Ex-Sticky Fingers, Lulu Raes Member Enters 'Big Brother' House

Big Brother premiered last night, welcoming 21 new and returning housemates into the custom-built house to live together for 62 days.

Interestingly, ex-Sticky Fingers member and current The Lulu Raes member Taras Andrej Raeburn Bohdan Hrubyj-Piper is a contestant on the show. 

His biography reads, "Taras is a quirky, slightly eccentric man who is completely comfortable in his own skin. He never adheres to social norms and breaks stereotypes of how men should be and behave."

Taras was a founding member of infamous Australian outfit Sticky Fingers, leaving the band in 2009, before the release of their debut album, Caress Your Soul. 

Despite leaving the band, Hrubyj-Piper has had a heap of songwriting credits throughout their discography, including a slew of tracks on their most recently released record, Lekkerboy.

He is also a founding member of pop-smothered dance and punk band The Lulu Raes. In an interview with The Music, the band described their pop-leaning lyrics and sound as, "pop music seems to have the same themes over and over again for the past 50 years: it's unrequited love, it's going out and enjoying yourself, it's occasionally something slightly more introspective."

The band released their most recent single Radio in February of this year, an alternative, indie-pop acoustic and electric guitar-laden number.

Hrubyj-Piper also hosts side project, F-POS alongside Sticky Fingers bassist Paddy Cornwall, which has released an EP alongside collaborators Moody Beach, Gold Fang, Caro, Shogun The Sheet and The Happy Sufferer.

On why he applied for Big Brother, he stated, "I really think this is an incredible opportunity to experience what happens to us individually and in a group when put under extreme and strange circumstances."