The Boys Next Door is tagged as: post-punk, australian, punk, alternative, nick cave 1)The Boys Next Door |“Boys Next Door” was formed in 1973 by Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, and Phill Calvert and others while they were attending Caulfield Grammar School outside of Melbourne, Australia. They were later joined by Tracy Pew on bass in 1975, and Rowland S. Howard in 1978 on guitar, thereby solidifying the line-up that would be The Birthday Party, to which they changed their name in 1980. 2) Boys Next Door|Known to some as “the Beach Boys of the Midwest, “, The Boys Next Door were among the relatively few competent emulators of the Beach Boys/Jan Dean vocal/hot rod/surf sound, and certainly among the very few competent emulators to emerge from outside of California. Formed in Indianapolis, they issued a few singles in 1964-67, the first of these billed to the Four Wheels before they reverted to the name The Boys Next Door (which they’d been known as before making their recording debut). They were made up of James Adams, Steve Lester, Jim Koss and Steve Drybread. The group had an extremely clean-cut image and sound, right down to the circa-1964 Beach Boys pinstripe shirts seen in some photos. Actually, however, their recordings were pretty good and energetic, with melodic harmonies and a fairly kinetic drive. The early Four Wheels s... Read More About The Boys Next Door Biography...  Send The Boys Next Door ringtones to your cell
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