About the index
WAAX Index is a reference archive for the Brisbane rock band WAAX. It records what the band released, who played in it, where it played, and what it won, with a source behind each entry. It is written for people who want a date checked, not for people who want an opinion.
The band's own site is waaxband.com. Anything to do with bookings, current releases or the band's own words belongs there.
Methodology
Every register on this site is kept at the precision its sources support, and no further. A release carries a full date because the label and the chart both record one. A live appearance may carry only a year and a city, because that is all the surviving listing gives. Where a source names a day, the day is used; where none does, the year stands alone rather than being filled in.
The line-up map is built from entry and exit years, which is why it is drawn as a set of bars rather than a group photograph: tenure is the thing that can be verified. Touring musicians are listed apart from core members because the distinction is real and the band has made it.
Where two sources disagree, the entry keeps the more conservative reading and says so, rather than picking a side quietly. Where only one source exists, the entry is still recorded: a single sourced listing is worth more than a confident guess. Nothing here is filled in by inference, and if a gap cannot be closed with a source it stays a gap.
Sources
The kinds of record this archive works from, in rough order of how much weight they carry:
- Chart placings, which fix a release to a date and a peak position.
- Award citations, which name a specific work and year.
- Festival schedules and promoter or venue calendars, which place the band in a city.
- Label and release information, which gives format, catalogue and credits.
- Contemporary press coverage and dated gig reviews.
The weighting matters because the sources decay at different rates. A chart placing and an award citation are still checkable years later. An event calendar is written to be current, not to be kept, and most of the listings from the 2019 North American tour have since been taken down or folded into other pages. That decay is a large part of why a register like this one is worth keeping at all.
What the register records
A release carries its date, its label, its formats and its chart placing where a chart recorded one. That is the layer the sources support: a label listing and a chart entry are checkable years later, and a tracklist attributed to individual hands is not.
A musician carries a role and a span of years. Both come from release credits, announcements and dated coverage, which is what makes them checkable, and the line-up map is drawn from those two values alone.
The square graphics across the site were made for this index. They are catalogue cards standing in for records whose sleeve artwork, photographs and lyrics remain the copyright of their holders.
Corrections
Corrections are welcome and are the main reason the contact page exists. A correction that arrives with a source can usually be made the same week. The thinnest parts of the archive are the early Brisbane years before 2014 and the personnel on the 2026 album, and both are open.
