It was announced in Sydney, Australia this morning that the mighty WOLFMOTHER have been nominated for a 2008 ARIA Award.

The band were nominated in the category of BEST MUSIC DVD for the “Please Experince Wolfmother” DVD.

The other nominees are… *drum rolls*

• Hilltop Hoods for “City of Light”
• Paul Kelly for “Live Apples”
• Powderfinger / Silverchair for “Across the Great Divide”
• The John Butler Trio for “Live At Federation Square”

The Awards will be held in Sydney on Sunday October 19 and telecast on the Ten Network in Australia.

My only thought is, if Wolfmother win the award, will Chris and Myles join Andrew on-stage? Or, if no news of the new Wolfmother members have been revealed by then, will they join Andrew that night?

Supporting Tucker B’s in August 2007 was an experimental electro rock band named Doom Buggy, comprised of Myles Heskett and Chris Ross.
There is a crappy quality video of the band performing

Here’s a review of a gig they performed @ Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney
(31/8/2007)

FasterLouder.com.au
Doom Buggy’s lineup is essentially Wolfmother, without frontman Andrew Stockdale. One gets the sense that Doom Buggy is a much-needed creative outlet for bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer/vocalist Myles Heskett – Doom Buggy played a set that was seems to have been brewing secretly for months, with a handful of well developed and fully-formed songs forming their roughly half-hour set. These songs are a significant departure from Wolfmother – The music is largely electronic instrumental, with clear krautrock and IDM influences. Perhaps the closest comparison that can be made is to their Sydney contemporaries Pivot, but Doom Buggy’s set was unique, surprising and innovative. Whether any band that forms as an offshoot to a backlash-attracting band like Wolfmother can be taken seriously by the music community as an independent entity remains to be seen, but tonight Doom Buggy showed that they have arrived, and they demand your ears.

Could we be seeing more of Doom Buggy in the future? In the band’s statement, it did imply Chris and Myles had been working on a musical project together that they wished to focus on, but will it be Doom Buggy or do they have something new to give to us, if anything at all?

(August 7, 2008 @ 6.05pm AEST)
Grammy Award winning rock band Wolfmother has announced the resignation of bass/keyboard player Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett effective immediately.

Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale now plans to find other musicians over coming months and to then begin making a new Wolfmother album.

Wolfmother toured the world virtually non-stop through 2006 and early 2007 on the back of their acclaimed self titled debut album. Longstanding frictions within the group then lead them to take an extended break during the second half of 2007 to consider their future.

In early 2008 they regrouped and worked on new material. Initially encouraged by those sessions, they committed to a handful of live shows to ‘road test’ the new songs and to try to find a way forward.

Those dates concluded with a headlining slot last Sunday at the Splendour In The Grass Festival in Australia’s Byron Bay where rumours circulated about possible lineup changes.

Following that show Chris Ross decided to announce that he was leaving the band due to irreconcilable personal and musical differences. Myles Heskett has also decided to leave the band rather than continuing as part of a changed lineup. The pair has been working together on songs for some time and they plan to focus their energies on that new project in the future.

Wolfmother’s self titled debut album is one of the most successful Australian rock releases this century. It has sold over 1.3 million copies and received multiple ARIA Awards and a Grammy – making them the first Aussie band to receive such an award in 25 years. Other highlights for the group have included appearances at just about every major music festival in the world, sharing stages with Pearl Jam, The Who and The Strokes, and a special performance inducting the legendary Led Zeppelin into the UK’s Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame.

Andrew Stockdale, Myles Heskett and Chris Ross will make no public statements at this time except to say that they are each really looking forward to making their new music over the years ahead.

In the meantime they simply ask all Wolfmother fans to please understand that in spite of their best efforts over a long period of time, they just could not find a harmonious way to work together and that has lead to the decisions announced today.

As for Wolfmother, we hear drummer Myles Heskett and bassist Chris Ross have been jamming together without singer Andrew Stockdale.
Are they just enjoying a break from the Mother or starting a new band?

Still not confirming any break-up though… Until now.
On August 4th, triple j’s music news had this article posted on their site:

Wolfmother line-up change after Splendour?
Wolfmother tore up the main stage for perhaps the last time with their present line up to close Splendour in the Grass 2008… watch this space for more. Richard Kingsmill talked to the band before they took the stage, and they delivered him this unexpected new twist.

Dingdongding seemed pretty smug on the forums when that was posted.
However, there was rumour of an extra guitarist joining the band early last year.
As of yet we have no confirmation to the rumours, but keep watching this site for any more goss.

Chris Ross.

If you don’t, then you probably came here by accident, but just in case you genuinely want to know, Chriss Ross is the bassist and keyboardist for Hard Rocking Aussie band, Wolfmother.

Need I say more? He’s more worthy of his own fan site than any of the other members!

While the site may look a bit empty now, but that’s going to change!

So stick around, and I’ll keep you up-to-date on THE ROSS GOSS!!