Ron Rude

Ron Rude
Born (1956-10-24) 24 October 1956
(Melbourne, Australia)
Genres Post-punk

Ron Rude is a rock and roll musician in Melbourne, Australia. He was one of the first Australian indie musicians to self record and release their own material, which he did with the release of his first album 'The Borders of Disgrace' in 1979 and is considered to be a pioneer of DIY recording.[1] Ron Rude was also part of the post punk "little band scene" that flourished in Melbourne in the late 1970s - 1980s, and is probably best known (to the general public) for staging a hunger strike in the window of local record shop Missing Link, and the demand that local radio station 3XY play his records, threatening to drown himself in a bucket of water if they did not.[2]

From 2001 to 2003, the hunger strike was the subject of a play called 3XY Or I Die. Since 2001, Rude has been performing new material with a new band called the Ron Rude Renaissance.[3]

Discography

Albums

With Piano Piano:

With The Renaissance:

Singles

With Piano Piano:

With The Renaissance:

Production credits

Year Album Artist Label Notes
1980 Centrefold/Window 7" Microfilm Unforgettable Music through Missing Link
1980 Honeymoons/123 Factory 7" The Fabulous Marquises Unforgettable Music through Missing Link
1981 From Belgrave With Love Various Artists Cleopatra Records Daily Planet, The Ears, Lachelle, Lisa Gerrard, The Marquises, Microfilm, Microtechs, Steve Vanguard, Vicky Hayes, The Video Pirates

References

  1. ↑ 'The Independent Album: An Idea Whose Time Has Come' by Stuarte Coupe, Rolling Stone Magazine, Published June 26th 1980
  2. ↑ "New life for disco scene", The Age, 17 April 1986, p. 27
  3. ↑ Donovan, Patrick (2003) "Gigs", The Age, 8 August 2003, retrieved 2011-07-21


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