

On 11 December 2008, the band released their first EP entitled Ghetto Love, with an accompanying video directed by Liam Lynch. Dalle began work on a new project called Spinnerette with Alain Johannes of Eleven. In 2001, Dalle also made a cameo in New Found Glory's music video " My Friends Over You" with then-husband Tim Armstrong, as well as Travis Barker and Rob Aston.Ģ007–2011: Spinnerette and later work īurned out and tired of one another following a grueling two-year tour, the Distillers broke up in 2005. The band experienced success with several singles from the album and performed at Lollapalooza. The album received acclaim and comparisons to Hole, with Dalle often compared to Courtney Love and later to PJ Harvey. By the recording of their second album, Sing Sing Death House, the band had a new line-up and by the time of their third album Coral Fang, Dalle was then the only remaining original member. The Distillers released their eponymous debut album in 2000. She moved with Armstrong from Melbourne to Los Angeles and there founded The Distillers. The two pursued a relationship and were engaged in 1997, shortly after Dalle turned 18. In 1995, a few days before her 16th birthday, her first band, Sourpuss, played a set at Australia's Summersault Festival where she met Tim Armstrong, frontman of punk rock band Rancid. She became interested in Black Flag, Discharge, and Flipper. She participated in Rock 'n' Roll High School (RnRHS), a Melbourne feminist collective started by Stephanie Bourke. Her musical career began at 13 years old, starting with guitar. At age 12, she discovered bands such as Nirvana, and cited Courtney Love and her band Hole (as well as other female-led punk groups such as Babes in Toyland and Bikini Kill) as early influences. I just experimented, like everyone else." Career 1993–2006: Early projects and the Distillers ĭalle was intrigued by Cyndi Lauper and the Beatles as a child. She also used drugs and later said, "I was never a junkie, I was never shoeless and selling my mum's car to a Gypsy. She attended and was expelled from two Catholic high schools in Melbourne before dropping out. She began training to be an Olympic swimmer as a teenager. Dalle was sexually abused as a child, spending much of her teenage years in court cases surrounding the abuse. She did not have much contact with Robinson until the two met backstage after a Distillers show in 2004, where Robinson revealed that their father now lives "in Leeds or some shit". Her parents later married other people through her father's second marriage, she is the older half-sister of actress Morgana Robinson. Her father left their family when she was young. She was raised in the Fitzroy and Northcote suburbs of Melbourne. The couple filed for divorce in late 2019.īrody Dalle was born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson in Melbourne on 1 January 1979. Her personal life includes a high-profile marriage and divorce with Tim Armstrong, frontman of punk rock band Rancid, and a later marriage to Josh Homme, frontman of Queens of the Stone Age, with whom she has three children. In 2018, she announced The Distillers' reunion. In 2014, she released Diploid Love, her first album under her solo name.ĭalle has also collaborated with several artists, including the Eagles of Death Metal and Queens of the Stone Age. She began another project, Spinnerette, which released an eponymous album in 2009. The group released three albums before disbanding in 2006. She began playing music in her adolescence and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18, where she founded the punk rock band The Distillers.

Brody Dalle (born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson 1 January 1979) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician.
