Noise Addict was an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Bondi Beach in 1992, originally consisting of Ben Lee

Ben Lee

Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee is an ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake...

, Doron Kalinko, Daniel Kohn, Joel Wasserman, Daniel Mapp and Saul Smith.

The band recorded its first demo when Lee was only thirteen years old, and the group played its first concert afterwards. They were discovered by Fellaheen Records executive Steve Pavlovic

Steve Pavlovic

Steve Pavlovic is an Australian music promoter who founded and runs the successful international record label Modular Recordings. Widely known as "Pav", some of his pre-Modular history was documented in The Sell-in, a book about the Australian independent music industry...

, who sent their tape to Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

 of Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

. Moore signed them to his Ecstatic Peace

Ecstatic Peace

Ecstatic Peace! is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans and Lydia Lunch...

 record label

Record label

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, and the DEF EP

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...

 was released in early 1993. It was fairly successful, and the band was thereafter signed to Fellaheen.

Shortly afterwards, Noise Addict released another EP, The Taste in My Eyes; its single "I Wish I Was Him", about Evan Dando

Evan Dando

Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock band The Lemonheads. He is the only original member left in the current Lemonheads line-up, having served as lead singer since the band's original formation in 1986...

, became quite popular, attracting the attention of Mike D from the Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys

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, who would maneuver to sign the band to Grand Royal Records. Noise Addict released another EP with Fellaheen, Noise Addict vs. Silverchair

Silverchair

Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

, before being officially signed and releasing Young and Jaded in 1994.

After the success of Young and Jaded, Ben Lee released his solo debut Grandpaw Would

Grandpaw Would

Grandpaw Would is the first solo album by Australian indie pop artist Ben Lee, released in 1995.-Track listing:# "Pop Queen" – 3:28# "How Can That Be?" – 1:58# "Sprawl" – 1:28# "I'm with the Star" – 3:44# "Don't Leave" – 1:58...

, and Kalinko exited the band to be replaced by Romy Hoffman

Macromantics

Macromantics is the stage name used by the Melbourne-based hip hop artist Romy Hoffman.-Biography:In 1995 Hoffman started performing with her high school classmate Ben Lee's pop/punk band Noise Addict as a 15 year old guitarist."I just did the last tour with them, which was great because I got to...

. In late 1995, Noise Addict released their only full-length album, Meet the Real You, and toured with Sebadoh

Sebadoh

Sebadoh is an American indie rock band, formed in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr bass player Lou Barlow. Along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording...

 briefly before disbanding. Also in 1995, the band contributed the song "Mouthwash" to the AIDS

AIDS

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 benefit album Red Hot + Bothered

Red Hot + Bothered

Red Hot + Bothered is an anthology of the indie rock scene from the 1990s produced by Paul Heck. It was released as part of the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series....

 produced by the Red Hot Organization

Red Hot Organization

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Ben Lee is a successful solo artist, having released several albums since Noise Addict's breakup. Daniel Mapp currently plays with the band Waikiki

Waikiki (band)

Waikiki were a rock group from Sydney, Australia, consisting of sister and brother Juanita Stein and Joel Stein , and Glenn Moule and Jimmy Brandon . A new bass player Brendan Picchio joined the band in early 2003, replacing Brandon, with Juanita Stein moving from bass to rhythm guitar...

. Romy Hoffman performs hip-hop under the name Macromantics

Macromantics

Macromantics is the stage name used by the Melbourne-based hip hop artist Romy Hoffman.-Biography:In 1995 Hoffman started performing with her high school classmate Ben Lee's pop/punk band Noise Addict as a 15 year old guitarist."I just did the last tour with them, which was great because I got to...

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On 1 September 2009, a new incarnation of Noise Addict, featuring Ben Lee, Lou Barlow and Lara Meyerratken

Lara Meyerratken

Lara Meyerratken is an Australian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Lara is most commonly associated with her longtime collaborator Ben Lee.Meyerratken is a notable session musician and songwriter...

released the album it was never about the audience.