Magic Dirt

Magic Dirt
Magic Dirt at Big Day Out, 2004
Background information
Also known as	The Jim Jims
Origin	Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Alternative rock, grunge
Years active	1991 (1991)–2010 (2010)
Labels	Fellaheen, Dirt, Au Go Go, Shock, Warner, Cargo, Various, Emergency
Associated acts	Muffcake, Bored!.
Website	www.magicdirt.com
Members	Adam Robertson Adalita Srsen Raúl Sánchez
Past members	Dean Turner Daniel Herring Dave Thomas

Magic Dirt are an Australian rock band, which formed in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria, with Daniel Herring on guitar, Adam Robertson on drums, Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Initially forming an alternative underground band called Deer Bubbles which split and formed into the much heavier, rock based group called the The Jim Jims, they were renamed as Magic Dirt in 1992. Their top 40 releases on the ARIA Albums Chart are Friends in Danger (1996), What Are Rockstars Doing Today (2000), Tough Love (2003) and Snow White (2005). They have received nine ARIA Music Award nominations including four at the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 for Life Was Better – their second extended play. Turner died in August 2009 of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (a soft tissue cancer). As of 2011^[update], the band is on hiatus with no immediate plans to tour or record.

Magic Dirt were formed as Deer Bubbles in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria with Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Srsen and Turner were romantically involved at that time. By 1992, they started a new band, The Jim Jims, with guitarist Daniel Herring. The Jim Jims provided a cover version of The Velvet Underground's "Heroin" on Check This Action ... Let the Fun Begin, a compilation CD of local Geelong bands released in 1992. After the addition of drummer Adam Robertson, they became known as Magic Dirt. Srsen told a fanzine in 1996, "The way we formed was that Dean and I used to be going out together, and before we used to be in a band before Magic Dirt called Deer Bubbles. Dean knew Daniel from skating, and then he moved in with us, and we'd play like one song for forty minutes, we just loved it. Then we wanted to find a drummer, and we went through about five, then we found Adam through a mutual friend and that was it. We only used to have three songs we used to play for an hour".