Legendary Australian rock band Jet was inducted into the Hall of Fame during the 37th ARIA Awards on Wednesday night.
Known for their 2003 international hit Are You Gonna Be My Girl?, Jet soared up the charts that same year with their acclaimed debut album Get Born.
The veteran hitmakers – frontman Nic Cester, drummer Chris Cester, bass player Mark Wilson and guitarist Cameron Muncey – took to the stage to accept the honour.
‘There are some truly tragic, atrocious things taking place around the world,’ Nic, 44, said during his acceptance speech.
‘It’s often in moments like this I’m reminded of the importance of art and music. Music has always been an antidote in our lives during troubled moments.
Legendary Australian rock band Jet was inducted into the Hall of Fame during the 37th ARIA Awards on Wednesday night. (Pictured L-R: Jet’s Nic Cester, drummer Chris Cester, bass player Mark Wilson and guitarist Cameron Muncey)
‘A place of refuge where thoughts, feelings and emotions can be processed and sometimes shared in a way that can bring people together.’
Later the band set the house rocking when they played a six-minute medley of some of their biggest hits including Are You Gonna Be My Girl and Look What you’ve Done.
‘With [our 2003 album] Get Born, we were able to capture lightning in a bottle and I don’t know how we did it,’ Nic Cester told the Sydney Morning Herald in September, soon after ARIA announced Jet as an inductee into the Hall of Fame.
Later the band set the house rocking when they played a six-minute medley of some of their biggest hits including Are You Gonna Be My Girl and Look What you’ve Done (pictured)
Earlier this year Jet celebrated the 20 year anniversary of their debut album Get Born which was released in 2003
He added: ‘To be here, 20 years later, feels like a moment of planetary alignment. It’s a real privilege to be considered part of the fabric of Australian music.’
Jet, who were formed in Melbourne in 2001, celebrated the success of Get Born with an Australian tour earlier this year.
The band went to win six ARIAs (2004) including Album of the Year, and Single of the Year, in the wake of Get Born’s success.
Meanwhile, Are you Gonna Be My Girl scored two APRA Awards over two consecutive years – 2006, 2007, as the Most Performed Australian Work Overseas.
Pictured: Jet pictured in their heyday performing live in New York in 2003
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