Gerling
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Early 2000s
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| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Years active | 1993–2007 |
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Gerling were an Australian electronica, alternative rock trio formed in 1993. From early 1997 the members were Darren Cross on guitar and lead vocals, Presser (real name Paul Towner) on drums and Burke Reid on guitar and vocals. Their second album, When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun (September 2001), reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. It provided a top 50 single, "Dust Me Selecta" (August 2001). The group disbanded in 2007.
Gerling were formed as a guitar pop trio in 1993 in western Sydney with the line-up of Darren Cross (aka Darren E. Spielberg-Cross) on guitar and lead vocals, Presser (real name Paul Towner) on drums and Brad Herdson on guitar and vocals. With only two guitars and drums, the group initially played cover version of W.A.S.P. material. Then they focussed on creating experimental guitar pop, with their debut single, "Sedatives for Dead Radars", issued in 1995 on Steve Pavlovic's Fellaheen label.
It was followed by a seven-track extended play, A Day of Research, in 1996. It reached No. 13 on the ARIA Alternative Albums Chart. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt it was a "mix of early Pavement-style lo-fi guitar pop and idiosyncratic backing, it garnered widespread interest among the indie cognoscenti." Some of its tracks received high rotation on national youth radio station, Triple J.
Early in 1997 Herdson left to form Sonic Emotion Explosion, with Liz Payne from Spdfgh. He was temporarily replaced in Gerling by Ben Lee for their gig at Big Day Out, Sydney, in late January. Herdson's long-term replacement, on guitar, was Canadian-born, Burke Reid. In February 1998 the group issued a four-track 7" EP, Bachelor Pad on the Trifekta label. The label had been partly established in the previous year by Towner.
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