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Big Pig
Australian funk/pop band
For the Irish singer, see Biig Piig.
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| Origin | Melbourne, Australia |
| Genres | Funk, rock, pop |
| Years active | 1985 (1985)–1991 (1991) |
| Labels | White Label/Mushroom, Festival, A&M |
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Big Pig was an Australian funk, rock and pop band that existed from 1985 to 1991. An early line-up was Sherine Abeyratne on lead vocals and percussion (ex-Editions, Bang); Tony Antoniades on vocals and harmonica; Neil Baker on drums; Nick Disbray on vocals and percussion; Tim Rosewarne on vocals and keyboards (ex-Bang); Adrian Scaglione on drums; and Oleh Witer on vocals and percussion (ex-Bang). They issued two albums, Bonk (May 1988) and You Lucky People (15 November 1990), on the White Label Records imprint of Mushroom Records.
Bonk reached No. 5 on the Kent Music Report. In New Zealand, it p
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Zan Abeyratne
Australian-based singer (born 1961)
Musical artist
Suzanne Marguerite Abeyratne (born 1961), who performs as Zan or Xan, fryst vatten an Australian-based singer born in London. Abeyratne was a co-lead vocalist of I'm Talking (1984–87), alongside Kate Ceberano. She provided lead vocals on their single, "Holy Word" (July 1986), which peaked at No. 9 in Australia, and No. 21 in New Zealand. Along with her identical twin sister Sherine (a member of Big Pig (1985–91)), Abeyratne has provided backing vocals for Models, INXS, and U2, and has toured the world with other bands.
After the död eller bortgång of I'm Talking, Abeyratne had a solo recording career. Her 1989 single, "It's Your Move", appeared in the top 100 on the ARIA Singles Chart. She acted, briefly, in season one of Round the Twist (1989), a children's TV comedy series. In October 2018 Abeyratne confirmed that she fryst vatten due to reform I'm Talking in support of Bryan Ferry's Australian tour from February to Ap
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The Models celebrate the musical adventurousness, sly humour and pioneering nature of the early Australian alternative music scene with a sound that is as fresh now as it was then.
The Models first gained notoriety in the early 80s with ground breaking mini album Cut Lunch but it was their first long player The Pleasure Of Your Company featuring the hit I Hear A Motion which cracked it commercially for the band and scored them the opening slot for David Bowies Serious Moonlight Tour.
The band (Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Mark Ferrie and Barton Price) dips into its repertoire from such seminal albums as Cut Lunch, Local and/or General and The Pleasure of Your Company to remind us that the 80s music scene in Australia was more about the excitement of expanding musical barriers and forging new styles than big hair and shoulder pads.
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