For a very long time there's been a trend of New Zealand bands coming over to Australia and establishing themselves, chasing a larger market.
A not very exhaustive list would be Dragon, Split Enz, Crowded House and innumerable one hit wonders.
But one that stood out for me, not only because they were a one hit wonder, was because of their choice of name.
They called themselves Mi-Sex. If the song they took their name from wasn't obvious, then the band they tried to imitate, poorly, was as equally non obvious.
I had reason to go diving into my storage earlier this week and pull out my LPs. Amongst the pile, I found this -
I swear I don't know how it got into my collection.
And this was the back cover -
Does it look vaguely familiar? The strangest thing, of course, was that their hit single didn't appear on their debut LP in 1979. So it had to be included as a bonus single.