Ratcat

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Ratcat
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Ratcat, 1991
Background information
OriginSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres Indie rock
Years active1985 (1985)–1998 (1998), 2006 (2006)–present
Labels
Members
Past members
  • Victor Levi
  • Trevor Wintle
  • Andrew Polin
  • John McAteer
  • Cathy Webb
  • Amr Zaid
  • Marc Scully

Ratcat are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney who formed in 1985. The band is fronted by mainstay vocalist and guitarist, Simon Day. Their combination of indie pop song writing and energetic punk-style guitar rock won them fans from both the indie and skate-punk communities. They found mainstream success with their extended play, Tingles (October 1990), album Blind Love (June 1991) and the single, "Don't Go Now" (April), which all reached No. 1 on the ARIA Charts during 1991. The band released two subsequent albums that did not match their earlier chart success. Ratcat ceased performing live regularly in the late 1990s; however, they continue to perform sporadically. During their career, much of Ratcat's albums and singles artwork was created by Simon Day. [1]

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Career

1985–1990: Career beginnings and Waterfront Records

Ratcat were formed in 1985 in Sydney by Simon Day on lead guitar and lead vocals, Victor Levi on bass guitar and Trevor Wintle on drums. [1] [2] Both Day and Levi had been members of garage band, Danger Mouse. [1] [2] Ratcat "built-up a strong live following by playing the local haunts of the Sydney skate-punk scene alongside the likes of Massappeal, The Hellmenn, The Hard-ons and Happy Hate Me Nots."

The group signed to Waterfront Records, and released a self-titled extended play in December 1987, which "contained four of the band's self-penned stage favourites plus a cover of "I Think We're Alone Now"." [1] It was followed by two singles, "I Think I Love You" (August 1988) and "Baby's Got a Gun" (December).

In July 1989, the band released its debut album, This Nightmare. [1] [2] By that time the line-up was Day, John McAteer on bass guitar and Andrew Polin on drums. [1] According to Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane, the album "contained a treasure-trove of witty, effervescent Day-penned tracks like "Go Go", "True Lust", "Baby's Got a Gun" and "The Killing Joke", plus a cover of UK band The Darling Buds' "If I Said"." [1] Another single, "Saying Goodbye" was released late in 1989 which was their final release on Waterfront. [1] [2] Amr Zaid replaced McAteer on bass guitar and backing vocals. [1] [2] Alister of Tharunka felt "Saying Goodbye" was "quite refreshing, both in the areas of its mixing and melody, despite decidedly average vocals." [3]

1990–1998: Blind Love and rooArt records

In February 1990, Ratcat supported English group Buzzcocks and fellow Australian band Falling Joys, [4] before signing with the rooArt label, distributed by PolyGram. [1]

On 14 October 1990, the group released a six-track EP entitled, Tingles , which was produced by Nick Mainsbridge (Tall Tales and True, Martha's Vineyard). [1] [2] McFarlane noticed that "almost immediately the frisky "That Ain't Bad" scored mainstream radio support." [1] That track, combined with their cartoon, tattoo-ish artwork (which featured heavily on their releases and in their videos), saw Tingles reach No. 1 on ARIA Alternative Singles Chart and, in May 1991, the EP was a number-one hit on the ARIA Singles Chart for two weeks. [1] [5] "That Ain't Bad", the lead track, was Day's "simple attempt to mix noisy guitars and the words 'I love you' together in a song without one contradicting the other." [6] The Canberra Times reviewer opined that it "has had the airplay, but it is not the best track. "Don't Go in the Water", a dire little track, and "Getting Away (From This World)", with its hackneyed but fairly successful insertion of sound from the Challenger shuttle disaster, are both excellent tracks." [7]

According to an Australian Musician Magazine staff writer, Ratcat were the first alternative band to go mainstream – they provided one of the Top 50 Most Significant Moments in Australian Pop/Rock History. [6] The band's second album, Blind Love was released in May 1991, and its lead single "Don't Go Now" (April) both reached No. 1 on their respective ARIA charts. [8] The song was co-written by Day and Robyn St. Clare (of the Hummingbirds). For recording, at Paradise Studios, Day, Polin and Zaid were joined by St. Clare and Margaret Urlich on backing vocals; [9] they were produced by Mainsbridge, again. [1] [2] Zaid told Charles Miranda of The Canberra Times that their chart success was "really weird it happened so quickly it's sort of difficult for us to understand what has happened. And it does put pressure on us to come up with the goods. We have to look at what we've done [... but not] perform to any sort of dictated standard by what we've achieved." [10]

The group supported fellow Australian group, INXS, on the latter's Australian tour in April and May 1991 and followed by headlining their own Invasion of the Dinosaur Killers Tour in June. [1] [6] Their next single, "Baby Baby", was released in July and reached No. 21. [8] In September they started a four-month tour across the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the United States. [1] [11] Polin described how "We were playing to full houses a lot of the way around... Admittedly, in London about a third of the audiences were Australians but we had sold about 17,000 copies of our album over there." [11]

Upon their return to Australia in December, they released an eight-track live album, Alive. [1] [2] [11] Marc Scully replaced Zaid on bass guitar in mid-1992. [1] [2] Their third studio album, Insideout (November 1992) also produced by Mainsbridge, spawned three singles, "Candyman" (May 1992), "Holiday" (October 1992) and "The World (in a Wrapper)" (May 1993). [1] [2] It was recorded between March and May 1992 at Rhinoceros Studios, with Day providing vocals, guitar and bass guitar; and Polin on vocals, drums and percussion. [12] McFarlane opined that these releases "were unable to repeat the spectacular success of their predecessors but kept Ratcat in the public eye." [1]

In January 1995, the band released "Rain", which was produced by Tony Cohen, and EP The Smiler in August 1995, and started work on a new album, Easy Rider. [1] [2] The band sporadically played live shows over the next few years and Easy Rider was eventually released in July 1997. [1]

Ratcat re-emerged in 1998 to play at the Homebake Festival with a new bass guitarist, Nic Dalton (ex-The Plunderers, Sneeze, The Lemonheads, among others). They also collaborated with John Paul Young – who supplied backing vocals – on a cover version of his earlier single, "I Hate the Music" (September 1998). [1] It was included on the soundtrack for the feature film, Occasional Coarse Language (November 1998). [1] The band officially disbanded in 1998. [1]

2002–present: periodic performances

The group played a few shows in 2002, including a spot at the Big Day Out, and, in 2006, were a support act on the Psychedelic Furs Australian tour. They did a further gig at The Jack Daniel's music awards and played, in early June 2006, at the Come Together festival at Luna Park. In 2011, they played a show at The Factory in Marrickville, to mark the 20th anniversary of Blind Love.

A 2010 TV ad for Bonds' brassieres featured a group of women dressed in the branded underwear performing a cover version of Ratcat's "That Ain't Bad" on a street float. An apparently shocked Day made a brief appearance as a passer by, wearing his once signature black and white striped T-shirt and black jeans, reminiscent of the look he sported in early Ratcat videos. He has also appeared with Sydney bands including the Art, and the Glimmer (formerly the Mansons). In 2011 Ratcat were confirmed for Sydney's Homebake festival, subtitled "The Classic Edition".

The band played as part of the A Day on the Green concert series in March 2016, with Hoodoo Gurus, Sunnyboys, Violent Femmes and Died Pretty. [13]

In October 2023, Ratcat will release All Stripped Back, a re-recording of their greatest hits. [14]

Members

Discography

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[15] [16]
This Nightmare81
Blind Love
  • Released: May 1991
  • Label: rooArt (848523)
  • Formats: LP, CD
1
Insideout
  • Released: November 1992
  • Label: rooArt (4509905532)
  • Formats: CD, cassette
59
Easy Rider
  • Released: July 1997
  • Label: rooArt (74321492912)
  • Formats: CD
All Stripped Back
  • Released: 13 October 2023 [14]
  • Label: Ratcat
  • Formats: CD, digital
TBA

Live albums

List of live albums
TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[16]
Alive
  • Released: December 1991
  • Label: rooArt (510686)
  • Formats: CD, cassette
62

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums
TitleAlbum details
Informer 80:629
  • Released: December 1993
  • Label: Shock (RAISON006)
  • Formats: CD
Twisted Tails - A Ratcat Best of...
  • Released: September 2001
  • Label: Sony BMG (74321867012)
  • Formats: CD
Rarities

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions and certifications
TitleEP detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[15]
Ratcat
  • Released: July 1987
  • Label: Waterfront (DAMP 66)
  • Formats: LP, CD
Tingles
  • Released: October 1990
  • Label: rooArt (878 165)
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
1
The Smiler
  • Released: July 1995
  • Label: rooArt (0630113442)
  • Formats: CD
Laughing Bag and Other Funny Stories
  • Released: July 1997
  • Label: rooArt (74321492932)
  • Formats: CD

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications
TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
AUS
[15]
"I Think I Love You"/”Depression”1988non-album single
"Baby’s Got a Gun"/”Purple Room”This Nightmare
"Saying Goodbye"1989non-album single
"Don't Go Now"19911Blind Love
"Baby Baby"21
"Candyman"199238Inside out
"Holiday"41
"The World (In a Wrapper)"1993
"Rain" [20] 1995non-album single
"I Hate the Music" (Ratcat and John Paul Young) 1998Occasional Course Language (soundtrack)

Other appearances

List of other non-single song appearances
TitleYearAlbum
"Razor Blades"1986On the Waterfront, vol 3(DAMP 43)
"The Purple Room"1987Fuck or Fuck Off(DAMP 67)
"Everything You Said"1988Hummingbirds/ Ratcat [21]
"Dead Dog Standing"1989I Could'a Been a Contender(DAMP 121) [22]
"A Christmas Lullaby"1989Rockin' Bethlehem(SAW025) [23]
"You Get Me By"1990Youngblood 2 [24]
"Skin"1991Triple J Live At The Wireless [25]
"Tripping on a Blind Date"1998Homebake Vol 2 [26]
"That Ain't Bad"/"Don’t Go Now"/"You Get Me By"2001Rockart - The History Of RooArt Records [27]
"Electric Lash"2002Electric Lash (songs of The Church and Steve Kilby) [28]
"Hell on Hot Bread"2015Manilow Tribute! [29]

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
1992 Blind Love ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist - Album Nominated [30]
ARIA Award for Highest Selling Album Nominated
Nick Mainsbridge for Blind Love and "Don't Go Now" ARIA Award for Producer of the Year Nominated
ARIA Award for Engineer of the Year Nominated

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