Years active 2006–present Albums White Canvas, Population Movies The Great Gatsby | Role Musician Name Brendan Maclean | |
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Born 27 December 1987 (age 36) ( 1987-12-27 ) Origin Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia Genres Baroque pop, electropop, piano pop (early) Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, actor, presenter Instruments Piano, keyboards, vocals, guitar, ukulele Similar People Marcia Hines, Paul Mac, Baz Luhrmann, Jack Thompson, Elizabeth Debicki Profiles | ||
Stupid brendan maclean
Brendan Maclean is an Australian musician and film actor.
Contents
- Stupid brendan maclean
- Brendan maclean winner official video clip
- Music
- House of Air
- Acting
- Presenting
- EPs
- Singles
- Cover Albums Guest Vocals
- References
Brendan maclean winner official video clip
Music
In 2008 Maclean began recording music under his own name with a song titled, 'Airport People.' The ballad, which featured the nineteen year old accompanying himself on piano, won both the Australian National Youth Week Industry award and The People's Choice award for Songwriting in 2008. His first release, a demo titled Prose from Pluto, which included Airport People, came out in 2008 and included the above song. It no longer appears to be in print or online.
Brendan's debut EP, White Canvas was released in March 2010. The film clip for its opening track "Practically Wasted" won nine awards in the 2011 Queensland New Film Awards while "Cold and Happy" placed 8th in Rage's Top 10 videos of 2011.
In January 2014 he released his third EP, Population, produced by Paul Mac. The record gained traction with the song's video for the single, "Stupid", being featured by BuzzFeed coupled with a successful crowd funding campaign which earned over AU$20,000. In May 2014, "Stupid" was featured as the Weather on Welcome to Night Vale, in episode 47, "Company Picnic," soon after this Maclean was signed to the Universal Music Publishing Group as a songwriter.
May 2015 saw the release of Maclean's fourth independently-released EP, entitled Thought I'd Cry for You Forever. The EP features an original spoken word piece from author Neil Gaiman. It was released exclusively through Bandcamp.
Brendan's fifth EP funbang1 was released on 24 July 2016 featuring the singles "Tectonic", "Free to Love" and "House of Air". All three singles were co-written by former Cobra Starship member Alex Suarez. It also features Amanda Palmer in the dance-schtick track "On the Door". A remixed version of the Amanda Palmer collaboration was released featuring cameos from Ben Folds, Sarah Silverman, Eugene Mirman and Reggie Watts.
In 2016 Maclean was nominated for an ARIA Award for his work with Marcia Hines and Joe Accaria on the Velvet Original Cast Soundtrack.
House of Air
On 30 January 2017, Maclean released the sexually explicit video to his single "House of Air" on YouTube, which caused controversy due to its graphic depiction of gay semiotics. The video was mentioned in several major articles including an artist response piece in The Guardian. Although it reached 700,000 views, it was removed from YouTube for breaching its terms of service, but remains on Vimeo where it has over 2,500,000 views. On May 20th, 2017 House of Air won Maclean and directors Karl Eccleston and Brian Fairbairn, a Berlin Music Video Award, it then went on the gain official entry to the Music Videos category of Raindance Film Festival 2017 and was victorious in its category at the Seattle Film Festival 2017. New York (magazine) included House of Air in its half yearly Best Music Videos of 2017.
Acting
In 2013 Maclean was cast as Klipspringer in the Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby. He is credited as Peter in the 2014 film Tracks starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver.
2015 saw Maclean star alongside Marcia Hines in the original cabaret, Velvet. It premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival to critical acclaim, with The Australian giving it five out of five stars. Velvet's 2015 tour included the Edinburgh Fringe, the Adelaide Fringe, Brisbane Festival and a stand-alone season at the Sydney Opera House. Brendan left the role at the end of 2016 after being cast as a leading character in ABC's upcoming series F*cking Adelaide.
Presenting
From 2007 to 2013, Maclean broadcast weekly for the Australian national youth station Triple J. He presented across many programs including Weekend Lunch, Weekend Breakfast, Super Request and House Party. Maclean hosted ABC's music video program rage on Saturday, 26 September 2015.