Amunda are a rock band from Alice Springs

Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Alice Springs is the second largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Popularly known as "the Alice" or simply "Alice", Alice Springs is situated in the geographic centre of Australia near the southern border of the Northern Territory...

 formed in 1985. The band's name is based on Mbantua, the Arrernte

Arrernte people

The Arrernte people , known in English as the Aranda or Arunta, are those Indigenous Australians who are the original custodians of Arrernte lands in the central area of Australia around Mparntwe or Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The Arrernte tribe has lived there for more than 20,000 years...

 word for meeting place, which is associated with the spring at Heavitree Gap

Heavitree Gap

The Heavitree Gap, or Ntaripe in the Arrernte language, is a gap in the MacDonnell Ranges of Central Australia. It is the southern entrance to the city of Alice Springs and in addition to the Todd River it carries the main road and rail access to the South....

 in the MacDonnell Ranges

MacDonnell Ranges

The MacDonnell Ranges of the Northern Territory, are a long series of mountain ranges located in the centre of Australia , and consist of parallel ridges running to the east and west of Alice Springs...

 at Alice Springs.

In 1992 they played at the Adelaide Fringe Festival

Adelaide Fringe Festival

The Adelaide Fringe Festival is an arts festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The event is the Southern Hemisphere's largest arts event and the second-largest fringe festival in the world, second in size only to the Edinburgh Fringe...

, in 1995 the Port Fairy Folk Festival

Port Fairy Folk Festival

The Port Fairy Folk Festival is a popular annual four-day music festival based in the historic fishing village of Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia....

 and in 1996 the band played at the Adelaide and Sydney legs of the Big Day Out

Big Day Out

The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...

. They have supported bands including Cruel Sea, Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything were an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1998. Their name came from The Clash song and musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks' Living in the '70s.-Formation and...

, Ed Kuepper

Ed Kuepper

Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...

 and Things of Stone and Wood

Things of Stone and Wood

Things of Stone and Wood are a well-known Australian band which had their first show in 1989. They are perhaps best known for the song Happy Birthday Helen . The song was about singer/songwriter Greg Arnold's girlfriend, whom he later married...

.

Members

• Paul Ah Chee - vocals/guitar
• Rachel Perkins
  Rachel Perkins
  Rachel Perkins is a film and television director, film and television producer and a writer. She is known for her films Bran Nue Dae, Radiance and One Night the Moon. Perkins is an Arrernte woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by parents Eileen and Charles Perkins...
  
   - vocals
• Stanley Satour - vocals/bass guitar
• Gerry Laughton - vocals/lead guitar
• Nick Guggisberg - vocals/drums
• Daniel Plain - drums/vocals
• Bill Davis - keyboards
• Kusha Homer - backing vocals
• Rhonda Ross - backing vocals

Studio albums

• Better Late Than Never (1989) - Amunda
• Civilised World (1992) - CAAMA/Larrikin
  Larrikin Records
  Larrikin Records is a record company founded in 1974 by Warren Fahey. Larrikin started as an independent label and was sold in 1995 to Festival Records....
  
  
• Pedlar Ave (1995) EP - Stunt

Compilation albums (contributing artist)

• Beat the Grog (1988) - CAAMA ("Wonder What". Also includes "Ain't No Use In That" by Paul Ah Chee and "Who's Goin' Wipe Their Tears" by Daniel Plain)
• AIDS: How Could I Know (1989) - CAAMA ("How Could I Know")
• Sing Loud, Play Strong (1990) - CAAMA ("1788")
• From the Bush (1990) - CAAMA ("Alice Don't Grow So Fast")
• From the Bush II (1992) - CAAMA ("Heart Beat")
• Our Home, Our Land (1995) - CAAMA ("Climbing The Mountain")
• 25th Anniversary Compilation (2006) - CAAMA ("Climbing The Mountain")

External links

• Cultural Dissent, Green Left Weekly issue #74 7 October 1992 Music from the red heart