Deadstar was an Australian band from Melbourne around singer Caroline Kennedy. Before she sang in Deadstar, she was in The Plums with Shamus Goble and Peter McCracken, and she also had her own project, The Caroline Kennedy Conspiracy. The City of Melbournes coat of arms The central business district of Melbourne, viewed from the north Alternate meanings: Melbourne (disambiguation) Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the Central... Caroline Kennedy is an Australian singer-songwriter. ...

Other members of the band were (at different times) Peter McCracken (bass), Barry Palmer (guitar, ex-Hunters and Collectors), Michael den Elzen (guitar; ex-Schnell Fenster), and ex-Crowded House members Peter Jones (drums) and Nick Seymour (bass). Hunters & Collectors, often referred to as the Hunnas by their fans, were an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1980. ... For the anthropological concept, see Hunter-gatherer. ... Michael den Elzen (1962) is an Australian musician and producer. ... Schnell Fenster was a band formed in New Zealand, predominantly by ex-members of Split Enz. ... Crowded House was an New Zealand pop-rock group between 1986 and 1996; two original members were from Australia and one was from New Zealand. ... Peter Jones is a Liverpool-born Australian session drummer, who replaced Paul Hester in Crowded House. ... Nicholas More Seymour (born December 9, 1958 in Benalla, Victoria, Australia) is a bass player, painter, and record producer. ...

Their style can be described as rock, the guitars on especially the first two albums are the core of their music. The third album was produced to have hits on it, and the singles "Run Baby Run" and "Deeper Water" (their biggest hit, reaching #28 on the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart) brought the band some success in Australia in 1998/9. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) is the Australian counterpart of the Recording Industry Association of America. ...

The band has since split up for personal reasons and Caroline and Peter have, again with help of Shamus Goble, released a country-tinged album, (In The Honeycone (2004)), under the name The Tulips. country music, see Country music (disambiguation) In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, and old-time music that began... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Discography

• Deadstar (1996)
• Milk (1997) (Deadstar in the UK release)
• Somewhere Over The Radio (1999)
• The Definitive Collection (2004)

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More info

• Deadstar Blazes On - an interview with Barry Palmer: [1]