page_title: Angus & Julia Stone
section_title: 2009–2010: Down the Way and "Big Jet Plane"
hierarchical_section_title: Angus & Julia Stone / History / 2009–2010: Down the Way and "Big Jet Plane"
caption_attribution_description: Angus and Julia Stone in 2009
context_page_description: Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian folk and indie pop group, formed in 2006 by brother and sister Angus and Julia Stone. Angus & Julia Stone have released four studio albums: A Book Like This, Down the Way, Angus & Julia Stone, and Snow. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010, they won five awards from nine nominations: Album of the Year, Best Adult Alternative Album, Best Cover Art and Producer of the Year for Down the Way, and Single of the Year for "Big Jet Plane". The siblings have issued two solo albums each.
context_section_description: Angus & Julia Stone spent most of 2009 writing, recording and self-producing their second studio album, Down the Way. The album was mixed by Kieran Kelly (Midnight Youth) at The Buddy Project in Astoria, New York. On 18 November 2009, the brother and sister appeared on Triple J's Dools show with Scott Dooley and premiered their single, "And the Boys". They announce their second album, Down the Way, was due in March 2010 and coincided with an Australian tour. After six months apart (Angus back in Australia, Julia in New York), they recorded the album in studios in Sawmills Cornwall England, Brooklyn in New York and with Govinda Doyle in Coolangatta, Queensland. Angus described the album: "All the songs were written so far [apart] that the styles and moods are really different". It debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The lead single, "And the Boys", became the group's second entry into the ARIA Singles Chart top 50.
  During April 2010 the duo toured the UK to sold-out venues, Katy Ratican of Contactmusic.com caught their performance at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester, "a set led primarily by Julia, she had the greater presence of the duo throughout. With Angus appearing the most shy of the two, it was left to Julia to engage the audience with chat and it wasn't until later in the set that Angus' seemingly gentle nature was fully accepted". Alexander Gunz described their gig in Berlin "[they] look exactly as they do in the press photos: a slightly pot-smoking Neo-Hippie couple. He with artfully excellent and fluffy hair under his hat, her with Edding-painted roses on her guitar and a long blue dress, which while dancing she lifts slightly with her fingertips". The following month, the Big Jet Plane EP was released which included Julia singing a cover version of "You're the One That I Want" from Grease. In Australia, "Big Jet Plane", their highest charting single, peaked at No. 21. It appeared at No. 20 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, No. 23 in Belgium and top 40 on the French Singles Chart.
  In an April 2010 interview with the Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine, Julia revealed she had recorded a solo album in New York in late 2009. Her song "This Love" appears in the Australian film The Waiting City.  The album, The Memory Machine, was released in a low-key fashion in September 2010. She described it as "mellow" but darker and spookier in tone than the duo's work. Due to her commitments with the group there were no solo tours to promote her album. Down the Way also charted in Europe where it peaked in the top 30 on the French Albums Chart and stayed in the top 200 for 86 weeks. It reached the top 50 in Austria and Belgium; and the top 100 in Switzerland and The Netherlands. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 Angus & Julia Stone won 'Album of the Year' and 'Best Adult Alternative Album' for Down the Way and 'Single of the Year' for "Big Jet Plane", as well as Artisan Awards for 'Producer of the Year' and 'Best Cover Art' for their work on Down the Way. Their song "Big Jet Plane" was announced No. 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 on Australia Day (26 January) 2011.
caption: Angus & Julia Stone performing in 2009.
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