The Aints!

In their earliest incarnation, the Saints were one of the one of the most blazing bands on the Australian punk scene of the '70s, and their 1976 single "(I'm) Stranded" became an international success. The group would go through many creative shifts in the years that followed, in particular after co-founder Ed Kuepper left the line-up and Chris Bailey became their uncontested leader. But Kuepper would seek to re-create some of the taut energy of his salad days in the Saints in a band he called the Aints, which took a similarly stripped-down approach while adding new and noisy ...