Artist description In the dark days of the late nineteen-nineties, Australian comedy was a wasteland. The golden days of That's My Jumbuck and Bonza Sheila were long forgotten, and laughs were trading on the black market for upwards of $20 a chuckle. But there was one group of renegades willing to give their mirth freely, one group able to bring a smile to the pursed lips of a crying nation, one group mixing metaphors like a rolling stone in the hand is worth a month of monkeys. One group that not only took the piss, but swilled it around in its mouth and spat it back out into the urinal of society. Nyah Nyah. A name full of child-like innocence, full of middle-class repressed anger, full of the word "nyah". A name that perfectly expressed their raison d'sultana - the unbridled taunting of a nation that was still being dressed by its mother. This comic triumvirate broke the boundaries others skirted, took no prisoners in their prisoner-free routines (apart from the ones about prison of course), and said "cunt" on the radio a couple of times. Warwick Holt - a man who broke all the rules (and was subsequently kicked off the team). Matthew K. Sharp - a man who broke down when the tape deck didn't work. mAT bLACKWELL - a man who broke his caps lock key. Together they created 29 segments that shook the comedy world out of its nest of complacency to leave it, kicking and bleeding on the ground of complacency. In those heady days of 97-98, it was like the city would grind to a halt at around 11:36 and a half pm for somewhere between 10 and 17 minutes while its very fabric was tested. Well, there was this guy with a tube in his head who rang up a couple of times and said he kind of liked it, which is good enough for us. Nowadays of course it just sounds like a whole pile of D-Gen and Monty Python sketches acted and produced badly, but it's removed from its context, dammit. So, if you dare, download. Enter the world of Laurie and Doris Binkley, the neighbourhood bigots with hearts of napalm, of Floor Noodleman - action... guy, of Gerald Straightman (pronounced StraightMN) and of all the other inmates of the Nyah Nyah asylum. Of, erm, love.

Music Style Surrealist sketches from Comedyland

Similar Artists D-Generation, Monty Python, Big Train, The League of Gentlemen

Artist History Arising from the ashes of "Boot To The Head (Nyah Nyah)" (a Sunday morning radio program on PBS-FM which arose out of the ashes of "Laugh You Bastards" (a Sunday morning radio program on PBS-FM which... ahh, forget it), Nyah Nyah produced a weekly 10-15 minute segment on the PBS Thursday night Oz comedy fest, "A Dingo Stole My Punchline". These were aired through the second half of 1997 and first half of 1998.

Group Members Wok Holt Matthew K. Sharp mAT bLACKWELL

Instruments Words and Noises

Press Reviews "Ceaseless manufacturing of reviews" - Fictional Weekly

Additional Info See the tracklistings

Location Melbourne, VIC - Australia

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