About
No Fixed Address is an Australian Aboriginal reggae rock group formed in 1979. The band was led by Bart Willoughby (lead vocals and drums), Pitjanjatjara from Koonibba Mission near Ceduna in the far southwest of South Australia, together with Ricky Harrison (rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter), Kurnai from Morwell in Victoria, Leslie Lovegrove Freeman (lead guitarist), Ngarrindjeri from Murray Bridge in South Australia, John Miller (bass) from Port Lincoln in South Australia, and Veronica Rankine (tenor saxophone), Ngarrindjeri from the southeast of South Australia.
Many members were related through family ties: Willoughby, Miller, and Freeman were cousins. Freeman, related to Harrison through marriage, recruited him from Victoria, and they all met and formed the band at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) in North Adelaide, South Australia.
Once in a lifetime, a band will come along and change the face of the Australian music industry. No Fixed Address has led the way for many Aboriginal artists and has opened doors for Aboriginal contemporary music. The raw and unbending iconic Aboriginal group No Fixed Address challenged the status quo of race-based ideology and commercialism in Australia.