Cirrus@Austlit

'Songwriter and performer Peter Farnan was a member of the Serious Young Insects, a briefly popular Melbourne band of the early 1980s, and then the commercially successful Boom Crash Opera. He was a school friend of Sam Sejavka, Mick Lewis and Tim McLaughlan, the formative members of The Ears. He discusses the absurdist and esoteric behaviour he witnessed amongst the group’s members during the late 1970s and reveals a range of roles (as part of the ‘support crew’) he performed during their existence: he engineered early recordings and played keyboards with the group at one show. His perspective, the second of nine memoirs, is simultaneously inside and apart from The Ears’ world and provides insight into the culture of the period and the band’s core members.'

Source: Abstract.