At the 1991 ARIA Awards ceremony, Midnight Oil won ‘ Best Group ‘ and an ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ and ‘ Best Cover Artist ‘, ‘Best Video’ and ‘ Album of the Year ‘ for Blue Sky Mining . Morris, accepting awards for Midnight Oil, was criticised for a speech lasting…
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The band played at campus events, usually as the crowd started to leave. They initially had little success playing covers, and they decided to write their own material which soon earned them a cult following. One song, ” Pare Ko “, became popular for its explicit lyrics. They later met…
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The band independently released two cassette demo EPs in 1991 and 1992.
Vertical Horizon was formed in 1991 by Georgetown University undergraduate students Matt Scannell and Keith Kane. In 1992 after graduating, the duo relocated to Boston to record and self-release their debut album There and Back Again . Scannell and Kane toured as a duo for the next few years, mostly…
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Their fourteenth studio album, Innuendo , was released in early 1991 with ” Innuendo ” and other charting singles released later in the year.
A second album, Travelers and Thieves , followed in 1991.
The band played a handful of local concerts in 1991, but largely took a break from touring and Merchant spent most of the year working with homeless youth in Harlem . Merchant then revealed to the other members that she would be leaving 10,000 Maniacs for a solo career in…
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Incubus was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd , guitarist Mike Einziger , bassist Dirk Lance and drummer José Pasillas, while the members were in high school. They existed as a band for some time before they gave themselves a name, having only chosen the band’s name “Incubus” when…
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Prior to the accident, film director Oliver Stone had chosen Idol for the role of Jim Morrison ‘s drinking pal Cat in his film The Doors (1991), but it prevented him from participating in a major way and Idol’s role was reduced to a small part. He was James Cameron…
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Recordings from the tour include the 1991 live album Flashpoint , which also included two new studio tracks and reached No. 6 in the UK and No. 16 in the US