David Twohill
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | David Twohill |
| image | |
| caption | David "Bird" Twohill |
| Paul Worstead poster for Mental As Anything 1979 | |
| alias | Wayne DeLisle |
| Wayne "Bird" DeLisle | |
| David "Bird" Twohill | |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Cooma, New South Wales, Australia |
| instrument | Drums |
| genre | Rock |
| occupation | Drummer |
| years_active | 1976–present |
| associated_acts | Mental As Anything |
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| name = David Twohill | image = | caption = David "Bird" Twohill Paul Worstead poster for Mental As Anything 1979 | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = Wayne DeLisle Wayne "Bird" DeLisle David "Bird" Twohill | birth_date = | death_date = | birth_place = Cooma, New South Wales, Australia | instrument = Drums | genre = Rock | occupation = Drummer | years_active = 1976–present | label = | associated_acts = Mental As Anything | website = David Twohill (born 21 April 1954) is an Australian musician formerly with rock band Mental As Anything who is also known by the pseudonym Wayne DeLisle or as Bird.
Early life
Twohill was born in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia on 21 April 1954. After matriculating at Waverley College in 1972, where he was the drummer in a school band named "Thackeray's Onion", he attended the East Sydney Technical College at Darlinghurst. Here he met, and later auditioned on drums with, fellow students Chris O'Doherty, Martin Murphy and Steve Coburn who were putting a band together. The band would soon be called Mental As Anything and would become well known around Australia and the world. Twohill performed under the pseudonym Wayne de Lisle for most of his time as a member. In September 2004 he was sacked from the band by two of his bandmates. He lodged a wrongful dismissal case against his former bandmates with the NSW Industrial Relations Commission in 2007, which he won.
Mental As Anything
Main article: Mental As Anything
2001 bushfires
Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four-piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.
References
References
- McFarlane, Ian. (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Mental as Anything'". [[Allen & Unwin]].
- Nimmervoll, Ed. "Mental As Anything". Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd (Ed Nimmervoll).
- Atkinson, Ann. (1996). "The dictionary of performing arts in Australia". [[Allen & Unwin]].
- Singer, Jill. (13 February 2002). "Episode 1: Welcome to People Dimensions". [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] (ABC).
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