Jet biography

Melbourne, Australia is as good a place as any to get into AC/DC. Those long summer days (and nights) would provide the perfect backdrop to hone the three chord classics that Jet’s fellow countrymen became famous for. Working from the textbook entitled ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, Jet are the modern day grunt rockers paying respect to their country’s musical past and attempting to give it a future.

Comprising of brothers Nic and Chris Cester, along with Cameron Muncey and Mark Wilson, Jet formed at the start of the millennium. And even their first pressing harked back to an earlier era: their ‘Dirty Sweet’ EP was limited to 1,000 pressings and was only available on vinyl. Quickly selling out (possibly both figuratively and literally) another 1,000 were pressed and UK and US record deals were signed. 2003 saw ‘Get Born’, the band’s studio length debut album, come out. The catchy, power-pop anthems hit all the right notes, especially with rock’s elder statesmen the Rolling Stones who offered the new pretenders to the throne an opening slot in Australia. Oasis – to whom Jet are often compared – have accorded the same welcome and stadiums around the world have bounced along to ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’, ‘Rollover D.J’ and ‘Cold Hard Bitch’. Much like their album title, these songs got born for stadiums. Whether they can fill them with entirely their own fans remains to be seen.