Hoodoo Gurus With Special Guests

Hoodoo Guru in Chief, Dave Faulkner was once asked whether the band he sings and plays guitar for, had left an influence. "I know we have," he replied. "I see it in lots of things going on, but whether it’s our influence or people that we were influenced by, who can tell? I see our way of thinking, which is something that when we started I didn’t see as much of."

The Hoodoo Gurus formed in Sydney on January 1, 1981 to play their first "show" in an inner city lounge room. Core members are Dave Faulkner and Brad Shepherd joined along the way by Mark Kingsmill ('83) and Rick Grossman ('89).

The band's debut Stoneage Romeos, full of garage punk songs and pop references, was named Australian Debut Album of the Year and was released in America where it stayed at number 1 in the Alternative/College charts for 7 weeks, becoming one of the most played albums for the year on the college network.

Mars Needs Guitars, the band's second album, topped the charts and went gold within three weeks and platinum shortly afterwards. Blow Your Cool, released in 1986, was a massive pop hit propelled by the band’s highest charting single 'What's My Scene'. Album 4, Magnum Cum Louder, reaches number one on the American College and Alternative charts. Followed by albums Kinky, Crank, Blue Cave, Mach Schau and Purity of Essence, the band continued to tour regularly through Europe, North America, Australia and Brazil.

The Hoodoo Gurus were inducted into Australian Music Hall of Fame in July, 2007.

"I mean it’s all just music anyway I don't care how it's made and where it's coming from as long as it gets me some where I want to go." - Dave Faulkner