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The three band members Mark Maher or "Kram" (drums and vocals), Damien Whity or "Whit" on guitar and Janet English on bass/vocals come from the small town Finley in southern New South Wales where they jammed together in their youth.
The band moved to Melbourne, Australia where Whity was studying at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Music . The band played its first gig at a loungeroom for a friend's party. The band soon became part of Melbourne's punk scene playing gigs at venues like the Tote Hotel in Collingwood, Victoria. They released their first single "Circle K" on Au-Go-Go Records with an EP titled P'tang Yang Kipper Bang Uh! following in 1992. The band's first album Shashavaglava was released in 1992. 'Shashavaglava' means 'dickhead' in Serbo-Croatian. This album featured the songs "Old Man Sam" and a cover of English comedians The Goodies' song "Run".
Spiderbait signed with Polydor Records and released the first album The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake in 1995. The album reached the top forty of the Australian charts with singles "Monty" and "Sam Gribbles" receiving extensive airplay on Triple J. The album title refers to an unfinished project by the Finley Rotary Club, which became a venue for teenage drinking in their home town.
Their second album Ivy and the Big Apples was released in 1996 reaching the top ten and going double platinum in Australia. Their first single "Buy Me a Pony" received extensive airplay on Triple J resulting in listeners voting it as their favourite song of the year. The second single "Calypso" also achieved commercial airplay, and reached #13 in the Australian singles charts in 1997.
In 1998, Janet English and her boyfriend Quan Yeomans of Regurgitator recorded an album as Happyland . Spiderbait returned in 1999 with the album Grand Slam which also reached top ten of the Australian album charts.
The 2001 album The Flight of Wally Funk was recorded in a living room but still reached the top 40. Wally Funk is a pioneering woman aviator who volunteered for the Women in Space program for future women astronauts in 1961 and was also the first air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board.
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