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 without any recordings. 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.