The Potbelleez | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Electro house, dance |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Vicious (2003–2013), Ministry of Sound Australia (2013–present), Frenetic, Kontor |
| Members | Dave Goode Jonny Sonic Ilan Kidron |
| Past members | Blue MC |
| Website | thepotbelleez |
The Potbelleez are a three-member Irish-Australian electro-house and dance music group, which formed in 2003 as a duo by DJs Dave Goode (a.k.a. David Greene) and Jonny Sonic (Jonathon Murphy). In 2005 they were joined by rapper Blue MC (Marisa Lock) on vocals and in 2006 by iKid (Ilan Kidron) on vocals. In October 2007, the group issued their breakthrough single, "Don't Hold Back", which peaked at No. 5 on the ARIA Singles Chart and, in 2011, it was certified 3× Platinum by ARIA. On 22 November 2008 their debut self-titled album was released, which reached No. 17 on the ARIA Albums Chart. On 27 May 2011 they issued a second studio album, Destination Now , which peaked at the same position. It spawned Gold and Multi Platinum-accredited singles "Hello" (2010) and "From the Music" (2011).
The Potbelleez were formed in Sydney in 2003 as an electro-house and dance music group. Both founders David Greene (a.k.a. Dave Goode) and Jonathon Murphy (Jonny Sonic) were born in Dublin, Ireland. They worked as DJs and producers. By 2002 they had independently relocated to Sydney and met each other by late that year. In 2003 Brisbane-born rapper Blue MC (Marisa Lock) was working in London as one half of a beatbox duo Streetbox with MC Xander on drum machine and vocals. [1] By 2005 The Potbelleez were working in Sydney and when Blue MC returned to Australia she joined the group. Soon after the trio begun playing live in 2006 Ilan Kidron (a.k.a. iKid) joined on vocals. During 2006 the quartet began recording tracks in a terrace house in Darlinghurst. At the end of that year The Potbelleez signed to the Vicious Records label. In April 2007 their debut extended play, In the Junkyard , was issued with "Junkyard" and "Duurty Dreemz" spawned as singles. [2] "Junkyard" is co-written by Greene, Murphy and Lock; [3] while "Duuurty Dreemz" was co-written by Greene, Murphy, Kidron and H Walker. [4] The Potbelleez are managed by Myles Cooper and signed to his Phat Planet Music Media company. [5]
In October 2007, the group issued their breakthrough single, "Don't Hold Back", which debuted at No. 36 in its first week on the ARIA Singles Chart. [6] The track was produced by The Potbelleez with Sam Littlemore, [6] and was cowritten by Greene, Murphy, Kidron and Littlemore. [7] It reached No. 1 on both ARIA's Club and Dance Charts. [8] In February 2008 it peaked at No. 5 on the Singles Chart. [6] In 2011, it was certified 2× Platinum by ARIA, with shipment of over 140,000 copies. [9] The single also charted in New Zealand, peaking in the top 20 on the RIANZ Singles Chart. [10] It appeared in the top 60 on both The UK and the German Singles Chart. [11] The music video was directed by two-time ARIA Award-winning film maker James Hackett and was shot on location in Kings Cross inside the Moulin Rouge nightclub. Also in 2008, The Potbelleez, performed in the Big Top at the Homebake festival.
Their music has been featured on TV shows including Blood, Sweat and Gears , Crunch , So You Think You Can Dance and Australia's Next Top Model . Their tracks "Junkyard" and "Duuurty Dreemz" became the unofficial theme tunes to Channel Ten's Big Brother Up-Late show. In 2007 The Potbelleez performed "Don't Hold Back" at the Big Brother Australia finale to an audience of 1.9 million people, [2] In 2008 their single, "Are You with Me", was used to open the finale. The Potbelleez opened Channel Ten's live New Year's Eve performance from Dawes Point under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which was broadcast to over two million viewers. In February 2008 for the A-League Grand Final they performed "Junkyard", "Are You with Me" and "Don't Hold Back" at the Sydney Football Stadium.
In March and April 2008, The Potbelleez supported the German band Scooter on their Jumping All Over the World Tour in the German cities of Leipzig, Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Dortmund. Most of the gigs were sold out. The group continued their Moulin Nights residency at the Kings Cross night club, Moulin Rouge. [12] In 2008, The Potbelleez generated their first DJ mix CD for Ibiza super-club Pacha, which was released in Australia through Central Station Records. The Potbelleez later mixed for Ministry of Sound Australia's Sessions Five, which was released in June 2008 in Australia. This release was certified Platinum with sales over 100,000.
The Potbelleez' follow-up single to "Don't Hold Back" was "Are You with Me", which was released in Australia on 31 May 2008 and was the Most Added Song to Australian radio on it debut. They performed the song at many live events, including on TV show Rove Live . Their single "Trouble Trouble" was aired on the Hot 30 Countdown exclusively on 25 September 2008. When speaking to Cam St Clair of Sea FM, Kidron announced that the single would hit shelves mid-October. It hit digital stores at the same time as the album. A music video has been made for the single. The video is of The Potbelleez at a wild party. The video can be seen on YouTube and has appeared frequently on Channel V. On 1 November 2008, The Potbelleez released their self-titled debut album. Also that month, Lars Brandle of Billboard described them as one of three key Australian electronica-dance groups that were receiving international recognition – alongside Melbourne-based bands Cut Copy and Midnight Juggernauts. [5] At the ARIA Music Awards of 2008, "Don't Hold Back" was nominated in three categories, 'Best Dance Release', 'Breakthrough Artist – Single' and 'Highest Selling Single'. [13]
In January 2009, The Potbelleez performed songs from their album for the annual Maccabi Junior Carnival at Fox Studios, Sydney. Lead singer, Ilan Kidron, also judged the carnival's talent quest. In February that year the group performed at the Good Vibrations Festival. Also that year, their single "Junkyard" appeared as the soundtrack for the Kia Soul "Hamster" TV commercial which aired in the US and Canada.
in 2010 The Potbelleez "Don't Hold Back" was first used in TV commercial for Jeep Motor Cars Australia. Jeep "Don't Hold Back" has since become one of the most successful and longest running TV Synch campaigns in Australia currently running for over 8 years. Their song "Hello" was used as the GO! TV channel's identification theme song from late 2010 to early 2011.
In March 2011, The Potbelleez began a 14-date sold-out tour with American R&B singer Usher on his OMG Tour. The tour included sold-out shows at Burswood Dome Perth, Rod Laver Arena Melbourne, Acer Arena Sydney, Brisbane and Newcastle Entertainment Centres and was their biggest tour to date. On 27 May 2011 The Potbelleez issued their second album, Destination Now . [14] The lead single, "Hello", hit Australian radio ahead of the album in July 2010, whilst the second single, "Shake It", appeared in October that year. The band performed both tracks live at the AFL Grand Final Footy Show, held at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, The NRL Footy Show Grand Final Show at the Opera House and at the Los Angeles Galaxy vs Newcastle Jets soccer match, held at EnergyAustralia Stadium, Newcastle. The singles "Hello" and "From The Music" both charted in the top 20 of the ARIA Singles Chart at No. 19 and No. 16 respectively, while the album peaked at No. 17 on the related albums chart. [15] In 2011 the group performed at the Irish arts-and-music festival, Electric Picnic. In October that year, "Are You with Me" was used for the opening theme of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia .
In August 2012 it was announced on the band's Facebook and Twitter accounts that MC Blue had departed the band to pursue a solo project. "It's been an unforgettable experience for me in one the hardest working bands in Australia, we are all immensely proud of what we have achieved over the years and I'm now super excited to be embarking on my solo journey" Blue MC.
They released their new single "Here on Earth" via Ministry of Sound on 4 July 2014. [16]
In September 2016, "Shout (Say That You Want Me)" was recorded and performed by The Potbelleez themselves, and was also used in ads for Kmart. Ilan explained how the track came together: "We were in Nashville at a song writing camp and we were playing around with some big vocal tracks and got talking about iconic Australian anthems and 'Shout'. It was the incredible Isley Brothers who originally wrote and recorded 'Shout', but it was Australia's first rock n roll super star Jonny O’Keefe and his version in the early '60s that went on to become an Australian anthem! We were so excited to put our own spin on this classic belter".
The Potbelleez' lead singer, Ilan Kidron, also performs in a cinematic fuzz folk duo, Freaks in Love, with his wife and film maker, Samantha Rebillet. [17] Kidron provided original music for the score of 2002 short film, Inja, which is directed by Steve Pasvolsky and produced by Joe Weatherstone [18] – it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short in March 2003. [19] In 2014, Kidron formed the side project Go Comet! (stylised as GO COMET!) and released the song "Worlds Apart", which was used to soundtrack Seven News stories. [20] The song reached number 68 on the ARIA Singles Chart in August 2014. [21]
| Title | Details | Peak chart position |
|---|---|---|
| AUS [15] | ||
| The Potbelleez |
| 17 |
| Destination Now |
| 17 |
| Title | Details | Peak chart position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS Dance [24] | AUS Hitseek [25] | ||
| In the Junkyard |
| 18 | 4 |
| Kiss My Ass |
| — | — |
| Energy |
| — | — |
| The Standard |
| — | — |
| Nummular |
| — | — |
| Dunny Bowl Break |
| — | — |
| Hit & Run |
| — | — |
| Copy and Pasty |
| — | — |
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [15] | AUS Club [33] | NZL [34] | GER [35] | ||||
| 2007 | "Junkyard" | — | 2 | — | — | In the Junkyard and The Potbelleez | |
| "Duuurty Dreemz" | — | 19 | — | — | |||
| "Don't Hold Back" | 5 | 1 | 17 | 54 | The Potbelleez | ||
| 2008 | "Are You with Me" | 15 | 2 | — | — |
| |
| "Trouble Trouble" | 54 | 22 | — | — | |||
| 2009 | "Duuurty Dreemz" (Andy Van remix) [38] | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2010 | "Hello" | 19 | 9 | — | — |
| Destination Now |
| "Shake It" | 51 | 11 | — | — | |||
| 2011 | "From the Music" | 16 | 9 | 35 | — |
| |
| "Midnight Midnight" | 48 | 12 | — | — | |||
| "Feed Off Me" | — | 42 | — | — | |||
| 2013 | "Saved in a Bottle" | 48 | 4 | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Magic Number" (featuring B.o.B) | — [upper-alpha 1] | 30 | — | — | |||
| 2014 | "Here on Earth" [41] | — | 12 | — | — | ||
| "All the Way" (with Marcus Santoro) [42] | — | 33 | — | — | |||
| 2016 | "Horny" (featuring Zoë Badwi) [43] | — | 9 | — | — | ||
| "Shout" [44] | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2017 | "Show Me Where Your Love Is" [45] | — | 40 | — | — | ||
| "Keep On Loving" [46] | — | 7 | — | — | |||
| 2018 | "Go for Gold" [47] | — | 12 | — | — | ||
| "The Moment" [48] | — | 30 | — | — | |||
| "Let the Music Do the Work" [49] | — | 23 | — | — | |||
| 2019 | "Energy" [50] | — | — | — | — | Energy | |
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIR Awards of 2011 [51] [52] | Destination Now | Best Independent Dance/Electronic Album | Nominated |
The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". [53] The Potbelleez have won two awards from six nominations, both for Dance Work of the Year.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "Don't Hold Back" (David Greene, Ilan Kidron, Jonathan Murphy, Sam Littlemore) | Most Played Australian Work [54] | Nominated | |
| Dance Work of the Year [55] [56] | Won | |||
| "Are You With Me" (David Greene, Ilan Kidron, Jonathan Murphy, Sam Littlemore) | Dance Work of the Year [56] | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | "Hello" (Ilan Kidron, Jonathan Murphy, David Greene, Justin Shave, Marisa Lock) | Dance Work of the Year [57] | Nominated | |
| 2012 | "From the Music" (David Greene, Ilan Kidron, Marisa Lock, Jonathan Murphy, Justin Shave) | Dance Work of the Year [58] [59] | Won | |
| Most Played Australian Work [59] | Nominated | |||
| 2013 | "Feed Off Me" [60] | Dance Work of the Year | Nominated | |
| 2014 | "Saved in a Bottle" | Dance Work of the Year | Nominated | [61] |
The ARIA Music Awards are presented annually from 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The Potbelleez have received five nominations.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | "Don't Hold Back" | Breakthrough Artist – Single [62] | Nominated |
| Best Dance Release [62] | Nominated | ||
| Highest Selling Single [62] | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | "From the Music" | Best Dance Release [63] | Nominated |
| 2013 | "Saved in a Bottle" | Best Dance Release [63] | Nominated |
| Year | Ceremony | Award | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | MTV Australia Awards | Best Dance Video – "Are You with Me" | Nominated |
Cabin Crew, also known as Aviators, are an Australian electronic dance music duo, which consists of DJs and record producers, Ben Garden and Rob Kittler. In 2005 their remix, "Star2Fall", of Boy Meets Girl's 1988 single, "Waiting for a Star to Fall", reached the top 5 of the mainstream charts in Finland and United Kingdom.
Lee Kernaghan OAM is an Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. Kernaghan has won four ARIA Awards and three APRA Awards, and has sold over two million albums, and as of 2021, has won 38 Golden Guitars at the Country Music Awards of Australia.
Chloë Jane Walton, who performed mononymously as Chloë, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She had a top 10 hit on the ARIA Singles Chart with her cover version of the Primitives' 1988 track, "Crash", in September 2005.
Harley Webster – better known as Phrase – is an Australian hip hop MC, originating from Melbourne.
TV Rock were an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.
Paul Reid, formerly Paul Gary James Ridge,, better known by the stage name Drapht, is an Australian hip hop artist from Perth. Drapht is a member of the Syllabolix (SBX) crew, a collective that includes fellow Perth-based hip hop artists such as Downsyde.
"Straight Lines" is a song by Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released on 12 March 2007 and debuted at number one on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the band's first number-one single since 1997's "Freak". The single was shortly followed by the release of the band's fifth studio album Young Modern on 31 March 2007. Unlike the songs written during Diorama, when Daniel Johns wrote all the tracks himself, "Straight Lines" was co-written by the Presets' Julian Hamilton.
Six Feet Above Yesterday is the second studio album by Australian electronica and dance music trio, Infusion. It was released in September 2004 and peaked at number 61 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2005, the album won the Best Dance Release.
Kaz James is an Australian singer-songwriter and DJ. He was raised in Melbourne and is of Italian and Greek origin. He released his first solo album, If They Knew, in 2008.
"In the Basement" is a song by Australian singer Jade MacRae. It was released on 22 September 2007 as the lead single from her second album, Get Me Home (2008), and reached number 60 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
Daniel Leo Sultan is an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, actor and author. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 he won Best Male Artist and Best Blues & Roots Album for his second album, Get Out While You Can. At the 2014 ceremony he won Best Rock Album for Blackbird, which had reached number four on the ARIA Albums Chart. In 2017, Sultan's record Killer was nominated for three ARIA awards: Best Male Artist, Best Rock Album, and Best Independent Release. Sultan's debut children's music album Nali & Friends was named Best Children's Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019.
Zoë Badwi is an Australian singer and songwriter.
Elen Levon is a Ukrainian-Australian singer, actress and dancer.
Nicholas James Murphy, known professionally as Chet Faker, is an Australian singer and songwriter. In 2012, as Chet Faker, he issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures, and signed to Downtown Records in the United States. In October 2012, he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in Textures won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards. In January 2013, the work won Best Independent Release at the Rolling Stone Australia Awards for 2012.
Ilan Kidron, also known as iKid, is a Sydney-based singer songwriter with over one billion combined streams, best known as the lead singer for Australia's multi-platinum selling dance music act The Potbelleez. As a writer he is a double ASCAP, double APRA award winner and has two Billboard Latin #1s.. Kidron co-wrote The Potbelleez breakthrough single, "Don't Hold Back", which peaked at No. 5 on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified 3× Platinum by ARIA. Kidron has worked with artists such as Kygo, Rita Ora, Ricky Martin, Chance The Rapper, Hayden James, Chris Brown, Tommy Trash, B.o.B, Sesame Street Paul Mac and Sam La More and publishing/production companies Universal Music Publishing and Norway's Dsign Music.
"From the Music" is the third single from Australian band the Potbelleez's second album Destination Now. It was the highest-charting single from the album, peaking at number 16 in Australia and number 35 in New Zealand.
"Ah Yeah!" is a song written and performed by Australian producer and DJ Will Sparks. It was released on Hussle label in November 2012. In February 2015 it peaked in the top 60 on the French and Swedish singles charts. In April of that year Katie Cunningham of In the Mix credited "Ah Yeah!" for giving rise to a new electro house sub-genre, Melbourne bounce. The track gained exposure by Calvin Harris and A-Trak with Sparks recalling he "went from 'hardly getting gigs in Melbourne' to getting booked every weekend for shows around the world".
Rave Radio are an Australian electronic dance music duo formed in Queensland in 2008 by DJs and producers, Brett Allen and James Todman. They play a combination of live drum, live vocals, live sampling and mixing up with bass heavy genres. During 2013 they performed 100 shows across 11 countries. They were listed at No. 16 on the inthemix National Top 50 DJs.
Matthew Victor Kopp, who performs as Running Touch, is an Australian singer, songwriter and record producer. In addition to his eponymous solo project, he was the founding guitarist of Australian nu metal band Ocean Grove in 2010, and since 2014 he is a studio-only member. He appears on both their albums, The Rhapsody Tapes and Flip Phone Fantasy. He also contributed written material for Adult Art Club.
"On My Knees" is a song by Australian alternative dance group Rüfüs Du Sol, released on 24 September 2021 as the third single from their fourth studio album, Surrender. In a statement James Hunt said "For this song we had a lot of fun writing something that was darker, driving and a little more edgy. It's definitely one of the most banging tracks on the record - we referenced some of our favorite club music for the drum programming and had fun envisioning the time when we could finally play this live. It had an amazing reaction at our Red Rocks shows last month which was really special for us." The song debuted a number 68 on the ARIA Charts.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)Note: A free, open-source original online document for this reference does not exist. In this case, the original is from Pandora Archive and was preserved there on 20 March 2008.| International | |
|---|---|
| Artists | |
