Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group The Laughing Clowns and later The Aints. He has also recorded over a dozen albums in his own name with a variety of backing bands, notably The Yard Goes On Forever, The Oxley Creek Playboys and The Institute Of Nude Wrestling. Kuepper was awarded ARIAs (the Australian version of the Grammy) in 1993 and 1994 for Best Independent Australian Release (and nominated for similar awards in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998). He was probably Australia's most prolific recording artist in the early nineties. In recent years, Kuepper has been involved in soundtracking radio drama and experimental films. The Saints are an influential Australian rock and roll band, formed in Brisbane in 1972 (see 1972 in music). ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock... The Laughing Clowns were an Australian rock and roll band fronted by vocalist and guitarist Ed Kuepper and backed by drummer Jeff Wegener. ... The Aints is a band name used by Ed Kuepper during his prolific early 1990s period for loud, feedback-drenched three-piece performance and recordings. ... The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...

Discography

• Electrical Storm, album, 1985
• Rooms Of The Magnificent, album, 1986
• Everybody's Got To, album, 1988
• Happy As Hell, EP, 1989
• Today Wonder, album, 1990
• Honey Steel's Gold, album, 1992
• Black Ticket Day, album, 1992
• Serene Machine, album, 1993
• The Butterfly Net, album, 1993 (compilation)
• Legendary Bully, album, 1993 (U.K only compilation)
• Character Assassination, album, 1994
• Death To The Howdy-Doody Brigade, album, 1994
• A King In The Kindness Room, album, 1995
• I Was A Mail Order Bridegroom, album, 1995
• The Exotic Mail Order Moods of Ed Kuepper, album, 1995
• Heart Of New Wave, album, 1995? (Greece only compilation)
• Sings His Greatest Hits For You, album, 1996 (compilation)
• Frontierland, album, 1996
• Samplerland, album, 1996 (compilation)
• Starstruck - Music for Films & Adverts, album, 1996
• Wheelie Bin Affair (Some Odds And Sods), album, 1997 (rarities compilation)
• With A Knapsack On My Back, album, 1997
• Cloudland, album, 1997
• Live!, album, 1998
• The Blue House, album, 1998
• Reflections Of Ol' Golden Eye, album, 1999 (compilation)
• Smile, Pacific, album, 2000
• Honey Steel's Gold - Remastered, album, 2000 (re-issue)
• Out-takes, Castaways, Pirate Women and Takeaways, album, 2001 (rarities compilation)
• Today Wonder - Remastered, album, 2002 (re-issue)
• Real Wild Life, album, 2004 (Brazil only compilation)
• Everybody's Got To, album, 2005 (re-issue)
• This Is The Magic Mile 3 CD (compilation)

External links

• The Kuepper Files - The Ultimate Guide To Ed Kuepper