You am i biography

You Am I is a four-piece Australian power pop/alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and songwriter Tim Rogers.
You Am I Biography by Ed Nimmervoll.
The band, based on the songwriting skills of singer/guitarist Tim Rogers, began in December 1989 as a three piece featuring Tim's brother Jaimme on drums and.

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Biography

Tim Rogers formed the first version of the band with his school friend Nick Tischler and his older brother Jaimme in December 1989. The band’s name was derived from late-night sessions under the influence of alcohol. This initial line-up was short-lived and by the end of 1990 both Nick and Jaimme had left the band. (In the band’s 1993 song “Jaimme’s Got A Gal,” Tim explains why his brother left.) They were replaced by the group’s one-time sound mixer Andy Kent (bass) and Mark Tunaley on drums.

The band released several EPs and singles in the early 90s, though the real breakthrough came when Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth caught the band performing at the 1993’s Big Day Out festival. Ranaldo also produced their debut album, Sound As Ever. The album went on to win the 1993 ARIA Award for Best Alternative Release. The band was signed to Ra Records, an alternative rock oriented sub-branch of rooArt Records, with U.S. distribution by Restless Records.

After the release of their first album, Tunaley and the band parted ways. He was replaced by Russell Hopkinson (formerly of the

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Program: You Am I's Tim Rogers

Liquid Nights in Bohemia Heights

WEDNESDAY JUNE 5 & THURSDAY JUNE 6 – GERSHWIN ROOM, HOTEL ESPLANADE

Special guests: Aboriginal actor, musician, potter and performer Uncle Jack Charles singer-songwriter and one quarter of All Our Exes Live in Texas Georgia Mooney, Greek Rebetika - the music of the Greek Underground, Sarah McLeod - lead singer/guitarist for ARIA Award winning platinum-selling rockers The Superjesus. Kelly Day and Jane Hendry from Broads – Melbourne’s queens of indie-noir – will make up the ‘Bohemia Nights Players'

SATURDAY JUNE 8 & SUNDAY JUNE 9 – GIANT DWARF, SYDNEY
Special guests: TV and Radio presenter, comedian and host of architecture and design live show Man About the House Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross singer-songwriter and one quarter of All Our Exes Live in Texas Georgia Mooney Journalist, TV presenter, Documentary maker, guest-host and commentator Jan Fran, Kelly Day and Jane Hendry from Broads.

FRIDAY AUGUST 9 & SATURDAY AUGUST 10 – POWERHOUSE, BRISBANE - guests to be announced

SUNDAY AUGUST 1

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You Am I have released their 11th studio album The Lives Of Others.

Many of the songs from The Lives Of Others were written on a 2019 trip to the New South Wales south coast, where the band would rehearse when they were starting out in late 1989.

Tim Rogers says: “I was going fishing in the morning, staying in a cheap hotel, and all these folk songs came out, for no reason really but as wordplay.”

Rogers was having doubts about his future in music. “I got a job bar tending. I didn’t tell the guys about it but I couldn’t envisage us making a record together again. I couldn’t get out of the funk I was in. Then I talked to Tex Perkins about it and he is wonderful about cutting though my over-dramatic stuff.” Just don’t play for six months, Perkins advised.

Then 2020 happened, and there is nothing like discovering you can’t do what you’ve been hard-wired to do for 30 years to help see things more clearly.

The band began working on what was to become The Lives Of Others, initially starting with single ‘Th