Tycho Profiles | Tycho Brahe

lineup

Ken Evans (bass guitar, programming, vocals)
Georgina Emery (keyboards, vocals)
Sam Morrison (keyboards, bass guitar)
Stephen Birt (live drums)

Ken

Biggest musical influence?: Human League and New Order.
Best moment on the live music scene?: Buffalo Club gig with Real Life and Pseudo Echo.
Worst moment on the live music scene?: Having to cancel a gig because the audio engineer was off his head and couldn’t operate the equipment.
Funniest moment on the live music scene?: The time Alison had her dress on backwards for a gig... and didn’t realise until the band was in the car on the way home!
Personal favourite recorded Tycho Brahe song?: It's Not Enough, also Dislocation 12" mix, "...because it's a triumph of editing over primitive technology".
Personal favourite Tycho Brahe song to play live?: Dreams of Dying
Favourite international band(s)?: Human League
Favourite local band(s)?: Real Life
What was the last CD you added to your collection?: "I bought three in one hit... Prince – Hits and B Sides, Sisters of Mercy – A Slight Case of Overbombing and The The – Soul Mining. The most recent new release I got was Hot Fuss by The Killers."
How did you get started in music?: "I was asked to sing in a synth band because the other two guys couldn’t sing. I’d never sung before. That or playing the triangle in Grade Three."
What item would you most like a fan to throw on stage?: Bras and wallets.
Favourite quote from Spinal Tap?: "These go to eleven."

Georgina

Biggest musical influence?: Depeche Mode
Best moment on the live music scene?: Buffalo Club gig with Real Life and Pseudo Echo.
Worst moment on the live music scene?: "It'd have to be the Pacific Circle Music Convention in Sydney, where I had to stand on top of a trapdoor to the cellar of a pub during the gig... and the sound guy mixed on the bar, facing away from the band."
Funniest moment on the live music scene?: Crazed fans (including one girl just wearing a bra) writing T-Y-C-H-O on their bellies during the Buffalo Club gig.
Personal favourite recorded Tycho Brahe song?: It’s Not Enough
Personal favourite Tycho Brahe song to play live?: "What's the one where I do my dance moves? Oh yeah, Avarice."
Favourite international band(s)?: Depeche Mode
Favourite local band(s)?: Mondo Rock, Real Life
What was the last CD you added to your collection?: "Actually it was a DVD... Blondie – Live By Request."
How did you get started in music?: "School choir."
What item would you most like a fan to throw on stage?: Money.
Favourite quote from Spinal Tap?: "You don't do heavy metal in Dubly, you know."

Sam

Keyboards and bass guitar. Member from 2011 to 2012; returning to live lineup from 2024.

Biggest musical influence?: Many and varied, but Nine Inch Nails would be right up there.
Best moment on the live music scene?: Any enthusiastic audience is fantastic, but playing to one and a half thousand people in an open-air amphitheatre in Germany as a member of Voices of Masada sticks out as a truly singular experience.
Worst moment on the live music scene?: When Empty Art were the closing act at the worst-run masquerade ball Brisbane has ever seen. Crap PA, no foldback, no sound engineer, and when I looked up three songs into the set there were only two people left in the audience, both of whom later told me they couldn't hear anything of what we were doing but stuck around because we were making an effort.
Funniest moment on the live music scene?: On tour in Melbourne with Voices of Masada, roping in the sound guy, booking agent and half of the roadies to help us steal beer from Diary of Dreams.
Personal favourite recorded Tycho Brahe song?: Delos
Personal favourite Tycho Brahe song to play live?: Sex Rocket
Favourite international band(s)?: NIN, The Cure, Neuroticfish, Diary of Dreams (even if they did deserve to have their beer nicked)
Favourite local band(s)?: Felinedown, Trip Sinister, Empty, Razorfade and the sadly defunct MM9
What was the last CD you added to your collection?: Saul Williams - "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!"
How did you get started in music?: I started off playing cello when I was 7.
What item would you most like a fan to throw on stage?: Money, vintage guitars, underwear (ladies only, please)
Favourite quote from Spinal Tap?: I remember being knocked out by their exuberance, their raw power, and their punctuality.

Stephen

Live drums. Member from 1998 to 2004; periodically returning to live lineup from 2008.

Biggest musical influence?: My drum teacher David McCallum who has been a professional drummer since the age of 13. He is now in his 60's and still gigs a couple of nights a week.
Best moment on the live music scene?: Playing to any decent sized appreciative crowd is always a best moment, and with ticks in both boxes this was achieved when Tycho supported The Human League in Sydney and Melbourne...ahhh...happy days...
Worst moment on the live music scene?: Having a show (Tycho's Brisbane support of Covenant) end before it started thanks to Mico..fucking..soft.
Funniest moment on the live music scene?: On tour in Melbourne with Dogmachine supporting Atari Teenage Riot, our singer was being an arse pulling off his best angst ridden, Trent Reznor wannabe crouching pose at the front of the stage during a quiet bit during a song. That pose and the fact that he had just bled on my cymbal was all the incentive I needed to run out from behind the kit and boot him into the crowd, which parted like the Red Sea as he hit the floor. Crowd loved it, I loved it and suprisingly so did the victim.
Personal favourite recorded Tycho Brahe song?: Free
Personal favourite Tycho Brahe song to play live?: Delos
Favourite international band(s)?: Too many to mention but fave at the moment would be Meshuggah.
Favourite local band(s)?: Cog and The Mark of Cain
What was the last CD you added to your collection?: Enter Shikari's latest 'Common Dread' and a self titled album from a U.S.electronic/emo act called Innerpartysystem.
How did you get started in music?: Hearing The Village People on a compilation tape my parents gave me for my 11th birthday. I heard them and that's what started me on my musical career....that and professional male stripping......
What item would you most like a fan to throw on stage?: A brand new Triumph or MV Augusta motorcycle, but wads of cash would be good to.
Favourite quote from Spinal Tap?: Well this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump"

Past Members

The Tycho Brahe lineup has changed over the years, see the profiles of past members.