Climax Five formed in 1965 out of Sydney. Guitarist Mike Wade was already a seasoned musician having played with The Midnighters who recorded on the RCA label and had a hit with ”Goofy Foot”. By 1967, the band was working at some of the main Sydney venues one of which was Long John’s Disco in Kings Cross. During this period, Go-Set wrote an article about them and the band appeared on the ABC TV show Something Else. Producer Pat Aulton took them under his wing and they were signed to Festival Records and in 1968 they recorded the single, ”Gardens/She’s Already Spoken For”. The single went nowhere. New Zealand singing star Sandy Edmonds joined them for a brief time and they would cut an obscure single on a independent label;however, the band didn’t last much longer. Mike Wade would go on to distinguished career working with Jon English, Marcia Hines and Reg Livermore. Warren Kelly died in 2009 of cancer.
Members
Greg Bushell (drums), Warren Kelly (bass), Nick Dunne (vocals), Mike Wade (guitar),
John Lowry (guitar), Sandy Edmonds (vocals)
References
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