AXIOM – Fool’s Gold (P’Dhede Ciptamas ).wmv

Axiom’s formation was a by-product of the annual Hoadley’s Battle Of The Sounds, where each year the top Australian bands of the day performed in front of judges for the prize of a paid return trip to London – but little else. In 1967 The Twilights were the first winners, the next year The Groop. Both found it difficult to settle back to the grind of the Australian pop scene after tasting the London big time. Neither band had made anything but the smallest dent in London (The Twilights being given a song by the Hollies, the Groop’s “When I Was Six Years Old” being recorded by Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones), but it was enough to leave the lingering thought amongst band members, ‘What if..?’ When The Groop broke up soon after their return to Australia, The Twilights had already scattered in all directions. Singer Glenn Shorrock had moved into management. A plan was hatched to form a new group out of the two group’s frontline remnants. The Twilights’ songwriter and guitarist Terry Britten was supposed to join Shorrock and the Groop’s piano player and chief songwriter Brian Cadd in the new band, but when Terry chose to go to England instead, his place was taken by the Groop’s Don Mudie, who in the last stages of the Groop had formed a strong songwriting partnership with Cadd. The group was completed by Cam-Pact guitarist Chris Stockley, and Valentines drummer Doug Lavery. Immediately dubbed a supergroup the band asked fans to suggest a name and settled on Axiom. Almost …