![rufus 2016 rufus 2016](https://i.imgur.com/vkOyV6q.png)
The label’s artists and repertoire (A&R) manager Matthew Handles says “there was a quality about everything they did that was special. The Australian label Sweat It Out signed the band in 2013 and released their first two albums. Their debut album, Atlas, flew to the top of the ARIA charts in 2013, as did the 2015 follow-up, Bloom, recorded while they were living in Berlin. Unlike some local acts such as Courtney Barnett and Sia, who had to be embraced overseas before Australia started taking serious notice, Rufus quickly won a strong following at home, then wooed the rest of the world. Rufus Du Sol: from left, Tyrone Lindqvist, James Hunt and Jon George in their trademark head-to-toe black. They started using the name Rufus Du Sol worldwide in 2018. The Du Sol trailer was added to their name in the US in 2014 as it clashed with an existing trademark for the name Rufus – most likely Chaka Khan’s funk band.
![rufus 2016 rufus 2016](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XnPwTfjQKmU/Vz4xkUZPUvI/AAAAAAAAnYg/-F6zTLM5vH066OLWJo1yktWOWf2O5DiGQCLcB/w1600/rufus-star-jace-norman-nickelodeon-original-tv-movie-nick-film-mannys-best-friend-greece-poster-with-logo.jpg)
In 2011, they released their debut EP, the self-titled Rufus. Hunt, who was in the year below Lindqvist at school, was recruited to complete the band. The elder George, who had studied audio engineering, hit up Lindqvist for a jam in the studio where they discovered a shared love of electronic artists such as Booka Shade and The Chemical Brothers. Lindqvist, who grew up in the opal mining town of Lightning Ridge, and George’s younger brother, Alex (now the band’s creative director), were best friends who attended the Sydney boarding school, St Ignatius’ College Riverview. The band’s personal wealth has expanded significantly along with their global audience and worldview in the 11 years since they formed in Sydney. Rufus Du Sol in Austin, Texas, this month. George models one of his purchases: a sleek Prada jacket. Flying in the day before from their adopted home of Los Angeles they had managed a spot of shopping. Sitting on a couch sipping smoothies, they are dressed head-to-toe in black and look photography shoot-ready. The band members, all in their early 30s, spoke with Spectrum in New York a day ahead of the festival. Rufus fans – who have collectively streamed their music nearly a billion times – are passionate, loyal and enraptured to see the trio playing live for the first time in 18 months. The band only released its latest single, the dark, swaggering On My Knees, this same day, but you wouldn’t know it from the audience’s response to the new tunes. Rufus Du Sol received two Grammy nominations in 2020.
#Rufus 2016 plus#
Their 75-minute set plays like one long continuous mix, loaded with their best-loved tracks plus a few from their imminent fourth album, Surrender. Some barely dressed fans seem oblivious to the night chill as they skip towards the stage, the first chords from Rufus’ Grammy-nominated 2018 track Underwater pealing into the night air.Ītop three tall white blocks and in front of huge monochromatic projections of themselves, singer Tyrone Lindqvist, keys/synths player Jon George and drummer James Hunt, all clad in black, look more like rock stars than a dance music act. The indie-dance band was second only to Eilish on today’s bill and the crowd that’s assembled before their stage is testament to their huge following in the country they’ve called home for the past three years.
![rufus 2016 rufus 2016](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYmZlZDI1MWQtZTZkMS00YmNmLThkZTktYTU5MThkMTk5NTM3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTM0ODAyOTc@._V1_.jpg)
On a Friday evening in New York in late September, two acts are yet to take the stage on day one of Governors Ball Music Festival: teen sensation and headliner Billie Eilish, and Rufus Du Sol, “Sydney’s finest three-piece” according to BBC1 Radio host Pete Tong. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size