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Big Heavy Stuff is a Sydney-based Australian indie rock band.
Overview
Big Heavy Stuff is a four-piece band, featuring Greg Atkinson (Vocals, Guitars), Carolyn Polley (Guitars, Vocals), Eliot Fish (Bass, Vocals) and Nick Kennedy (Drums). The band was established in 1990 and is with the recording label Redline Records (Australia). Greg Atkinson had previously fronted the band Ups and Downs, Eliot Fish and Nick Kennedy were in The Templebears and Carolyn Polley was singer/guitarist for Dutiful Daughters. Bass player Eliot Fish is also now a solo artist, having released a six-song EP "Trick of Light" on the Nonlinear label.
ARIA Nomination
Big Heavy Stuff received a Best Alternative Release nomination at the 15th Annual ARIA Awards for their album Size of the Ocean.
Disbandment...?
As of January 2006, there is a rumour circulating that the band have parted ways. This was announced on FBi Radio after close to a year of no activity and a long delay in a website update, the last of which was shortly before their last performance at the Come Together Music Festival at Luna Park Sydney.
The group played a reunion show in Sydney on April 18, 2009 at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville. The gig was for the That Then This Now documentary.
They reformed again to support Powderfinger on September 18, 2010 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, as part of Powderfinger's farewell tour.
Greg Atkinson has gone on to form the Worker Bees with brother (and ex-Ups And Downs bandmate) Darren, and more recently, indie chamber pop band Theories of Everything.
