Quan Yeomans

Quan Yeomans is an Australian musician best known as the frontman of the multi-ARIA Music Award winning band Regurgitator, which formed in Brisbane in December 1993.

Biography

Early Years

Yeomans was born in Sydney, Australia to a fifth Generation Australian father and his mother Lien Yeomans, a well-known Vietnamese chef and author. His parents divorced during his childhood, during which he recalls listening to various Fleetwood Mac albums. In 1986, his family relocated to Brisbane and he attended Kelvin Grove State High School until graduation in 1989. Yeomans has credited his father, a psychiatrist, who travelled with him in 1991 to Rio de Janeiro to the World Economic Forum, where he heard Indian scientist and author Vandana Shiva speak about the crippling, cyclic effects of debt on the Third World. He has stated “to find out about that was a critical moment for me and inspired a lot of work that I did in the band (Regurgitator)”. His father died in 1999.

Regurgitator

In 1993, Yeomans was a drummer for Brisbane punk band Zooerastia. After meeting Pangaea bassist/vocalist Ben Ely on a bus, they would form Regurgitator with Yeomans on guitar/vocals and Martin Lee on drums. He has stated that he felt like a hypocrite signing to major label Warner Music because of his views on the music...
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