RIP Kimble Rendall

Hoodoo Gurus Founding Member Kimble Rendall Has Passed Away

Noise 11

by Paul Cashmere on April 21, 2025

April 21, 2025

 

Kimble Rendall, a founding member of Hoodoo Gurus and before that XL Capris, has died.

Kimble was also a movie director. He worked on ‘The Matrix Reloaded’, ‘The Matrix Revolutions’, ‘I, Robot’, ‘Casanova’ and ‘Ghost Writer’.

He was a music video director who worked with The Angels, Cold Chisel, Boom Crash Opera, Rockmelons, Mental As Anything, Peter Blakely, and Hoodoo Gurus and XL Capris.

Kimble, Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott formed XL Capris in Sydney in 1978. Their debut single was a punk cover of crooner Tommy Leonetti’s ‘My City of Sydney’.

Kimble met Dave Faulkner on New Years Eve 1980 and in January 1981 Hoodoo Gurus formed. Kimble also managed the band at the time. He left the band prior to the release of the first single ‘Lelani’ (1982) but plays on the song.

For the next decade Kimble worked on music videos before founding Flat Rock Pictures in 1994. The company initially made television commercials before moving into movies.

Kimble was the director of the 2000 horror movie ‘Cut’ starring Molly Ringwald and Kylie Minogue.

Kimble was married to Basia Bonkowski who presented the RV shows ‘Rock Around The World’ (SBS) and ‘Music Video’ (Channel 10). Basia died in 2022.

RENDALL, Kimble

Born: 1957, Sydney, New South Wales, Ausrtralia

Died: 4/20/2025, Australia

 

Kimble Rendall’s western – assistant director:

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