Smudge are an Australian rock and indie pop trio formed in 1991 by Paul Duncan on bass guitar, Alison Galloway on drums and Tom Morgan on lead guitar and lead vocals. Morgan is known outside Australia as a song writing collaborator of Evan Dando and his band, the Lemonheads. In 1994 Duncan was replaced on bass guitar by Adam Yee and in 1997 Pete Kelly joined on guitar. Smudge signed with Half a Cow to issue four studio albums, Manilow (1994), Hot Smoke and Sassafras (1994), You Me Carpark . . . Now (1996) and Real McCoy Wrong Sinatra (1998), before going into hiatus from late 1999.
According to various internet sources, Peel nominated the band's 7" single, "Don't Want to Be Grant McLennan" (referencing the Go-Betweens' Grant McLennan) as his record of the week, although it is not known whether he said it on his show or was published in the music press. Nonetheless, the band did a session for his programme and got airplay by him between 1991 and 1999, before the group disappeared into hiatus.
