Barnaby Charles Ward, aka Baterz, was an Australian musician born in Canberra on July 3, 1969.^[1] He was a founding member of cult band The Bedridden and garnered an enthusiastic following as a solo performer. His style was distinguished by odd time signatures, aggressive acoustic guitar playing and dryly pessimistic lyrics. Baterz was born with haemophilia, a hereditary disease which affects the ability of the blood to clot. In 1984 Baterz was diagnosed with HIV, contracted via a routine blood tranfusion a year earlier. In 2002 he was diagnosed with Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy; he died that year in Adelaide on Monday July 22.

Biography

Early life in Canberra

Schools? Games Lursdie and the origin of the name Baterz. Who dubbed him thus?

The Bedridden

The Bedridden formed in Canberra (when?) and moved to Adelaide (when?).

military uniform

scala: gigs and scala comp. The Bedridden won SCALA's songwriting competition in 1989 with Baterz's (?) song "Bateman's Bay", and both "Bateman's Bay" and "The Fishing Song" were recorded on SCALA's 1990 cassette A Decent Meal.^[2]

round records releases

army of nerds

Solo career

solo acoustic

did own art for posters and cd covers

eps

Out Of Hell

Live And Well

skinny blonde idiots

other interests:

games

Lego

death

tribute cd / fizzygo records

Discography

With The Bedridden

• A Decent Meal compilation cassette SCALA 1990 (SE002) - This compilation had two Bedridden songs: "Bateman's Bay" and "The Fishing Song" ^[2]
• It's All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye album (1990, Round Records)
• Big Scary Cow album (1992, Round Records)
• I Told You It Wouldn't Work album (1998, Army of Nerds) ^[3]

As Baterz

• Get Me a Fork cassette 1997
• Live at The Annandale cassette 1997
• Evil Stench cassette 1999
• The Blue Single (Target) CD 1999
• The Red Single (Darling) CD 1999
• The Yellow Single CD 2000
• Out Of Hell CD album 2000
• Goth CD single 2001
• Live and Well CD album 2001
• Armed Hold Up Song CD single ^[3]