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After attending a secular state primary school, John was sent to Yeshivah College, a Chabad-run and strictly traditional Jewish high school in Melbourne. In Year 12, he formed the hip-hop group Raspberry Cordial with his friend Chris Lumsden. They played to some success, receiving high rotation airplay on the city's community radio, playing many gigs in Melbourne, and coming second in the RMIT Battle of the Bands competition. Their debut album was Melbourne Tram, a release which John apparently h ...

John Safran: Encyclopedia II - John Safran - Early life + Raspberry Cordial

John Safran - Early life + Raspberry Cordial

After attending a secular state primary school, John was sent to Yeshivah College, a Chabad-run and strictly traditional Jewish high school in Melbourne.

In Year 12, he formed the hip-hop group Raspberry Cordial with his friend Chris Lumsden. They played to some success, receiving high rotation airplay on the city's community radio, playing many gigs in Melbourne, and coming second in the RMIT Battle of the Bands competition. Their debut album was Melbourne Tram, a release which John apparently has hundreds of unsold cassettes of in his bedroom to this day.

After winning a government youth music initiative, they followed up with Taste Test, of which 500 copies were pressed. Of those, only 93 sold, so the remaining 407 had to be crushed. A song from "Taste Test", University Elevator Music, is legally downloadable from the Triple J website [1]. Interviewed on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope show in 2002, he said that Raspberry Cordial had "broke down the wall that Eminem's been able to walk through".

Safran attended RMIT to study journalism, a career he tried for a while but eventually dropped, without completing his degree. He then began work in advertising for Clemenger Harvie. During this time he wrote jingles for Mazda, Village Roadshow and Sea World.

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