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.
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Famous quotes containing the words fred and/or negro:
“Guilty. Guilty. My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it.”
—Cyril Hume, and Fred McLeod Wilcox. Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon)
“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)