Overview

Big Heavy Stuff is a four-piece band, featuring Greg Atkinson (Vocals, Guitars), Carolyn Polley (Guitars, Vocals), Eliot Fish (Bass, Vocals) and Nick Kennedy (Drums). The band was established in 1990 and is with the recording label Redline Records

Redline Records

Redline Records is a Fremantle-based independent record label. Originally started as a joint project between the band Jebediah and their management company Naked Ape Management, it has evolved into being a record label of local Perth indie bands. Redline Records are distributed by Shock Records...

 (Australia). Greg Atkinson had previously fronted the band Ups and Downs, Eliot Fish and Nick Kennedy were in The Templebears and Carolyn Polley was singer/guitarist for Dutiful Daughters. Eliot Fish is also notable as being a former editor-in-chief of Hyper magazine, a multiple platform video-games interest magazine.

ARIA Nomination

Big Heavy Stuff received a Best Alternative Release nomination at the 15th Annual ARIA Awards for their album Size of the Ocean.

Discography

• Pops Like Crazy (1991)
• Chaos (1992)
• Skin a Cat (1993)
• Truck (1993)
• Trouble and Desire (1994)
• Covered in Bruises (1995)
• Birthday (1995)
• Maximum Sincere (1997)
• Bigmouth (1997)
• May (1997)
• Cheating On a Dead Wife (1997)
• Devil's Tongue (1999)
• Two Sisters (2001)
• Size of the Ocean (2001)
• Mutiny (2002)
• Dear Friends and Enemies (2004)

Disbandment...?

As of January 2006, there is a rumour circulating that the band have parted ways. This was announced on FBi Radio

FBi Radio

FBi is an independent, not-for-profit community radio station in Sydney, Australia. FBi places a heavy emphasis on local alternative music: it has a policy that at least 50 per cent of its music content is to be Australian, of which at least half comes from Sydney musicians.FBi began 'test...

 after close to a year of no activity and a long delay in a website update, the last of which was shortly before their last performance at the Come Together Music Festival

Come Together Music Festival

Come Together is an all-ages Australian music festival performed at Luna Park Sydney. Beginning in 2005, it was originally two separate events, one in April and one in September. In 2006, a two-day festival was held in June , and the festival was again on the same long weekend in 2007...

 at Luna Park Sydney

Luna Park Sydney

Luna Park Sydney is an amusement park, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

.

The group played a reunion show in Sydney on April 18, 2009 at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville. The gig was for the That Then This Now documentary.

They reformed again to support Powderfinger

Powderfinger

Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....

on September 18, 2010 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, as part of Powderfinger's farewell tour.

Greg Atkinson has gone on to form the Worker Bees with brother (and ex-Ups And Downs bandmate) Darren, and more recently, indie chamber pop band Theories of Everything.

External links

• Big Heavy Stuff Official Site
• Australian Music Online: Big Heavy Stuff
• MySpace: Official Big Heavy Stuff myspace page