New Race was a concept [citation needed] band featuring three members of Radio Birdman: Deniz Tek, Rob Younger, and Warwick Gilbert, along with their inspirational mentors: Ron Asheton of The Stooges, and Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson of MC5.
New Race played one tour of the East Coast of Australia, which consisted of seventeen shows.
At the conclusion of the tour, both Ron Asheton and Dennis Thompson returned to the United States to pursue new musical avenues.
[1][2] Tek commented: “The first show was a predictably rough event in Wollongong, a tough steel city down south... then drove overnight 1,000 km north to the Gold Coast, to The Playroom which is still sitting there on one of the prettiest beaches in the world”.
I can’t remember if it was The Beenleigh Tavern or The Playroom ... the marquee out the front of the venue had us billed as Radio Birdman”.