Information
- • Hometown: - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- • Nationality: - Australian
- • Years Active: - 1977-present
- • Genre(s): - Rock • New Wave • Synth-Pop
- • Label(s): - Regular • Festival • DIVA • Warner • Chrysalis • Massive • EMI • WEA
- • Associated Acts: - Paul Kelly and the Dots • Do-Ré-Mi • Boom Crash Opera • Sydney Dance Company
- • Website: - icehouse-ivadavies.com
Biography
Icehouse are a rock band from Sydney, formed in 1977 as Flowers. Initially known in Australia for their pub-rock style, the band later achieved mainstream success playing new-wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. The name "Icehouse", adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.
Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 ("Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI (Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. Their best-known singles on the Australian charts included "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987).
Icehouse was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August 2006. ARIA described Icehouse as "one of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties... With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces..." Icehouse has produced eight top-ten albums and twenty top-forty singles in Australia, multiple top-ten hits in Europe and North America and album sales of over 28-times platinum in Australasia alone.
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Band Members
- • Iva Davies – lead vocals, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, oboe (1977–present)
- • Paul Wheeler – drums, percussion (1986–present)
- • Paul Gildea – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1989–present)
- • Steve Bull – bass guitar, backing vocals (1989–present)
- • Glenn Reither – keyboards, saxophone (2007–present)
- • Michael Paynter – keyboards, additional guitars, backing and lead vocals (2011–present)
Videos
"Electric Blue" is a song by the Australian rock / synthpop band Icehouse. It was co-written by Iva Davies and John Oates.
Electric Blue
"Crazy" is a song by the Australian rock/synthpop band Icehouse, from the Man of Colours album, the single peaked at Number 4.
Crazy
"No Promises" is a song by Australian band Icehouse, released in October 1985, as the first single issued from the band's 1986 album.
No Promises
"My Obsession" is a song by Australian rock band Icehouse, which was released in 1987 as the third single from their sixth studio album.
My Obsession
"Love in Motion" is the first new material released by the Australian rock synthpop band Icehouse as a 7" vinyl single-only in 1981.
Love In Motion
"Hey Little Girl" is a single released by Australian band Icehouse, the second single from the band's 1982 album, Primitive Man.