Uncanny X Men - Everybody Wants To Work

Uncanny X-Men are a pop/rock band which formed in Melbourne in 1981, and temporarily disbanded in 1987. They are fronted by lead singer Brian Mannix and originally included Chuck Hargreaves on guitar, Steve Harrison on bass guitar, Nick Manthandos on drums and Ron Thiessen on guitar. John Kirk replaced Harrison and Craig Waugh replaced Manthandos by 1984.

The band's debut album, 'Cos Life Hurts, peaked at #2 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1985, and included their highest charting single "50 Years" which reached #6 on the singles chart. Thiessen left to be replaced temporarily by Joey Amenta on guitar and more permanently by Brett Kingman. Their second album, What You Give is What You Get!, was released in 1986 and peaked at #11, it included the Top 20 hit single "I Am". After disbanding in 1987 there was a brief reunion during 1998. In March 2011, the band played three gigs with Tim Rosewarne (guest keyboards; The Chelsea Heights Hotel (17 March 2011), Trak Live Lounge Bar, Toorak Melbourne (18 March 2011) and the V8 Supercar Clipsal 500 event in South Australia (19 March 2011). The band played a new original song, 'Take it from Me', for its encore performance at the Chelsea Heights Hotel. In March 2011, the band re-entered the studio to record a number of new original songs.

(extract from Wikipedia 2011)

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[ansteystreet1]

I think this is one of the greatest songs from the 80s, if my karaoke bar had this in thiere playlist I'd be there belting out this cool song.

[jeezuschryst]

this is the shittiest thing i've seen in a long long time

[v8sainter]

great clip! thanx for posting!

[kieran9093]

Wtf was brian mannix thinking, or, how good were his drugs?

[351Shelley]

Woo-hoo! Thankyou :) Love ya work