The Fauves

There is...

There is an Australian band called Something for Kate, and they have a song called Feeding the Pigeons, brackets, and Hoping for Something in Return, in brackets.

So that's a bit more of a positive song about pigeons.

Apparently.

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My favorite band of all time is an Australian band.

They're not really successful.

This week, we look at the Fove's.

The Fauves started with modest ambitions, like so many bands in the late 80s and early 90s do.

They came from Mount Eliza in the Mornington Peninsula, that part of Australia south of the already quite south city of Melbourne.

The name the Fauves is taken from an early 1900s French art movement called Fauvism.

The painters in that movement had their works slandered by established critics of the day.

One critic called these artists beasts, and beasts in French is la Fauves.

It was mainly written by Coxie and in it was mainly humorous essays about being in a band.

As the years went on, the fanzine would cover the band's failures, always in a funny way.