Fire's sole studio album, A Frame of Purple Roses, was released in early 1987 and the group disbanded at the end of that year.
[1] Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described their performances as both "inspirational and wildly erratic" with their sound based on "Brunsdon's abrasive acid-rock guitar fireworks and [Schneider]'s gravel-pit vocals overlaid with a sinister Gothic atmosphere.
"[1] Ku Klux Frankenstein recorded a demo, "Baby You Light Up My Cigarette", for radio station 3PBS and followed with a four-track extended play, Love for Sale, which was issued on Crash in 1985.
You certainly can't categorise them as their playing varies from soft moving vocals for the raunchiest thrash..."[3] Hickin was replaced on bass guitar by Rodney Kuna but the group disbanded at the end of that year.
[1] Brundson successively joined the Wet Ones, Dirty Strangers and Charles Marshall and the Body Electric; Hickin was a member of the Sunset Strip, Autohaze and Holocene; Schneider became an actor and Flossos resumed his medical degree.