Yep. That's it. No more. Done.

I'll post some other stuff later but for now I'll just be off listening to 'Look What You've Done' and wailing for a while.

Firstly, Jet won some APRA awards! Mark and Chris were the only ones at the ceremony and they seemed to have dressed deliberately badly (at least, I hope they don't think those are good fashion choices) under the assumption that they wouldn't win. And then they won two awards and 'laughed like a couple of assholes all night' as Mark said ( Read more... )

Until today, I never thought of Chris as 'cute', but something about this video just seems adorable.

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Point One: Jet are in the running for the 2011 APRA awards! The APRAs are a prestigious Australian songwriting award. 'Seventeen' has been nominated in 'Best Rock Single' and 'Most played song on Australian radio'. Unfortunately going to the awards is likely to be the only thing Jet do together this year, but they do have the side projects, ( Read more... )

Australian Story is kind of an Australian biography show, I suppose, they do half-hour profiles on people/groups/causes, that kind of thing. Anyway, the show this Monday is going to be about Jet's old manager Dave Powell, but it features quite a lot of Nic and Chris too!

( There are already 'behind the scenes' videos on Youtube, featuring a bit of Nic and Davey Lane writing for their side project. HURRY UP AND GIVE ME THAT ALBUM. )

I thought Mark, Chris and the rest of their new act were just going to remain mysterious and out of reach even though they've started doing shows, but once again I underestimated the Melbourne street press. It seems like Jet still can't so much as look at a recording studio without Sticky Carpet noticing:

Dem Damn DogsOne of Australia's most ( Read more... )

So after nearly six months of having nothing but a single photo on a Facebook page to suggest that they even exist, Mark and Chris's side project, 'Damn Dogs', appear to have announced their first show a couple of hours before it starts? And it's in a strip club? In Los Angeles??


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Sorry to post again already, but I just found this article by Powderfinger's drummer, Jon Coghill (usually known as Cogsy) which has a whole paragraph about Chris's drumming:

Chris Cester of Jet is one drummer that doesn't hold back when it comes to pulling a face or two and I don't think he even knows he does it. Like many fine drummers, Chris ( Read more... )

It seems Chris and Mark have gone back to their sometime hobby of working with Japanese artists, this time working with singer Kuriyami Chiaki. There's an article here which is mostly in Japanese, but Chris's comment on the track he and Mark wrote is there in English:

Mark and I had been getting really into alot of French Pop-Rock music from the ( Read more... )

From a gig at the Hi-Fi waaaay back in 2003:


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