Even before Jet's debut album Get Born landed in 2003, there was a sizeable buzz surrounding them.
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The Melbourne band opened for The Rolling Stones, enjoyed a major label feeding frenzy and had high-profile magazines championing them as "the future of rock".
The latter is still a confusing prospect for vocalist/guitarist Nic Cester.
"I remember thinking at the time... All that shit was ludicrous, and it was just written with the intention of selling magazines," he said.
"It was flattering and it was fun, but it wasn't really based in reality."
The band's humble beginnings entailed rehearsing in a warehouse in the outer suburbs of their home town.
Soon enough, Cester, his drumming brother Chris and the other young twenty-somethings in Jet rode the wave of success of smash hit single Are You Gonna Be My Girl.
The song, also featured in an ad campaign for the iPod, went on to become a worldwide hit and helped lead to sales of more than four million copies of Get Born.
"That whole period, it was super fun and exciting, but at the same time quite overwhelming, because we were just kids," Cester said.
"From zero to a hundred in the space of a couple of months was pretty full-on."
Jet disbanded in 2012, citing the need "to pursue separate creative endeavors".
Cester moved to Europe about six years ago. He currently resides in Milan.
In 2017, the front-man released solo album Sugar Rush.
His future projects include writing his next solo album, and creating music for the soundtrack to an Italian film due for release next year.
"My goals are always hoping to do... Always changing and doing interesting things, and having the opportunity to step out of the normal routine, and work on any interesting project," he said.
Jet reformed a few years ago, and having recently undertaken a reunion run will be special guests during Jimmy Barnes' 'Shutting Down Your Town' headlining tour of Australia.
The other members of Jet live in Los Angeles and Melbourne.
Cester said he hoped everyone in the band "gets along and the mood is good", which may facilitate the writing of fresh material.
"It was fun doing the reunion thing, but I think if we're going to keep it going then we're going to have to do new songs," Cester said.
"It would be a bit cheap to just keep milking the old stuff without doing anything new.
"All of October we're all going to be in Melbourne, and there's the intention of getting together and trying to work on some new stuff, so we'll see.
"We're all so scattered (around the world) that it doesn't happen that often that the opportunity (is there for us) all to be in the same room together, so we're trying to take advantage of it."
-Jimmy Barnes and Jet will perform on Thursday, October 3 at WIN Entertainment Centre.
Tickets are available from Ticketmaster.
Brendan Crabb
I'm a member of ACM's national property team, covering the Illawarra and South Coast. Based in Albion Park, NSW, I write about exciting, interesting or just downright quirky properties that have been listed for sale, major sales, market trends, auctions and more. One of my favourite aspects of being a journalist is I believe everyone has a story to tell. What's yours?
I'm a member of ACM's national property team, covering the Illawarra and South Coast. Based in Albion Park, NSW, I write about exciting, interesting or just downright quirky properties that have been listed for sale, major sales, market trends, auctions and more. One of my favourite aspects of being a journalist is I believe everyone has a story to tell. What's yours?
