Sweeter Than the Radio | ||||
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Released | 1999 | |||
Recorded | January 1999 | |||
Studio | Hothouse Studios, St Kilda | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 48:00 | |||
Label | Rubber Records | |||
Producer | Icecream Hands, Wayne Connolly | |||
Icecream Hands chronology | ||||
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Sweeter Than the Radio is the third album by Australian rock band Icecream Hands. It was released in 1999 [1] [2] and was nominated for the Best Adult Contemporary Album section of the ARIA Music Awards in 2000.
Icecream Hands were a power pop band formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 1992 as Chuck Skatt and His Icecream Hands with Charles "Chuck Skatt" Jenkins as lead singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist, Arturo "Arch" Larizza on bass guitar, his brother Dom "Benedictine III" Larizza on lead guitar and Derek Smiley on drums. They shortened the name and released a self-titled extended play on Rubber Records in 1992. After a year Douglas Lee Robertson had replaced Arch on bass guitar.
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