1. Paul Mac was classically trained at Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
25 Facts About Paul Mac
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 2002 Paul Mac won 'Best Dance Release' for 3000 Feet High and was nominated for 'Best Male Artist' and 'Engineer of the Year'.
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Paul Mac was a touring member of Silverchair as well as recording piano parts for their album, Young Modern, having worked with frontman Daniel Johns as The Dissociatives previously.
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Paul Mac has provided remixes for Silverchair, Powderfinger, The Mark of Cain, Grinspoon, The Cruel Sea, INXS and Placebo.
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Paul Mac has worked on soundtracks for Baz Luhrmann and on the films Head On and Sample People.
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Paul Mac was the musical director on the Australian TV show, Good News Week, and composed music for ABC-TV including The Afternoon Show, EC Plays Lift Off, Play School and TVTV.
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Paul Mac is the youngest of seven children and grew up in a strict Catholic family in Sydney.
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Paul Mac later described himself as "the worst Virgo, ex-Catholic you've ever met".
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Paul Mac is a classically trained graduate from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as a Bachelor of Music Education.
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In 1989 Paul Mac formed the synthpop, electronica group The Lab in Sydney with Yolanda Podolski on lead vocals, and Warwick Hornby on vocals and bass guitar.
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In 1991, Paul Mac formed a side-project, Itch-E and Scratch-E, with fellow Sydney-based electronica artist, Andy Rantzen of the group, Pelican Daughters.
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In 2005, Paul Mac explained that he did not expect to win and so had not prepared a speech.
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In 1997, Paul Mac remixed the single, "Freak", from Australian post-grunge band Silverchair's second album, Freak Show.
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Paul Mac again worked with Silverchair's Daniel Johns as an alternative rock duo to release a five-track extended play, I Can't Believe It's Not Rock.
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In January 2002, and again in 2006, Paul Mac appeared at Splendour in the Grass.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 2002 Paul Mac won 'Best Dance Release' for 3000 Feet High and was nominated for 'Best Male Artist' and 'Engineer of the Year'.
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Paul Mac and Johns co-wrote the music for Love Is a Four Letter Word episode 13, "Split".
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Johns had advised Paul Mac to "follow your dreams regardless of what outside fashion is saying you should be doing".
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For Silverchair's 2007 album, Young Modern, Paul Mac supplied piano and toured with the group providing keyboards and piano on stage.
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In 2008, Paul Mac provided the music for a one-man comedy play, Possessed, performed by Frank Woodley.
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Paul Mac formed a production duo, Stereogamous, with Jonny Seymour, in 2010 they worked on LCD Soundsystem's single, "I Can Change", from their album, This Is Happening.
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Paul Mac co-wrote "I Don't Care What You Say" with its performer Anthony Callea and Cindy Ryan ; it was released in February 2012 by Callea on his seven-track EP, Last to Go, which was co-produced by Paul Mac.
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On 22 January 2015, Paul Mac announced the forthcoming release of his third studio album, titled Holiday From Me.
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In February 2019, Paul Mac released a new single titled "Cataplexy" and confirmed a new album is coming soon.
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Decades after completing his earlier music degree, Paul Mac returned to his alma mater, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, for postgraduate study.