Crime & the City Solution are an Australian
rock music band, which formed in late 1977 by
singer-songwriter and mainstay,
Simon Bonney. They disbanded in 1979 with bootleg recordings and demos that are extremely rare. In late 1983, Bonney traveled to London. Two years later he formed another version of the group there with members of the recently disbanded
The Birthday Party; later they transferred to Berlin, where they issued four albums –
Room of Lights (1986),
Shine (1988),
The Bride Ship (1989) and
Paradise Discotheque (1990) – before disbanding again in 1991. In 2012 Bonney reformed the band in Detroit.