Ripe | |
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| Origin | Melbourne, Australia |
| Genres | Pop, rock |
| Years active | 1988–1998, 2005–2007 |
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Ripe were an Australian pop, rock music band formed in 1988 by Tony Cleaver on bass guitar, Ewan McCartney on drums, Peter Moran on lead guitar and Mark Murphy on lead vocals and guitar. By late 1992 Marie Dixon had joined on bass guitar and Darren Seltmann replaced McCartney on drums. They issued two studio albums, Filterfeed (1990) and The Plastic Hassle (1993). Ripe toured North America in 1994. Moran and Seltmann both left after that tour. Seltmann formed the Avalanches in 1997. Ripe had continued with Dixon and Murphy joined by new members but the group were inactive from 1998 until they issued an extended play, Galaxies and Stars (2006) and disbanded in the following year.