Hell’s Kitchen changed their name to the Superjesus on the eve of the Big Day Out in Adelaide on Australia Day long-weekend, January 1996. Tennent provided the new name. Berryman explained, “It was basically just a piss-take on commonly used words in the ’90s. Like The Jesus and Mary Chain , ” Jesus Built My Hotrod “, the Jesus Lizard , Jesus Jones ; there’s just heaps of Jesus’ out there in the music world so we thought we would have that and super was kind of like a ’90s catch word.” Their debut five-track extended play, Eight Step Rail , was released in August 1996 on Aloha Records.
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