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The Superjesus is tagged as: australian, rock, female vocalists, alternative rock, alternative

Lead singer and main song-writer Sarah McLeod formed the band in late 1994 with guitarist (and her guitar teacher at the time) Chris Tennent, drummer Paul Berryman and bass player Stuart Rudd. They were originally called Hell’s Kitchen before changing their name to The Superjesus on the eve of the 1994 Big Day Out in Adelaide.
Says Paul Berryman of the name: “It was basically just a piss-take on commonly used words in the 90’s. Like The Jesus and Mary Chain, ‘Jesus Built My Hot Rod’, Jesus Lizard, Jesus Jones; there’s just heaps of Jesus’ out there in the music world so we thought we would have that and super was kind of like a 90s catch word.”
The group’s debut EP, “Eight Step Rail”, was released in May 1996 and spent a couple of months on top of the Australian Independent charts and won a couple of ARIA awards.
All has not always well with the band internally and in 1997 Chris Tennent temporarily left the band. Aaron Tokona from Wellington, New Zealand band Weta filled in, though chose to turn down the band’s offer to become a permanent member.
They released their debut album, Sumo, through Warner Music in 1998 and its success in Australia led to a US release. The band has released two subsequen...
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Top 10 The Superjesus Songs
Gravity
Down Again
Over to You
Fall to Rescue
Safer Emergency
When I Tell You in the End
Everything Turns
Checking In
Everybody Calls Me Lonely
Secret Agent Man
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Top 10 The Superjesus Albums
Jet Age
Sumo
Rock Music
Jet Age (Bonus Live Acoustic Disc)
Eight Step Rail
Sumo II (disc 2)
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