George (band)

George
Background information
Origin	Brisbane, Australia
Genres	Rock
Years active	1996–2004 (hiatus)
Labels	Festival Mushroom
Website	Official website
Members	Katie Noonan Tyrone Noonan Geoff Green Paulie Bromley Nick Stewart
Past members	Geoff Hooton

George (styled george) are an Australian rock band from Brisbane, Queensland. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.

The band consists of Katie Noonan on vocals and keyboards, her brother Tyrone Noonan on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Geoff Green on drums and percussion, Paulie Bromley on bass and Nick Stewart on acoustic and electric guitar. Geoff Hooton, a bass player left the band in early 2000.

The Noonans form the nucleus of the band sharing principal songwriting duties. Nick Stewart also contributes to many of the bands tunes. The Noonans grew up with a strong background in classical music with their mother Maggie Noonan being a well-known opera singer. Katie Noonan studied opera and jazz at the Queensland Conservatorium.

Nick Stewart grew up listening to and playing rock music. Paulie Bromley played in underground Brisbane rock band Pangaea with Ben Ely of Regurgitator. Geoff Green has been playing the drums since 1987, and studied music at the Queensland University of Technology.

The band formed in 1996 to enter a university music competition. It released a series of independent EPs namely George in 1998, You Can Take What's Mine in 1999 and Bastard Son/Holiday in 2000. Bastard Son/Holiday peaked at number 74 on the ARIA chart. The EPs did progressively better earning good airplay on Triple J Radio and community radio stations across Australia. George was also winning a strong live following throughout the nation.

George signed with Festival Mushroom Records in mid-2001. "Special Ones" was the first single released on Festival Records followed by "Run" in October 2001 and "Breathe In Now" in February 2002. From this time the band toured heavily.

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