The Leftovers (Australian Band)

The Leftovers (Australian Band)

The Leftovers, were a Brisbane punk rock group which formed in 1976 in Queensland, Australia. Original band members were Warren Lamond on vocals, Jim Shoebridge on guitar, Glenn Smith on bass guitar and Graeme ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson on drums. Constant members of the original band (1976-1979) were Lamond and Smith, whilst other members were replaced at various times by a host of others including Ed 'Wreckage' Dziduch, Michael Hiron, Mark Troy, Johnny 'Burnaway' Gorman and Ed's son, Ché 'Wreckage' Dziduch, who joined the group in 2012. The group existed from 1976 to 1979 with one-off reformations in 1983 and 2012.

According to music historian, Ian McFarlane, Brisbane produced "some of the most anarchistic bands of the Australian punk rock era" and that it was a city nationally renowned for its ultra conservatism. Ian McFarlane also mentioned the group's first and only single, which was released in 1979 and rates it as "as one of the classics of the late 1970s Australian punk rock era."

The Leftovers had acquired local cult punk hero status in Australia over the years due to their acknowledged reputation in the past for excessive anti social practices, constant harassment by the Queensland Police Force and self destructive deeds. Their musical style fitted the generic conventions of punk but they also paid live homage to earlier proto–punk influences such as Lou Reed and Patti Smith.