Wet Taxis singer and cult determine of the Eighties Sydney music scene, Louis Tillett, dies at age 64

Veteran Australian rocker Louis Tillett has handed away on the age of 64.

Known to followers of Sydney’s thriving unbiased music scene within the Eighties and Nineties, Tillett was a lot admired for his solo work and his band, the Wet Taxis.

Tillett’s passing final week was introduced to followers on his official Facebook on Sunday, when it was revealed that the gifted musician selected to depart his physique to science.

A GoFundMe web page launched in 2021 introduced that Tillett was affected by persistent kidney illness.

The debilitating situation has stored the hard-working musician from performing for the previous two years.

As a singer, songwriter, keyboardist and saxophonist, Tillet by no means achieved the type of mainstream success loved by contemporaries like Hunters and Collectors and Nick Cave.

But his expertise as a musician was extremely wanted, and Tillett performed with legendary indie favorites like The Laughing Clowns and Tex Perkins and Cold Chisel’s Don Walker.

In 1987, he launched his first solo album, Ego Tripping on the Gates of Hell, which was broadly acclaimed by critics and followers alike.

The music was a mixture of jazz, pop and rock. 10 extra solo albums adopted.

Born in Sydney in 1959, Tillett shaped Wet Taxis in 1977 as an experimental group.

It later morphed right into a psychedelic rock act, wowing native followers with its weird and hypnotic sound, anchored by Tillett’s signature low-pitched ‘dark’ vocals.

In the mid-Eighties, he shaped a extra jazzy group referred to as Paris Green.

Tillett’s different recordings embody A Cast of Aspersions in 1990, Soliloquy and his newest document, To Ride a Dead Pony in 2018.