Grinspoon

Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales, who formed in 1995 by Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar, Kristian Hopes on drums and Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar. Also in that year, Grinspoon won the national youth radio, Triple J–sponsored Unearthed competition for Lismore, with their post-grunge song "Sickfest". The band's name references Lester Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who supported marijuana for medical use. All eight of Grinspoon's studio albums have reached the ARIA albums chart top 10. Their sound changed to mainstream rock with the release of their third studio album, New Detention, which peaked at No. 2; likewise, their fifth studio album Alibis & Other Lies also reached No. 2. The 2004 fourth album, Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills, peaked at No. 4. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2005 it won the Best Rock Album Award.

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