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further forward in two ways. The White Jazz label got into legal difficulties and failed to fully support and promote the album. Then on 21 January 2001, the band's leader and founder Sean
Greenway died from an accidental heroin dose. It was mocking destiny. Shortly before, the band had begun to collect their first international appreciation thanks to an album, "Prosody" that showed their great skills in writing rough and soulful songs and then it was all over.
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Hotel in 1999 with singer Nicke Royale becoming a big fan of The Yes-Men's music. This support led to The Yes-Men's first album
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release the album in
Australia on vinyl and CD. White Jazz Records in Sweden would release the album in Europe with the band slated to support the Hellacopters on a Euro tour down the track. The album Prosody was and still is critically acclaimed but fate would step in to thwart the band moving
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by God from 1987 is their best known track. It got very favourable reviews and sold in the thousands (which was a lot then for an independent band). It became an independent classic and cover versions have been recorded by several bands, including
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on vocals and
Matthew Whittle on guitar. The proceeds of the memorial gig were used to finish off some leftover recordings and eventually a second posthumous album of material was released in 2005 as El Peligro Ha Comenzado on vinyl through
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and would visit
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whilst
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Greenway was pretty much a mainstay of the burgeoning
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Cunningham as lead guitarist and began rehearsing and arranging the songs with him during visits to Sydney and when
Cunningham was in Melbourne (Cunningham was then playing in
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but with a harder edge and more full-on production. Sean
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was finally finished after almost 4 years of lead up work and sporadic recording. Greenway agreed to have
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recorded Swept Back (By the Tide) in 2008 and Leaving was included on their 2011 album, We Make the Music.
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in 1995. Musically the band played a powerful Australian style of rock’n’roll, very close to the pulse of
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