The Crystal Set was a Sydney-based Australian indie rock band formed in the late 1980s featuring Russell Kilbey (bass and lead vocals), Phillip Maher (guitar & vocals), Craig Moore (keyboards & vocals) and Tim Seckhold (drums).
The band were signed to Red Eye Records owned by John Foy. Their first two singles "Wholy Holy" and "Benefit Of The Doubt" were moderate indie hits on the small but enthusiatic east coast Australian scene. After a line up change and the departure or Craig Moore, Russell Kilby took up duties on guitar and vocals and Luke Blackburn, a Melbourne musician joined as bassist and vocalist.
Red Eye Records were sold to Polydor Australia 1990. The Crystal Set released their next album Almost Pure under this label and had moderate success with the singles, Thrive and She Spits Out Stars in 1991. Their Red Eye and Polydor label mates were The Cruel Sea, The Clouds, Steve Kilbey (Russell's brother and lead singer and bassist from successful 1980s Australian band The Church), Jack Frost (aka Steve Kilbey) and Grant McLennan (The Go-Betweens), The Bagavad Guitars, Curious Yellow and The Beasts of Bourbon. The Crystal Set disbanded in at the end of 1991. Russell Kilbey went on to collaborate with David Thrussell from techno-industrial outfit Snog in a band called Sex Industrie, doing a cover version of the classic AC/DC song "Jailbreak".
