Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers, 190 centimeters and of no fixed dress code has trod the boards since his tender years in rock’n’roll acts and other forms of musical chicanery, notably the itinerantly hirsute You Am I and chimney scrubs The Temperance Union. Recent forays into theater for the Malthouse Company and writing for an upcoming production by Ride On Theater Company have seen him drinking more gunpowder tea, and answering questions with small delays….for effect. He is very pleased to be in the same room as you.

Josh Pyke

Josh Pyke was in his first band by age 12 and played his first performance in front of 650 parents and students at his primary school graduation. Playing guitar and initial song writing efforts came aged 14. Despite his aptitude for song writing and performance, he stayed ‘under the radar’ throughout his high school years at Fort Street High School.

Whilst part of Sydney band An Empty Flight he successfully applied for a grant from the Music Board of the Australia Council under the Buzz Project to remix a number of his own demo recordings to be released as an EP Current Works Volume 1, under the name of Night Hour. The lead track, Kids Don’t Sell Their Hopes So Fast received wide-ranging radio airplay, on national youth broadcaster Triple J and on various community radio stations including 3RRR in Melbourne and Fbi in Sydney. In 2004 Pyke won the Jaxter Music Award for his single Kids Don’t Sell Their Hopes So Fast.

Pyke signed to Australian indie label Ivy League Records in 2005 and his first release on the label was a mini-album entitled Feeding the Wolves. It features the single Middle of the Hill, as well as second single Private Education. Josh toured early in 2005 with Jebediah frontman, Bob Evans, aka Kevin Mitchell. Feeding the Wolves was nominated for ‘Best Pop Release’ at the 2006 ARIA Awards.

Pyke released his debut album, Memories & Dust, on 10 March 2007 and it debuted at no.4 on the Australian ARIA Album Chart. He also guest programmed ‘rage’ on this date. The lead single from the new album, entitled Lines on Palms, hit Australian airwaves in mid-January.

In April 2007 his debut album, Memories & Dust, was nominated for a J Award by Triple J.

Pyke also picked up an ARIA for best adult contemporary album at the 2007 ARIA awards and has featured in the past four Triple J Hottest 100 countdowns.

Pyke’s second album Chimney’s Afire was released 4 October 2008 and was recorded at Sydney’s Linear Recording studios. It made its debut at #3 on the official ARIA Album Chart, and #1 on the ARIA Australian Chart.

Phil Jamieson

Phil is best known as the frontman of alternative band Grinspoon. The band was the first band ever unearthed by the ABC Youth Radio Network Triple J. The first single was called Sickfest, lifted off their EP Green. Grinspoon has been together for almost twelve years, recently releasing a ‘best of’ album. He also co-wrote the Unwritten Law songs She Says and Because of you with Scott Russo.

In early 2005, Phil performed guest vocals on the track Sayonara by the Deck Dogz. In 2005 Phil also won best male performer in the Jack Awards and together with Grinspoon won their first ARIA.

Also in 2005, Phil was a guest vocalist on part three (”I’m Losing You”) of supergroup The Wrights’ cover of Stevie Wright’s (lead singer of The Easybeats) classic Evie (Parts 1, 2 and 3). The first part was first performed at the 2004 ARIA awards. The supergroup features members of many other Australian rock bands.

Jamieson brought the sounds of Grinspoon to millions on the world stage in March 2006, playing live at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the closing ceremony of the Melbourne 2006 XVIII Commonwealth Games.

Chris Cheney

Chris Cheney began his career with double bassist Scott Owen in the early 1990s, in a Melbourne cover band, The Runaway Boys, who took their name from a Stray Cats song of the same name (a group that Cheney regularly cites as one of his favourites). Cheney taught himself how to play the guitar, after listening to AC/DC cassette tapes over and over again and practicing what he heard. Chris also played in Melbourne band Goodbye Sideburns Forever, though Chris didn’t actually record with them, he only gigged with them. This was before The Living End’s breakthrough success.

The Living End started out in 1992 as The Runaway Boys, as a tribute to the Stray Cats, whose Runaway Boys album is Cheney’s favourite of all time. It was formed by Cheney and childhood friend Scott Owen. They mostly covered songs by the Stray Cats and other 50s tracks. In 1994, the pair started to write their own material. At that point they became known as The Living End. They released two successive EPs, Hellbound and It’s For Your Own Good, which contained their first radio single, From Here On In. In 1996, while Green Day were touring Australia, The Living End sent their EP to the band, and gained the support spot on their tour, which then led to Triple J playing their first single. In 1998, they released their self-titled album, with success sparked by the youth anthem Prisoner of Society, as well as other hits Second Solution, Monday, All Torn Down and Save The Day. They have since received recognition abroad, playing tours and festivals such as the Warped Tour in the U.S. and Reading and Leeds Festivals in the UK. The Band Released their fifth studio album, “White Noise”, on July 19th 2008.

Cheney appears in the supergroup The Wrights who put out a re-recorded version of Stevie Wright’s epic “Evie”. Also appearing in the supergroup were members of Grinspoon, Jet, Spiderbait and You Am I. He also played in another supergroup called The Wrongs, who featured at the 2006 Jack Awards in Sydney. They performed a Rose Tattoo classic “Bad Boy For Love” as a tribute to Peter Wells, the guitarist of Rose Tattoo .

In 2005, Sarah McLeod from The Superjesus launched her solo career, releasing her first single Let’s Get Together followed by the single Private School Kid in which she performs a duet with Cheney.

Chris made a guest appearance on stage with the Stray Cats on their 2009 Australian Farewell Tour. He performed four songs alongside his childhood heroes, Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom.