Jeremy began creating music in the South of Adelaide, forming his first band Inertia (1988 - 1991). Inertia was an original band that threw in a few covers from artists like David Bowie, The Cure, Jimi hendrix and Talking Heads. Inertia played local venues around the Noarlunga area, with gigs described as having a punk/goth/geek influence, sometimes getting a bit violent but always good fun. Inertia produced a small run of cassettes called "The Shit House', with live tracks from various gigs and rehearsals around Adelaide.

Jeremy left and joined emerging Adelaide band The Violets. Around this time Jeremy also started going to art school, the then North Adelaide School Of Art, studying sculpture, painting and video. The Violets (1991 - 2002), were influenced by bands like The Church, David Sylvian, The Cure and Radiohead. The members were all quite different in their tastes and produced a guitar based sound, Jeremy on 12 and 6 string acoustic, Matt Cahill guitar and voice, Gary Bowen bass and voice and Peter Kershaw, later replaced by Jason Ayres-Whiteon drums and percussion.

Following the sucess of a demo grant, The Violets recorded their first EP, "Subtitle", with Phantom Records, a Sydney based label who had artists such as Def-FX and The Whitlams. The Violets had three more releases with Phantom,"Somewhere" EP(Triple J Favourite), "Mary Who" single (Triple J Favourite) and their album "Leased Regret". This album won the 1996 South Australian Music Industry album of the Year. The Violets parted ways with Phantom Records and were signed to Krell Records in Adelaide. They produced the "Asphyxia" EP, the single "At Least Said' and the still unreleased album "Unwelcome Digital Visitor". They toured the East coast of Australia in 1998 with Sydney band Stella One Eleven, as well as playing two Big Day Out music festivals in Adelaide, major supports for international bands such as Ride (UK), and Australian bands The Falling Joys and Died Pretty.

Jeremy started recording on a four track whilst in The Violets. These recordings would supply a soundtrack for journeys through the Adelaide hills with fellow artist FTR. A series of cassettes were produced, with simple covers and handed out to close friends. The first to be sold in stores was the album ".Interpacer"(1998). Songs included were "Like An Aeroplane", 'Anna's Dead" and "Max's Opus". The release was strongly supported by Three D Radio in Adelaide. The CD was fully produced at home, with layout and design by FTR, the production line lovingly called "Cottage Disk Industries". Gigs were scarce for cooperblack at this stage, with all live action time taken up by The Violets.

With the signing to Krell Records, Cooperblack released it's fiirst nation wide single "Presbus" (1999). This single was distributed through Shock Records, reaching far flung countries such as Germany and Japan. Australia's Triple J Radio took a likeing to "Presbus" and it recieved a healthy rotation.The live section now included Tyson Hoprich (DJ Tr!P) on drum machine, voice and noize and Jeremy on bass, guitar, synth and voice. These gigs were performed on an ironing board, with the artists often riding bikes to gigs. Video was used to add chaos, with images of robots, lung degassing, security camera vison of attempted robberies, X-ray of fish eating etc..

During the Adelaide Fringe of 2000 Cooperblack also released a very small run of CDs "Melisma". This recording was from an art exhibtion of the same name with visual artists Max Bowden, Nigel Tinning and Liz Abbott. The recordings were of environmental sound in the gallery, which were re-recorded four times in the space, resulting in a build up of gallery sounds, catching all accidental voice and movement.

In 2001 Cooperblack released "Item V2". This release was a collaboration with DJ TR!P, with artwork by Max Bowden. Another home release, Item V2 was only availble in selected stores in Adelaide, and recieved good airplay on Radio Adelaide and Three D Radio.

Jeremy was offered a job by the Charles Darwin University in 2002 to work with Indigenous bands in the Barkly area of the N.T. He enjoyed the work so much that the University offered a second contract for 2003 on Campus in Darwin. Jeremy currently works there, lecturing, recording and performing in Darwin. He has recently been playing bass and writting songs with Sophie Koh, Triple J uneartherd winner for the N.T in 2003, now living in Melbourne. He works closely with Indigenous bands such as Matter Of Soul (Goulburn Island), Yaturlu Yaturlu (Lajamanu) and also with solo singer songwriters such as Renfred and Rupert Manumurlu. This work has bought Jeremy into contact with nationally recognised musicians such as DJ Dexter (Melbourne), Mick Thomas (Melbourne, Ex Weddings, Parties Anything), NFA (Melbourne, 1200 Techniques), Jim Moginie (Sydney, Midnight Oil) and producers such as Chris Thompson (Triple J, ABC).

Early 2005 Cooperblack released "The Shiny Side", an album continuing the electronic sounds from the previous release. 2005 Jeremy graduated from his Bachelor of Music in Composition from Univerisity of Adelaide Jeremy and left C.D.U to work freelance for a year then work at Skinnyfish Music, a Darwin based Indigienous music lablel and publishing company. Jeremy continues to work with bands from the Northern Territory both within his roll at Skinnyfish and in his own spare time.

2006 and Cooperblack released "Soft Robot", and EP of rock pop electro orientated tunes with musicians Simon Kormendy and Rosco Davidson. This EP recieved great airplay and sales around Australia..and the song Nerds continues to sell strong on iTunes internationally

Change of drummers on 2007, Cooperblack welcomed Oliver Budack to the position. Lots of writing and playing produced a new album in early 2008 "My Art Is Bleeding". This album was even more rockier than Soft Robots, with the live shows often intense, and the crowds starting to dance...at last..!!. Oliver had a big influence on the band, noticibly in the machine, German like nature of his beats, and even incorporating his language into tracks like Affen Titten Geil (Horny Tits Monkey) and Alfien Lightly, crazed screams in Dusseldorfian...

Oliver parted to persure a career in Fiji in early 2009, and Cooperblack was fortunate enough to have Mega Jess (2Cats 1Hat, The Aviators) on drums, adding to the noise of Cooperblack with her own stlyle of pounding the skins.