WAAX / Big Grief
2019
- Format
- CD / Vinyl / Digital
- Label
- Dew Process
- ARIA peak
- 11
- Index no.
- WXI-REL-001
The debut album, and the record that took the band from Brisbane rooms to national stages.
WAAX the discography, line-up and live history of the Brisbane band
/wæks/ noun · a record of the Australian band WAAX.
WAAX INDEX records the releases, performances and people of the WAAX band from Brisbane: the full discography, every line-up since 2012, and a live register built from sourced listings, each entry against a dated source.
This site is a live archive and will reflect WAAX as it evolves. The band's official site is waaxband.com.
Enter the archive
Seven releasesCat. WAAX-INDEX
Latest in the register
View full register- Album
- Angel's Mess
- 13 March 2026
- Single
- Uh Oh (Bardcore Girls)
- 2026
- Appearance
- Yours & Owls Festival, Wollongong
- 2026
Start with a year
The debut album, and the touring years
Big Grief reaches number 11 on the ARIA chart. SXSW follows, then At Least I’m Free in 2022 and a Queensland Music Award.
The releases: the WAAX discography
Who
made
WAAX? The band line-up, 2012 to now
Nine musicians have been core WAAX band members since 2012. The bars below run from the year each joined to the year each left; only Maz DeVita's runs the whole width.
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Founder, sole constant member and principal songwriter. The project has continued around her since 2023.
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Founding drummer; played every era up to the 2023 farewell shows.
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Moved between guitar and bass across the decade; second-longest tenure after DeVita.
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Part of the first Brisbane line-up, before the debut single.
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Played on the earliest recordings, including the Holy Sick EP.
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Took bass when DeVita moved to vocals alone.
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The Wild & Weak period through to the Big Grief sessions.
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Six years across both EPs and the debut album.
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Joined for the Big Grief touring cycle and stayed through At Least I'm Free.
Timeline is indicative.
Key Current Former Years show the active period
Touring musicians
Izzy de Leon · Karelia Moloney · Jonathan Tooke · Rangi Barnes · Vincent McIntyre
A stampede out of Brisbane: the live register
| Year | Engagement | City | Reg. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | BIGSOUND, Triple J Unearthed stage | Brisbane | QLD |
| 2017 | BIGSOUND | Brisbane | QLD |
| 2018 | Australian tour | National | AU |
| 2018 | Wolf Alice, Australia and NZ support | National | AU |
| 2018 | Fall Out Boy, Australian support | National | AU |
| 2018 | Splendour in the Grass | North Byron | NSW |
| 2018 | Good Things Festival | Melbourne | VIC |
| 2018 | Good Things Festival | Sydney | NSW |
| 2018 | Good Things Festival | Brisbane | QLD |
| 2018 | Labrador tour | Adelaide | SA |
| 2019 | SXSW | Austin | US |
| 2019 | Forecastle Festival | Louisville | US |
| 2019 | "FU" North American tour | Multiple | US |
| 2019 | Permanent Records Roadhouse | Los Angeles | US |
| 2019 | Soda Bar | San Diego | US |
| 2019 | The Triffid, 16 August | Brisbane | QLD |
| 2019 | "I Am" national tour | National | AU |
| 2019 | East coast tour, November - December | National | AU |
| 2020 | "Big Grief" national tour | National | AU |
| 2023 | Farewell shows, The Triffid | Brisbane | QLD |
| 2026 | Yours & Owls Festival | Wollongong | NSW |
Every WAAX tour announcement, festival billing and gig review that names a place has been folded in here. It is not a complete gig log, and it grows as more are verified.
On the road
From festival stages to club rooms on two continents. Twenty-one engagements across nine years, every one of them reached with cases like these.
View full map & stats- 01 North Byron SE 143km Splendour in the Grass, 2018
- 02 Sydney S 732km Good Things Festival, 2018
- 03 Wollongong S 800km Yours & Owls, 2026
- 04 Melbourne SW 1,374km Good Things Festival, 2018
- 05 Adelaide SW 1,601km Labrador tour, 2018
- 06 Los Angeles NE 11,565km Permanent Records Roadhouse, 2019
- 07 San Diego NE 11,597km Soda Bar, 2019
- 08 Austin E 13,233km SXSW, 2019
- 09 Louisville NE 14,488km Forecastle Festival, 2019
9 places 55,532 km end to end Furthest: Louisville
Three chapters, one continuing story
WAAX formed in Brisbane in June 2012 and has released three albums, two EPs and fourteen singles. The discography below runs from the first self-released EP to the 2026 album, and the live register collects the appearances that can be sourced, from the first BIGSOUND slot to a 2019 WAAX tour of North America that put the band on event listings across the United States. Nine musicians have been core members; only one has been there throughout.
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2012
Beginnings
WAAX forms in Brisbane in June 2012. Local rooms, a shifting line-up, and the first recordings that would become the Holy Sick EP.
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2023
The pause
A hiatus announced in April, farewell shows at The Triffid in June, and in November a return in a different shape, built around DeVita.
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NOW
Continuing
A third album in March 2026 on a new label, with a rotating cast of touring musicians rather than a fixed line-up.
Objects from the archive
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Big Grief, ARIA Albums Chart, peak 11
Chart placings are the hardest evidence a release leaves behind, and the reason the 2019 and 2022 albums are dated so precisely here.
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Queensland Music Awards, Video of the Year, "Same Same"
Award citations name a specific work and a specific year, which makes them useful anchors when press coverage disagrees.
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Splendour in the Grass, North Byron Parklands
Billings place a band in a city on a date. Most of the live register on this site is built from them.
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At Least I'm Free, Dew Process
Sleeves carry the credits, the label and the format. The artwork itself remains the copyright of its holders and is not reproduced here.
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Farewell shows, The Triffid, Brisbane
Nine musicians have been core members since 2012. Entry and exit years are the spine of the people map above.
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Angel's Mess, Drunk on Power
A change of label is often the clearest marker that a project has changed shape.
None of the six above is a physical object, and that is the point. This index holds no setlists, no laminates and no guitar picks; it holds the paper trail those things leave behind, which is the part that survives when the objects are dispersed and the part that can still be checked years later.
Collecting on a different scale turns the same instinct into an industry. The Hard Rock chain holds more than 86,000 pieces of music memorabilia, from signed guitars to touring costumes, and runs a New Jersey gambling operation alongside the hotels and venues; there is a Hard Rock Casino NJ online review of that side of it. The distance between a chain of that size and a register like this one is mostly a question of what each is trying to keep.
Questions the register answers
Curious about the band, the records, or how this archive decides what to record? Start here.
Is WAAX still an active band?
Yes. A hiatus was announced in April 2023 and the full line-up played farewell shows at The Triffid in Brisbane that June. In November 2023 the project returned around Maz DeVita, and a third album, Angel's Mess, followed on 13 March 2026.
How many albums have WAAX released?
Three studio albums: Big Grief in 2019, which reached number 11 on the ARIA chart, At Least I'm Free in 2022, which reached number 20, and Angel's Mess in 2026. There are also two EPs, Holy Sick and Wild & Weak, and fourteen singles.
Where are WAAX from?
Brisbane, Queensland. The band formed there in June 2012, won its Triple J Unearthed slot at BIGSOUND in the city in 2014, and played its 2023 farewell shows at The Triffid. Brisbane remains the centre of the live register.
Who has been in WAAX?
Nine musicians have been core members since 2012. Maz DeVita is the only constant. Tom Bloomfield played drums from the first line-up to 2023, and Ewan Birtwell played guitar and bass from 2013 to 2023. Five touring musicians play with the current project.
What does WAAX Index record?
The releases, the line-ups and the live appearances: seven releases between 2014 and 2026, nine core members since 2012, and twenty-one sourced appearances, each entry against a dated source.
