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The Beautiful Girls Band

The Beautiful Girls Band Biography

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The Beautiful Girls are an Australian roots music band, which formed in 2001. They have released three extended plays, Morning Sun (2002), Goodtimes (2002) and The Weight of the World (2004); plus four studio albums, Learn Yourself (2003), We're Already Gone (2005), Ziggurats (2007) and Spooks (2010). The latter three albums have all peaked into the top 25 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Spooks also debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Independent Chart and, in June 2010, it reached No. 7 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart. Their single, "I Thought About You", reached No. 60 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Mainstay lead singer and guitarist, Mat McHugh, has also issued two solo albums, Seperatista! (2008) and Love Come Save Me (2012) as well as an EP, Go Don't Stop (2011).

By 2010 The Beautiful Girls had toured the world twelve times – including Japan, Canada and the United States – and their total album sales reached 285,000.At the APRA Music Awards of 2008, "I Thought About You" – written by McHugh – was nominated for 'Blues & Roots Work of the Year'.[17] By 2008, The Beautiful Girls had toured Japan, Europe (including UK), Brazil, US and Canada.[17] McHugh launched his solo career, however late in 2008 a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles hospitalised McHugh and delayed the release of his album, Seperatista!.[18] By 2010 The Beautiful Girls had toured the world twelve times and their total album sales reached 285,000.[19]

On 25 May 2010, The Beautiful Girls with the line-up of McHugh and Braybrooke joined by Paulie Bromley on bass guitar, issued their fourth album, Spooks.[20][21] It peaked at No. 18 on the ARIA Albums Chart,[9] and debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Independent Chart.[19] In June that year it reached No. 7 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart.[22] In September, a US tour was interrupted when McHugh was diagnosed with a ruptured appendix.[23] In April 2012 McHugh's second solo album, Love Come Save Me, was released on his website as a free download.[24]

By late 2012, McHugh established a new band name, Mat. McHugh and the seperatista soundsystem, which first toured in January 2013.