Announcing their (allegedly) final tour, the Australian band look back on a career that inspired Midnight Oil and the Hoodoo Gurus – and provoked some ‘extreme reactions’ Fifty years after their ...

That’s the chorus to “We’ve Come So Far”, the lead-off track to Radio Birdman’s Zeno Beach. It marks the band’s return to recording after a three-decade hiatus, and though perhaps not exactly the same ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Unstrap the typical rock star from their instrument of choice and you're left with a fairly ...

The rise and fall of the ferocious Sydney rock band who blazed brightly on the underground scene in the 1970s is captured in the documentary Descent Into the Maelstrom which premieres on Monday. Deniz ...

The best punk rock bands usually have long hair. Bands like The Stooges, Ramones, Black Flag, and seminal Australian punkers Radio Birdman. While somewhat obscure in America, Birdman are legends back ...

You really had to see Radio Birdman. Maybe you have some other favourite band but nah, they’re not as good. “It really was a cult,” one eyewitness recalls inside these pages bristling with the extreme ...

The 70s band battled poverty, depression and infighting. Descent into the Maelstrom shows how they also changed the face of Australian music The drama of the dysfunctional band has long been a staple ...

Listen to Radio Birdman’s “We’ve Come So Far (To Be Here Today)” from the new album Zeno Beach. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Sometimes, the right guys get ...

Taking their name from a misheard lyric in the Stooges' song "1970" (it is in fact, "Radio buzzin' up above"), Radio Birdman have gone on to be one of the most mythically revered bands of the '70s.