Ian C Pool - music origins

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HolyGreenCow began in music. Singer-songwriter roots meeting lo-fi noise.

Walking Stick album cover
Walking Stick
Animal Boy · 1995

Guitar-driven alt-rock mixing suburban storytelling with sharp, satirical lyrics. The starting point of the HolyGreenCow tone.

Attack of the Stickmen album cover
Attack of the Stickmen
Animal Boy · 1996

Stripped-back songs leaning into narrative and character, with melodies carrying the same dark humour found in later visual work.

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U-then8
U-then8 · 2000

Heavier, more cinematic. Pushing the soundtrack qualities — somewhere between film score, rock record and oddball confession.

Liar A album cover
Liar A
U-then8 · 2002

Later songs overlapping directly with HolyGreenCow imagery, sharing titles, lines and atmospheres that recur in the visual work.

Three surviving videos from the band years. Low resolution, but part of the origin story — living here as archival clips rather than polished artefacts.

Nicotine
Shot on film (BEC toilets, Brisbane)
Crazy Feelings
Last one we did — features Tommy's little boy
On My Mind
West End bar — shot on film

Band photos, live shots and studio moments from the HolyGreenCow years.

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Revfest poster
Revfest poster
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Boner Lisa
Boner Lisa
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