R.I.P. - The band is no more, but I guess this will stay here for shits and giggles... Enjoy.
***************************There's bands that take a while to get their shit together and then there's 5th Ave Crazy. To trace the origins of this rock n roll story we have to go back to 1996.
The first whispers of the forming of some kind of band started back in that summer when three high-school friends: Craig Day (guitar, vocals), Nick Harding (bass) and James Alderman (drums) thought it might be a good idea to collectively make a lot of noise and generally receive a lot of disapproving nods from those who know better. However, it wasnt until almost two years later in the winter of 1998 when these whispers turned into something more audible and the first jam session took place. More followed and the band (which was then unnamed) played its first gig less than two months later, combining original songs with You Am I covers to an appreciative and inebriated audience (although somewhat more inebriated than appreciative) at a friends 18th birthday party.
Then that's where the story pretty much stopped, or stalled at least. Years of inactivity, sporadic jamming and entire catalogues of songs discarded is what followed. That is until mid-2003 when the band put their cards on the table and proclaimed Were Getting the Band Back Together, and spent the next year building an arsenal of all new rock songs.
Sounding like the love child of You Am I, Local H, and Supergrass, conceived during a night of drunken debauchery, the band had finally found a voice that was uniquely their own and a name to go with it.
Since June 2004, the band have been playing, under the flag of The Misogynists, to increasingly appreciative audiences at a number of local venues, including the ANU Bar, Church Bar, Potbelly, Green Room and Phoenix Bar. Now, having the proper attitude, required experience and dynamic songs under their belts, 5th Ave Crazy are ready to tackle the local music scene with a beer in one hand and the punters balls in another.
