Biography
Rocket Science came together as a Melbourne-based indie rock quartet in the middle of 1998, right after the Vines broke through. Roman Tucker handled vocals, Kit Warhurst played drums, Dave Gray covered bass, and Paul Maybury took guitar duties. The members had nursed ambitions of major music success from their earliest years. Their sound blended gritty glam rock with a sharper edge than the Vines’ sugary punk approach. On the very day the group formed, they wrote their debut track, “Welcome Aboard.” That song helped them cultivate a domestic audience that eventually extended to listeners in the U.K. The band supported Mudhoney and the Supersuckers on tour dates that stretched into 2000, after which their first album, Welcome Aboard the 3C10, surfaced the following year. Their brash, swaggering persona kept generating excitement through 2002, the year they tracked their second album, Contact High. European listeners had to wait until the middle of 2003 for that record, but the electric Run Like a Gun EP arrived earlier in the spring to bridge the gap.
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