Sweet Jayne

Band members

• Final line-up
  • Cris Bonacci (guitar)
  • Brendan O"shea (Bass)
  • Chris Scheri (vocals, flute)
  • Billy George (drums)

• Former members
  • Fab Versace (Drums)1981
  • Johnno Zafferese (Drums) (1980)
  • Sally Zylstra (Bass)(1977-1980)
  • Robyn Clarke (Drums)(1977-1979)

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 in Sydney and offered Chris and Cris airfares to London to work with him in the U.K. The band released a 5 track vinyl EP 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 TCS CH9 recording studios in 1977 and 1978. 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 Girlschool in 1985 and toured and recorded with the band for 10 years. She toured America with Deep Purple and Blue Oyster Cult and played guitar for Robert Plant. 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, Scheri and Bonacci produced a film clip for Scheri's "Pictures on The Wall", which was aired repeatedly on Basia Bonkvsky's Music Video show, and released as a single through Rondor Music and 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

EP:

	1979	Sweet Jayne	Cleopatra

EP:

	1979	Sweet Jayne	Cleopatra

Soundtrack:

	1979	Images Fantasy King'	Images Fantasy King