After working briefly in mechanical engineering, Magoo began in music as a live sound engineer, touring nationally before producing seasoned local Brisbane bands the Dreamkillers and Pangaea in the early 1990s. By the mid-1990s Magoo had recorded music by Powderfinger,[1][2][3] as well as two EPs by Regurgitator. He rose to prominence with his production work on Regurgitator's debut album Tu-Plang,[4] which also earned him his first ARIA award nominations in 1996.
From 2002 to 2010, Magoo established his own recording facility, Black Box Recording, with Brisbane producer/engineer Jeff Lovejoy, continuing to work with classic Australian acts, such as Regurgitator, Spiderbait, Gerling, and Renee Geyer, End of Fashion,[7]Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males,[8] and Butterfingers.[9] From August 31 to September 21, 2004, Magoo was part of a recording experiment conceived by Paul Curtis and Regurgitator in Federation Square, Melbourne. Referred to as Band in a Bubble,[10][11] the project was a televised event on Channel V and captured the recording process for 24 hours a day, 21 days continuously.
In 2018 Magoo was awarded a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology. His dissertation was entitled "Space, time, creativity, and the changing character of the recording studio: Spatiotemporal attitudes toward 'DIY' recording".[22] Magoo is currently a lecturer in Contemporary Music at the University of the Sunshine Coast.[23]
^"17th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 22 February 2004. Retrieved 5 November 2016. Note: User may be required to access archived information by selecting 'The History', then 'By Award', 'Producer of the Year' and 'Option Show Nominations'.
