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Jet - "Oh, look what you've done"

The band includes Cameron Muncey , vocals, guitars - Nic Cester, vocals, guitars - Mark Wilson, bass - Chris Cester, drums

McCartney most popular CDs and DVDs: Get Born, More Than Shade, Rare Tracks, Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Dirty Sweet

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Set list:

Cold Hard Bitch 6:23
Are You Gonna Be My Girl 4:09
Look What You've Done 4:03

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Jet is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia whose debut album Get Born released in 2003 has so far sold over a million copies throughout the world. The garage rock band from down under draw their influences from rock bands such as The Kinks, AC/DC, Oasis and The Rolling Stones.

Jet is a musical group made up of brothers Nic and Chris Cester who grew up in Melbourne listening to classic rock from the 1960s and 1970s. They loved bands such as The Who, The Easybeats, The Faces and The Stones. They decided to form a band with Cameron Muncey and Mark Wilson. The band took their name from a song from frazzled post-Beatles Jet's 1973 Band on the Run album. They started to play gigs around Melbourne. "Radio Song," from their album Get Born, was written about the troubles that the band had getting recognition during this time period.

In 2002, Jet pressed the Dirty Sweet EP drawing its name from the T Rex song "Get It On (Bang A Gong)". While Jet only pressed 1,000 copies, there was such a demand that they pressed 1,000 more. The timing of this record was good coinciding with the breakthrough of The Vines meaning that international interest in Australian rock bands was high. The NME obtained a copy of the single from the Dirty Sweet EP "Take It Or Leave It" and praised it. Elektra Records offered tJet a contract and re-released the Dirty Sweet EP in 2003.

Jet entered the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles with Dave Sardy to produce their debut album Get Born. Sardy had previously produced records for Marilyn Manson and The Dandy Warhols. Halfway through recording, Jet received a call from The Rolling Stones offering them a support slot on the Australian leg of their 2003 tour. The album derived its name from a line in the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" from his 1965 Bringing It All Back Home album.

Jet's Get Born was clearly heavily inspired by classic 1960s rock acts including the Stones and Beatles; some have argued that it was overly derivative (it has also been noted that these earlier groups themselves heavily borrowed from earlier blues artists). Examples of such borrowings include "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", which to some ears closely resembles Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life", and "Look What You've Done", an amalgam of Beatles and Lennon ballads borrowing some lyrics and chords from the song "Sexy Sadie" from the White Album. In any case, the classic rock sound was highly popular with a new generation of fans, likely the result of the obvious, but mostly mild, cryptomnesia that Jet and their loyal fans all suffer from.

"Are You Gonna Be My Girl?", from Jet's debut album Get Born, was voted number one on the 2003 Triple J Hottest 100. It was on the soundtrack to Madden NFL 2004. It was also part of two major worldwide advertising campaigns for Apple's iPod and Vodafone. The album also has a song "Timothy", dedicated to vocalist/guitarist Cameron Muncey's brother, who died when he was a baby.

In early 2004, Jet teamed up with The Vines and The Living End on "the Aussie invasion" tour of US cities. A new Jet song not on Get Born called "Hold On", was also featured on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack that year. Later on in the year, they were nominated in seven categories at the ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) music awards. These included single and album of the year. At the awards ceremony on the 17th of October Jet received 6 awards out of the 7 nominations. Nic Cester also performed there as part of the supergroup The Wrights, featuring members of many other Australian rock bands.

Jet is currently working on a new album. Their next single is expected to be entitled "I Only Like You When I'm High".

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