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Under The Milky Way
From the Single
Reptile
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A Fire Burns
Other Songs 0408 10000 Miles 1st Woman On The Moon 2054 A Different Man A Month Of Sundays A New Season A Stage A Tale For You A Tragi-Comic Family Story After Everything Afterimage Afterlife All I Know All The Young Dudes Almost With You Already Yesterday Amanita Ambergris An Interlude Anaesthesia Anchorage Ancient History Angelica Anna Miranda Another Earth Antenna Anthem X Anyway Appalatia As You Will Aura Authority Autumn Soon Bel-Air Between Mirages Blink Block Blood Money Bordello Buffalo Burn Dat Busdriver Business Woman Businessman Cantilever Chaos Chrome Injury Chromium Church Cigarettes and Chinese Food City Cobalt Blue Colombus Columbus Comedown Comeuppance Constant In Opal Cortez The Killer Crash / Ride Crash / Ride Cuffing Season Cut In Two Day 5 Day Of The Dead Deadmans Hand Decadence Desert Destination Disappear? Disappointment Disenchanted Distant X Unseen Dome Dont Look Back Dont Open The Door To Strangers Dont You Fall Down: Nostalgia And Everything After Dream Dream Of Edward Dropping Names Drought Duncan And Mary Earthfriend Eastern Easy Electric Electric Lash Espionage Essence Even The Flies Have Eyes Fading Away Feel Field Of Mars Fighter Pilot... Korean War Film Fly Fly Home Fog For A Moment Were Strangers Forgotten Reign Fraulein Freeze To Burn Friction Frozen And Distant Glow Worm Grandiose Grind Gun Metal Money Gypsy Stomp Happenstance Happy Hunting Ground Heading South Hiroshima Mon Amour Hitspacebar Hotel Womb Hounds Of Love Hunter I Am A Rock I Dont Know I Kept Everything In A Heartbeat In This Room Incident On Bannerville Insanity Interlock Into My Hands Intro Invisible Ionian Blues Is This Where You Live It Could Be Anyone It Doesnt Change Its All Too Much Its No Reason Iwasdrunk Jazz June Just For You Kings Korea Ladyboy Last Melody Laughing Lay Low Leave Your Clothes On Let Y=X Life Speeds Up Light Drive Lizard LLC Lost Lost My Touch Louisiana Loveblind Lullaby Lunar Lustre Macabre Tavern Magician Among The Spirits Man Manifesto Maya Maybe These Boys... Memories In Future Tense Metropolis Mistress Monday Morning Moodertronic Much Too Much My Little Problem My Love Last Night Myrrh Nervous Breakthrough Never Before Never Come Back Night Flower Night Friends Night Of Light Night Sequence Nightmare No Certainty Attached No Explanation Nonapology North South East And West Nose Dive Nothing Seeker November Now I Wonder Why NSEW Numbers Old Flame On Angel Street One Day Operetta Overview Oxydental Pangaea Pantechnicon Paradox Pearls Perfect Child Pharoah Pity Sex Pleasure Pure Chance Radiance Radiant 1934 Remix Real Toggle Action Realm of Minor Angels Remote Luxury Replated/Chromium Reprieve Reversal Reward Ricochet Ride Into The Sunset Ripple Ritz Roman Romany Caravan Room Full Of Diamonds Russian Autumn Heart SADS Saturation Sealine Secret Corners See Your Lights Seen It @ The Feelmore Seen It Coming Seen It @ The Feelmore Serpent Easy Shadow Cabinet She Never Said Shell Shell Come Back For You Tomorrow Shriek Theme Silver Machine Sisters Sleeping For Miles [email protected] Snowfaller So Love May Find Us Someone Special Song 18 Song For The Asking Song From The Machine Age Song In Space Song In The Afternoon Song To Go... Space Needle Space Saviour Spark Stay All Night Sublimated In Song Summer Sunken Sun Swan Lake Take It Back Tantalized Tear It All Away Tel Aviv Telepath Terra Nova Cain Texas Moon The Aan Tribal War The Awful Ache The Church - Under The Milky Way The Church - Under The Milky Way The Coffee Song The Coffee Song Instrumental The Dead Mans Dream The Deep Ache Mix The Disillusionist The Endless Sea The Faith Healer The Feast The Further Adventures Of The Time Being The Golden Dawn The Gray Caps The Great Machine The Illusion Mysteries The Immediate Future The Maven The Myths You Made The Night Is Very Soft The Porpoise Song The Sexual Act The Theatre And Its Double The Time Being The Unguarded Moment The View The Weather There You Go This Is It Till The Cows Come Home To Be In Your Eyes Too Fast For You Trance Ending Tranquility Transient Travel By Thought Tristesse Truffidian Church Twin Stars Two Places At Once Undo Unified Field Unreliable External Untoward Violet Town Volumes War Of The Houses We Are Lost We Both Know Why Youre Here We Dwell In Fragile Temporary Welcome When You Were Mine White Star Line Why Dont You Love Me Wide Open Road Witch Hunt Wont Let You Sleep YAHWEH You Been You Got Off Light You Took Youre Still Beautiful Youth Worshipper Youve Got To Go
From the Single
From the Single
Other Songs 0408 10000 Miles 1st Woman On The Moon 2054 A Different Man A Month Of Sundays A New Season A Stage A Tale For You A Tragi-Comic Family Story After Everything Afterimage Afterlife All I Know All The Young Dudes Almost With You Already Yesterday Amanita Ambergris An Interlude Anaesthesia Anchorage Ancient History Angelica Anna Miranda Another Earth Antenna Anthem X Anyway Appalatia As You Will Aura Authority Autumn Soon Bel-Air Between Mirages Blink Block Blood Money Bordello Buffalo Burn Dat Busdriver Business Woman Businessman Cantilever Chaos Chrome Injury Chromium Church Cigarettes and Chinese Food City Cobalt Blue Colombus Columbus Comedown Comeuppance Constant In Opal Cortez The Killer Crash / Ride Crash / Ride Cuffing Season Cut In Two Day 5 Day Of The Dead Deadmans Hand Decadence Desert Destination Disappear? Disappointment Disenchanted Distant X Unseen Dome Dont Look Back Dont Open The Door To Strangers Dont You Fall Down: Nostalgia And Everything After Dream Dream Of Edward Dropping Names Drought Duncan And Mary Earthfriend Eastern Easy Electric Electric Lash Espionage Essence Even The Flies Have Eyes Fading Away Feel Field Of Mars Fighter Pilot... Korean War Film Fly Fly Home Fog For A Moment Were Strangers Forgotten Reign Fraulein Freeze To Burn Friction Frozen And Distant Glow Worm Grandiose Grind Gun Metal Money Gypsy Stomp Happenstance Happy Hunting Ground Heading South Hiroshima Mon Amour Hitspacebar Hotel Womb Hounds Of Love Hunter I Am A Rock I Dont Know I Kept Everything In A Heartbeat In This Room Incident On Bannerville Insanity Interlock Into My Hands Intro Invisible Ionian Blues Is This Where You Live It Could Be Anyone It Doesnt Change Its All Too Much Its No Reason Iwasdrunk Jazz June Just For You Kings Korea Ladyboy Last Melody Laughing Lay Low Leave Your Clothes On Let Y=X Life Speeds Up Light Drive Lizard LLC Lost Lost My Touch Louisiana Loveblind Lullaby Lunar Lustre Macabre Tavern Magician Among The Spirits Man Manifesto Maya Maybe These Boys... Memories In Future Tense Metropolis Mistress Monday Morning Moodertronic Much Too Much My Little Problem My Love Last Night Myrrh Nervous Breakthrough Never Before Never Come Back Night Flower Night Friends Night Of Light Night Sequence Nightmare No Certainty Attached No Explanation Nonapology North South East And West Nose Dive Nothing Seeker November Now I Wonder Why NSEW Numbers Old Flame On Angel Street One Day Operetta Overview Oxydental Pangaea Pantechnicon Paradox Pearls Perfect Child Pharoah Pity Sex Pleasure Pure Chance Radiance Radiant 1934 Remix Real Toggle Action Realm of Minor Angels Remote Luxury Replated/Chromium Reprieve Reversal Reward Ricochet Ride Into The Sunset Ripple Ritz Roman Romany Caravan Room Full Of Diamonds Russian Autumn Heart SADS Saturation Sealine Secret Corners See Your Lights Seen It @ The Feelmore Seen It Coming Seen It @ The Feelmore Serpent Easy Shadow Cabinet She Never Said Shell Shell Come Back For You Tomorrow Shriek Theme Silver Machine Sisters Sleeping For Miles [email protected] Snowfaller So Love May Find Us Someone Special Song 18 Song For The Asking Song From The Machine Age Song In Space Song In The Afternoon Song To Go... Space Needle Space Saviour Spark Stay All Night Sublimated In Song Summer Sunken Sun Swan Lake Take It Back Tantalized Tear It All Away Tel Aviv Telepath Terra Nova Cain Texas Moon The Aan Tribal War The Awful Ache The Church - Under The Milky Way The Church - Under The Milky Way The Coffee Song The Coffee Song Instrumental The Dead Mans Dream The Deep Ache Mix The Disillusionist The Endless Sea The Faith Healer The Feast The Further Adventures Of The Time Being The Golden Dawn The Gray Caps The Great Machine The Illusion Mysteries The Immediate Future The Maven The Myths You Made The Night Is Very Soft The Porpoise Song The Sexual Act The Theatre And Its Double The Time Being The Unguarded Moment The View The Weather There You Go This Is It Till The Cows Come Home To Be In Your Eyes Too Fast For You Trance Ending Tranquility Transient Travel By Thought Tristesse Truffidian Church Twin Stars Two Places At Once Undo Unified Field Unreliable External Untoward Violet Town Volumes War Of The Houses We Are Lost We Both Know Why Youre Here We Dwell In Fragile Temporary Welcome When You Were Mine White Star Line Why Dont You Love Me Wide Open Road Witch Hunt Wont Let You Sleep YAHWEH You Been You Got Off Light You Took Youre Still Beautiful Youth Worshipper Youve Got To Go
The Church are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave, neo-psychedelia, and indie rock, their music later came to feature slower tempos and surreal soundscapes reminiscent of alternative rock, dream pop, and post-rock. Glenn A. Baker has written that "From the release of the 'She Never Said' single in November 1980, this unique Sydney-originated entity has purveyed a distinctive, ethereal, psychedelic-tinged sound which has alternatively found favour and disfavour in Australia." The Los Angeles Times has described the band's music as "dense, shimmering, exquisite guitar pop".
The founding members were Steve Kilbey on lead vocals and bass guitar, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper on guitars, and Nick Ward on drums. Ward played only on their debut album, and the band's drummer for the rest of the 1980s was Richard Ploog. Jay Dee Daugherty (ex-Patti Smith Group) played drums from 1990 to 1993, followed by "timEbandit" Tim Powles (ex-The Venetians), who remains with them to the present day. Koppes left the band from 1992 to 1997, and Willson-Piper left in 2013. Ian Haug, formerly of Powderfinger, replaced him. Kilbey, Koppes, and Powles also recorded together as the Refo:mation in 1997.
The Church's debut album, Of Skins and Heart (1981), delivered their first radio hit, "The Unguarded Moment", and they were signed to major labels in Australia, Europe, and the United States. However, the US label, dissatisfied with their second album, dropped the band without releasing it. This put a dent in their international success, but they returned to the charts in 1988 with the album Starfish and the US Top 40 hit "Under the Milky Way". Subsequent mainstream success has proved elusive, but the band retains a large international cult following and were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in Sydney in 2010.
The Church continue to tour and record, releasing their 25th studio album, Man Woman Life Death Infinity, in October 2017, and their 27th and most recent, Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars, in March 2024.
Members:
The founding members were Steve Kilbey on lead vocals and bass guitar, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper on guitars, and Nick Ward on drums. Ward played only on their debut album, and the band's drummer for the rest of the 1980s was Richard Ploog. Jay Dee Daugherty (ex-Patti Smith Group) played drums from 1990 to 1993, followed by "timEbandit" Tim Powles (ex-The Venetians), who remains with them to the present day. Koppes left the band from 1992 to 1997, and Willson-Piper left in 2013. Ian Haug, formerly of Powderfinger, replaced him. Kilbey, Koppes, and Powles also recorded together as the Refo:mation in 1997.
The Church's debut album, Of Skins and Heart (1981), delivered their first radio hit, "The Unguarded Moment", and they were signed to major labels in Australia, Europe, and the United States. However, the US label, dissatisfied with their second album, dropped the band without releasing it. This put a dent in their international success, but they returned to the charts in 1988 with the album Starfish and the US Top 40 hit "Under the Milky Way". Subsequent mainstream success has proved elusive, but the band retains a large international cult following and were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in Sydney in 2010.
The Church continue to tour and record, releasing their 25th studio album, Man Woman Life Death Infinity, in October 2017, and their 27th and most recent, Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars, in March 2024.
Steve Kilbey - bass, lead vocals, keyboards, guitars (1980-present)
Tim Powles - drums, percussion, backing vocals, guitars (1994-present)
Ian Haug - guitars, backing vocals (2013-present)
Jeffrey Cain - guitars, bass, keyboards, backing vocals (2020-present; touring 2017-2019)
Ashley Naylor - guitars, backing vocals (2020-present)
Current touring musicians
Nicholas Meredith - drums, percussion (2022-present)
Former members
Peter Koppes - guitars, keyboards, vocals (1980-1992, 1997-2019)
Nick Ward - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1980-1981)
Marty Willson-Piper - guitars, vocals, bass (1980-2013)
Richard Ploog - drums, percussion (1981-1990)
Jay Dee Daugherty - drums, percussion (1990-1993)
Genre(s): Alternative rock, new wave, neo-psychedelia, post-punk, dream pop, Gothic