Blue Murder, Bombshellzine & New World Artists present FRENZAL RHOMB Plus special guests Don't miss this. For a band of considerable age they still rip shit up, as evidenced on their last album Forever Malcolm Young (Shock). In the olden days you could see them every second week. Not anymore. Frenzal will NOT be touring in 2008 so you'd better go to these shows or you'll be suffering by the time 2009 rolls around. At least we didn't do a John Farnham and tell you this is the last one. It probably isn't...

Blue Murder, Bombshellzine & New World Artists present

FRENZAL RHOMB

Don’t miss this. For a band of considerable age they still rip shit up, as evidenced on their last album Forever Malcolm Young (Shock). In the olden days you could see them every second week. Not anymore. Frenzal will NOT be touring in 2008 so you’d better go to these shows or you’ll be suffering by the time 2009 rolls around. At least we didn’t do a John Farnham and tell you this is the last one. It probably isn’t…

Jason Whalley (vocals)
Lindsay McDougall (guitar)
Tom Crease (bass)
Gordy Forman (drums)

“There rarely was a band that believed so deeply in rock’s potential for revolution, and there rarely was a band that didn’t care if they appeared foolish in the process” Christopher Cross (creator of the pink album with the duck on it)

Dispensing punk rock justice this October, Frenzal Rhomb release their new album FOREVER MALCOLM YOUNG, featuring odes to Johnny Ramone on Johnny Ramone was in a fucken good band, but he was a cunt (Gabba Gabba You Suck), predictive text (Predickle me this), master criminal Graham “Abo” Henry and the Caps Lock key on the keyboard

First song and video to be released from this masterpiece is the title track Forever Malcolm Young, where the just-short-of-great man is compared to gnocci (not linguini), single plugger thongs (not sneakers) and headphones (not speakers).

And for those who care only for value for money, the album comes with a bonus DVD!

If you’re still reading on, you must want some history. Here’s an edited version of all the biographical info you might find on wikipedia if you had an internet connection and didn’t have to rely on this medieval gestetnered old bio:

1994’s Dick Sandwich and 1995's Coughing Up a Storm set the stage for a lifetime of poor production standards and great songs, the likes of which Australian and international audiences lapped up!  Fat Mike, owner of Fat Wreck Chords and member of NOFX, got his hands on a copy of CUAS when NOFX toured with Frenzal in 1996. Impressed with what he heard, he asked the band if they wanted to release something on his label. Frenzal accepted this invitation, releasing the 4 Litres EP. Fat Mike then forgot about them and the band attempted to negotiate a deal with a heroin addicted label mogul in the US, who never got around to signing a deal because he was in Mexico having his blood supply exchanged. Nevertheless, Frenzal Rhomb’s second album Not So Tough Now blew things up in Australia. Meet The Family was released in 1997 - their first album to come out in the US, and their first album with new guitarist Lindsay McDougall after original guit arist Ben Costello left to become a full time animal rights activist and second hand computer salesman. Meet the Family was certified gold in Australia, beginning a long line in awards, banners and trophies collected and stolen by the band.

The LP A Man's Not A Camel was released in Australia in March 1999 and on Fat Wreck Chords for the rest of the world. US and European tours followed with the likes of Blink 182, Less Than Jake, Vans Warped, and Toto

Without warning in April 2002, Lex Feltham left Frenzal Rhomb after insisting that Frenzal Rhomb should incorporate synth and guitar shaped keyboards into their work. He is now a DJ in Sydney. Renowned Adelaide remote control yachtsman Tom Crease stepped in as the new Frenzal Rhomb bass player.

In April 2003, the band released the long-awaited follow up, Sans Souci. The album was Frenzal's most critically successful to date (save for perhaps Coughing Up A Storm, Meet the Family, A Man’s Not a Camel or Not So Tough Now) and was hailed as a return to form after the dreadful Shut Your Mouth album, which we weren’t going to mention in this bio.

Jason Whalley and Lindsay McDougall also work on radio presenting Triple J's breakfast show daily from some god awful time of the morning until around about everyone else’s wake up time. Gordy makes picture frames out of bits of scrap wood, broken glass and his own saliva; and Tom sails the high seas of Adelaide on his Yacht. This is why Frenzal Rhomb never tour.