The Screaming Tribesmen

The Screaming Tribesmen
A black and white image of a stylised version of an African shield as a warrior's face with two crossed spears. The shield is encompassed by two circle arcs with white geometric shapes as cut-outs: rectangle at bottom, a larger hexagon (in the position of the mouth), another rectangle (in position of the nose) with two pairs of curved strips (as moustaches), two larger curved sections (in position of the eyes) and two small curved strips (as eyebrows). The spear heads are double pointed.
Band's logo
Background information
OriginBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Genres
Years active
  • 1981 (1981)–1998 (1998)
  • 2011 (2011)–2012 (2012)
Labels
  • Citadel
  • Rattlesnake
  • Survival
  • Grown Up Wrong
Past memberssee Members

The Screaming Tribesmen were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1981 by mainstay Mick Medew on lead vocals and lead guitar. With various line-ups they released three studio albums, Bones and Flowers (October 1987), Blood Lust (1990) and Formaldehyde (1993), before disbanding in 1998. They reformed in 2011 for performances until June 2012. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described how they, "fashioned a memorable brand of 1960s-inspired pop rock that combined equal parts existential lyric angst, melodic inventiveness and strident guitar riffs."