I need to know about Venom .p. Stinger

Dunno much about 'em. They had a track called "The Day Will Come" on a 7-inch comp. put out by Treehouse recs back in the very early 90s (Scumbait #2). That's where I first heard 'em, though I'd read stuff in Forced Exposure a year or two prior. Song is gutteral Aussie scuzz punk with syncopated martial snare driving it along. Pretty damn cool, and at the time got points just for not being another obvious grunge clone.

Anyway, I liked 'em enough to pick up the "Walking About" 7-inch on Aberrant (thank you, Yesterday & Today - RIP), which is awesome. More burly than "The Day Will Come", and maybe not quite as oddly catchy, but way crazier and rawer. Probably song in the clip you saw.

I looked for the Meet My Friend Venom LP, which is supposed to be their best full-length, but never found a copy. They did eventually put out a domestic (American) live LP on the Anopheles label*, but it's just okay. Same grunting crusty punk/noise with military percussion and manic, no-wave guitar, but the recording quality is iffy. My copy got melted somewhere along the way, so I dunno, maybe I'd like it better now.

* Also responsible for the amazing Debris' and George Brigman reissues.

I have Meet my Friend Venom (80s?), and I loved it a lot when I had a record player, but now it just sits with 600 of its friends in my basement storage.

Two members of the band went on to fame and fortune as members of The Dirty Three. (Jim White and Mick turner) Okay maybe not fame and fortune but they are in the band.

Venom P come out of a web of great Melbourne bands: Sick Things, Fungus Brains, Moodists (all of whom are worth investigation if you can track down their stuff.). And they'd lead into the Dirty Three, of course.

First LP ("meet my friend") is great, of course, but I've also always enjoyed "Lethargy" off their second LP, 1990's "What's Yours is Mine" on Aberrant (released also with Normal). This link gets you to a very compressed mp3:

http://blackeyerecords.blogspot.com/2006/03/lethargy-venom-p-stinger.html

Sick Things were as noisy a band as has ever gotten to vinyl, though nobody's ever been sure if the recordings that ended up on their "Sound of Silence" LP were produced by mistake. Came out in 1989, but the songs were done in 1980-81. There's a cd of other material that lacks the ungodly sonic crunch of the LP, though it's still very fine punk rock.

Fungus Brains were an artier band with about three LPs from the early 80s, as I remember. First LP, "Ron Pistos Real World" (1983) is like a less swampy Birthday Party. Propulsive bass, punk guitars, squawky horns. Great stuff.

Moodists were a little more refined. Ended up in London, I think, though I don't know which members went. Stuff on Creation eventually. Their "Thirstys Calling" LP has always been a fave, especially "Do the Door, Friend." There's an early track on the "Can't Stop It" comp of Aussie post punk that shouldn't be too hard to find.