Quan Yeomans

Quan Yeomans (1972-    ) is an Australian rock musician.

Of mixed European and Southeast Asian parentage, Anglo-Australian from his father and Vietnamese from his mother, Quan Yeomans was born on December 18, 1972 in Sydney, Australia.  At the age of 12, he and his family relocated to Brisbane.  In 1989, he graduated from Kelvin Grove State High School at the age of 16.

Prior to forming Regurgitator with bassist Ben Ely in 1993, Quan Yeomans had been a drummer for another Australian punk band, Zooerastia, based in Brisbane.  As lead vocalist and guitarist of Regurgitator, Quan Yeomans would rise to international prominence in alternative rock and punk music genres.  While signed with Warner Music, Regurgitator recorded and released a total of 5 studio albums, four of which had made the Australian Top Ten albums chart.   Their debut studio album, Tu-Plang (1996), was recorded in Thailand.  It was certified platinum by the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) and took home accolades for Best Alternative Release and Best Debut Album at the 1996 ARIA Music Awards.  The highest charted single from their debut album was Kong Foo Sing which became a Top 40 hit on the Australian singles chart.  Regurgitator's second studio album, Unit (1997), was their biggest commercial success.  It spawned 3 Top 40 hits on the Australian singles chart including Polyester Girl which has become the biggest selling single for Regurgitator peaking at #14 in Australia and #16 in New Zealand.  The single was certified gold by the ARIA.  Unit was certified 3x Platinum by the ARIA and picked up 5 awards including Best Album at the 1998 ARIA Music Awards.  That same year, Quan Yeomans also formed another alternative rock band, the short-lived Happyland, with his girlfriend, Janet English, bassist/vocalist for Spiderbait.  They released their album, Welcome to Happyland, on August of 1998.  Regurgitator followed up the success of Unit with their third studio album, ...art (1999).  Although the album did manage to reach #2 on the Australian Top Ten albums chart and was certified gold by the ARIA, it failed to match the commercial success and critical acclaim of their previous two previous albums.  This was during a time when Regurgitator was experiencing a change in personnel as Martin Lee, their longtime drummer, was being replaced by Front Ends Loader and Hard-Ons drummer Peter Kostic.  The biggest hit single from ...art was Happiness (Rotting My Brain) which failed to reach the Australian Top 40 singles chart, but peaked at #16 in New Zealand.  Their next album under the Warner Music label, Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks (2001), was recorded in London and would be Regurgitator's last appearance on the Australian Top Ten albums chart reaching #7.  It was both a critical as well as a commercial failure, despite achieving some success in Japan.  Regurgitator's final album under the Warner Music label, Jingles:  The Best of, a compilation of their hit singles was released on November of 2002.

Quan Yeomans at the Big Day Out Concert Tour
in Brisbane, Australia (2008)

After leaving the Warner Music label, Regurgitator went on to record albums that would be released under their manager's label, Valve Records, such as Mish Mash! (2004), Love and Paranoia (2007), SuperHappyFunTimesFriends (2011) and Dirty Pop Fantasy (2013).  Although none of the albums matched the level of commercial success Regurgitator had experienced while under contract with Warner Music, with each released album the band would put on successful concert tours playing to sold out crowds all over Australia, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China and Japan.  As of October of 2013, Regurgitator has been on an indefinite hiatus.

Quan Yeomans has taken up residence in Hong Kong since September of 2013 and has embarked on a solo career.  He is a father of a young son.