Edmund Kuepper (born 20 December 1955) is a German-born Australian

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ist,

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and

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. He co-founded the punk band The Saints in 1973, the experimental

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group

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(active 1979–85) and the

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-like The Aints! (1991–94, 2017–present). He has also recorded over a dozen albums as a solo artist using a variety of backing bands. His highest charting solo album, '' Honey Steel's Gold'', appeared in November 1991 and reached No. 28 on the

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. His other top 50 albums are ''

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'' (August 1992), '' Serene Machine'' (March 1993) and ''

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'' (August 1994). At the

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he won Best Independent Release for ''Black Ticket Day'' and won the same category in

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for ''Serene Machine''.

Biography

Edmund Kuepper was born on 20 December 1955 in

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, then part of West Germany. His family migrated to Australia in the 1960s and settled in

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. He attended Oxley State High School and

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with Chris Bailey and Ivor Hay.

1973–1978

Ed Kuepper's music career began in 1973 when he formed The Saints in Brisbane initially as a

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, Kid Galahad and the Eternals. The line-up was Kuepper on lead guitar, Chris Bailey on lead vocals and Ivor Hay on piano. Early in the next year Hay switched to bass guitar and Jeffrey Wegener joined on drums, and they were renamed as The Saints. Their early sound was a hybrid of

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, and

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; it "eventually coalesced into

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own distinctive sound as defined by Kuepper's frenetic, whirlwind guitar style and Bailey's arrogant snarl" according to Australian musicologist,

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. By 1975 Hay switched to drums when Wegener left and Kym Bradshaw joined on bass guitar. The group had difficulty finding performance venues, and converted Bailey and Hay's share-house into a music venue, Club 76. In 1976, the group wanted to record their material but found no interest from the Brisbane music industry. In September of that year they set up their own marketing company, Eternal Promotions and their own label, Fatal Records. They pressed 500 copies of their debut single, "

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" co-written by Kuepper and Bailey. The track was lauded by Jonh Ingham of ''

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'' magazine as the "single of this and every week". In November the group were signed to

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which quickly pressed their single and by December issued an album of the same name. The group relocated to Sydney and then London, by May 1977, where they were promoted as

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ers, however they eschewed "the spiky-topped, safety-pinned style of the leading UK punk groups". Kuepper noted " he Saintswas a full thing by 1974. Two and a half years later, this incredibly fashionable movement comes along, only an arsehole would have associated himself with that". Kuepper remained with The Saints until late in 1978 by which time they had issued '' Eternally Yours'' (May 1978) and ''

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'' (October). According to McFarlane, Bailey had wanted "three-chord rockers and pop songs" while Kuepper preferred "less commercial, more cerebral material". Kuepper left the group, returned to Australia, and The Saints continued with Bailey using a variable line-up.

1979–1985: Laughing Clowns

Kuepper returned to Sydney late in 1978 and considered retiring from the music industry. However, in April 1979 he launched

as a rock, soul and avant-jazz group. He provided lead guitar, lead vocals and banjo, with former bandmate Wegener on drums, Bob Farrell on saxophone, and Ben Wallace-Crabbe on bass guitar. Early in the next year, Ben's cousin Dan Wallace-Crabbe (ex-

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guitarist) joined on piano. In May 1980, they issued their debut self-titled six-track EP on

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, which was produced by Kuepper.

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's John Bush described their sound as "jazzier and quite a bit more experimental than" The Saints. Meanwhile, Kuepper and the group's manager, Ken West, started up their own label, Prince Melon Records, to release Laughing Clowns material. Laughing Clowns subsequently issued three studio albums, ''Mr Uddich Schmuddich Goes to Town'' (May 1982), '' Law of Nature'' (April 1984), and ''Ghosts of an Ideal Wife'' (June 1985) the last two on the Hot label. During July 1984 Kuepper rejoined The Saints on bass guitar as a touring musician alongside Bailey, Chris Burnham on lead guitar, and Iain Shedden on drums. However "old conflicts arose and he left" according to McFarlane. Laughing Clowns disbanded early in 1985 and Kuepper started his solo career.

1985–1990: Early solo career

Early in 1985, Kuepper released ''

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'' (June 1985), co-produced with Bruce Callaway (

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) and released by Hot Records. For the album he provided vocals, guitars: electric, acoustic and bass, and mandolin; he also used Callaway on guitar, Nick Fisher on drums, and

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on piano. McFarlane describes the album as "stark and angular". While Bush felt it was "surprisingly pop-oriented". In the following year he formed a backing band, The Yard Goes on Forever, with Michael Arthur on guitar; Louis Burdett (ex-Powerhouse) on drums, replaced a month later by Mark Dawson (ex- John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong); and Paul Smith on bass guitar (ex-Laughing Clowns). As well as touring he used the group, with additional session musicians, to record his second studio album, ''

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'' (September 1986). It was produced by Kuepper and appeared on Hot Records for the UK market and True Tone Records for the Australian market. A third solo album, '' Everybody's Got To'', appeared in February 1988 on Hot Records (UK), True Tone Records (Australia), and on

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for United States release. McFarlane noted his second and third albums had "consolidated the band's impressive live standing and contained many fine examples of guitar/horn-driven rock". While AllMusic's Dan LeRoy praised its "tight, polished alt-rock" sound as "perhaps his finest album ever". His fellow reviewer Bush related that it "failed to click with radio programmers or the public". The album's second single, "Nothing Changes in My House", had been released in November 1987 and reached the

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Top 100. A four-track EP, ''Happy as Hell'', was issued in 1989 before Kuepper changed his musical direction.

1990–1994: The Aints and more solo work

Kuepper and Dawson worked on an acoustic album, '' Today Wonder'' (October 1990), which McFarlane described as recorded "using unconventional guitar effects and an unusual drumkit", the pair proving "less is more with a mix of new tunes and covers". Australian journalist,

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, felt that the album had "changed the tide. Suddenly uepperwas in favour again" whereas his previous material had "seemed to fall on deaf ears". Kuepper and Dawson also formed a side project, Mephisto Waltz, with

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on piano, which toured and performed "ambient instrumental" music with "unconventional sounds" but they did not record any material. In April 1991, Kuepper formed a

-like band, The Aints, with Kuepper on guitar and vocals; and initially the line-up had Tim Reeves on drums; and Kent Steedman (also in

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) on bass guitar. McFarlane noted that they quickly released "three fiery, distortion-drenched albums": ''S.L.S.Q'' (May 1991), ''Ascension'' (December) and ''Auto-cannibalism'' (June 1992). McFarlane further elaborated that with "blistering, guitar-heavy tracks ... these albums were the antithesis of Ed's solo work". Kuepper continued his solo releases with another album, '' Honey Steel's Gold'', appearing in November 1991, which peaked at No. 28 on the ARIA Albums Chart – his highest position on the Australian charts to date. According to McFarlane it was also the "highest mainstream placement for an independent album to that time". At the

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he was nominated for Best Independent Release for the album. Kuepper won Best Independent Australian Release in

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, for ''

'' (August 1992), and in

for '' Serene Machine'' (March 1993). ''Black Ticket Day'' and ''Serence Machine'' had each reached No. 45.

1994–current: Later career

Ed Kuepper's next album, ''

'' (August 1994), peaked at No.32. It was nominated for an ARIA Award in

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. Further nomination occurred in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

for ''The Exotic Mail Order Moods of Ed Kuepper'' (October 1995),

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for ''

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'' (September 1996) and ''Starstruck: Music for Films & Adverts'' (March 1997), and

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for ''Live! with His Oxley Creek Playboys'' (June 1998). During the early 1990s he was one of Australia's most prolific recording artists. He has recorded more than twenty solo albums using a variety of backing bands including His Oxley Creek Playboys, he Institute of Nude Wrestling, The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, the New Imperialists, and the Kowalski Collective. Bush noted that "Despite his very appreciative cult of fans and torrid release schedule, Kuepper has not managed a breakthrough to wide popular acclaim". Kuepper has also been involved in sound tracking radio drama and experimental films. During 2004, he toured Australia and Europe performing semi-improvised music to some of these films under the banner of Music for Len Lye (MFLL).

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, the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna) and the Cartier Foundation (Paris), where Kuepper was the only rock musician to be invited apart from

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. 2007 saw the release of Kuepper's '' Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog'' album, which was inspired by the story of Jean Lee who was the last woman hanged in Australia, and features amongst others, performances by Jeffrey Wegener (Laughing Clowns), Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys),

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(Dirty Three), and Chris Bailey (The Saints). After extensive touring in 2008 opening for

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Kuepper joined Cave's band as a touring guitarist upon the departure of founding member

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in early 2009. Kuepper also relaunched Prince Melon Records. In March 2012, Kuepper released ''Second Winter'', containing songs from the ''

'' and ''

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'' albums with completely new arrangements and feel in the vein of '' Today Wonder''. Ed Kuepper at Murbah

After spending most of 2013 on the road, performing a series of "Solo and By Request" shows, Kuepper released '' The Return of the Mail-Order Bridegroom'', the second instalment in a ''mail-order'' series, containing reworked acoustic versions of songs by his former bands The Saints and

, as well as new versions of his solo material and songs popularised by artists including

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and

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. In 2015, Kuepper provided the soundtrack for the film '' Last Cab to Darwin.''

The Saints reunions

In addition to his brief 1984 stint as a touring bassist with the Saints, in September 2001 Kuepper and the original line-up of The Saints came together for a one-off reunion, when they were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame. On 14 July 2007, Kuepper, Chris Bailey and original drummer Ivor Hay re-united for another one-off gig at the Queensland Music Festival, with a more recent Saints member, Caspar Wijnberg, on bass guitar. In January 2009, as part of the All Tomorrows Parties touring festival – curated by Mick Harvey, The Saints with Kuepper, Bailey, Hay, and Arturo LaRizza played shows in Brisbane, Sydney and in Mount Buller, Victoria. This was followed by a Melbourne show on 14 January as part of the Don't Look Back sideshow concerts, where they performed the ''

'' album in its entirety. In May 2010, Kuepper & Bailey reunited for a monthlong tri-residency series of shows in Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne. With Kuepper on electric guitar/vocals & Bailey on acoustic guitar/bass guitar/vocals they played a selection of songs from both solo careers and post-Kuepper ''Saints'', as well as a few covers.

Personal life

In late 1979, at a performance by Laughing Clowns in Sydney, Ed Kuepper met arts student and photographer Judi Dransfield—the couple later married. Since 1994, Dransfield-Kuepper has supplied art work, photography or illustrations for various Kuepper-related albums.

Solo discography/studio albums

Ed Kuepper is credited with guitar (acoustic, electric, bass, slide), vocals, banjo, mandolin, keyboard, percussion, composer, producer, mixing, remastering: * ''

'' (Hot, October 1985) * ''

Rooms of the Magnificent ''Rooms of the Magnificent'' is the second solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper recorded in 1986 and released on the Hot label.

'' (True Tone/Hot, January 1987) * '' Everybody's Got To'' (True Tone/Hot, June 1988) * '' Today Wonder'' (Hot, October 1990) * '' Honey Steel's Gold'' (Hot/Shock, November 1991) * ''

'' (Hot/Shock, August 1992) * '' Serene Machine'' (Hot/Shock, April 1993) * ''

'' (Hot/Shock, July 1994) * '' A King in the Kindness Room'' (Hot/Shock, October 1995) * '' I Was a Mail Order Bridegroom'' (Hot, 1995) * ''Exotic Mail Order Moods'' imited Edition(Hot, 1995) * ''

'' (Hot, October 1996) * ''Starstruck: Music For Films & Adverts'' (Hot, December 1996) * ''Cloudland'' imited Edition(Hot, December 1997) * ''The Blue House'' imited Edition(Hot, 1998) * '' Reflections of Ol' Golden Eye'' (Hot, 1999) * ''Smile ... Pacific'' (Hot, June 2000) * '' Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog'' (Hot, September 2007) * ''Ascension Academy'' rince Melon Bootleg Series Vol.13(Prince Melon, 2010) * ''Second Winter'' (Prince Melon, March 2012) * '' The Return of the Mail-Order Bridegroom'' (Prince Melon/Valve, 2014) * ''Lost Cities'' (Prince Melon/Valve, 2015)

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

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, ''Honey Steel's Gold'' , Best Independent Release , , - , rowspan="2",

, rowspan="2", ''Black Ticket Day'' , Album of the Year , , - , Best Independent Release , , - ,

, ''Serene Machine'' , Best Independent Release , , - ,

, ''Character Assassination'' , Best Independent Release , , - ,

, ''The Exotic Mail Order Moods of Ed Kuepper'' , Best Independent Release , , - ,

, ''Frontierland'' , Best Independent Release , , -

Queensland Music Awards

The

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(previously known as Q Song Awards) are annual awards celebrating

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's brightest emerging artists and established legends. They commenced in 2006. (wins only) , - ,

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, himself , Grant McLennan Lifetime Achievement Award , , -

References

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External links

*
Official Ed Kuepper website
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