Through the remainder of 1992 and you will 1993, The fresh Colors – today a great about three-part act – tour the new country side. Towards the end away from 1993, “Some thing got really difficult on the move,” states Donna Simpson. “So we all ] visited his relatives [when you look at the The newest South Wales], and you can virtually stepped to the home and his granny told you, ‘Oh see my waif, my waif.’ Therefore we [Donna and Vikki Simpson] went home to our house and you may our very own grandma told you, ‘Oh here become new waifs..’” Good ‘waif’ try a good ‘homeless individual, specifically an overlooked guy.’ So it shared sense motivates The fresh new Colors to adopt the fresh label of one’s Waifs when they reconvene.
The brand new Waifs continue to concert tour West Australian continent up to February 1996 whenever this new threesome relocates so you’re able to Melbourne, Victoria, for the east coastline regarding Australia. A tracking package are acquired which have Outside Tunes together with Waifs prepare and also make their earliest record album.
Most of these Josh Cunningham arrangements try paid to your females – mostly Vikki Simpson – so you’re able to sing
The music of Waifs is often called folk music or, afterwards, given that folk-rock. It is a comparable trajectory to that particular performed by the very early inspiration, Bob Dylan. In america and/or British, folk music is sometimes on the retaining conventional songs out-of decades or centuries earlier. Australia features a shorter history of Eu settlement.