Sydney based music outfit Knievel have been purveyors of fine self-financed rock since 1994. All three members were playing in other bands when they got together; Wayne Connolly in The Welcome Mat, Tracy Ellis in Oliver, and Nick Kennedy in Big Heavy Stuff.

They shared a mutual love of carpet lined rehearsal rooms and cited their reason for forming as "musical differences".

The band released their debut album "We Fear Change" in 1995 and achieved widespread national airplay with the first two singles "Might As Well Be Gone" and "Let It Go". They toured sporadically, dividing their time between other bands and recording projects, and cultivating their reputation for being reclusive, mysterious, and impenetrable.

The first single from their second album, the irresistible classic "Something Good Must Come", logged up enough airplay to start a bribery scandal. Songwriter Wayne Connolly consequently signed with Universal publishing and the album "Steep Hill Climb" was released on Citadel Records to widespread acclaim.

Knievel have supported touring bands Luna, Buffalo Tom, Teenage Fanclub and the Pernice Brothers and played the Big Day Out, as well as headlining their own tours. Knievel traveled to New York to play the CMJ in 1998 and in 1999. In 2000 they played with Ken Stringfellow of the Posies and REM, both as the support band and Ken's backing band. In 2001 they toured the South Island of New Zealand and in 2002 they will return to the US and also visit Japan.

To develop the songs for their third album, the band locked themselves away in their home studio 'Pretty Limited Recording Facilities" and recorded it over several months at Turtlerock studios in Sydney. The album, titled "the name rings a bell that drowns out your voice" features the singles Chance Meeting and Don't Explain, and is released on Quietly Suburban Recordings/Architecture through MGM distribution in Australia as well as in the US on In Music We Trust and in Japan on Painted Sky Discs.