Pollyanna - Brittle Then Broken

[40southern]

Would love a reunion tour, these guys, Superjesus, Ammonia, Jebediah, Custard, SFK

[tootiredtoriot]

@40southern was hoping that the "Classic homebake" idea was going to be something like this.

[yodelifyoucan]

Something for Kate ans Pollyanna very good sounds and awesome musicality, thanks for posting ++

[VenusTheGoddess1]

cool



[rovicentim]

somebody know where i can find the song "Electric Cardigan Rock"?

[Tweedboy3434]

For the record, the bass player for Pollyanna is Rayke Stapleton - she married one of the roadies from Ben Folds Five (Trey Hamilton) after Pollyanna opened for BFF in 1999 (I was at the Thebby gig on August 26th - brilliant show).

Apparently that marriage ended a bit over a year ago, and she's living back in Australia now. I had a chat with Matt Handley after a Waif's gig (he does guitar tech for them) and begged him to reform Pollyanna. We can only hope :-)

[teenbies]

@Tweedboy3434

Fingers crossed!! I saw one of the last gigs, Hopetoun! What a step down to a guitar tech for the bloody Waif's... ohh the humanity!

[ozie42]

Awesome tune. Pollyanna's signature in my book.

[keithbontrager]

Lead singer Matt Handley still wears that goatee/mustache setup today.

He's a nice bloke, I see him everytime a band he sets up for plays in Brisbane/Gold Coast.

[TrainBuffProductions]

In my band Crossthreaded we are keeping a 90's sound wile being progressive at the sametime.

[ohiosgreyghost]

Hurray, no one cares.

[blocka75]

I miss this 90's sound! Give it another 5-10 years and teens will be fashionably sporting T's from all our fav 90's bands and claiming they love these bands since..like.. forever!!! (oh dear!) Just like they are today claiming the 80's and we claimed the 70's sporting T's such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Cream and Pink Floyd.... Watch this space! LOL

[inbred0232]

P.S.

When the FUCK are you guys reforming?

[inbred0232]

the memories of course! "il piss on every thing that you own" played at our wedding in Hobart, and yes we were ALL strong Pollyanna fans! alll our love Holly & Thommo!!!!

[HeYiMCoNNoRR]

such a classic.

[thenormanator1]

wow. classic

[mowbster31]

Fuck they had a grand sound

[mmutlu]

Thanks for posting. One of my favourites of all time

[born2barn]

At 2:23 he's using one of those orange public phones we used to have. Don't see those anymore. What a flash to the past. Probably the best song of the late 90's btw. Thanx for posting.

[byrondolphins]

is that clare bowditch on bass?

[2362marshall]

i think here name is reke,not sure ?

[JamesSquire71]

I had to go looking through my CD collection to find out and her name is Maryke Stapleton.... But I'm sure they called her Reke for short.

I could be wrong but I think she married one of the band members out of Benfolds Five (maybe the guitarist)

Anyway funny that this morning I should get up with a bit of hangover singing the lyics Brittle then Broken... Ahhh flashback to my 20's :)

[djskein]

I'LL PISS ON EVERYTHING YOU OWN!!

[bazzannawbert]

one of the great australian bands of all time. and a chick playing bass..... bonus

[shorstmann]

omg i finally found this song after years of looking. great effort in putting this on.

[sufferingindigital]

completely forgotten this song , great that i could find it

[sufferingindigital]

Shit eh i left this message 5 months ago already

[boganlewis]

i can't believe i found this clip! i saw these guys at the grosvenor hotel in Perth in 1998 and they were awesome, i used to have this album too! 90's aussie indie rock rules!

[sufferingindigital]

They still around? or consigned to the oblivion of 90s australian rock past?

[Akiata]

Matt Handley (lead singer) released some solo stuff, including at least one album "Won't Get Over You." It's great.

It's on amazon.

[j2thela]

naww i haven't heard this one in years! thanks for putting it up, it's almost impossible to find!

[Bamptonoid]

Did you know the drummer has been in a spate of television commercials of late? Most notable, the crash victim in that Max Walker car insurance add. I met him as an extra on the set of HORSEPLAY when he was just starting out. Very nice, talkactive guy!

[camzapoppin]

@Bamptonoid Dude. It's Glen Maynard. He's in a band called Kids in Cults now.. playing guitar and doing lead vocals. They're AWESOME.

[Ankshus]

i still listen too. Got longplayer an regular rotation again.

[victorboy26]

what a great band they were! still listen to their music on a regular basis to this day..

[Snappello]

Top top song.  Thanks for putting it up - been wanting to see it for yonks.

[verve71]

man....great song. pollyanna were a really good 1990s Oz band. i'd forgotten about this song. their 'junior' EP is still one of my prized posessions.

[beliweb]

ahh.. this song, meant so much to me when I was a 16 year old girl who'd just been dumped... I remember hearing it come on the radio as I's just fell on my bed, ready to cry... ahhh they were lovely people too :)

[radiolocke]

yeah nice upload love this song, ahhh the memories.

[crpat]

hey mate - thanks for uploading, about time someone uploaded some pollyanna!!

[strongpollyannafan]

dusting off my VHS archives some great rare Pollyanna footage and classic Recovery performances!