Augie March
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Augie March is a five piece band of bushranger revivalists who formed in 1996 in Mt. Wellington, New Zealand. They moved to country Victoria shortly after, citing Victoria's 'rhododendron gardens, rose bushes, and human audience' as more conductive to bushranger activities than Mt. Wellington's caves and dead marshes. The bushrangers are:
- Sad Prince Richards (born Jack Richards)
- Fisherman Donovan
- Baron Baggins
- Ed "The Bear"
- Princess Margaret, brother of Triple M radio presenter Fifi Box
[edit] A Short, Moving History
Sad Prince Richards first got into bushranger revivalism while studying literature in university, where he met Dan Kelly, a horse insurance thief and travelling minstrel from North-Eastern Victoria. Engrossed with the tales of Kelly's exploits as expressed in his songs, Richards soon began writing poetry based on his own life, at the time consisting mainly of college girls, university duck ponds, and erotic asphyxiation. These soon after became the songs to feature on their first EP, Thanks for the Themes. The first song from this EP, Century Hat, acknowledges the band's confusion as to the purpose of Dan Kelly's famous mask:
“What about the sunlight reflecting from your hat / It is making me blind / I know that without it you'd be cold and dead / But it is making me blind and why is the hole a funny shape?”
~ Sad Prince Richards on Dan Kelly's mask
This would prove to be a recurring theme in the band's songs, later to be adapted to an extensive collection of novelty headwear worn during both stage performances and bushranger break ins. This millinery collection now ranges from average trucker caps and fedora hats to the more daring Busselton hats and fully weatherproof and bulletproof Dropbear skin balaclavas.
