Lyndon and the Liars

Biography

Short-lived Christchurch group fronted by Ross Humphries after the dissolution of the legendary Pin Group and featuring a young Lyndon Frasier prior to his stint in Ballon D’Essai, plus the future Bats duo of Kaye Woodward and Malcolm Grant.

No recordings, we played at the Gladstone and at the Empire in Dunedin. Maybe was around summer 1981/82?? I think before I joined Chris Owens was on bass and they were called On All Fours.

Kaye Woodward

This was Woodward’s first group – she had picked up the guitar flatting with Bob Scott on Springfield Road and he convinced her to join the fledgling group:

We practiced somewhere behind The Press building in the square and had to climb over a high pointy gate every time. Then moved to another practice room in the fire station in Sydenham, below where Wayne Manor had been. 

Kaye Woodward

Eventually Woodward and Grant would join Bob Scott and Paul Kean (who had spent a couple months jamming as Thanks to Llamas) to form a new group – initially known as The Percy Taiwan Band. On New Years Eve 1982 the four piece would play their first ever gig as The Bats.

Members

• Lyndon Frasier (guitar, Ballon D’Essai, Lyndon and the Liars)
• Ross Humphries (bass / vocals,  The Great Unwashed,  The Terminals, Bailter Space, Compulsory Fun, Lyndon and the Liars, Murder Strikes Pink, Scorched Earth Policy, The After Dinner Mints, The Great Unwashed, The Pin Group, The Terminals, Trillionaires)
• Kaye Woodward (guitar / backing vocals,  The Sundae Painters, Lyndon and the Liars, Minisnap, The Bats, The Percy Taiwan Band, The Sundae Painters)
• Malcolm Grant (drums,  Minisnap,  Six Impossible Things,  Trillionaires, Bill Direen, Lyndon and the Liars, Minisnap, Six Impossible Things, The Bats, The Builders, The Percy Taiwan Band, The Vacuum, The World, Trillionaires)

Discography

• None

Links

• Charting The Bats (Flying Nun)