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:
“For me, it’s enough! They’ve been here long enough—maybe too long. It’s a funny thing, though. All these years Fred was too busy to have much time for the kids, now he’s the one who’s depressed because they’re leaving. He’s really having trouble letting go. He wants to gather them around and keep them right here in this house.”
—Anonymous Parent. As quoted in Women of a Certain Age, by Lillian B. Rubin, ch. 2 (1979)
“the negro Babo took by succession each Spaniard forward, and asked him whose skeleton that was, and whether, from its whiteness, he should not think it a white’s.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)