Essendon Airport

Essendon Airport were an Australian electronic music, post-punk group formed in 1978 which explored experimental minimalist and funk music.Founding mainstays were the duo of David Chesworth on electric piano and drum machine and Robert Goodge on guitar.They were joined in late 1980 by Ian Cox on saxophone and Paul Fletcher on drums.In 1982 they added Barbara Hogarth on bass guitar but disbanded in the following year.The group issued a four-track extended play, Sonic Investigations (Of the Trivial) (May 1980), and a studio album, Palimpsest (May 1982).They reformed as the original duo line-up for occasional performances in 2003 after the issue of a compilation album, Sonic Investigations of the Trivial.A new double CD version of Palimpsest, and other live material, was released by Chapter Music in August 2011.