Grabbed by the ears and led into the world of music engineering after a brief stint in the mechanical engineering world. In the dawn of his time, Magoo took his first steps into through the sound barrier, undertaking sound engineering duties with various local Brisbane studios.

Honing his skills on various labours of love with local Brisbane rock luminaries such as the Dreamkillers, Budd, Pangaea et al, It wasn`t until his first foray with Regurgitator on their two EP`s and the platinum selling debut album Tu Plang that he really carved his name in to the rock before him.

With the road ahead he settled into his silver machine cruised through giants of ozrock... Skunkhour, Midnight Oil, Powderfinger & TISM to name but a few. After working on Toothfaeires, Front End Loader & Not From There albums... Magoo found his sonic boom when the Regurgitator album Unit went on to win numerous awards for production & engineering at the ARIAs & other Australian awards.

In 2000 he worked on projects that included the Not From There album “Latvian Lovers”, “Loverama” by Custard, recordings by Nokturnal, the album “Guaranteed Rustless” by Gota Cola, and the Spiderbait album “The Flight of Wally Funk”. In 2001 he mixed the Gerling album “When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun”, along with producing the self-titled Jebediah album, The Cruel Sea’s “Where There’s Smoke” and the Japanese band The Zoobombs “Love is Funky” album ( his first international project ).

After a fairy tale wedding to Tylea from Gota Cola ( who he now sometimes performs with in her solo band ), Magoo located his mobile recording studio Black Box Recording,  to a house in inner Brisbane. He has completed new albums for Sekiden, Screamfeeder, Full Fathom Five just to name a few. During this time he also mixed Bad Blood!!! by Gerling.

In 2003 he relocated to Melbourne to experience life there... working with Dan Kelly and the Apha males, Betchadupa kept him busy, but as of 2004 he has returned to Brisbane to start a family and be close to loved ones.

Now with the Blackbox taking on a more permant stance he has worked on Ponyloaf (new album 0 Complex), Butterfingers (album Breakfast at Fatboys), End of Fashion, Van Lustbader, and Decoder Ring. Not forgetting 21 days spent in a glass bubble in Federation square with his old cohorts Regurgitator,

Since then Magoo has worked with recent hall of fame inductee Renee Geyer and hip hop act TZU. Butterfingers follow up to their highly succesful debut and new up and comers Intercooler.

See Magoo’s discography for more detail.

question time with magoo

What do I get if I cough up the big bickies for Magoo?

Well firstly I will only record a band if I feel I have something to offer the music. So, I need to hear demos’s. If I’m not into I reckon your record will suck, and therefore so will I. From here I’ll listen to the music and see where I think it should go, how we will record it and suggest any changes that I think will make

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