Biography

PLUTO is a New Zealand rock band (mostly) based in Auckland. The group played their first concert together opening for Neil Finn in 2001, and have gone on to support the likes of Duran Duran, Crowded House, Muse, Gomez and The Dandy Warhols. They performed at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas twice, and made regular appearances at the Big Day Out. 
 PLUTO’s most successful commercial release to date is their second album, Pipeline Under the Ocean (2005), which went double platinum on the RIANZ albums chart. The album’s lead single ‘Long White Cross’ won the 2006 Tui Award for Best Song of the Year. From the same album, ‘Dance Stamina’ took out the 2006 B-Net Award for Best Song of the Year. 
 In the late 90s, Milan Borich and Tim Arnold, residing in London at the time, teamed up to create PLUTO. The duo began writing most of the songs that would become their first album “Red Light Syndrome”. 
 Fast forward 18 years. 
 Sparked by the discovery of a back up session of the unfinished fourth album, the band decided to pick up where they left off. The album is set to be released in September 2019 under their own company, 5 Moon Entertainment, with the first single “Oh My Lonely” leading the way in June 2019. This fourth album release will see the band play live once again. 
 Band Members: Milan Borich (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Arnold (lead guitar, vocals), Michael Franklin-Browne (drums), Mike Hall (bass guitar, vocals) and Matthias Jordan (keyboards, vocal