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At Home With... Tim Rogers

We met the You Am I frontman in his art deco apartment in Melbourne's southern suburbs, a couple of tree-lined streets back from the sea, and made ourselves at home.

The first in our new series At Home With… We insist music legends let us inside their homes, and then we go through all their things.

In 1989, Tim Rogers and Nick Ticshler formed a little band called You Am I. In the four years to follow, the band would play Australia-wide on the festival circuit and play national headline tours, before travelling to Cannon Falls, Minnessota in 1992 to record their first ever album, Sound as Ever, with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo.

Twenty four years, ten ARIA awards, and more than thirty releases later, Tim Rogers is widely regarded as one of Australia's most treasured songwriters. "Heavy Heart" will remain, forever, a very painful and wonderful thing to listen to.

Noisey visited him in his home in Melbourne's southern suburbs—just a couple of tree-lined streets back from the sea—to quietly inspect his many articles and objects. Read all about it here