Mick Turner
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Jonathan Turner |
| Also known as | Mick Sick |
| Born | 1960 (age 56–57) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Instrumental rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, artist, audio engineer, record producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | Drag City, Spunk/Fiido/Festival |
| Associated acts | Sick Things, The Moodists, Fungus Brains, Venom P. Stinger, Dirty Three |
| Website | mickturner |
Michael Jonathan "Mick" Turner (born 1960) is an Australian musician and artist. He is the founding mainstay guitarist for Dirty Three and has had art exhibitions around Australia and internationally. Previously he was a member of the Moodists (1983–84). He has released four solo studio albums, Tren Phantasma (1997), Marlan Rosa (1999), Moth (2003) and Don't tell the Driver (2013).
Michael Jonathan Turner, born in 1960, grew up in Black Rock, Victoria. In 1979 Turner (as Mick Sick), on guitar, formed Sick Things in Melbourne alongside Gary Hirst (as Gary Sick) on drums, Dugald McKenzie (as Dugald Bluuuugh) on vocals and Geoff Martyr (as Geoff Sick) on bass guitar. Tim Peacock of Record Collector magazine opined that the group were "Arguably the city's rawest hardcore outfit". They recorded a single, "Committed to Suicide" (1985) before Turner and McKenzie left in 1982. It also appeared on their posthumous album, The Sounds of Silence on Shock Records (1989). Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt that "the records featured ferocious guitar riffs and distorted vocals, displaying the band's penchant for flat-out, Black Flag-style hardcore punk." Turner and McKenzie co-wrote the track, "Where's My Dole Cheque", which appeared on another posthumous album, My Life Is a Mess (May 1999).
In 1982 Turner formed Fungus Brains as a proto-grunge and punk rock group with Simon Adams on bass guitar, Peter Maddick on trumpet, Geoff Marks on vocals and saxophone, Simon Sleigh on guitar and drums, and Andrew Walpole on drums and guitar. Their debut album, Ron Pistos Real World, was released in 1983. McFarlane described it as "a stylistic collision of punk, Birthday Party trappings, avant no-wave jazzy noise and a dozen other reference points." That group went into hiatus when Turner joined the Moodists, in April 1983.
The Moodists were a rock group which had formed in 1980, with Turner aboard the line-up was Dave Graney on lead vocals, Steve Miller on guitar, Clare Moore on drums and Chris Walsh on bass guitar. McFarlane specified that Turner was "adding his squalling guitar work to the band's unnerving, avant-garage rock noise." In October 1983, as a member of the Moodists, Turner relocated to London. They issued their debut studio album, Thirsty's Calling, in April 1984. The Moodists toured Europe and the United States before returning to Australia in November that year. They supported the Australian leg of a tour by UK group, Public Image Ltd, after which Turner left to reconvene Fungus Brains.
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