Brendan Maclean
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Brendan Maclean at the Sydney premiere of The Great Gatsby in 2013
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| Background information | |
| Born | 27 December 1987 |
| Origin | Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Pop, folk, cabaret |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, actor, presenter |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboards, vocals, guitar, ukulele |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Website | http://brendanmaclean.bandcamp.com/ |
Brendan Maclean is an Australian musician and film actor.
In 2007 Maclean began independently releasing music under his own name with the song "Airport People". The song, which featured the nineteen year old accompanying himself on piano, went on to win both the Australian National Youth Week Industry award and The People's Choice award for Songwriting in 2008. His first release, a homemade demo titled Prose from Pluto, came out in 2008 and included the above song. It no longer appears to be in print or online.
Maclean's debut studio EP, White Canvas was released on iTunes in March 2010. Despite not officially charting, the film clip for its first single "Practically Wasted" won nine awards in the 2011 Queensland New Film Awards. The follow up single, "Cold and Happy" placed 8th in Rage's Top 10 videos of 2011.
In January 2014 he released his third EP, Population, produced by Paul Mac. The record gained traction with the song's video for the single, "Stupid", being featured by BuzzFeed coupled with a successful crowd funding campaign which earned over AU$20,000. In May 2014, "Stupid" was featured as the Weather on Welcome to Night Vale, in episode 47, "Company Picnic," soon after this Maclean was signed to the Universal Music Publishing Group as a songwriter.
May 2015 saw the release of Maclean's fourth independently-released EP, entitled Thought I'd Cry for You Forever. The EP features an original spoken word piece from author Neil Gaiman. It was released exclusively through Bandcamp.
Brendan's fifth EP funbang1 was released on 24 July 2016 featuring the singles "Tectonic", "Free to Love" and "House of Air". All three singles were co-written by former Cobra Starship member Alex Suarez. It also features Amanda Palmer in the dance-schtick track "On the Door". A remixed version of the Amanda Palmer collaboration was released featuring cameos from Ben Folds, Sarah Silverman, Eugene Mirman and Reggie Watts.
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