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Does anyone have any info on the late 70's/early 80's band FLOWERS? I believe this is the band that caused ICEHOUSE to change their name from FLOWERS. To my knowledge, they released a couple of 7" singles and had some songs on various compilation LP's.

Confessions 7"
Ballad of Miss Demeanour 7"

Plus songs/versions on 'Earcom 1' and 'Mutant Pop' comp LP's.

Does anyone know anything about this band, or if there are other songs/singles/albums out there?

Thanks.

Confusingly, the first Flowers release was called "Icehouse". For their first overseas release, they took that album, shuffled the song order, remixed it, dropped a song and put out the "Icehouse" album but now the band was called Icehouse too. The import Icehouse CD "Masterfile" includes 5 Flowers tracks:

Can't Help Myself
We Can Get Together
Sister
Walls
Icehouse

I also have "Can't Help Myself" on the kickass Aussie double-disc compilation called "Cool World: 41 Essential Australian Rock Singles 1976-1986"

So here you have a band with an album, song and band name all named Icehouse (although not necessarily at the same time) Confused yet?!

This isn't the same band, which is why I made the Icehouse reference in my original post. Flowers were a female led band with a post-punk sound. Icehouse had to change their name from Flowers because this band existed first. I'm trying to find info on the original Flowers.

Confessions 7"
Ballad of Miss Demeanour 7"

Plus songs/versions on 'Earcom 1' and 'Mutant Pop' comp LP's.

Yes, this is all they released. A Scottish band - I have an article from Zig Zag magazine about them. They suffered comparisons with the Banshees. I think they're great though! The singer was the girlfriend of Bob Last (Fast Records/Pop Aural).

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