1983: grasshoppers reigned over the drying crust of Wanniassa. Meanwhile, at Plaza Music in the infinitesimal suburb of Woden, Mick Sarantos and Damian McDonald met over the poster rack and instantly hated each other. Vowing to curse each other’s bones to Beelzebub, they formed a band. BATTLEAXE broke new ground with its searing concrete stage props and lightning fast piss breaks. A move to Sydney saw scotch opened and a new band. WARSPITE tunnelled to more new ground and a new sound, but the singer’s breath of putridity let them down. With the help of the Greek mafia, DETRIMENT was formed, and they became the tightest drinkers in the Sydney thrash scene. As with all the late 80s, early 90s thrashers of Sydney, the boys woke up hungover (some still drunk) in a park in Kings Cross on a blearing Sunday morning and decided they were sick of paying for their drummer’s religious icon collecting habit. Sarantos and McDonald, not satisfied with packing tampons into boxes at the local menstrual foundry decided to form MONEY TREE SEEDS, a more experimental and less British band, and learned how to kill a rat with a brick, and at what stage of drunkenness self tattooing is to be lamented.Still at war with each other, Sarantos and McDonald have maintained the will of Satan, and formed as QUAYLEAF. Since 2001 they’ve taunted and sworn like nuns at each other, giving up only once when they paused to celebrate what they thought was the end of the world in the glory days of 2005. QUAYLEAF are based in Sydney's filthy inner-west.