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| Background |
Fiona Orbright was born
Fiona Chantilly Piecemeal Orbright in Chainsaw,
Massacre, Ma on May 31st 1971, curiously the very
same date as Spectrum attained national No. 1 status
in Australia with I’ll Be Gone. The
coincidences don’t end there. Her next eldest
sibling, Agnew, (Fiona was the only girl in a family
of eleven), was in Australia in the mid-eighties
on a missionary assignment for the Alabama Chapter
of the Proustian Evangelical Society when he attended
the Mushroom Evolution Concert at the Myer Music
Bowl and, under the influence of some powerful hallucinogenics,
fell under the spell of Mike Rudd and The Heaters’
disco set and brought back a copy of The Unrealist
album to Massacre where it was eventually collected
up with all the other vinyl records in Agnew’s
collection by Minnie Orbright, the Orbrights’
matriarch, and ceremonially burned in a misguided
fit of righteous indignation over John Lennon’s
‘more famous than Jesus’ comment, in
the process accidentally setting alight and destroying
the family trailer.
Fiona eventually arrived in Melbourne in 2000 where
she began her career as a publicist, coincidentally
just as Mike, Bill and Robbo headed over to the
United States to play a few low-key gigs round San
Francisco.
In fact, Fiona and Spectrum have yet to meet –
in person anyway. Fiona maintains that she finds
Mike Rudd ‘spooky’ and despises ‘old
men that play rock music past their use-by date’.
She doesn’t fly, (she arrived in Australia
as a stowaway on a Panamanian registered tuna boat),
she’s an on-again-off-again vegan and chain-smokes
Camel cigarettes. She’s been married four
times, twice to the same man.
Contact Fiona at [email protected] |
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