Regurgitator
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Regurgitator are an Australia
n rock band
from Brisbane
, currently consisting of Quan Yeomans
(lead vocals, guitar), Ben Ely
(bass, vocals) and Peter Kostic (drums). The band formed in 1994, its original line-up consisting of Yeomans, Ely and drummer Martin Lee. Regurgitator's debut studio album, Tu-Plang
earnt the band a significant following, before the release of their second album, Unit
in 1997 propelled the band into mainstream success, winning the ARIA Award for Best Album of 1998
and going three times platinum.
Regurgitator have released seven studio albums and five EPs to date, and their most recent studio album, SuperHappyFunTimesFriends
was released in August 2011.
band
with Quan Yeomans (guitar and vocals), Ben Ely (bass and vocals) and Martin Lee (drums). The three had purportedly met on a bus in inner Brisbane. At this time, all three were already in several bands, some containing future members of The Resin Dogs
, Wolfmother
and George
. Regurgitator at this time were not considered to be the main focus of any members, rather as a side-project to their other bands.
With the emergence of the Brisbane underground scene in the early 1990s major labels, such as Warner Music, generated interest in increasing its Australian music roster. A&R representative Michael Parisi initially pursued Pangaea
, a popular and established band in Brisbane's underground that Ben Ely fronted. It wasn't until Parisi was supplied with Pangaea recordings by their manager Paul Curtis that he discovered Regurgitator, whose material was also presented to potentially launch the Valve label. Ironically, Parisi would push for the less-established band to be signed because "it was the hook that Pangaea, for all the excitement [it] had generated on stage, had lacked." The band signed with Warner in 1995, and its recordings were licensed to Reprise Records
in the USA.
The release of its first self-titled EP led to a stirring of the Brisbane music scene that was well and truly interested by the time of the release of its second EP, New, which spawned the radio hits "Track 1" and "Blubber Boy".
. Martin Lee pushed to record in Thailand because it was cheaper than recording in Australia and would keep their record company happy with a bigger profit margin. Calling the album Tu-Plang
(ฅู้เพลง Thai for 'Jukebox'), it largely featured a rock/hip hop
infusion, which was evident on the third single release "Kong Foo Sing". The band also experimented in a number of genres including techno
, musak
, surf rock and dub
. Regurgitator had gained notoriety for songs, usually written by Yeomans, with obscene lyrical content. Amongst these, the controversial pop-rock tune "I Sucked A Lot Of Cock To Get Where I Am" was attacked by Australian radio identity Alan Jones
, who campaigned to have it removed from airplay. Tu-Plang was a smash hit, winning Best Alternative Release and Best Debut Album at the 1996 ARIA Music Awards
.
. The band openly acknowledged their stylistic change with the album's opening track, ironically titled "I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff". The band released "Everyday Formula" as the first single, with Yeomans and Magoo later admitting it was a conscious decision to ease their fans into the new sound with a heavier track. The single made a lacklustre impact compared with the following pop and keyboard style of the following singles, which were instant hits. From this album, "Polyester Girl", "! (The Song Formerly Known As)", and "Black Bugs" all gained significant amounts of airplay. Unit is Regurgitator's most commercially-successful album, going platinum three times in Australia. Whilst it no doubt increased the popularity of the band, fans of their first generation of work are still divided in their responses to it. It is also considered to be ahead of its time due to heavy 1980s referencing, well ahead of the popularisation of 1980s aesthetics which occurred post-2000. Unit won 5 ARIA Music Awards
in 1998, including Best Album.
During the UnitShifter tour in late 1997 drummer Martin Lee had failed to appear at a second sold-out show at the University of Western Australia
. After disappearing from a Perth
nightclub, he was found the next day, unconscious, and was taken to hospital where he remained comatose for a week. No-one, including Lee once he had recovered, had any recollection of the circumstances that had landed him there. Jon Coghill
of Brisbane rock band Powderfinger
was his fill-in for the rest of the tour. Shane Rudken, who had contributed string arrangements on Unit, was added as a live session musician on keyboards.
with Spiderbait's Janet English and Ben Ely reviving Pangaea
the band moved into Wategoes Beachhouse at Byron Bay on the New South Wales
coast to begin recording their third album, ...art. Having rebuilt "The Dirty Room" studio with the assumption it would be used for the recording, Lee felt undervalued when Yeomans made it clear he needed a change in working environment. Since the Unit sessions he had felt excluded from the creative process as his material would rarely be used and he was often replaced by a drum machine in the studio. After an extended absence during the album recording and a string of absences on the supporting tour schedule it was announced in late 1999 that Lee would be leaving the group due to 'creative differences'. He was replaced by Front End Loader
and Hard-Ons
drummer, Peter Kostic late 1999.
...art was followed by Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks
in 2001, a hip-hop-focused album that Yeomans and Ely recorded and produced in London
. Despite the latter's musical proximity to Tu-Plang, both albums met criticism from many fans, who considered them lacking the creativity of the alternative and explicit Regurgitator from the mid-1990s. At the same time, the albums did not perform as well as hoped on the charts despite their success in Japan. This led into a turbulent relationship with their label, Warner, who were unable to grasp the band's lack of motivation and refusal to compromise just for the sake of commercial success. After the fourth album, discussions led to a mutual request to end the deal, and the compilation album Jingles
(along with DVD Infomercials) was released - the title an obvious comment on the parallel of advertising and the focus on singles and their videos. Regurgitator would then go on to independently release further material utilising their manager's Valve Records
/MGM distribution setup not resigning to any actual label.
project in 2004, a new reality TV-inspired media stunt sponsored and broadcast by Australian music channel, Channel V
. The band entered a small glass recording studio, built in Federation Square
in the centre of Melbourne
, to record their new album. Pedestrians could look into most rooms of the "bubble" and could watch the band work, or tune in to a 24 hour digital cable television channel and watch their work on that. Nobody could enter or leave the bubble, a la Big Brother
. In addition to the three band members, their longtime Australian producer Magoo, engineer Hugh Webb and Channel V host Jabba were all also locked into the bubble with the band. This project resulted in 2004's Mish Mash!
.
The first single from Mish Mash!
was "The Drop" and the second was "My Friend Robot". In May 2005 they released the "My Ego" single, which contains three remixes created by Quan Yeomans in his new home in Hong Kong. They then released the #?*! (or Pillowhead) EP which contained B-sides from Mish Mash!. Their album tour included a performance at the world's biggest short film festival, Tropfest
, surrounded by 30,000 people.
concept to Initial TV in the UK. In 2007 Quan released an EP with Sydney based musician Spod called Blox.
Their sixth album, Love and Paranoia
was recorded in Rio De Janeiro
, Brazil and was released in Australia on 15 September 2007. It features 80's style keyboard-driven poprock tunes, with new member Seja Vogel
on keyboards. The first single from the album, titled "Blood and Spunk" received airplay on Triple J
. Music videos for "Blood and Spunk", and the second single, "Romance of the Damned", have been released.
In 2008, Regurgitator released Love and Paranoia
in the UK and Asia with a supporting tour. It was the first time in 5 years that the band had toured the UK. It was also their first visit to China where they played alongside New Pants, who had supported Regurgitator on their Australian tour in 2007. Simulataneously, Ben Ely and Quan Yeomans
both launched solo projects with "Ben Ely's Radio 5" becoming his second solo project while Quan's album Quan: The Amateur was his debut solo album which was recorded in Hong Kong, where he lived until 2010. Quan played the Big Day Out 2009 tour in support of his album.
The group's Warner Music catalogue was finally made available after much delay on iTunes worldwide in August 2009. In September 2009 it was stated on the band's website that the band were talking about recording a new album in 2010.
At the beginning of May 2010, Regurgitator announced on the news section of their website that they had begun work on their seventh album. It is also known that they are recording it in the heart of Melbourne. These sessions led to the release of four-track EP "Distractions" that was released 8 September 2010 and was followed by a major-city tour of Australia supported by Rat Vs Possum and Laneous & The Family Yah. Seja Vogel is not credited on the EP, and did not tour with the band.
When Distractions was released, Yeomans stated that the band would likely no longer release music in album format. Instead, they would release songs digitally, and consider pressed releases in a compilation-style format when they had enough material. This was supported by the subsequent internet-only release of tracks "Born Dumb" and "Evil Eye" via the band's website in November 2010.
Other "mini videos" exist for other album tracks as seen on "Regurgitated" and "Jingles (Infomercials)".
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n rock band
Rock Band
Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...
from Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, currently consisting of Quan Yeomans
Quan Yeomans
Quan Yeomans is an Australian musician best known as the frontman of the multi-ARIA Music Award winning band Regurgitator, which formed in Brisbane in December 1993.-Early years:...
(lead vocals, guitar), Ben Ely
Ben Ely
Ben Ely is a musician and artist best known for his work with Brisbane indie/alternative rock band Regurgitator, a multi-ARIA Music Award winning group which formed in Brisbane, Australia in December 1993....
(bass, vocals) and Peter Kostic (drums). The band formed in 1994, its original line-up consisting of Yeomans, Ely and drummer Martin Lee. Regurgitator's debut studio album, Tu-Plang
Tu-plang
Tu-Plang was the first album released by Regurgitator after making two EPs. It was the band's only full-length work released in the USA.-Track listing:# "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am"...
earnt the band a significant following, before the release of their second album, Unit
Unit (album)
This was the second, and last, Regurgitator album to be pressed on vinyl until 2011 when SuperHappyFunTimeFriends was released.- Singles :The singles from this album in Australia are:* "Everyday Formula"* "Black Bugs"* "Polyester Girl"...
in 1997 propelled the band into mainstream success, winning the ARIA Award for Best Album of 1998
ARIA Music Awards of 1998
The 12th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 20 October 1998 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre...
and going three times platinum.
Regurgitator have released seven studio albums and five EPs to date, and their most recent studio album, SuperHappyFunTimesFriends
SuperHappyFunTimesFriends
SuperHappyFunTimesFriends is the seventh studio album by Regurgitator and was released in Australia on 5 August 2011. Much of the album was recorded in Melbourne earlier in 2011. Originally the band had planned on releasing individual songs on the internet as they were finished...
was released in August 2011.
Early years (1994–1995)
Regurgitator was originally a 3-piece indie rockIndie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
band
Rock Band
Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...
with Quan Yeomans (guitar and vocals), Ben Ely (bass and vocals) and Martin Lee (drums). The three had purportedly met on a bus in inner Brisbane. At this time, all three were already in several bands, some containing future members of The Resin Dogs
Resin Dogs
Resin Dogs are a Brisbane, Australia-based hip hop band, originally formed in 1996. Resin Dogs are a loose collective, a cut and paste sample band who use live drums, live bass, and elements of hip hop via turntables and samplers to create all forms of ritual dance sounds...
, Wolfmother
Wolfmother
Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
and George
George (band)
George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
. Regurgitator at this time were not considered to be the main focus of any members, rather as a side-project to their other bands.
With the emergence of the Brisbane underground scene in the early 1990s major labels, such as Warner Music, generated interest in increasing its Australian music roster. A&R representative Michael Parisi initially pursued Pangaea
Pangaea (band)
-Members:*Dave Atkins *Paul Bromley *Ben Ely *Jim Sinclair-Discography:* Serpent Fire ep - Valve* Raggacore ep - Valve...
, a popular and established band in Brisbane's underground that Ben Ely fronted. It wasn't until Parisi was supplied with Pangaea recordings by their manager Paul Curtis that he discovered Regurgitator, whose material was also presented to potentially launch the Valve label. Ironically, Parisi would push for the less-established band to be signed because "it was the hook that Pangaea, for all the excitement [it] had generated on stage, had lacked." The band signed with Warner in 1995, and its recordings were licensed to Reprise Records
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...
in the USA.
The release of its first self-titled EP led to a stirring of the Brisbane music scene that was well and truly interested by the time of the release of its second EP, New, which spawned the radio hits "Track 1" and "Blubber Boy".
Tu-Plang (1996)
Following the success of their first two EP releases, the band made an unusual move by traveling to Thailand to record their first full-length album at 'Center Stage Studios', a famed pop studio in BangkokBangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
. Martin Lee pushed to record in Thailand because it was cheaper than recording in Australia and would keep their record company happy with a bigger profit margin. Calling the album Tu-Plang
Tu-plang
Tu-Plang was the first album released by Regurgitator after making two EPs. It was the band's only full-length work released in the USA.-Track listing:# "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am"...
(ฅู้เพลง Thai for 'Jukebox'), it largely featured a rock/hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
infusion, which was evident on the third single release "Kong Foo Sing". The band also experimented in a number of genres including techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
, musak
Elevator music
Elevator music refers to instrumental arrangements of popular music designed for playing in shopping malls, grocery stores, department stores, telephone systems , cruise ships, airports, doctors' and dentists' offices, and elevators...
, surf rock and dub
Dub music
Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...
. Regurgitator had gained notoriety for songs, usually written by Yeomans, with obscene lyrical content. Amongst these, the controversial pop-rock tune "I Sucked A Lot Of Cock To Get Where I Am" was attacked by Australian radio identity Alan Jones
Alan Jones (radio broadcaster)
Alan Belford Jones AO is an Australian radio broadcaster, former rugby union and rugby league coach and administrator.Jones hosts Sydney's most popular breakfast radio program, on radio station 2GB...
, who campaigned to have it removed from airplay. Tu-Plang was a smash hit, winning Best Alternative Release and Best Debut Album at the 1996 ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...
.
Unit (1997–1998)
After their recording experience in Thailand, the band chose to record in the comfort of their hometown Brisbane. Lee championed the idea of setting up a make-shift studio in a condemned warehouse in Fortitude Valley, affectionately named "The Dirty Room" by the band. In contrast with their rock-oriented works of the past, the band moved on with a more electronic and pop based sound on their second effort UnitUnit (album)
This was the second, and last, Regurgitator album to be pressed on vinyl until 2011 when SuperHappyFunTimeFriends was released.- Singles :The singles from this album in Australia are:* "Everyday Formula"* "Black Bugs"* "Polyester Girl"...
. The band openly acknowledged their stylistic change with the album's opening track, ironically titled "I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff". The band released "Everyday Formula" as the first single, with Yeomans and Magoo later admitting it was a conscious decision to ease their fans into the new sound with a heavier track. The single made a lacklustre impact compared with the following pop and keyboard style of the following singles, which were instant hits. From this album, "Polyester Girl", "! (The Song Formerly Known As)", and "Black Bugs" all gained significant amounts of airplay. Unit is Regurgitator's most commercially-successful album, going platinum three times in Australia. Whilst it no doubt increased the popularity of the band, fans of their first generation of work are still divided in their responses to it. It is also considered to be ahead of its time due to heavy 1980s referencing, well ahead of the popularisation of 1980s aesthetics which occurred post-2000. Unit won 5 ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...
in 1998, including Best Album.
During the UnitShifter tour in late 1997 drummer Martin Lee had failed to appear at a second sold-out show at the University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
. After disappearing from a Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
nightclub, he was found the next day, unconscious, and was taken to hospital where he remained comatose for a week. No-one, including Lee once he had recovered, had any recollection of the circumstances that had landed him there. Jon Coghill
Jon Coghill
Jon Coghill is an Australian drummer best known for his work with Australian rock band, Powderfinger, although he has also toured with Regurgitator. Coghill replaced Powderfinger's original drummer Steven Bishop in 1991 when Bishop wanted to pursue further studies...
of Brisbane rock band Powderfinger
Powderfinger
Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....
was his fill-in for the rest of the tour. Shane Rudken, who had contributed string arrangements on Unit, was added as a live session musician on keyboards.
Lee's departure and end of deal with Warner Music (1999–2003)
After a short break in 1998 working with respective side projects (Quan formed HappylandHappyland
Happyland was an Australian band, whose music is best described as "pop but a little punky". They were composed of Spiderbait's bassist/vocalist Janet English and her boyfriend of the time, Quan Yeomans from Regurgitator and were originally intended to be named "The Shits", but decided on...
with Spiderbait's Janet English and Ben Ely reviving Pangaea
Pangaea (band)
-Members:*Dave Atkins *Paul Bromley *Ben Ely *Jim Sinclair-Discography:* Serpent Fire ep - Valve* Raggacore ep - Valve...
the band moved into Wategoes Beachhouse at Byron Bay on the New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
coast to begin recording their third album, ...art. Having rebuilt "The Dirty Room" studio with the assumption it would be used for the recording, Lee felt undervalued when Yeomans made it clear he needed a change in working environment. Since the Unit sessions he had felt excluded from the creative process as his material would rarely be used and he was often replaced by a drum machine in the studio. After an extended absence during the album recording and a string of absences on the supporting tour schedule it was announced in late 1999 that Lee would be leaving the group due to 'creative differences'. He was replaced by Front End Loader
Front End Loader
Front End Loader is an Australian rock band consisting of Davis Claymore , Bowden Campbell , Richard Corey , and Peter Kostic . Peter also drums for Regurgitator and The Hard-Ons.-History:...
and Hard-Ons
Hard-Ons
The Hard-Ons are a punk rock band from Sydney, Australia that originally formed in 1981. They have been called Australia's most commercially successful independent band, with over 250,000 total record sales. -1980s: Early days:...
drummer, Peter Kostic late 1999.
...art was followed by Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks
Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks
Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks is the fourth album from the Australian rock band, Regurgitator. It was released in 2001, and the singles "Fat Cop" and "Superstraight" received heavy rotation on national radio station Triple J, both songs making it into the radio stations Hottest 100 for...
in 2001, a hip-hop-focused album that Yeomans and Ely recorded and produced in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. Despite the latter's musical proximity to Tu-Plang, both albums met criticism from many fans, who considered them lacking the creativity of the alternative and explicit Regurgitator from the mid-1990s. At the same time, the albums did not perform as well as hoped on the charts despite their success in Japan. This led into a turbulent relationship with their label, Warner, who were unable to grasp the band's lack of motivation and refusal to compromise just for the sake of commercial success. After the fourth album, discussions led to a mutual request to end the deal, and the compilation album Jingles
Jingles (album)
Jingles is a best of album from Regurgitator. It was released in 2002, and contains songs from their first four albums and various EPs as well as one previously unreleased song, "Disco Crazy".-Track listing:#"Kong Foo Sing"#"I Wanna Be A Nudist"...
(along with DVD Infomercials) was released - the title an obvious comment on the parallel of advertising and the focus on singles and their videos. Regurgitator would then go on to independently release further material utilising their manager's Valve Records
Valve Records
Valve Records is an Australian record label, releasing a wide range of alternative artists both local and international. The label was created by Paul Curtis in 1994 to support the local bands he was managing...
/MGM distribution setup not resigning to any actual label.
Band in a Bubble and Mish Mash! (2004–2005)
Regurgitator created and participated in the Band in a BubbleBand in a Bubble
Band in a Bubble was a TV show that consists of round-the-clock live broadcasting, during which a band spends an extended period of time inside a "bubble," writing and recording an album. The Band in a Bubble concept was created by Paul Curtis, a band manager, tour promoter, owner of Valve...
project in 2004, a new reality TV-inspired media stunt sponsored and broadcast by Australian music channel, Channel V
Channel V
Channel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:...
. The band entered a small glass recording studio, built in Federation Square
Federation Square
Federation Square is a civic centre and cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
in the centre of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, to record their new album. Pedestrians could look into most rooms of the "bubble" and could watch the band work, or tune in to a 24 hour digital cable television channel and watch their work on that. Nobody could enter or leave the bubble, a la Big Brother
Big Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
. In addition to the three band members, their longtime Australian producer Magoo, engineer Hugh Webb and Channel V host Jabba were all also locked into the bubble with the band. This project resulted in 2004's Mish Mash!
Mish Mash!
Mish Mash! is the fifth full-length release from Regurgitator and was released on November 15, 2004.The album was the result of the "Band in a Bubble" project, a new reality TV-inspired media stunt sponsored and broadcast by Australian music channel, Channel V...
.
The first single from Mish Mash!
Mish Mash!
Mish Mash! is the fifth full-length release from Regurgitator and was released on November 15, 2004.The album was the result of the "Band in a Bubble" project, a new reality TV-inspired media stunt sponsored and broadcast by Australian music channel, Channel V...
was "The Drop" and the second was "My Friend Robot". In May 2005 they released the "My Ego" single, which contains three remixes created by Quan Yeomans in his new home in Hong Kong. They then released the #?*! (or Pillowhead) EP which contained B-sides from Mish Mash!. Their album tour included a performance at the world's biggest short film festival, Tropfest
Tropfest
Tropfest is the world's largest short film festival.Tropfest began in 1993 as a screening for 200 people in a cafe in Sydney but has since become the largest platform for short films in the world. Tropfest Australia takes place in February each year in front of a live audience of approximately...
, surrounded by 30,000 people.
Love and Paranoia and Distractions EP
Regurgitator took a break during 2006, with Ben working on his project Jump 2 Light Speed and Quan working on his solo career. The band also licensed their Band in a BubbleBand in a Bubble
Band in a Bubble was a TV show that consists of round-the-clock live broadcasting, during which a band spends an extended period of time inside a "bubble," writing and recording an album. The Band in a Bubble concept was created by Paul Curtis, a band manager, tour promoter, owner of Valve...
concept to Initial TV in the UK. In 2007 Quan released an EP with Sydney based musician Spod called Blox.
Their sixth album, Love and Paranoia
Love and Paranoia
Love and Paranoia is the sixth album by Regurgitator. It was released in Australia on 15 September 2007 and was inspired by 80's rock. The first single was Blood & Spunk which received high rotation on Triple J. The animated video for this track was produced by Quan Yeomans in Hong Kong...
was recorded in Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, Brazil and was released in Australia on 15 September 2007. It features 80's style keyboard-driven poprock tunes, with new member Seja Vogel
Seja Vogel
Since 1998 Seja Vogel has been an integral member of Brisbane synth-punk trio Sekiden, who have released two albums and two EPs. Sekiden’s high-energy live performances have reverberated worldwide, with extensive touring throughout Australia, Canada, Japan and the USA...
on keyboards. The first single from the album, titled "Blood and Spunk" received airplay on Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
. Music videos for "Blood and Spunk", and the second single, "Romance of the Damned", have been released.
In 2008, Regurgitator released Love and Paranoia
Love and Paranoia
Love and Paranoia is the sixth album by Regurgitator. It was released in Australia on 15 September 2007 and was inspired by 80's rock. The first single was Blood & Spunk which received high rotation on Triple J. The animated video for this track was produced by Quan Yeomans in Hong Kong...
in the UK and Asia with a supporting tour. It was the first time in 5 years that the band had toured the UK. It was also their first visit to China where they played alongside New Pants, who had supported Regurgitator on their Australian tour in 2007. Simulataneously, Ben Ely and Quan Yeomans
Quan Yeomans
Quan Yeomans is an Australian musician best known as the frontman of the multi-ARIA Music Award winning band Regurgitator, which formed in Brisbane in December 1993.-Early years:...
both launched solo projects with "Ben Ely's Radio 5" becoming his second solo project while Quan's album Quan: The Amateur was his debut solo album which was recorded in Hong Kong, where he lived until 2010. Quan played the Big Day Out 2009 tour in support of his album.
The group's Warner Music catalogue was finally made available after much delay on iTunes worldwide in August 2009. In September 2009 it was stated on the band's website that the band were talking about recording a new album in 2010.
At the beginning of May 2010, Regurgitator announced on the news section of their website that they had begun work on their seventh album. It is also known that they are recording it in the heart of Melbourne. These sessions led to the release of four-track EP "Distractions" that was released 8 September 2010 and was followed by a major-city tour of Australia supported by Rat Vs Possum and Laneous & The Family Yah. Seja Vogel is not credited on the EP, and did not tour with the band.
When Distractions was released, Yeomans stated that the band would likely no longer release music in album format. Instead, they would release songs digitally, and consider pressed releases in a compilation-style format when they had enough material. This was supported by the subsequent internet-only release of tracks "Born Dumb" and "Evil Eye" via the band's website in November 2010.
SuperHappyFunTimesFriends
After announcing in 2010 that the band would not release any full-length albums in favour of regular individual tracks, and thus forth compiling them on vinyl and cassette in conjunction with future tours. When management confirmed a tour and the required deadline to have vinyl etc available, they realised the necessity of the "focused structure and disciplined approach" that comes with creating albums of music. This has led to the release of their 7th studio album, titled SuperHappyFunTimesFriends, on 5 August 2011. The lead single "One Day" was released in July 2011. The album features a version of the song "Born Dumb" that was previously released as the Nrob Bmud EP in December 2010. The album is set to be released on CD and digital formats, as well as non-traditional formats such as vinyl, cassette, and playbutton. It debuted on the AIR chart at #18 and the ARIA chart at #91.Albums
- tu-plangTu-plangTu-Plang was the first album released by Regurgitator after making two EPs. It was the band's only full-length work released in the USA.-Track listing:# "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am"...
– Warner (May 1996) (album title translates to "juke box" in the Thai languageThai languageThai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively...
) (#3 Australia, #27 NZ) - UnitUnit (album)This was the second, and last, Regurgitator album to be pressed on vinyl until 2011 when SuperHappyFunTimeFriends was released.- Singles :The singles from this album in Australia are:* "Everyday Formula"* "Black Bugs"* "Polyester Girl"...
– Warner (November 1997) (#4 Australia, #7 NZ) [re-released in October 1998 as Unit Re-BootedUnit (album)This was the second, and last, Regurgitator album to be pressed on vinyl until 2011 when SuperHappyFunTimeFriends was released.- Singles :The singles from this album in Australia are:* "Everyday Formula"* "Black Bugs"* "Polyester Girl"...
, containing bonus Computer Multimedia (5 music videos from the album)] - ...art – Warner (August 1999) (#2 Australia, #12 NZ)
- Generic City Pileup [Remix album – Japan-only release] (November 2000)
- Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-WrecksEduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-WrecksEduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks is the fourth album from the Australian rock band, Regurgitator. It was released in 2001, and the singles "Fat Cop" and "Superstraight" received heavy rotation on national radio station Triple J, both songs making it into the radio stations Hottest 100 for...
Warner (July 2001) (#7 Australia) - Jingles: The Best OfJingles (album)Jingles is a best of album from Regurgitator. It was released in 2002, and contains songs from their first four albums and various EPs as well as one previously unreleased song, "Disco Crazy".-Track listing:#"Kong Foo Sing"#"I Wanna Be A Nudist"...
– Warner (November 2002) - Mish Mash!Mish Mash!Mish Mash! is the fifth full-length release from Regurgitator and was released on November 15, 2004.The album was the result of the "Band in a Bubble" project, a new reality TV-inspired media stunt sponsored and broadcast by Australian music channel, Channel V...
– Valve RecordsValve RecordsValve Records is an Australian record label, releasing a wide range of alternative artists both local and international. The label was created by Paul Curtis in 1994 to support the local bands he was managing...
(November 2004) - Love and ParanoiaLove and ParanoiaLove and Paranoia is the sixth album by Regurgitator. It was released in Australia on 15 September 2007 and was inspired by 80's rock. The first single was Blood & Spunk which received high rotation on Triple J. The animated video for this track was produced by Quan Yeomans in Hong Kong...
– Valve Records (September 2007) (#74 Australia) - SuperHappyFunTimesFriendsSuperHappyFunTimesFriendsSuperHappyFunTimesFriends is the seventh studio album by Regurgitator and was released in Australia on 5 August 2011. Much of the album was recorded in Melbourne earlier in 2011. Originally the band had planned on releasing individual songs on the internet as they were finished...
– Valve Records (August 2011) (#91 Australia)
EPs
- Regurgitator (aka Hamburger) (October 1994) (#45 Australia)
- New (March 1995) (#30 Australia)
- Generic City [Vinyl only] (September 2000)
- Crush the Losers (September 2000)
- #?*! (aka Pretty Girls Swear or Pillowhead) (August 2005)
- Distractions (September 2010)
- Nrob Bmud (December 2010)
Singles
- "Blubber Boy" (1995)
- "F.S.O." (January 1996)
- "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am" [Vinyl only] (1996)
- "Kong Foo Sing" (March 1996) (#33 Australia)
- "Miffy's Simplicity" (October 1996)
- "Everyday Formula" (June 1997) (#41 Australia)
- "Black Bugs" (August 1997) (#32 Australia, #113 UK)
- "Polyester Girl" (February 1998) (#14 Australia, #16 NZ, #132 UK)
- "The Fourth Single from Unit" (September 1998) (#28 Australia)
- "Happiness (Rotting My Brain)" (June 1999) (#16 NZ, #44 Australia)
- "I Wanna Be a Nudist" (November 1999)
- "Freshmint!" (March 2000) (#44 Australia)
- "Crush the Losers" (September 2000)
- "Fat Cop" (May 2001) (#34 Australia)
- "Superstraight" (August 2001) (#55 Australia)
- "Hullabaloo" (January 2002)
- "Bong in My Eye" (July 2004)
- "The Drop" (October 2004)
- "My Ego" (early 2005)
- "Pretty Girls Swear" (2005)
- "Blood and Spunk" (October 2007)
- "Romance of the Damned" (2008)
- "One Day" (2011)
VHS and DVDs
- Regurgitated [VHS] (1996)
- Regurgitator: Live at the Brisbane Festival Hall [VHS] (1998)
- Jingles: Infomercials The Best of Videos [DVD] (November 2002)
- Nein Nein Nein Slumber of the Beast [DVD] (October 2003)
- Band in a BubbleBand in a BubbleBand in a Bubble was a TV show that consists of round-the-clock live broadcasting, during which a band spends an extended period of time inside a "bubble," writing and recording an album. The Band in a Bubble concept was created by Paul Curtis, a band manager, tour promoter, owner of Valve...
- The DVD (January 2008)
Music videos
- "I Like it Like That"
- "Couldn't Do It"
- "Track 1"
- "Blubber Boy"
- "Kong Foo Sing"
- "F.S.O"
- "Miffy's Simplicity"
- "Everyday Formula"
- "Black Bugs"
- "Modern Life"
- "! (The Song Formerly Known As)"
- "Polyester Girl"
- "I Like Your Old Remix Better Than Your New Remix"
- "Happiness"
- "Freshmint!"
- "I Wanna Be a Nudist"
- "Crush the Losers"
- "Fat Cop"
- "Super Straight"
- "Hullabaloo"
- "C'mon"
- "Transformers Theme"
- "Bong In My Eye"
- "The Drop"
- "My Friend Robot"
- "Pretty Girls Swear"
- "The Game"
- "Blood and Spunk"
- "Romance of the Damned"
- "Destroy this Town"
- "One Day"
Other "mini videos" exist for other album tracks as seen on "Regurgitated" and "Jingles (Infomercials)".
Albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
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| AUS ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
NZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
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| 1996 | Tu-Plang Tu-plang Tu-Plang was the first album released by Regurgitator after making two EPs. It was the band's only full-length work released in the USA.-Track listing:# "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am"...
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3 | 27 | AUS Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... : Platinum |
| 1997 | Unit Unit (album) This was the second, and last, Regurgitator album to be pressed on vinyl until 2011 when SuperHappyFunTimeFriends was released.- Singles :The singles from this album in Australia are:* "Everyday Formula"* "Black Bugs"* "Polyester Girl"... |
4 | 7 | AUS: 3× Platinum |
| 1999 | ...art
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2 | 12 | AUS: Gold |
| 2001 | Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks is the fourth album from the Australian rock band, Regurgitator. It was released in 2001, and the singles "Fat Cop" and "Superstraight" received heavy rotation on national radio station Triple J, both songs making it into the radio stations Hottest 100 for... |
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| 2002 | Jingles: The Best Of Jingles (album) Jingles is a best of album from Regurgitator. It was released in 2002, and contains songs from their first four albums and various EPs as well as one previously unreleased song, "Disco Crazy".-Track listing:#"Kong Foo Sing"#"I Wanna Be A Nudist"... |
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| 2004 | Mish Mash! Mish Mash! Mish Mash! is the fifth full-length release from Regurgitator and was released on November 15, 2004.The album was the result of the "Band in a Bubble" project, a new reality TV-inspired media stunt sponsored and broadcast by Australian music channel, Channel V... Valve Records Valve Records is an Australian record label, releasing a wide range of alternative artists both local and international. The label was created by Paul Curtis in 1994 to support the local bands he was managing... |
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| 2007 | Love and Paranoia Love and Paranoia Love and Paranoia is the sixth album by Regurgitator. It was released in Australia on 15 September 2007 and was inspired by 80's rock. The first single was Blood & Spunk which received high rotation on Triple J. The animated video for this track was produced by Quan Yeomans in Hong Kong... |
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| 2011 | SuperHappyFunTimesFriends SuperHappyFunTimesFriends SuperHappyFunTimesFriends is the seventh studio album by Regurgitator and was released in Australia on 5 August 2011. Much of the album was recorded in Melbourne earlier in 2011. Originally the band had planned on releasing individual songs on the internet as they were finished... |
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EPs
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| 2000 | Generic City (vinyl only)
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Singles
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NZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
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| 1995 | "Blubber Boy" | — | — | — | New EP | |
| 1996 | "F.S.O." | — | — | — | tu-plang | |
| "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am" | — | — | — | |||
| "Kong Foo Sing" | 33 | — | — | |||
| "Miffy's Simplicity" | — | — | — | |||
| 1997 | "Everyday Formula" | 41 | — | — | Unit | |
| "Black Bugs" | 32 | — | 113 | |||
| 1998 | "Polyester Girl" | 14 | 16 | 132 | AUS Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... : Gold |
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| "! (The Song Formerly Known As)"/"Modern Life" | 28 | — | — | |||
| 1999 | "Happiness (Rotting My Brain)" | 44 | 16 | — | ...art | |
| "I Wanna Be a Nudist" | — | — | — | |||
| 2000 | "Freshmint!" | 44 | — | — | ||
| "Crush the Losers" | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| 2001 | "Fat Cop" | 34 | — | — | Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks | |
| "Superstraight" | 55 | — | — | |||
| 2002 | "Hullabaloo" | — | — | — | ||
| 2004 | "Bong in My Eye" | — | — | — | Non-album single | |
| "The Drop" | — | — | — | Mish Mash! | ||
| "My Robot Friend" | — | — | — | |||
| 2005 | "My Ego" | — | — | — | ||
| "Pretty Girls Swear" | — | — | — | #?*! EP | ||
| 2007 | "Blood and Spunk" | — | — | — | Love and Paranoia | |
| 2008 | "Romance of the Damned" | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | "One Day" | — | — | — | SuperHappyFuntimesFriends | |
External links
- Regurgitator's official website
- Regurgitator's MySpace site
- Merchandise Page
- An extensive discography of the band's work