Ash Wednesday (musician)

Ash Wednesday is an Australian musician.

Wednesday played synthesizer in JAB (1976-1979) and Models ( 1979-1980 ). In 1980, he released the single "Love By Numbers ". He founded the experimental band The Metronomes with Al Webb and Andrew Picouleau. During the early 1980s he was a member of the Modern Jazz, a purely be built on improvisation group of musicians who played on randomly generated techno beats. In 1988 he became a member of the band crash land.

Wednesday moved to Berlin in 1992, where he worked with Nina Hagen. He was in pre-production and programming for their album Freud Euch ( " Bee Happy" ) ( 1995) involved.

Since 1997 Wednesday is a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten, but not at their studio productions. However, he is represented on the Live Album 09-15-2000, Brussels and numerous live recordings of the Perpetuum Mobile tour in 2004.

In 1999 he moved back to Melbourne and founded The Tingler ( with the crash Country Singer Lyn Gordon) and the Machine Poets ( with Garry Gray and Andrew Picouleau ).