Something with Numbers
Encyclopedia
Something with Numbers is a rock
band based in Australia. The band was formed on the New South Wales
Central Coast
, in Australia
, in 2001. They have released an EP
and three studio albums in their 7 year career. Something with Numbers found success in 2006, with the release of "Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)
", which peaked at #34 on the ARIA Singles Chart
, and placed #64 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006
.
punk scene in New South Wales
, Australia
. The name of the band derived from a friend's suggestion that the band's name should be "something with numbers" (meant in the vein of blink-182
or Sum 41
).
The band soon signed to small indie label, Below Par Records
, and worked towards releasing their first EP, The Barnicles & Stripes
, in 2002. Two years later, in 2004, Something with Numbers released their debut album, Etiquette
.
Perfect Distraction
in October of that year. Their 'Goodbye Mickey Finn' tour (the tour for the album, also the name of a track from the album) saw them play around the country with up-and-coming bands The Inches and The Lazys. The album featured a range of styles and genres, touching on soul rock
and their usual punk rock
sound. It featured three songs that were released as singles, the first - and most popular - being, "Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)
". "Apple of the Eye" peaked at #34 on the ARIA Singles Chart
, and placed #64 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006
. The second single from the album was "Chase the Chaser", which failed to reach the ARIA Singles Chart; however, it did receive airplay on Australian music network, Channel V
. Something with Numbers played at the Sydney
Big Day Out
on 25 January 2007. Channel V
described the show as having the "best mosh
of the day". Other notable concert appearances for the band have been along side Lagwagon
, Good Charlotte
, Millencolin
, The Ataris
, and Panic at the Disco.
, on 6 September 2008. They have returned from recording the album over nine weeks in March/April, at Mission Sound Studios, Brooklyn, New York, in the United States
. The album was produced by Tim O’Heir, who's "respected" for collaborations with bands such as Dinosaur Jr., The All-American Rejects
and Say Anything
. The first single off the new album was "Stay With Me Bright Eyes", which reached #48 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2008. A music video was created for it. A second music video is planned, with the band advertising the filming to get extras for the video.
Early releases of the CD came with a bonus DVD, containing all of the band's music videos to date, the making of "Stay with Me Bright Eyes", and the making of Engineering the Soul, which includes live footage from their first show after returning to Australia at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney.
On 14 September 2008, Engineering the Soul debuted at number 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart
.
In February 2011, Something With Numbers released news that they are currently writing for a new record. In a post on their Facebook
page the band mentioned that fans should expect some new material in the later half of the year, and in addition to this, the band will most likely be going on tour to accompany the release.
In an interview with rock journalist Nick Milligan in August 2011, Grigg said of their upcoming fourth record: "I really want to make a heavy, catchy album. I don't particularly listen to heavy music anymore, but I enjoy playing it live. I want to write some energetic, heavy music that you can sing along to."
Something With Numbers' comeback performance will take place at the Coaster festival in September 2011.
" by Mr. Big
on the last-ever episode of Robbie, Marieke and the Doctor on Triple J
and more famously an acoustic mashup of "Sex on Fire
" by Kings of Leon
and "Hits from the Bong" by Cypress Hill
dubbed "Sex from the Bong".
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band based in Australia. The band was formed 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...
Central Coast
Central Coast, New South Wales
The Central Coast is an urban region in the Australian state of New South Wales, located on the coast north of Sydney and south of Lake Macquarie....
, in Australia
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...
, in 2001. They have released an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
and three studio albums in their 7 year career. Something with Numbers found success in 2006, with the release of "Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)
Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)
"Apple of the Eye " is the first single from Something with Numbers' second studio album Perfect Distraction.-Track listing:# "Apple of the Eye "# "Bring Up the Curtain"# "Cotton Wool"# "Blind Moon"...
", which peaked at #34 on the ARIA Singles Chart
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...
, and placed #64 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006
Triple J Hottest 100, 2006
The 2006 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2007. It is the fourteenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as voted by listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J....
.
Early history and first releases
Something with Numbers formed in 1999, coming out of the Central CoastCentral Coast, New South Wales
The Central Coast is an urban region in the Australian state of New South Wales, located on the coast north of Sydney and south of Lake Macquarie....
punk scene in 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...
, Australia
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...
. The name of the band derived from a friend's suggestion that the band's name should be "something with numbers" (meant in the vein of blink-182
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
or Sum 41
Sum 41
Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario. The band was formed in 1996 and currently consists of members Deryck Whibley , Tom Thacker , Jason McCaslin and Steve Jocz .In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records...
).
The band soon signed to small indie label, Below Par Records
Below Par Records
Below Par Records is an Australian independent record label established in 2000 by three sixteen year old Sydney high school students, Jai Al-Attas, Mark Catanzariti and Steven Chalker.In 2001, Matt Hawkes replaced Steven Chalker as the third partner...
, and worked towards releasing their first EP, The Barnicles & Stripes
The Barnicles & Stripes EP
The Barnicles & Stripes is the debut EP by Australian punk rock band Something with Numbers. It was released through Below Par Records in 2002. Its title is notable for being spelled incorrectly .-Track listing:...
, in 2002. Two years later, in 2004, Something with Numbers released their debut album, Etiquette
Etiquette (Something with Numbers album)
Etiquette is the debut album by Australian punk rock band Something with Numbers. It was released in 2004, through Below Par Records.-Track listing:# "Prelude"# "Words Mean Nothing"# "Against the Wind"# "Listen"# "Crowner of Kings"...
.
Perfect Distraction
The band continued to grow their sound and in 2006 they made their commercial break through, with the release of their second studio albumStudio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
Perfect Distraction
Perfect Distraction
Perfect Distraction is the second studio album by Australian punk rock band Something with Numbers. It was released on 7 October 2006 and is credited as the album which gave the band their commercial break through, featuring the hit single, "Apple of the Eye " and peaking on the ARIA albums chart...
in October of that year. Their 'Goodbye Mickey Finn' tour (the tour for the album, also the name of a track from the album) saw them play around the country with up-and-coming bands The Inches and The Lazys. The album featured a range of styles and genres, touching on soul rock
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
and their usual punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
sound. It featured three songs that were released as singles, the first - and most popular - being, "Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)
Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)
"Apple of the Eye " is the first single from Something with Numbers' second studio album Perfect Distraction.-Track listing:# "Apple of the Eye "# "Bring Up the Curtain"# "Cotton Wool"# "Blind Moon"...
". "Apple of the Eye" peaked at #34 on the ARIA Singles Chart
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...
, and placed #64 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006
Triple J Hottest 100, 2006
The 2006 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2007. It is the fourteenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as voted by listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J....
. The second single from the album was "Chase the Chaser", which failed to reach the ARIA Singles Chart; however, it did receive airplay on Australian music network, 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:...
. Something with Numbers played at the Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
Big Day Out
Big Day Out
The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...
on 25 January 2007. 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:...
described the show as having the "best mosh
Moshing
Moshing is a dance in which participants push or slam into each other. They also flail their limbs to breakdowns of hardcore punk and its sub-genres. It is most associated with aggressive music genres, such as hardcore punk and heavy metal...
of the day". Other notable concert appearances for the band have been along side Lagwagon
Lagwagon
Lagwagon is an American punk rock band originally from Goleta, just outside Santa Barbara, California. They formed in 1990 and went on hiatus and reunited several times over the years...
, Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte is an American rock band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. Since 1998, the band's constant members have been lead vocalist Joel Madden, lead guitarist and back-up vocalist Benji Madden, bass guitarist Paul Thomas and rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Billy Martin...
, Millencolin
Millencolin
Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band...
, The Ataris
The Ataris
The Ataris are a rock band from Anderson, Indiana. They have released five studio albums, and their most recent E.P. was released on November 25, 2010 on the Gainesville, Florida based label, Paper + Plastick. It contained the brand new tracks "All Souls' Day" and "The Graveyard of The Atlantic"...
, and Panic at the Disco.
Engineering the Soul
The band recently released their third album, Engineering the SoulEngineering the Soul
'Engineering the Soul' is the third studio album by Australian punk rock band Something with Numbers. It was released through Below Par Records on 6 September 2008. In reference to the title of the album, lead vocalist of Something with Numbers Jake Grigg said, "Music is what powers the soul. We...
, on 6 September 2008. They have returned from recording the album over nine weeks in March/April, at Mission Sound Studios, Brooklyn, New York, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The album was produced by Tim O’Heir, who's "respected" for collaborations with bands such as Dinosaur Jr., The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects are an American rock band formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1999. The band consists of lead vocalist and bass guitarist Tyson Ritter, lead guitarist, Nick Wheeler, rhythm guitarist, Mike Kennerty, and drummer Chris Gaylor....
and Say Anything
Say Anything (band)
Say Anything is an American indie-punk band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by Max Bemis. The band was formed in 2000 with Bemis and four of his friends. Within two years, they self-released two EPs, Junior Varsity and In Your Dreams, and the full-length Baseball: An Album by Sayanything.In...
. The first single off the new album was "Stay With Me Bright Eyes", which reached #48 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2008. A music video was created for it. A second music video is planned, with the band advertising the filming to get extras for the video.
Early releases of the CD came with a bonus DVD, containing all of the band's music videos to date, the making of "Stay with Me Bright Eyes", and the making of Engineering the Soul, which includes live footage from their first show after returning to Australia at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney.
On 14 September 2008, Engineering the Soul debuted at number 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart
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...
.
Maniac + 2011
Jake Grigg has teamed up with Shawn Harris of The Matches in a side project known as Maniac.In February 2011, Something With Numbers released news that they are currently writing for a new record. In a post on their Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
page the band mentioned that fans should expect some new material in the later half of the year, and in addition to this, the band will most likely be going on tour to accompany the release.
In an interview with rock journalist Nick Milligan in August 2011, Grigg said of their upcoming fourth record: "I really want to make a heavy, catchy album. I don't particularly listen to heavy music anymore, but I enjoy playing it live. I want to write some energetic, heavy music that you can sing along to."
Something With Numbers' comeback performance will take place at the Coaster festival in September 2011.
Cover Versions
There have been a number of cover versions including "To Be With YouTo Be with You
"To Be with You" is a song by the American hard rock band Mr. Big. It appears on the album Lean into It. The song charted in 20 plus countries, many of them at number one, such as on the United States Billboard Hot 100...
" by Mr. Big
Mr. Big (band)
Mr. Big is an American rock supergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1988. The band is a quartet composed of Eric Martin , Paul Gilbert , Billy Sheehan , and Pat Torpey ; Mr. Big also included Richie Kotzen, a reputable blues-based guitarist who replaced Gilbert in 1999...
on the last-ever episode of Robbie, Marieke and the Doctor 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...
and more famously an acoustic mashup of "Sex on Fire
Sex on Fire
"Sex on Fire" is the first single to be taken from Kings of Leon's fourth studio album Only by the Night and as of September 2009, the second most-downloaded digital single ever in the United Kingdom...
" by Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion, Oklahoma but formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999. The band is composed of brothers Anthony Caleb Followill , Ivan Nathan Followill and Michael Jared Followill Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion,...
and "Hits from the Bong" by Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...
dubbed "Sex from the Bong".
Members
- Tim Crocker - guitar
- Jake Grigg - vocals, guitar
- Scott Chapman - bass
- Dave Mcbeath- drums, percussion
- Trent Theodore Logan (selected shows only)
- Lachlan Scott is now a substitute teacher at a selective catholic high school on the Central Coast, NSW.
Albums
- EtiquetteEtiquette (Something with Numbers album)Etiquette is the debut album by Australian punk rock band Something with Numbers. It was released in 2004, through Below Par Records.-Track listing:# "Prelude"# "Words Mean Nothing"# "Against the Wind"# "Listen"# "Crowner of Kings"...
(20 September 2004) - Perfect DistractionPerfect DistractionPerfect Distraction is the second studio album by Australian punk rock band Something with Numbers. It was released on 7 October 2006 and is credited as the album which gave the band their commercial break through, featuring the hit single, "Apple of the Eye " and peaking on the ARIA albums chart...
(7 October 2006) - Engineering the SoulEngineering the Soul'Engineering the Soul' is the third studio album by Australian punk rock band Something with Numbers. It was released through Below Par Records on 6 September 2008. In reference to the title of the album, lead vocalist of Something with Numbers Jake Grigg said, "Music is what powers the soul. We...
(6 September 2008)
Singles
- "We Can Succeed" (2002)
- "On the Inside" (2004)
- "Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)"Apple of the Eye " is the first single from Something with Numbers' second studio album Perfect Distraction.-Track listing:# "Apple of the Eye "# "Bring Up the Curtain"# "Cotton Wool"# "Blind Moon"...
" (9 September 2006) - "Chase the Chaser" (2007)
- "Goodbye Mickey Finn" (5 May 2007)
- "Stay with Me Bright Eyes" (28 June 2008)
- "We'll Fight" (2008)
- "Seventeen Places" (2008)