Australia’s The Butterfly Effect released their debut album “Begins Here” on August 4th, 2003.  It debuted at No.23 on the national ARIA Chart and has already sold over 20,000 units.  Following a successful 2002 / 2003, which saw the band perform over 200 shows including all the major festivals, sell out shows across the country and support an EP and single that charted for most of 2002/03, 2004 is building up to be an exciting year for The Butterfly Effect who are now ready to expand into the international marketplace.

The Butterfly Effect have just completed the national Big Day Out festival and their second single “Always” has just debuted in the top 50 across Australia.  Their album “Begins Here” is still in the top 100 albums since it’s release in August and the band is negotiating releases in the USA and Canada for later this year.

“The Butterfly Effect's debut album sparkles like a diamond in the coal dust.”

- Robyn Doreian, Rolling Stone

Recent Achievements:

¨       Performed at National Big Day Out 2004, Homebake, Falls and Gone South Festivals 2003.

¨       “Begins Here” debuted at No.23 on the national ARIA Chart.

¨       “Begins Here” debuted at No.1 on the national AIR Chart.

¨       “Always” the second single debuted at No.49 on the national ARIA chart.

¨       “One Second Of Insanity” hit No. 1 on Triple J’s Net50 for three weeks running.

¨       “Begins Here” national tour sold-out in all capital cities around Australia twice.

¨       “Crave”, the first single from “Begins Here”, charted in the ARIA Heavy Rock Chart Top 20 for 30 weeks.

¨       Performed at Big Day Out, Livid (main-stage), Homebake and Falls Festival (main-stage) in 2002.

¨       Debut EP has reached sales in excess of 10,000 copies.

¨       Debut EP reached No. 1 on the national AIR charts in March 2002.  Charted for over 6 months.

¨       Won Triple M’s unsigned find competition for 2002.

¨       Have performed over 200 headlining shows nationally in 24 months.

¨       Signed to Modern Music / Roadshow Music and Sony Distribution for Australia.

The Profile

The Butterfly Effect emerged from the Brisbane underground hard rock scene in 2001 with their debut self-titled EP which instantly gained recognition on national youth radio network, Triple J.  Self-financed and released through local independent label Modern Music the EP soon became highly in demand across the entire country.  In January 2002 the band was invited to perform at the local Big Day Out and to capitalise on the momentum a national tour was booked to supply the growing demand for the band.  As a result several tours followed including supports with some of Australia’s leading rock acts which in turn, attracted the attention of the larger record companies and publishers within Australia.  In May 2002 The Butterfly Effect and Modern Music entered into a Licensing deal with Roadshow Music and began the task of developing the act to the level it has reached today. 

The Butterfly Effect is an extremely powerful and dynamic four-piece hard rock band that leaves all that see them stunned and satisfied. Drawing influences from various alternative rock acts from the 80’s and 90’s The Butterfly Effect has formulated a sound that is musically fresh, energetic and vocally outstanding. Their repertoire includes power, passion and conviction and takes all who listen on a journey of emotional discovery.

With a successful EP, top 50 album and a tour schedule that only the toughest bands can handle The Butterfly Effect is on its way to becoming one of the great success stories of hard rock bands to come out of Australia.

The Butterfly Effect are:

Clint Boge:              Vocals

Ben Hall:                 Drums

Glenn Esmond:         Bass

Kurt Goedhart:         Guitar

On Radio

The latest single from the debut album, “Always”, was added to national radio networks Triple J and Triple M in January 2004. 

“One Second Of Insanity”, was added to Triple J on high rotation in August 2003 and hit No.1 on the NET50 after only two weeks in rotation.  It held the No. 1 position for 3 weeks and is still charting strongly.

“Crave”, the first single from The Butterfly Effect’s album hit No. 11 on the Triple J net50 in only it’s second week out in Dec 2002.  It was added to medium rotation on Triple J and nights on Triple M and spent over 30 weeks in the ARIA Heavy Rock Top 20 chart.

“The Cell” was the first killer track from The Butterfly Effect’s debut self-titled EP that hit rotation on Triple J in Nov 2001.  While added, “The Cell” climbed to No.10 in the Net50 and enjoyed 15 weeks in the chart.  The songs “Black Lung”, “Sweet and Low” and “Take It Away” were also being played on Triple J.

Commercial radio network Triple M adopted The Butterfly Effect as it’s unsigned find for 2002 and continues to support the band.  The single “Take It Away” was added to rotation nationally and is featured on the Triple M New Stuff Vol 3 Compilation CD.  “Take It Away” was voted No.16 in the top 20 most requested Australian songs on Triple M for 2002. 

“Big vocals, big chords, big promise!  I can’t get this CD out of my player.”

 -Costa Zouliou, Triple J

Live

The Butterfly Effect has built a reputation for being one of the most exciting and hard working live acts in Australia. Since February 2002 the band has toured the country extensively knocking up over 200 interstate performances as a headlining act and as a main support for such major touring acts as Grinspoon, Killing Heidi and Pacifier (aka Shihad). The Butterfly Effect has established a strong and continuously growing fan base and is constantly touring to support its releases. The band performed at all four major rock festivals in Australia in 2002, 2003 and have just completed the Big Day Out tour of 2004.

“One can’t help pitying any band who has to perform after The Butterfly Effect.”

-Time Off Magazine