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Tex Perkins: The life and fast times of a rock legend
Tex Perkins stands sneering and snarling on stage, taunting a boozed-up crowd at Melbourne's Lava Lounge.
It's 1997 and the Beasts of Bourbon frontman is angry and drunk.
The band has come from a Japanese restaurant in the city where they have been throwing down sake, getting "a special kind of drunk where anything can happen".
And it does.
Mid-gig the riled up crowd is starting to lob rubbish and bottles on stage and they're coming dangerously close to bass player Henry Hooper. So Tex takes control.
"Don't throw bottles at the band — throw them at me!" he yells.
Well, he asked for it. On cue, a well-placed bottle comes flying from the back of the room and hits Tex right in the middle of the forehead.
There's blood everywhere but, as Tex recounts to News Breakfast, it all added to the flavour.
"I was like, 'Ha, ha! NOW we'll have a show!'," he said.
"You know, I've always felt that the audience could become my adversary at any second
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Tex
"There is nothing smug or superannuated or Sting-like about him. He's creative and sarcastic and can still wear a Wrangler shirt with mean panache. Yes, sighs the happy reader. He's still got it." The Weekend Australian
Singer. Songwriter. Swamp child. Soul man. Tex Perkins is a true rock'n'roll animal. In this loud, uncut, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud and take-no-prisoners memoir, the enigmatic king of the Australian music underground lays bare an extraordinary life lived on the road, on the stage and on the edge.
Raised a bible-thumping Catholic and beaten bloody on the streets of Brisbane for being a "cow-punk", skinny Gregory Perkins flees to Sydney and mutates into "Tex", rogue leader of the Dums Dums, Thug and Salamander Jim before finding a strange kind of success, celebrity, sex symboldom and icon status as Tex Perkins, snake-hipped, honey-voiced, often bloodied frontman of influential Aussie bands the Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and Tex, Don & Charlie... and inventor of "Zoneball".
Gigs. Albums. Tours. Fights. Feuds. Arrests. Drugs. High times. Low roads
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Tex Perkins
This article is about the singer-singwriter. For the Australian rules footballer nicknamed "Tex", see Sarah Perkins.
Musical artist
Gregory Stephen Perkins (born 28 December 1964), better known by his stage name Tex Perkins, is an Australian singer-songwriter who fronted the Australian rock band The Cruel Sea, but has also performed with the Beasts of Bourbon, Thug, James Baker Experience, The Butcher Shop, Salamander Jim, and Tex, Don and Charlie. He has also released many solo records. In 1997, a portrait of Tex Perkins by artist Bill Leak won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize.
Career
1980s: early groups
Perkins started his musical career in Brisbanecowpunk outfit Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums,[1] before moving to Sydney in 1982, garnering considerable attention in the Sydney independent music scene and also touring Melbourne, before the departure of guitarist Mark Halstead ended the band.[2]
He later formed Salamander Jim with Kim Salmon from The Scientists and Richard Ploog from The Church. Due to tour
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