On 24 February 2021, You am I released “The Waterboy”, the lead single from their 11th studio album, The Lives of Others . The album entered the Australian charts at No. 2, marking their first Top 3 album since Dress Me Slowly in 2001.
In December 2020, You Am I were listed at number 41 in Rolling Stone Australia ‘ s ’50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time’ issue.
You Am I’s tenth studio album was released on 6 November 2015. Recorded in Daptone Studios in New York, the album has been described as having ‘lashings of Big Star-esque power pop’.
To coincide with the 20th anniversary of the band’s debut album, reissues of Sound As Ever , Hi Fi Way and Hourly Daily were released on 7 June 2013. A limited-edition beer brewed by the Sydney brewery Young Henrys was sold in conjunction under the name ‘Brew Am I’.
In May 2013, Rogers reminisced, “I lost an incredibly important person to cancer who I still think about every day and that experience pretty much coloured the whole record.” He referred to his mentor, Stephen “Goose” Gray of Sydney-based rock group, Box the Jesuit, who had died of lymphoma in…
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The band’s ninth self-titled album was released on 8 October 2010. In an interview with music journalist Nick Milligan on 24 September 2010, Rogers said of the ninth You Am I album:
In August 2010, it was announced that they had left EMI to sign with new Sydney label Other Tongues .
The band’s 8th studio album, Dilettantes , was released on 13 September 2008, alongside the radio-only single Erasmus . The album debuted at number one on the ARIA Australian Music charts, and number twelve on the overall chart.
In late 2005, You Am I recorded their seventh studio album entitled Convicts with producer Greg Wales. The title is believed to be a tongue in cheek dig of English people referring to Australians as convicts because of their First Fleet origins. It may also refer to the alternative name…
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At the Falls Festival held at Marion Bay over New Year’s Eve of 2004–05, You Am I were scheduled to play a set. Rogers appeared on stage heavily intoxicated and, when a fight broke out between Rogers and Lane, the group were forced off stage much to the disappointment of…
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