Artist · chart history
Epicure
Band Ballarat Australia Active 1997–2010 Australian band
Epicure formed in 1997 in Ballarat, Australia and was active until 2010. Epicure has 4 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2003–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Armies Against Me”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #21. The station that charted Epicure most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Epicure came out of Ballarat, first known as Pima's Little Finger, with Juan Alban on vocals and guitar, Tim Bignell on bass, Michael Brown and Luke Cairnes on guitars and Dom Santamaria on drums. They played progressive rock with brooding atmosphere and a lot of guitar, three of them to be exact.
The Goodbye Girl, their third album, arrived in March 2004, carrying "Armies Against Me" and "Life Sentence", the two tracks national youth station Triple J picked up, and both made its Hottest 100 of 2003. "Armies Against Me" is a tense, slow-burning thing that erupts into a wall of guitar, and "Life Sentence" broods before it bites. "Self Destruct in Five", the title track of their October 2004 EP, landed in the next year's Hottest 100. They opened for Live on its late-2003 Australian tour and played the Big Day Out and the Falls Festivals, and Main Street, with "Tightrope Walker", followed in 2005.
The farewell came in the middle of 2010, when a last run of shows, Quietly into the Night, closed the book. Then in December 2025 they announced a return, ending a silence of more than 15 years with the single "Is There Any Way Out Now" in July 2026, and a new album, Evenings in Honduras, in August 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Epicure on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armies Against Me | 1 | #21 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | Self-Destruct in 5 | 1 | #64 | – | 2004 | |
| 3 | Life Sentence | 1 | #73 | – | 2003 | |
| 4 | Tightrope Walker | 1 | #85 | – | 2005 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 85 | Tightrope Walker | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2005 |
| 2004 | 64 | Self-Destruct in 5 | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2004 |
| 2003 | 21 | Armies Against Me | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003 |
| 2003 | 73 | Life Sentence | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003 |
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