Dirt Petty

Dirt Petty is a Brisbane front man and musician (lead singer and rhythm guitar) who, through larger-than-life personality and determination, has been a fixture on the Brisbane music scene since the mid-1980s. Always one to wear his heart on his sleeve he is a showman who plays American music with a particularly humorous Australian outlook. He has written and recorded much original material in the alternative rock, blues rock, southern rock, singer songwriter and more recently, country rock styles as well as fronting a Husker Du tribute band (The Minnesota Triplets), a Tom Petty cover band (Dirt and the Southern Accents) and serving a stint as a most unconventional, but quite respectful, Elvis Presley impersonator. Bands: ASAT (1984), The Sanity Assassins (drums only)(1986-1987), Dirt and the Rebels (1987-1991), Croc and the Diles (1987-1989), Dirt and the Southern Accents (1989), Dirt Petty and the Hideous Debacle (1991), Barb (1993-1995), The Minnesota Triplets (1989-2010), Dirt and the Drinkin’ Posse (2010 - )