Following the release of The Gay Parade , the band signed with Kindercore Records , and in 2001, the concept album Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse was released.
In 2001, De Backer recorded his first tracks primarily using samples. He put together a four-track CD which included the song “Out Here in the Cold”. He made approximately 50 copies of this first collection, handwriting the track list and colouring in the cover sleeve in pencil. He named the…
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In 2000, while studying photography at art school , Bird met James Cecil, and the two developed a musical connection. Within months, Cecil joined the band on drums. Around that time, Bird took up guitar. He also met Kellie Sutherland at a party and invited her to play clarinet for…
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Friends since the age of fourteen, Athlete took their wide ranging influences such as Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips and started jamming and practising in the basement of The Bear, a pub which was converted into a church and sandwich bar, on Deptford High Street in 1999.
They bumped into each other again in 1999 at Reading Festival and decided to form a band.
Architecture in Helsinki developed from a short-lived high school music experiment in the New South Wales city of Albury , by childhood friends Cameron Bird (lead singer), Jamie Mildren and Sam Perry. By 1999, the trio had moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy , where they used the name…
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After production on The Gay Parade , the band’s third album, began in 1998, Poole left the band to focus on his involvement with Elf Power, another Elephant Six band. Barnes then recruited James Husband and Dottie Alexander , who had been performing together as Lightning Bug vs. Firefly. Almstead…
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Russell Lissack and Kele Okereke first met in 1998 in London.
The title “An Awesome Wave” was taken from the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho .
Atlas Genius formed in November 2009 in Adelaide by three brothers, Keith William Hamilton Jeffery (born 10 March 1982) on lead vocals and lead guitar; Steven Roger Jeffery on bass guitar; and Michael Douglas Jeffery on drums. The name was provided by Michael “[he] had a dream, and the name…
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