Floating Me (sometimes stylised as FLOATINGME) were a progressive rock group from

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, featuring

Lucius Borich Lucius Borich (born 1971) is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer for the band Cog (band), Cog, and previously the drummer in funk metal band Juice (Australian band), Juice and in The Hanging Tree (band), The Hanging Tree as well a ...

from

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, Jon Stockman of

Karnivool Karnivool is an Australian progressive rock band formed in Perth in 1997. The group currently consists of Ian Kenny on vocals, Drew Goddard and Mark Hosking on guitar, Jon Stockman on bass, and Steve Judd on drums. Karnivool emerged from a band ...

and Andrew Gillespie, Antony Brown and Tobias Messiter from the '90s grunge/metal band

Scary Mother Scary Mother (also styled as Scarymother) were an Australian rock band. They were formed in 1990. Anthony Brown on lead guitar, Tim Burcham on drums, Andrew Gillespie on lead vocals and Toby (Tobias) Messiter (ex-Wildland) on keyboards. They r ...

. Their 2011 debut album entered the

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album chart at #90.The ARIA Report issue 1104

History

Guitarist Antony Brown, singer Andrew Gillespie and keyboards-player Tobias Messiter had all previously worked together in the Sydney band Scary Mother. Also featuring bassist Dorian West and drummer Tim Burcham, Scary Mother formed in 1991 and released several singles and the album ''Tai Laeo'' (1994) before further progress stalled and the group parted ways. Some years later, Gillespie, Brown and Messiter began working on new material. Lucius Borich from Cog, who had known all three from his history touring with them in

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and

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, was invited to collaborate on some material. By late 2009 it had become apparent to Borich that Cog was winding down as a full-time band, and so he joined FloatingMe permanently. During 2010 FloatingMe's album was ready to be recorded but the band still lacked a bass player. Jon Stockman of

was asked to record the bass parts and as Karnivool was taking a break to allow for singer Ian Kenny to concentrate on

Birds of Tokyo Birds of Tokyo are an Australian alternative rock band from Perth, Western Australia. Their debut album, '' Day One,'' gained them domestic success, reaching number three on the AIR Independent Album charts and spending a total of 36 consecut ...

, he too signed on to the new band. The album was recorded with producer Forrester Savell and released in April 2011. The song "Sugar" was launched on the band's MySpace page as an introductory single in late 2010 and in early 2011 FloatingMe performed live for the first time, opening for

Shihad Shihad are a rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1988. The band consists of founders Tom Larkin (drums, backing vocals, samplers), Phil Knight (lead guitar, synthesiser, backing vocals) and Jon Toogood (lead vocals, rhythm guita ...

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. The band toured with

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and in July 2011 co-headlined a three-date tour with Clint Boge of

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's latest band Thousand Needles in Red. FloatingMe's self-titled album was nominated for an

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in the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album category.

Band members

*Andrew Gillespie –

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(2009–present) *Antony Brown –

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(2009–present) *Tobias Messiter –

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(2009–present) *Jon Stockman –

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(2009–present)

Past members

–

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(2009–2012)

Discography

Albums

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

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(ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the

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. They commenced in 1987. ! , - , 2011 , , ''Floating Me'' , ,

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, , , , ARIA Award previous winners.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Australian progressive rock groups Musical groups established in 2009