Frost (Australian band)
Australian pop music group
Frost was an Australian indie pop rock band, which formed in 1997 by Benny Bishop on keyboards, Lee "Lemon" Trevena on lead vocals and Tim "Porn" Powne on bass guitar. They have used several drummers including Jerry Speiser (ex-Men at Work) and Rohan Heddle (ex-Cordrazine) from 2002 to 2006.
History
Lee Trevena and Joe James attended Croydon Community School between 1988 and 1993 in Melbourne, Australia. After leaving high school, they formed Frost, as an indie pop rock band in February 1997. The line-up included Lee "Lemon" Trevena on lead vocals and guitar, Tim "Porn" Powne on bass guitar and backing vocals, and Benny Bishop on keyboards (ex-ABBAration). Early on they recorded demos with Peter Reggie Bowman (Southern Sons), one of which contained an early version of the song “Here I Go”, which was later recorded by “Brill” (Brian Canham of Pseudo Echo). The band used several drummers since their inception. In 2002 Jerry Speiser (ex-Men at Work, Ross Hannaford's One World) joined on drums.
The band received high rotation on MTV (Australia) with their song "Candyman" in 2000 and on Nova 100 and SBS Television in 2003 for their single "You and Me", which was featured on the SBS and Universal Records CD, The SBS Whatever Sessions and was released on their four-track extended play The Usual Suspects (September 2004). In 2005 they released their debut self-titled album Frost, which was manufactured and distributed by Shock Records.
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