{{Short description|Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and sound engineer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox person |name=Simon Austin |image= Simon-Austin.jpg |caption= Simon Austin, February 2009 |birth_name=Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin |birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=y|1966|10|9}} |birth_place=Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |occupation= {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|guitarist|producer}} }} '''Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin'''<ref name="ASCAPOrdinary">{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=450237119&search_in=i&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=30&start=1|title="Ordinary Angels" at The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)|publisher=ASCAP|access-date=21 February 2010}}</ref> (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.<ref name="McF">Mc Farlane, 1999, [https://web.archive.org/web/20020625222735/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=622 'Frente!' entry].</ref><ref name="SpencerFrente">Spencer et al, (2007) [http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=78920 Frente]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} entry. Retrieved 21 February 2010.</ref> Their top five hits on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart were "Ordinary Angels" (co-written by Austin and Hart) and <!-- AWB users and typo correctors please note: The title of the Frente! song is deliberately mis-spelled. -->"{{sic|Accident|ly}} Kelly Street" (both in 1992).<ref name="AusCharts">{{cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Frente!|title=Discography Frente!|work=Australian charts portal|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=21 February 2010}}</ref> Their debut album, ''Marvin the Album'', reached top five on the ARIA Albums Chart in the same year.<ref name="AusCharts"/> After Frente! disbanded in 1996, Austin moved into record production and sound engineering.
==Biography== {{Main|Frente!}} Simon is the grandson of Jack Austin (1910–1983), an Australian rules footballer.
==References== {{refbegin}} ;General * {{cite encyclopedia |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |author-link=Ian McFarlane |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop |title=Whammo Homepage |url=//www.whammo.com.au/index.asp |access-date=21 February 2010 |year=1999 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=St Leonards, NSW |isbn=1-86508-072-1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040405231007/http://www.whammo.com.au/index.asp |archive-date=5 April 2004 }} Note: Archived [on-line] copy has limited functionality. * {{cite book|title=The Who's Who of Australian Rock|last=Spencer|first=Chris|first2=Zbig|last2=Nowara|first3=Paul|last3=McHenry|others= notes by Ed Nimmervoll|orig-year=1987|year=2002|publisher=Five Mile Press|location=Noble Park, Vic.|isbn=1-86503-891-1}}<!--|accessdate=21 February 2010--><ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2090055|title=Who's who of Australian rock / compiled by Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara & Paul McHenry|work=catalogue|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=21 February 2010}}</ref> Note: [on-line] version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.
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