the bhagavad guitars were an indie-rock band which formed in 1985 as inner circle in canberra by jeremy butterworth on guitar and vocals, kynan hughes on bass guitar and matt kerr on drums and john kilbey (under the pseudonym, john underwood, for their first three releases to distance himself from brother steve kilbey and his band, the church) on guitar and vocals. hughes was replaced successively by adrian workman and then by tony locke. they recorded three 12 inch extended plays for red eye before recording a studio album, "introversion", in 1991 which was shelved due to record company disputes until july 1996. meanwhile, they issued their first album, "hypnotised", in may 1992 via karmic hit/shock, and disbanded in 1998. the group reformed in 2008 to record a new album, "unfamiliar places", released in may 2011.