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The Beautiful Few's Biography

1993 and in a cramped flat in Clifton Hill, Melbourne, we begin: a bass player, some lyrics, a violin, keyboards. Then guitars enter: three of them, more lyrics, some concrete ideas. Ramona Barry (keyboards and vocals) departs. April and a gig: three guitars, bass, violin, keyboards, spoken and sung vocals, no drummer, a wall builds and my brown Cortina konks out for the last time on the West Gate bridge. Arch Law (ex-Huxton Creepers) joins and we’re swinging. Charles Barnett (ex-This Happy Greed) departs after the first gig. We rehearse at Quincy McLean’s Bakehouse, make a demo in a day, do a few gigs and by early 1994 both Law and guitarist/vocalist Craig Nenke have left the ranks. Described by Untitled Red vocalist Greg Day as a ‘magnificient accident’, this version dies quick..

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biopic

That's a freaking NOVEL of a BIO....
but with so much music over some many years... why not?

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over to myspace

Submitted by The Beautiful Few on Thu, 2008-08-14 15:20. (from The Beautiful Few)

Down in these southern depths, a little band like us can’t deny that MYSPACE seems to be making the individual band website an antiquated, almost redundant entity. With this in mind, this is possibly the last posting on the site here and all news will move over to www.myspace.com/thebeautifulfew In the future, on MySpace, we hope to have a little compilation from all our albums up for download and to make those CD’s available as well. We begin recording a new album on August 4 and wi ...

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Upcoming gigs and Album

Submitted by The Beautiful Few on Tue, 2007-10-09 12:26. (from The Beautiful Few)

After conquering in the smallest possible way, St.Kilda, or more specifically The Esplanade Hotel, we find ourselves playing the game every little band and for that matter many big bands know all too well - waiting. Due now in October or possibly November, our fifth album DIY Heartbreak (Girlfriends 88-05) will be released both digitally through BigRig Records and in a limited edition bright yellow postcard sleeve run of one hundred copies which will be available at the gigs. On the gig front, w ...

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Small & Simple Pleasures

Submitted by The Beautiful Few on Tue, 2007-10-09 12:26. (from The Beautiful Few)

With only the heartiest, beefiest old timers dipping their wide paunches into the chilly waters of Port Phillip, The Beautiful Few have taken to walking along the highly maintained sands of Edithvale finalizing the artwork for DIY HEARTACHE (Girlfriends 88 -05) and looking down to the soon to be palm tree covered drag of Frankston; rumoured to be the new California or back towards Beaumaris where wife swapping was rife in the 70s. Up in Shepparton, Troy J Parker works hard (after delectable meal ...

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