George
Total fans: 11,732
With over 300,000 sales under its belt, george's debut album entered the ARIA (Australian) charts at No ..1 in 2002 and stayed in the Top 10 for 15 weeks, achieving double platinum status and earning them a coveted ARIA award.
The band's second album debuted at No ..5 in 2004 and achieved platinum sales.
Amongst numerous milestones, george has conducted a multitude of sell-out tours throughout Australia, supported the likes of Jewel and Macy Gray, performed to 1.8 billion people for the Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony and also completed a sell-out tour to the UK, Ireland, Scotland and Japan.
What george is up to now.
After ten years working together full-time, george are currently on an extended break to concentrate on other things.
With parenthood, travel and more music on the agenda break doesnt mean Katie, Tyrone, PaulieB, Nick and Geoff are finding it hard to occupy their time.
While there is no set time-line, george will come together to play and record again but for now other exciting projects are taking place.
Join up at the official george site -
www.george.net.au - and you can find out what the band members have been and will be up to.
Katie
Katie released the fantastic album "Skin" in 2007, collaborating with amazing musicians from all around the world. The album featured the infectious single "Time To Begin", and was backed up by extensive touring throughout Australia.
Says Katie: "I even find myself dancing a little, which is something totally new for me!" laughs Noonan. "I've been on a really amazing journey since George (took a break), and now I'm running on all cylinders. It's been a long time from conception to birth - I had over 50 songs to choose from. This is the record I've been waiting to make."
She also toured with Josh Groban last year and will conduct an extensive national tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Febnruary and March 2008.
Katie is also thoroughly enjoying being a Mum to Dexter, Jonah and wife to Isaac.
Get more info at Katie's websites: www.katienoonan.com or www.myspace.com/katienoonan
Tyrone
Tyrone has immersed himself in the industry as a pro- moter, producer, DJ, film/theatre composer and cabaret performer; and released/toured a top 10 AIR indie chart album in 2005 (jazz group Palimpsest www.palimpsest.com.au) before embarking on his long-awaited solo career.
In 2007, Tyrone represented his state of Queensland (one of three artists chosen) at the A&R Worldwide Musexpo conference, the Oz City Song Cycle and Passport Approved Indie 103.1FM/Nettwerk showcases in Los Angeles; performed at The State Premier's Queensland Advance Expatriate Awards at the Rockefeller Centre in New York, was featured in Billboard Magazine’s Underground performance/interview series and produced his debut full-length album (“I Believe”) with Paul Peterson (Prince, Stevie Wonder, Steve Miller, Lionel Richie, The Beach Boys etc) and mix engineer Steve Hodge (Grammy winning-producer, Flyte Tyme Studios Chief Engineer 1986-2003 - Janet and Michael Jackson, TLC, George Michael).
He also undertook a successful Australian solo tour in October/November 2007 with Paul Greene and Karl Broadie.
The mini-album Heavy Soul Part 1 (released September 16 2006) was accompanied by national full band touring and key festival performances continuing into 2007. "You Know" was the iTunes-featured Single Of The Week, while the single "Back (Where I Started From)" received solid national airplay and video rotation.
Get more info at www.tyronenoonan.com or www.myspace.com/tyronenoonan
Paulie B
For those of you that may not yet have noticed, PaulieB has joined The Beautiful Girls and the boys have been killing it all around Australia, America, Canada, Japan and Europe!
After a short break this January, TBG are getting all set to tour nationally in support of the Cat Empire, with good friends Blue King Brown and Ash Grunwald! A summer treat not to be missed!! Catch them all this February at a bigtop near you! Tickets selling FAST!!
Matt Bruce and Paulie are also working on material for the band’s fourth full-length studio album, due to be recorded later this year.
Check out www.thebeautifulgirls.com or www.myspace.com/thebeautifulgirls for all the details.
PaulieB also runs a fantastic recording studio called the Tanuki Lounge and the label M8sr8s records. Be sure to sign up to the newsletter to be informed @ www.m8sr8srecords.com
You can also become one of PaulieBs friends at his own myspace site -
www.myspace.com/pauliebromley
Geoff
Apart from george, Geoff has worked with industry names such as Deborah Conway, Grant McLennan and Robert Forster (Go-Betweens), Jon Lord (Deep Purple), The Boat People and indie favourites Woman in Docs.
He has recorded with producers such as David Nicholas, Jonathon Burnside, Darren Middleton (powderfinger), and toured nationally and internationally and performed on many national TV and radio shows.
Geoff’s current projects include lecturing part-time at Queensland University of Technology where he is passing on his ensemble experience to students of every level, and touring with Women in Docs to promote their new album on which he performed under the direction of producer Darren Middleton of powder finger fame.
Geoff is also available for private tuition and can be booked for various master-classes and workshops.
Get more info at www.geofgreen.net
Nick
Nick is now working as musical director for several theatre companies, working with Grin and Tonic on their productions of Macbeth, As You Like It and Monkey.
In 2007 Nick has produced complete original scores for Bille Browns version of Shakespeares '12th Night' with QUT, and a 'duende' inspired production of Buchners 'Woyzeck' with Griffith University.
And there is a new band: THE WHITE RUSSIANS featuring Nick and Pinky Beecroft (Machine Gun Fellatio). Find out more at www.myspace.com/pinkybeecroft
