A pop-up Melbourne band tries to bring the psychedelic sixties to the nineties with a cover song.
In an era where modern pop music was evolving after dusting itself off the synth-pop stylings of the eighties, this song came left of field.
With the pulling power of her established stardom, personality Sophie Lee helped her partner-at-the-time Gumpy Phillips (shortened to just Gumpy) bring forward his funk-pop band Freaked Out Flower Children to the front stage. The Melbourne group had not been heard of in the mainstream media, but when you have a band member who was the “it” girl of the early nineties and was hosting a children’s cartoon show on national television, then you’re bound to get attention.
Freaked Out Flower Children covered the 1970 hit Spill The Wine, made famous by The Animals and War lead singer Eric Burdon. This cover does not differentiate too much from the original, other giving it a re-jig 90s feel, and with Lee as backing vocals and on saxophone… out of all things.
Spill The Wine reached the ARIA charts in February 1992 at Number 31. The band dissolved in 1993, and Lee’s career continued back on Australia’s cathode ray tubes.
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