British India

Teenagers Declan Melia on guitar and vocals alongside Nick Wilson on guitar, Matt O'Gorman on drums and Will Drummond on bass launched British India, channeling tough garage-influenced rock & roll charged with energy and charisma. Their commanding stage presence and forceful live shows quickly turned them into favorites of the street press as the quartet commuted regularly between shows in Melbourne and Sydney.

Harry Vanda, the former guitarist of '60s rock icons the Easybeats, eventually discovered the group. Together they cut the EP Counter Culture, issued on Shock Records as preparation for a full album project with the same producer. Unable to secure an acceptable label contract, British India placed their debut album Guillotine on Vanda's own Flash Point imprint in 2007. Lead single "Tie Up My Hands" topped the Triple J TV chart that year, and the band collected an AIR Award for best new artist. Second album Thieves arrived in 2008 and entered the ARIA charts at number five.

After an intense touring schedule, the quartet delivered their third album Avalanche in 2010. They stepped back in 2011 to rest and regroup before signing with independent label Liberation Music. Their Liberation debut Controller, released in March 2013, proved the band's most stylistically eclectic effort to date, debuted at number ten on the ARIA charts and contained the hit "I Can Make You Love Me," their first gold record. Meticulously crafted and critically acclaimed, fifth studio long-player Nothing Touches Me followed in 2015 and reached number five on the ARIA charts. In July 2017 the group issued single "Precious" ahead of full-length Forgetting the Future, which surfaced that September.