unsound Sounds, was a collection of songs by themselves and two other bands, The Libertines and Limebunnies. All three bands were formed by Chit Chat.
MGF performed live at Big Day Out in 2002 and 2003. They have also played at Homebake on three separate occasions (2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004). In addition to these festivals, MGF have played at Livid (2001 and 2002), the Woodford Folk Festival, Rock-It, St Kilda Festival and Gone South.
The group made televised appearances on Rove, Late Night in Sibera, The Monday Dump, The Joint and What U Want.