Fred Negro

Fred Negro is an Australian satirist, musician, songwriter, and cartoonist. Born in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in 1959. He has fronted numerous rock, punk and country bands, with significant local success, including:

• The Editions (drums)
• I Spit On Your Gravy (vocals/drums)
• The Band Who Shot Liberty Valance (vocals)
• The Gravybillies (vocals)
• The Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre (vocals)
• Shonkytonk (vocals)
• The Fuck Fucks (vocals)
• Squirming Gerbil Death (vocals)
• The Twits (vocals)
• They Might Be Negroes (vocals)
• The Eggs (vocals)
• 57 Pages of Pink (vocals)
• The Black Moles (vocals)
• Little Freddie and the Pops (vocals)

In 1985 he formed The Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre, a country-punk fusion group with Garry Mansfield (guitar), Paul Barnett (bass), Scotty Simpson (drums) and Terry Foster (guitar, harmonica); they disbanded in 1991. Punk-influenced I Spit On Your Gravy had also disbanded by the end of the 1980s but Fred has maintained a significant underground presence in Melbourne, Australia with regular appearances in his other bands, and today contributes a weekly 'Pub Strip' to the Melbourne street press, and until major renovation in 2009 MC'd the long running Karaoke night at the Greyhound Hotel, St Kilda, Victoria.