Spod are an Australian indie, electro band, often styled as SPOD, which formed in 1995. It is also the pseudonym of the band's mainstay member, Brent Griffin, whether he is performing solo or with other members. They have released two albums, Taste the Radness (2003) and Superfrenz (September 2008). History Spod were formed in Sydney as an indie, electro duo, first named Jizm, by Brent Griffin (later a.k.a. Spod) on guitar and keyboards, and Mike Rickards. They had attended the same secondary school. Griffin was a public servant in the New South Wales' Premier's Department and Rickards was a university student and sportsman. Griffin and Richards shared a passion for Ween's "Push th' Little Daisies" (1993), Griffin later recalled, "we both confessed that we loved this 'Push Th' Little Daisies' song to each other – quite sheepishly, as everyone else reacted terribly to that news. From that moment, we clicked into a high gear, decided to borrow a four track from his uni, started looping Beastie Boys beats on my CD player." In 1995 the duo changed their name to Spod, as an acronym for either Special Projects Organisational Division, Spinning Pizzas of Death, or Scorpion Powers of Destruction. Their recorded output was limited to home-made cassette tapes. In 1999 Andy Clockwise joined on drums and guitar and Rickards left. Griffin related how "I played some two piece shows with Andy, but put it on a back burner till I decided to keep writing songs by myself at Andy's insistence. This is what drove me to move into the solo version of SPOD. Mike and Andy were my biggest influences in making me want to create music the way I do." On 5 October 2002 Spod headlined a concert at Thurles Castle in Chippendale. The drunk and the legless, a four-piece guitar-based rock group from Newtown, supported them. In September 2003 the group released their first album, Taste the Radness, via Architecture Label/Spod Music and distributed by Shock Records. Griffin explained the concept of Radness, "It's the beatz, it's the melodies, it's eternity, it's the diamonds that pour from rainbow drenched cloudz that house armies of unicornz that sing songz of luv and triumph, woe and hizeartbreak, p and tha izarty." Jody Macgregor of AllMusic observed that its "mixture of electroclash, rock, and juvenilia found an audience, helped by energetic and anarchic live shows featuring the rest of the enigmatically