Artist:Anton Cleary

Anton's music career has spanned forty-one years, thirty-nine of which could be best described as a self-imposed hiatus (or alternatively a period in which he dropped out of Law School, got a job, got married and got rich). A talented but lazy lead vocalist who drank too much, he and his mates hung around the Melbourne punk and new wave scene of the late 70's dreaming of rock and roll stardom but not having a clue how to achieve it. Once described by a drunken associate as "The best bloody singer in Australia", up until his hiatus his career consisted of a failed audition with pub band The Flicks, the offer of an audition with pub band The Blue Scooters (his father declined the offer on his behalf because he was worried Anton might start taking drugs if he got the job) and several shambolic rehearsals with a band by the name of China Dolls who eventually morphed into the new wave band of the early 80's Wild Dog Rodeo (he was sacked before the band ever played a gig because, in his ...