Yes, it was that infamously un-famous grunge outfit from Armidale, NSW that launched Kinch Kinski on his trajectory to God-knows-where. After warping hearts, minds and eardrums from the slippery belly of Whump, Kinski incongruously beat himself into the form of: GYPSY!
Yes, that well-loved, much-derided, near-impossible-to-kill gypsy outfit The Gypsy Hot Club yanked Kinch up and down til his head hurt. With a guitar named Frankenstein and a changing cast of beautiful ladies (and lads....and ladettes) The Gypsy Hot Club gave Kinch his first taste of the festival scene in Australia: Woodford Folk Festival, Global Carnival, The National Folk Festival... and probably some others. It was a taste no amount of Bourbon could wash away. NO amount of bourbon.
Which brings us to the name: the first glimmer of this ticklish, tremulous pseudonym became apparent with the launch of Kinch and the Fearful Jesuits* - a veritable ganglion of funk, rock, gothic country and jamfusion insanity: masterminded by Kinski and the eminent bassman, Adam Barnett. Taking out second and then first place in two separate band comps on the same day a mere two weeks after forming, it seemed The Fearful Jesuits had a date with destiny but, alas and alack, after playing their first festival - Stockwood (backwards, y'see) - the band collapsed in a broken mess of bruised tissue and addled brains.
And now it's time to begin again, from the beginning:
It all began - as so many things do - in a small, dank nook of a sinister, sprawling Catholic College. The nook was filled with men - sweaty men, angry men, determined men...
* One commentator - myself - had this to say of The Fearful Jesuits: "'Kinch and the Fearful Jesuits' were spiritual geurillas, who wrought a fiery and terrible vengeance on their own souls before collapsing into drug-fuelled chaos and mania. The band was born in a storm, her afterbirth was cooked into a sheperd's pie and sent to Russia."
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