[1] The band has three albums that peaked in the top five on the Australian ARIA Charts: All for One (1991), Tear of Thought (1992), The Screaming Jets (1995), and Professional Misconduct (2023).
Dave Gleeson and Grant Walmsley met at St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton, in 1981 and first performed together for a school dance at the Newcastle Town Hall.
[1] The group's first performance as The Screaming Jets was as The Love Bomb in a Newcastle pub in March 1989;[3] they won the inaugural National Band Competition run by youth radio broadcaster Triple J in November of that year.
Their second EP, Living in England, was issued in June 1992 and included cover versions of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" and AC/DC's "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)".
[5][4][1] A cover version of Boys Next Door's song "Shivers" was released in January 1993 and peaked into the Top 20.
In January 1994, after a US tour backing Def Leppard, Lara was replaced by Melbourne guitarist Jimi "The Human" Hocking (ex-Spectre 7).
[4][5] The group continued to tour and started recording their fourth album, World Gone Crazy which was released in August 1997 and peaked into the top 20.
[4] In November 1999, the group participated in the extensive Last Great Rock’n’Roll Show of the Century Australian tour.
[3] In early 2000 Rosevear was replaced by on drums by Col Hatchman[3] and the group recorded their next fifth studio album, Scam, with former Skyhooks producer Ross Wilson.
On 29 August 2000, The Screaming Jets were thrown off the inaugural Brisbane to Newcastle flight for the now defunct Impulse Airlines.
The new Boeing 717-200 jet had taxied to the runway for the early morning flight when it was forced to return to the terminal after band members broke into a rendition of Puff The Magic Dragon.
"We thought of everything to get the press and this is it," unrepentant lead vocalist Dave Gleeson said after the band was escorted from the plane by Australian Protective Services staff.
In October 2008, The Screaming Jets released their sixth studio album, Do Ya through StockXchange Music.
In March 2017, it was announced The Screaming Jets will perform a national headline tour with Baby Animals in June and July 2017.
[12] In July 2018, The Screaming Jets released Gotcha Covered their eighth studio album, a collection of 15 iconic Australian songs spanning from the mid 1960s to the 1990s.
[15] In July 2023, the band released "Nothing to Lose", the lead single from their tenth studio album, Professional Misconduct.