Thursday music corner: The Triffids were a Western Australian alternative rock group formed in 1978, named for the terrifying science-fiction alien plant species in John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids. Featuring David McComb as lead vocalist, the band were active until 1989. Of the band's five studio albums released between 1983 and 1989, Born Sandy Devotional (1986) and Calenture (1987) are both regarded as Australian classics. After a 1996 heart transplant and long-term illness, McComb died in 1999 aged 36.
Blinder By The Hour is a sweeping, romantically macabre track from the band's fourth album Calenture; the album title refers to a form of insanity suffered by mariners on long voyages. Bury Me Deep In Love and Trick Of The Light were both successful singles from the album, the former being used to soundtrack a wedding scene in the TV soap Neighbours in which Harold Bishop and Madge Mitchell were wed.
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