Influential Australian musician Garry Bradbury has passed away.
A pioneer in Sydney’s electronic music scene in the ‘80s, Bradbury found his biggest success working with experimental group Severed Heads and contributed towards single Dead Eyes Opened.
A remix of the song in 1994 peaked at #16 on the ARIA charts and placed at #10 in the Hottest 100 for that year.
Severed Heads’ Tom Ellard posted a series of images of Bradbury to Twitter alongside the caption “Death shall have no dominion”.
Collaborator Alessio Cavallaro shared a tribute to Bradbury, describing him as a “sound and image saboteur par excellence”.
“An iconoclast of experimental/electronic music in Australia, Garry’s involvements ranged from Hiroshima Chair and Severed Heads in the early-mid ‘80s; music and sound design for performance and theatre (notably Nikki Heywood’s Burn Sonata, and Sydney Theatre Company’s Macbeth and The Tempest); to legendary collaborations SIZE (with Jason Gee), and Sanity Clause (with Ian Andrews),” Cavallaro said.
“More recently, he had assisted in corralling music by other Australian rhythm‘n’noise artists for various re-issue projects.
“As with his own work, Garry was eruptive and disruptive; caustic, complex and enthralling. Yet his often blunt and ornery boisterousness belied his fierce intelligence, razor wit, personal warmth, and generosity.”
