Sea Scouts

Sea Scouts Patch

The other great Tassie band, you can imagine this demo was recorded on a well used 4track one stormy winters night in a drafty Hobart share house - it has the best/original Scouts line up of Monika Fickerle on drums , Zak Von Bumburger on bass and of course Tim Evans on guitar/vox.
Tims guitars were always very "distressed" ,held together with gaffa and looking like he had assembled them from bits he'd found on the street, the guitar cuts out during this tape a few times and even the tape recorder itself sounds like its going to die at one point.

Tim was a great frontman flailing away with his tangled haystack hair,  tall frame hunched over his mike stand , Monica stood up to pound her cymbal less kit and Zak was, frankly, a disturbing thing to watch , it was always anexciting chemistry to experience live. The songs were brutal and discordant symphonies of noise, with Tims voice riding above it all building from (still tuneful) shouts to strangled screams and beyond. And the thing that sets them apart is that you always felt there was actually bloody good pop-songs in there somewhere.


The Sea Scouts - Strange Loop
Unlike LUGS, their contempories ,  the Sea Scouts made a handful of records one of which has the dubious quality of being unplayable: The single came back from the pressing plant with the hole off centre...perhaps unsurprisingly the band didnt see a problem with that and happily distributed them.....

Demo Tape Cover

Sea Scouts Demo (199?)
1. Strange Loop
2. Dark Green
3. Macarbre Maybe
4. Destroy your local Macdonalds


And unlike LUGS there is little chance of a reunion show Tim is New york based working as Degreaser and other projects but is also known for his lack of interest and respect for what has gone before - if you missed Mouth, Sea Scouts or the Bird Blobs first time round then thats tough.