The Triffids

On 12 June 2006, 20 years after it's original release, Domino are to reissue The Triffids classic Born Sandy Devotional album. The initial run will be a limited edition perfect bound booklet with additional packaging. It will feature the original album plus 9 bonus tracks and will also include a live video of their performance of "Wide Open Road" in Perth WA.

Like some unholy trinity, The Triffids, along with Nick Cave and The Go Betweens seemingly conspired to change people's attitude towards Antipodean rock in the mid-eighties, never before taken even remotely seriously. 1984 was the pivotal year when The Go Betweens released Spring Hill Fair, Cave debuted with From Her To Eternity and, in late August, The Triffids arrived in the UK with two albums in tow, Treeless Plain and the mini-lp Raining Pleasure, recorded and released in Australia for Hot Records and, before the year was out, released in the UK by Rough Trade.

The Triffids - David McComb (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards): Rob McComb (violin, guitar): Alsy McDonald (drums, vocals): Martyn Casey (bass) and Jill Birt (keyboards, vocals) - arrived in London with a wad of cash they'd saved up and 5 return plane tickets scheduled to expire by Christmas. They'd given themselves three months to make inroads in the UK as a band, or have fun trying, and unequivocally, they succeeded to a point where they graced the first NME cover of 1985 which it predicted would be The Year Of the Triffids. Not quite, as it turned out, and it was to be a further eighteen months before their unassailable masterwork, Born Sandy Devotional, was finally released.

This is the first in a series of Triffids reissues on Domino which will see the original albums remastered and regularly rereleased with additional music, culminating in a Best Of and Rarities due in 2007.