Sweet Jayne

Band members

• Line-up
  • Cris Bonacci (vocals, guitar)
  • Brendan O'Shea (bass)
  • Chris Scheri (vocals, flute)
  • John Zaffarese (drums)

Formed

Melbourne, VIC, 1978

Band information

Sweet Jayne (sweet and heavy rock) was the original Australian all girl hard rock band. The band split up in 1983 after Mike Oldfield saw the band play at the Manzil Room and offered Chris and Cris airfares to London to work with him in the U.K..The band released a 5 track vinyl E.P. after winning the Yamaha Australasian Battle of the bands in 1978.They recorded Chris Scheri's "Images Fantasy King' as a sound track for the documentary, "Changes" in which they made a cameo appearance in 1979. Other releases were on cassette format, the first engineered by Mark Moffat at T.C.S Ch9 recording studios. Musicland Cleopatra (Al Webb from Juke and Gil Mathews -engineer)released a single "Icarus" b/w "State of Mind" in 1981. Sweet Jayne performed over 700 gigs from 1977 to 1983. Cris Bonacci joined Girlschoolin 1985 and toured and recorded with the band for 10 years. She also worked with Toyah Wilcox and Marc Almond and was manager and musical director for Samantha Fox for several years.Chris Scheri set up Recording Studio 7 in South Melbourne in 1986.That same year, Chris Scheri and Cris Bonacci produced a film clip for Chris Scheri's "Pictures on The Wall", which was aired repeatedly on Basia Bonkvsky's Music Video show, and released as a single through Rondor/Possum Records.The B-side Heartbeat" was used as part of the soundtrack for Robert Herbert's film, "He and She" and reproduced in Holland by Mink DeVille. Zaffarese was later in Rosanna's Raiders.

Discography

Single:

	1981	Icarus	Cleopatra