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The Calling were a band from Melbourne, Australia who came together in the late 80’s, to perform locally and occasionally record in the local Fitzroy inner city location with a few members attending Melbourne University. Original band members were Cass Wigley guitar vocals, Mark Nixon guitar, Andrew Innes Parke bass guitar, Martin Enberg keyboards and Ben Bleechmore drums. Influences for the bands style of music included groups like The Church, The Beatles and The Velvet Underground. The band were involved in some recordings, “Lost at sea” was played heavily on 3rrr in Melbourne and “she said” and “heaven knows” were also amongst some early Calling recordings with Robbie Rowlands engineering in the studio briefly. The Calling played many inner city Melbourne live venues and university campuses for at least 4 years including the Punters Club, the MT Evelyn Hotel, the Tote and the Great Britain, supporting such international acts as Buffalo Tom. The band while never doing any recording or publishing deals broke up in the early 90’s and while some members have stayed in contact no further gigs or recordings have occurred to date.