Dave Warner
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Dave Warner (Born in Bicton, Western Australia in 1953) is an Australian rock musician and an author. He attended the University of Western Australia and graduated with a B.A. (Hons.), majoring in psychology.
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[edit] Biography
In 1973, he formed the band Pus, which was influenced by radical 60s New York activist band, The Fugs. Warner describes this band on his website [1] as "Australia's first punk band". The genre that became known as punk was not to emerge as an identifiable musical entity until the mid-70s, and although Warner might have pre-empted punk "attitude" with Pus, musically it is unlikely from a very few witness accounts of this obscure outfit that the band's material could be categorised thus[citation needed]. He gained a wider popularity with his next band, From the Suburbs, which he formed in 1977. The band gained an underground following and was subsequently signed by Mushroom Records.
The original group made two albums, Mugs Game (1978) and Free Kicks (1979), but then it disbanded. With a new lineup, Warner followed up with Correct Weight (1979) and This is My Planet (1981; reissued as This is Your Planet in 1996).
After This is My Planet was released, Warner no longer wrote and performed music full-time. Instead, he started to write plays, novels and screenplays. In 1982, his revue, The Sensational Sixties started to tour large suburban hotels. Written and produced by Warner, the show was successful. In 1985, Warner wrote and appeared in a musical, The Sixties and All That Pop. Later that year Planet Pres, a rock musical written by him, was produced by the WA Theatre Company.
In 1987, Warner formed a female trio, Pleasure Principle, whom he managed and wrote songs for. He also performed a one-man show, Australian Heroes, which he also wrote, and had a small part in the movie Boundaries of the Heart.
In 2000 came out the first feature film written by Warner, Cut. He followed up with Balmain Boys and Garage Days (both 2002) and is currently working on Guests, slated for release in 2006. He was also one of the chief writers of the drama TV series Going Home and the short TV feature Roll, as well as two episodes of McLeod's Daughters.
Dave Warner currently lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters.
[edit] Literary works
Warner has written both fiction and non-fiction. His first novel, a crime story called City of Light, was published in 1995. It was the winner of the Best Fiction Work award at the WA Premier's Book Awards in 1996. In the same year his second book, Footy's Hall of Shame also came out. In 1997, Warner's second crime novel, Big Bad Blood was published. He then wrote the first one in a series of humorous crime novels in the style of Agatha Christie, Murder in the Groove. Published in 1998, the book featured Andrew "The Lizard" Zirk, a former rock star turned detective. In the same year were also published Racing's Hall of Shame (co-written with Nicolas Brasch), Cricket's Hall of Shame and 25 Years of Mushroom Records. The second novel featuring "Lizard" Zirk, Murder in the Frame, was published in 1999. In 2000, Warner published eXXXpresso, a novel about an ex-criminal who intends to build a chain of prison-themed cafés, and Murder in the Off-Season, the third "Lizard" Zirk novel.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Fiction
- City of Light (1995)
- Big Bad Blood (1997)
- Great Australian Bites (edited by) (1997)
- Murder in the Groove (1998)
- Murder in the Frame (1999)
- eXXXpresso (2000)
- Murder in the Off-Season (2000)
[edit] Non-Fiction
- Footy's Hall of Shame (1996)
- 25 Years of Mushroom Records (1998)
- Cricket's Hall of Shame (1998)
- Horseracing's Hall of Shame (1999)
