Grown Up Wrong! was born in Melbourne 33 years ago, in 1986, with the release of The Gas Babies’ “Heading For The Texas Border” 45. It was the brainchild of rock’n’roll fan a Dave Laing and inspired by iconic under-ground labels like Bomp!, Skydog, and Sydney’s Citadel.

Grown Up Wrong! had an international take on things and released classic by LA bands The Lazy Cowgirls, Claw Hammer and Crawlspace, Boston Real Kids offshoot The Primitive Souls as well as the first release by Geelong high-energy manics Bored! and a live album by high energy ’77 punk era Brisbane ‘60s freaks The Survivors.

Grown Up Wrong! became Dog Meat Records in 1989. Dog Meat upped the ante, propagating a high-energy Melbourne scene with more from Bored! and fellow Geelong outfit The Dirty Lovers as well as great bands like Hoss, The Freeloaders and The Powder Monkeys.

Dog Meat also had a worldwide vision working with an incredible list of past and present artists including The Pretty Things, The Imperial Dogs, Dead Moon, The Cheater Slicks, Billy Childish & Thee Headcoats, The Devil Dogs, Teengenerate, The Real Kids, the Screamin’ Mee-Mees, The Barracudas, the Jeff Dahl Group, The New Bomb Turks and Chris D, as well as a couple of great tribute albums, to The Troggs (“Groin Thunder!”) and The Scientists (“Set It On Fire!”).G