Michael Hoste

Icehouse
Also known as	Flowers (1977-1981) Iva Davies & Icehouse
Origin	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres	Rock new wave synth-pop
Years active	1977–present
Labels	Regular Festival DIVA Warner Chrysalis Records Massive EMI WEA
Associated acts	Paul Kelly and the Dots Do-Ré-Mi Boom Crash Opera Sydney Dance Company
Website	icehouse-ivadavies.com
Members	Iva Davies Glenn Reither Michael Paynter Paul Wheeler Paul Gildea Steve Bull
Past members	Keith Welsh Don Brown Michael Hoste Anthony Smith John Lloyd Bob Kretschmer Guy Pratt Andy Qunta Glenn Krawczyk Simon Lloyd Roger Mason Tony Llewellyn David Chapman Max Lambert Adrian Wallis Steve Morgan Gary Hughes

Icehouse are an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in Sydney in 1977. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. The name Icehouse, which was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.

Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 ("Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI (Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. Their best known singles on the Australian charts were "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987).

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