Simon Austin

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title: "Simon Austin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1966-births", "australian-audio-engineers", "australian-guitarists", "australian-male-singers", "australian-male-songwriters", "living-people", "musicians-from-melbourne", "frente!-members", "australian-male-guitarists"] description: "Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and sound engineer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Austin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and sound engineer ::

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name	Simon Austin
image	Simon-Austin.jpg
caption	Simon Austin, February 2009
birth_name	Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin
birth_date
birth_place	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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|name=Simon Austin |image= Simon-Austin.jpg |caption= Simon Austin, February 2009 |birth_name=Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin |birth_date= |birth_place=Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |occupation= Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin (born 9 October 1966) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and sound engineer. Austin was a founding member of Frente! in Melbourne in 1989 with Angie Hart on vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar and Mark Picton on drums. Their top five hits on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart were "Ordinary Angels" (co-written by Austin and Hart) and " Kelly Street" (both in 1992). Their debut album, Marvin the Album, reached top five on the ARIA Albums Chart in the same year. After Frente! disbanded in 1996, Austin moved into record production and sound engineering.

Biography

Main article: Frente!

Simon is the grandson of Jack Austin (1910–1983), an Australian rules footballer.

References

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References

1. ""Ordinary Angels" at The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)". [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
2. Mc Farlane, 1999, [https://web.archive.org/web/20020625222735/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=622 'Frente!' entry].
3. (January 2018)
4. "Discography Frente!". Hung Medien.
5. "Who's who of Australian rock / compiled by Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara & Paul McHenry". [[National Library of Australia]].

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