Scientists, The: Not For Sale - Live 1978/79 (CD) Edan they also started to sing

they also started to sing in the Shona language and to add overtly political messages to their lyrics (safe in the knowledge that the predominantly white minority government wouldn’t understand them)

Avery Island / April 1st

” God’s Country is as much an acknowledgement of the Earth’s most assured demise as it is a snarling violent act of defiance against it

The band exploded onto the country’s racially-segregated music scene at the dawn of the 1970s with a sound that applied the rolling organ grooves and elastic rhythms of American soul to songs that came straight from the heart of the townships

Scientists, The: Not For Sale - Live 1978/79 (CD) Edan they also started to singThe Scientists pre Swampland days in Perth are brilliantly encapsulated on this collection of mostly unreleased live material from 78 and 79. These were the days when former Victims and future Hoodoo Gurus drummer James Baker led the band alongside guitarist singer Kim Salmon, and when their poster read "RocknRoll in the tradition of The Groovies and The Heartbreakers". The Perth based line ups of The Scientists recorded the brilliant "Frantic