Quick & The Dead were the first racialist band from Australia. They start play under the name Audio Damage and released a demo tape in 1979-'80 with 18 songs. After a while they change their name and they released two demos, one in 1981 (22 songs), one in 1982 under the title 'Kick Into' included 18 songs, one live demo (22 songs) and in May of 1981 the classic ''7 'Another Violent Night' with 5 songs in good and clear sound. When they split up, the guitarist Glen and drummer Musolini they played in the famous wp band White Noise. Also their bassist Murray Holmes going to England and played in Skrewdriver ('Hail The New Dawn' area). I dont know about their vocalist. In the '90's and when the band dont exist, some antiracist wankers put the Quick & The Dead song 'Pyramid Party' (a song from the ''7) in the antiracist compilation 'Oi! Rare & Exotica', of course with out the permission of the band's members! In this compilation you can see also some other bands that they dont have relation with these scums, but is natural for they to exploit bands. Murray Holmes and other old band's members, are back today, also in B&H movement and they planed something good! Anyway, here is their ultra rare second demo called 'Kick Into'.Here some infos that Murray Holmes give to me in an uncompleted interview before 2 years.
At present i'm an ex Skrewdriver member bass player at 46 years of age living in country town called Harvey. I have a business as a refrigeration and airconditioning service centre. Life here is very very dull as there is no skinheads or nationalist socialists. There is a lot of would bees if they could be a nationalist socialist. Every one here hates blacks and Asians. We have a very big population of Italians now into third and fourth generation that have simulated well over the years. I remember my father despising them as they were immigrants after WW 2. They came in their thousands and it upset a lot of Australians. I would fight with them at school and after leaving school fight with them on the streets. Yes we called them wogs and any other European immigrants. Enter the Asians. Australian immigration has been letting in so called refugees from all these sand nigger countries now for years. Slowly but surely the numbers have increased to an epidemic proportion. Then it was the Italians and Australian against the Asians and we joined forces. Now its Asian triads against Asians. Laugh my arse off. They are fighting among them selves through drugs gambling and crime, the tide has turned on the face of Australia. I was married for 14 years to the most beautiful girl in the world, she is standing next to me in the pic in the book The First Ten Years, but alas we grew apart. I had my business going and she had her career. We worked all the time so no wonder I went up the shop to get a packet of cigarettes and kept on driving. I started playing bass at a very early age. I used to see AC/DC in Perth and Fremantle. Eventually I got to know the first bass player from the band, so I asked him to teach to play bass. He said he had no time and told me to play along with records of my favourite bands and it will come to you. So I took his advice and from then on I was a bass player. He also said you will always get a job in a band, being a bass player cause there was always a shortage of bass players. I started from that point and me and some mates got a band going doing typical rock music. We started to evolve and listened to independent bands. There was a record shop in Perth that specialised in imported records cd, the whole world opened up for me. There was more to music than popular music /classic bands and the radio and tv. Anyway nothing happen except a great financial loss in buy amps and guitars and basses, to collect dust. I those days you couldn’t start a band and play, you had to be almost world class before the bastards would give you a gig. At that stage it looked like my musical career was crushed before it started. Very frustrating. I eventually got married and still had all my gear in dust of course but still bought heaps of records. Music was in my blood. I used to go and see a band every Friday night at the local pub called James Train. They were a rock band doing independent covers of bands like Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep, to name a few, and you wouldn’t believe it Bob Bailey the ac/dc bass player was in the band! There was another guy and his girl that came every week, eventually we started talking. He was a guitarist, he had immigrated from England a few years back. He had all his gear Marshall amp and Gibson les paul. So we started mucking around, got a drummer and fucked about, until one day he said have a listen to this….yes The Sex Pistols...arghaaaaaa, i was not impressed at first but saw the logic. He got some other album like New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders, all real early 1977 albums, and we started. I got my wife to sing and we started doing some originals before long we had our first gig. This night club was full of punks, hardcore English immigrants and a few Aussies. Jim Baker from the Hoodo Guroos was always there. He was laying in a band called the Victims. We were not good but we made a fucking good noise. The name of that band was called Empty Set, corny name but that was it.. We got some gigs after that and then the trouble started when violence followed us. Must have be the music, we didn’t sing about racism at that time but the music must have created violence. I liked it as it was a good feeling of response from the audience.
