Something Quite Peculiar

Narrated by Jodie Meidling
Duration 8 hrs 55 mins
Published 7 Nov 2025
Updated 8 Nov 2025
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Step inside the world of the enigmatic Steve Kilbey - frontman of The Church, one of Australia's best-loved and most successful bands, and 40-year veteran of the music industry.


Singer, songwriter and bassist. Ethereal, psychedelic and indefinable.


Journey through his migrant ten-pound pom childhood and garage-band adolescence during the hey-day of the Beatles, Dylan and the Stones. Laugh at his failed attempts at the 9-to-5 life. Jump aboard his wild adventures with The Church as they conquer Australia, and then the world.


The tours. The records. The women.


And the heroin addiction that enslaved him for a decade.


From snowy Sweden to a cell in NYC, from Ipanema Beach to Bondi, stumble through Kilbey's surreal life - his foolish ways will make you want to smile... then give him a big kick up the arse.