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Lash were an a lot-female alternative/punk rock band from Perth, Australia.
A members Belinda-Lee Reid (vocals, guitar), Jaclyn Pearson (lead guitar), Jess Bennett (drums) & Micaela Slayford (vocals, bass) completely met inside senior high school (Santa Marie College) around Perth and formed a band Exteria within 1996.
When existence together for iii weeks, a girls entered a song "Aloha Mr Hand" into a Open Youth Category for under-18s in the 1996 WAMI Awards. A 4 14 season olds (at a period) won a $1,000 prize, & come to the attention of manager Andrew Klippel.
Around 2001, nowadays renamed Lash & signed to Festival Mushroom Records, their first Two singles reached a top Forty Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart (Take Me Away and Beauty Queen). It toured Australia inside 2001 & 2002, & played inside Timor and Romania in 2002. a third lone manufactured the top Centred within 2002 (''Don't Ever Make My Mind Up). Their debut album by using these Triad singles was A Beautiful & The Cursedly, which too manufactured a top Fifty ARIAnet Albums Chart around 2002. Their song Beauty Queen was too featured on the Freaky Friday'' soundtrack in 2003.
A class action disbanded fallowing unfortunate album sales & amid criticism that it were "manufactured" by manager/producer/songwriter Andrew Klippel & producer/songwriter Barry Palmer and thus lacked a "credibility" ostensibly demanded of an Australian rock band.
Fallowing the break-higher of Lash, Belinda-Lee Reid has pursued a solo career. She was a subject of an episode of the Reality TV programme 'The Hit Game', which aired in Australia in Four October 2005, & showed her recording newly 'demonstration' by having Arnold palmer. Her debut solo ep A Road from either Lillyfield is freed around Australia late 2005.
Jess & Jaclyn currently play in the class action A Preytells.
Awards
1996 WAMI Award, Open Youth Category (when Exteria)
2001 Rawards, Better fresh Australian creative persin on commercial radio
2001 Australian Survive Music Awards, Washington's Right Emerging Survive Act
2002 Golden Stag Award, Romania
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