INXS Get A New Singer

INXS have announced that they have hired Irish singer Ciaran Gribbin as their new frontman. The band made the fairly surprising announcement yesterday that they had found a new singer and they are streaming a new track on their official fansite.

It seems that their previous frontman, J.D. Fortune, has been let go from the band for a second time, and Rolling Stone reports that Gribbin first met INXS' principle songwriter Andrew Farris at a party in Sydney two years agi. 

Farriss tells Billboard that he and the rest of INXS do not "have a master plan" regarding how they will move forward with Gribbin, but that they are "just really enjoying being creative" and "experimenting with a whole range of things" in the studio. 

The new line-up of the band will hit the road in November for a brief run of dates around the world.

"A baptism of fire is the best way to describe the live shows, I think," Gribbin tells Billboard. "In a way I'm slightly nervous, and in another way I'm unbelievably excited. It's a wonderful, proud moment for me. It's a real feeling of achievement to have a band of INXS' stature believe in me as a performer and a singer. It's genuine dream-come-true, fairy-tale stuff for me. I'm still waking up in the morning here in Australia going, 'How did I get here?'"

Listen to new song, 'Tiny Summer' HERE