Crime & the City Solution are an Australian rock band formed in late 1977 by singer-
songwriter and mainstay Simon Bonney. They disbanded in 1979 leaving only bootleg
recordings and demos. In late 1983, Bonney travelled to London and in 1985 he formed
a new version of the group in the U.K. which included members of the recently
disbanded The Birthday Party; later they transferred to Berlin, where they issued four
albums – Room of Lights (1986), Shine (1988), The Bride Ship (1989) and Paradise
Discotheque (1990) – before disbanding again in 1991. In 2012, Bonney reformed the
band in Detroit with two veterans of its Berlin era and a handful of new members.
Critic David Sheridan described the band's music as characterized by slow tempos, dark
moods and Bonney's forlorn vocals, all of which can range from 'endurance testing' at
worst to 'hauntingly beautiful' at best.
Crime & the City Solution (Acoustic) is excited to announce its upcoming European Tour, which will run from 27 November through 11 December.Buoyed by the response to its recent tour of Ireland, the three-piece acoustic versionof Crime, which features Bronwyn Adams (violin and vocals), Simon Bonney (vocals) and Joshua Murphy (acoustic guitar and vocals), is now bringing reimagined acoustic versions of the Crime catalogue to European friends old and new. Born of a want to play the material in the style that many of the songs were first written and to create an intimate atmosphere that captures the simple joy of friends playing together for friends, unmediated by technology, this lineup will operate in addition to the bigger full-electric lineup.
Crime and the City Solution - Six Bells Chime (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987)