Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin (born 9 October 1966) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and

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. Austin was a founding member of

Frente! Frente! (or Frente) were an Australian folk- pop and indie pop group which originally formed in 1989. The original line-up consisted of Simon Austin on guitar and backing vocals, Angie Hart on lead vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar (later rep ...

in Melbourne in 1989 with

Angie Hart Angela Ruth Hart (born 8 March 1972), billed as Angie Hart, is an Australian pop singer best known for her role as lead vocalist in the alternative pop rock band Frente! and the indie pop duo Splendid with her then husband Jesse Tobias. Hart's ...

on vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar and Mark Picton on drums.Mc Farlane, 1999
'Frente!' entry
Spencer et al, (2007
Frente
entry. Retrieved 21 February 2010. Their top five hits on the

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(ARIA) Singles Chart were "Ordinary Angels" (co-written by Austin and Hart) and " Kelly Street" (both in 1992). Their debut album, ''

Marvin the Album ''Marvin the Album'' is the Australian folk-pop and alternative rock group Frente!'s debut album, released 24 November 1992 (26 April 1994 outside Australia), and recorded in 1992 at Platinum Studios in Melbourne, Australia. Music videos were m ...

'', reached top five on the ARIA Albums Chart in the same year. After Frente! disbanded in 1996, Austin moved into record production and sound engineering.

Biography

Simon is the grandson of Jack Austin (1910–1983), an

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er.

References

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