Early years Gyroscope are an Australian rock group which started as Gyroscope Sunday in
Beechboro a suburb in Perth, Trivic and Nassif had started jamming together and found Sanders through mutual friends. By May 1998 Pengilly was replaced by Brad Campbell on bass guitar and backing vocals. Trivic and Campbell had attended the same secondary school. At that time they had formed a garage band and performed covers of Nirvana and Foo Fighters. Trivic later recalled "this was a way of learning our individual instruments as we were always about starting our own band – it was just gunna take some time." in June 1999, While performing on the Perth live circuit the members also had work or school commitments. The band provided support slots for
Reel Big Fish (October 1999), Toe to Toe and
28 Days (December),
Millencolin (February 2000), Both EPs were combined on cassette, in April 2001 (originally available in four different covers), as
Injuring Yourself Whilst Making Music. Upon Nassif's return in June 2001, the group signed with
Redline Records, owned by fellow Perth rockers,
Jebediah, and they supported that band on an Australian tour. Gyroscope issued two more EPs in that year:
Midnight Express in May – which contained the live favourite "Fire Away".
Driving for the Storm / Doctor Doctor followed in September, and received airplay on
Triple J radio across Australia. "Doctor Doctor" was listed at No. 92 on the station's
Hottest 100 for that year.
Sound Shattering Sound 2004 was Gyroscope's breakthrough year.
Thursday,
Dashboard Confessional (their lead singer,
Chris Carrabba, insisted that they open for his group upon hearing Gyroscope's EP),
Sparta,
Saves the Day and
The Get Up Kids. A new single, "
Safe Forever", came out in March 2004 and earned Gyroscope more mainstream exposure, it peaked in the top 100 of the
ARIA Singles Chart. It debuted at No. 37 on the ARIA Albums Chart in the following week—a culmination of seven years' work while consolidating their live following. It combined newer material with tracks from their previous two EPs and "Safe Forever". Andrew Murfett of
The Age felt it was "an assured release full of crunchy riffs and emotive lyrics." In support of its release Gyroscope commenced their first headlining tour of Australia. Trivic described their sound "I hope people get chills when they listen to it! ... It has the same core elements [as on] the last record, yet this record pushes our musical boundaries a lil further."
FasterLouders Kellanator opined that their "lyrics cut you when you least expect it. Their whirling sounds take you on a journey. This isn't just music... the band have grown and shifted a little since their last release... [they] have the knack of writing a good meaningful song with delicious pop hooks. Best combination ever." Bemused on
Punknews.org website noted that Trombino had "[helped] achieve a fuller, more realized sound than on previous recordings" and the album "has the ability to gradually work its way into your mindset with a lyric or vocal delivery here and a guitar line there." During 2005 it was nominated for the inaugural
J Award – Triple J's Australian Album of the Year. Two tracks, "Fast Girl" and "Beware Wolf", were listed, at No. 29 and No. 62 respectively, on that year's
Hottest 100. "Fast Girl" was nominated at the
ARIA Music Awards of 2006 for Breakthrough Artist – Single; and the band also received two WAMi Awards in 2006 for "Best Rock Act" and "Best Punk Act". "Beware Wolf" has been used on the Australian soap opera,
Home and Away.
Breed Obsession Following a successful tour of South Africa, Gyroscope recorded their third major label studio album,
Breed Obsession, in
Liverpool during mid-2007.
Dave Eringa (
Idlewild,
Manic Street Preachers) produced the material while mixing occurred in London. In September that year Gyroscope toured Australia supporting
Fall Out Boy on that group's Australian leg of their Friends or Enemies Tour. The first single from
Breed Obsession, "Snakeskin", appeared in October 2007, which debuted at No. 30 on the ARIA singles chart. The music video for "Snakeskin" was shot in
Wiltshire, near
Stonehenge, south of London. It has the band playing in a 200-metre
crop circle – made specifically for the video. This was the same farm where Led Zeppelin's crop circle was made, which features on the cover of that group's
Remasters compilation album (October 1990). Gyroscope performed at the
Big Day Out festival, which toured Australia and New Zealand in late January and early February 2008. Rhythmelody at
FasterLouder caught their performance at the
Claremont Showground on 3 February, "they let loose a fantastic set filled with old tracks from Gyroscope's younger years, tracks which long time supporters and new fans alike soaked up."
Breed Obsession was issued on 8 March 2008, which debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, AllMusic's Stewart Mason found that they "shake off their always tenuous connection to punk and reveal themselves to be a mainstream pop/rock band with few musical aspirations further than a handful of FM radio hits" and summarised that it was "generically tasty, but full of meaningless empty calories." By August that year the album was certified gold by ARIA for shipment of 35,000 units. In May 2008 Gyroscope released a music video for "
Australia". It was filmed in Sydney and directed by Tom Sparks. "Australia" appeared as the next single in the following month, which peaked at No. 52. At the
ARIA Music Awards of 2008 Breed Obsession was nominated for Best Rock Album. The fourth single, "
These Days", appeared in November that year.
Cohesion Following a national tour supporting The Living End, Gyroscope began writing for their fourth studio album,
Cohesion. The band had 25 songs prior to sorting out the final track list. They signed with
Island Records Australia and from September 2009
Gil Norton (
Pixies,
Maxïmo Park,
Foo Fighters) produced their sessions at
Rockfield Studios, in
Monmouth, Wales. On 16 October 2009 in an interview with Triple J, Sanders announced that the record would be completed by mid-November. He also said that they were considering a self-titled album. In June they started their national tour to promote the album. that Warner Music were due to release a compilation album,
Best of Gyroscope, on 7 May via
iTunes, without the band's permission. They only found out about the compilation through their fans on Facebook. The band issued a joint statement through their management, criticising Warner for not consulting them. The album was released anyway. In May 2012, Trivic broke both legs when he was struck by a car whilst riding his motorcycle. Initially it was anticipated that his recovery would only take three to four months however his rehabilitation took longer. As a result, the band went into an enforced hiatus until December 2014 when they recommenced live performances with a national tour to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the release of their debut album,
Sound Shattering Sound.
2015–2016 In May 2015 Gyroscope played a secret show at The Hen House studios to celebrate the Hen House's 5th birthday. In February 2016 the band announced a one off show at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Bunbury over the Easter weekend. On 3 March 2016 the band posted a photo of rehearsals on Facebook announcing that they were working on some new songs.
Crooked Thought / DABS In 2017 the band released a double A side called "Crooked Thought / DABS" and did a national tour to celebrate the release in January 2018. Recorded at Blackbird Studios in Perth by Dave Parkin.
4YRLV The summer of 2018 saw the band head back into Blackbird Studios again with Parkin behind the desk. They ended up recording a session which would sit on their shelves for a good year or so gathering dust. On Friday 13 September 2019 they released worldwide 3 tracks from this studio stint in the form of an EP, titled
4YRLV. They are; title track '4YRLV', 'I Am The Night' and 'Bloodstreams'.
2025-present In November 2025, Gyroscope released the single
My Broken Spine - their first release since 2019, the first release through their recording studio the Skullery, and the first with drummer Sim Dreja. The band also announced they would celebrate the single with an Australia-wide tour in early 2026. ==Other projects==