Louis Tillett

Louis Rohan Tillett is an Australian rock music singersongwriter, keyboardist and saxophonist. Tillett was the front man in Australian bands The Wet Taxis, Paris Green and The Aspersion Caste. He has also worked as a backing musician with Catfish, Laughing Clowns, New Christs and Tex Perkins. For Tilletts solo career he has issued seven albums, Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell , A Cast of Aspersions , Letters to a Dream , Cry Against the Faith , Learning to Die , The Hanged Man and Soliloquy . He has often worked with Charlie Owen, releasing two albums, The Ugly Truth and Midnight Rain . The latter album won the Rolling Stone Critics Award for Best Album of 1996.

Louis Rohan Tillett was born in 1959 and grew up in Sydney. In 1977 his first band, The Wet Taxis, began as a group based around experiments with industrial noise. In 1980 they issued a cassette, Taxidermy, on the Terse Tapes label owned by fellow Sydney band, Severed Heads. For the album Tillett provided synthesiser and The Wet Taxis line up was Garry Bradbury on drum machine, Simon Knuckey on guitar, and his brother Tim Knuckey on bass guitar. In October that year Terse Tapes released an extended play, Terse Sample, by Various Artists with tracks by Wet Taxis and label mates Mindless Delta Children, Agent Orange and Rhoborhythmaticons.

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