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Fergus David Edward Miller (1990 β 9 October 2016), known professionally as Bored Nothing, was an Australian musician who released a self-titled album in 2012. It received some international attention and together with his band Miller had toured internationally. Fergus Miller was from Melbourne, Australia. He listed his influences as My Bloody Valentine, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Elliott Smith. As a teenager he began to develop an interest in music and 'started making little demos'. He acquired an 'old 4-track I got for cheap' and began to share them with friends. Eventually he began to put them 'on disc and leaving them around in pubs and record stores', and self-releasing the material through various outlets and formats including Bandcamp, CD-R, and cassette. Recording under the name Bored Nothing, Miller signed to Spunk records and began to prepare his first major release in 2012 at the age of 22. His debut was a self-titled 14 track LP released via Cooperative Music. Miller plays "every instrument on the album (save one guitar part and a keyboard line), as well as recording and producing the thing at home." Miller began recording the songs that would eventually comprise his debut LP in 2011. Towards the end of 2012 Miller collected nine songs from these previous releases in addition to five songs he recorded specifically for the Bored Nothing LP. The album received an international release in April 2013 while "I Wish You Were Dead" was made available as a stream, wh