Screamfeeder's Kitten Licks

Released in 1996 <i>Kitten Licks</i> catapulted Brisbane indie-rock three-piece Screamfeeder into the '90s alternative-rock boom alongside Powderfinger silverchair You Am I and Regurgitator. International tours regular festival shows and TV appearances followed. And yet commercial success for Screamfeeder was comparatively short-lived. By the end of the decade the band's outlook was bleak: at a career standstill and unable to record under their own name. This is the story of how <i>Kitten Licks</i> was made how it was swept up into '90s mythology and what the journey tells us about the fickle nature of music production in Australia namely: how to survive it.<br/>