Gala Mill reached ARIA top 100

Gala Mill became their first album to reach the ARIA Albums Chart top 100, in September 2006. It was also nominated for the Australian Music Prize for that year. The Drones were nominated as Most Outstanding New Independent Artist at the inaugural AIR Awards of 2006 . Late in the year Pereira left and was replaced by Dan Luscombe ( The Blackeyed Susans , Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males , Stardust Five ), on lead guitar and vocals (later also on keyboards). Luscombe debuted for the group at the Meredith Music Festival in December of that year. On 15 November 2006 the group recorded their performance at Spaceland , a nightclub in Silver Lake, Los Angeles , California, which was issued as, Live in Spaceland (February 2007), through the US label, Spaceland Recordings.