FROST is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 band formed in 1997 in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

. Although the band has change several drummers since its inception, they are becoming an increasingly popular independent group in Australia. Lee "Lemon" Trevena is the singer, Tim "Porn" Powne plays bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, and Benny Bishop plays keyboard

Keyboard instrument

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s; as of 2002, Jerry Speiser

Jerry Speiser

Jerry Harold Speiser is an Australian drummer and sometime guitarist. He was a founding member of 1980s pop music group Men at Work; which had Australian, United States and United Kingdom hits with their singles, "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under" and their albums, Business as Usual and Cargo...

, formerly of hit 1980s pop band Men at Work

Men at Work

Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United States . They achieved the same distinction of a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United Kingdom...

, plays drums.

The band received hi-rotation on Nova 100

Nova 100

Nova 100 is a commercial radio station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, broadcasting on 100.3 MHz. It is in the Melbourne radio market, with the intention of challenging the number one FM Austereo station Fox FM by playing alternative, hip hop, pop & dance music, with a strong lean towards...

 and SBS Television

Special Broadcasting Service

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 in 2003 with their single, "You and Me", featured on the SBS and Universal Records CD, The SBS Whatever Sessions. As of 2004 they have released three EPs

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

. The Usual Suspects (EP/MGM/2004), FROST (LP/SHOCK/2005) and 10:06 (EP/Green/2006).

Frost will appear on the Sound of Melbourne Records release in 2011. http://soundofmelbourne.com/About.html
Band Members have included: Jerry Speiser (Men at Work), Rohan Heddle (Cordrazine), Benny Bishop (ABBAration), Joe James, Lemon and Timmy Porne.
VA albums Frost has appeared on include:

- Cheap 'N' Easy - Unleashed (2002) by US company 'Gold Record Music'

- Independence - Volume One (2003) by Aus company By design records & MGM

- The SBS Whatever Sessions (2003) by Aus company Special broadcasting Service and Universal Music Aus

- Sound of Melbourne (2011) by Aus Sound of Melbourne Records

External links

• [www.myspace.com/frostband Frost]

Independence: Volume One [sound recording]. 2003. [Australia] : MGM Distribution [Distributor], 2003 http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-an26674202

Frost [sound recording / CAT#LEMR002] 1 sound disc (CD) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. Released [Australia] : Lemon Records Shock Distribution [Distributor], 2005. http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-an40586958

The SBS Whatever Sessions (VA) [sound recording Catalogue Number 0044006896526 Label catalogue no. 0689652
]. 2003. [Australia] : Universal Music Australia : Universal Music Australia [Distributor], 2003 http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-an26459434

The usual suspects [sound recording CAT#LEMR001] / Frost. Date 2004. http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-an41182943 (http://www.waterfrontrecords.com/product/65373)

10:06 [sound recording CAT#LEMR003] Release Date: 2006, Catalogue No.: LEMR003, Record Label: Lemon Records & Green, Format: CD EP http://www.waterfrontrecords.com/product/69272

THE SOUND OF MELBOURNE (VA). [sound recording CAT#SOMR01CD] Release Date: 2011 - http://soundofmelbourne.com/Store_HMK5.html