By his own account, the band was less than successful, Marx becoming "the type of shocking wanker that today I can't stomach ... a guy who thought his destiny was to thrill the world on the rock and roll stage".
[2] In 1994, Marx worked as a reporter for the Melbourne tabloid newspaper Truth, before being employed by Australian Consolidated Press as a senior writer for men's titles such as The Picture and Ralph.
In 1999, he became editor of Australian Style, causing controversy when he assigned accused anti-Semite author Helen Darville to interview British Holocaust denier David Irving.
[3] Marx was author of the Fairfax news blog The Daily Truth[4] until he was dismissed on 20 August 2007, following his publication of a satirical piece on the Australian Labor Party leader, and former prime minister, Kevin Rudd's visit to a New York strip club.
[5][6] Marx has written three non-fiction books to date: The Damage Done - Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison (1997), which he co-authored with Warren Fellows; the controversial Sorry- the Wretched Tale of Little Stevie Wright (1999);[7] and Australian Tragic (2009).