While the project had initially been conceived as studio-only, the growing success brought "an audience we felt a duty to be good to them". The duo embarked on an international promotional tour in support of the album that was released in Europe in February/March 2009 followed by a North American release in April of the same year.
The album Walking on a Dream appeared on 3 October 2008 and debuted at number eight on the ARIA Albums Charts, peaking at number six. A second single, titled " We Are the People", was released on 30 September and peaked at number twenty-four in Australia.
It appeared in digital format on 30 August 2008, and received airtime on Australian radio and reached number ten on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The duo put out the title-track " Walking on a Dream" in anticipation of the album's release. While the record had been largely recorded and mixed throughout 2007, the self-titled Pnau album took precedence for Littlemore and Mayes in the first half of 2008. When they had accumulated enough material Mayes and duo began to record the album throughout 2007 with the assistance of Jonathan Sloan. As Steele was living in Perth and Littlemore was in Sydney the two spent time writing songs separately while meeting occasionally in Sydney to decide on the musical direction and style. The new project began to develop under the working title of "Steelemore" as a collaboration between Steele and Littlemore, with Pnau partner Peter Mayes listed as a producer and occasional co-writer. Littlemore said, "We fell in love with music again with I think this is first great song." The release of Pnau brought an interest from Elton John, who signed Littlemore to his management company. A track-by-track analysis of the album Pnau revealed that writing of "With You Forever" with Luke Steele inspired Littlemore's band to begin work on a collaborative project. This prompted a change in direction for the band who began to craft a work more vocally-centered album featuring guest performances. They collaborated on the tracks "Freedom" and the opener "With You Forever" where Steele supplied the vocal. The two reconvened in 2006 to work on two songs for the Pnau album that was released in late 2007. After a falling out over the song on Lovers the co-operation ceased for a while, with Littlemore commenting "I'm a very intense person and I take things to heart". Littlemore helped write the song "Tell the Girls That I'm Not Hangin' Out", which appeared on The Sleepy Jackson's 2003 debut album, Lovers, and Steele had some artistic input in Littlemore's 2006 art-rock project Teenager. Over the years that followed, the two collaborated on a number of occasions. Both were at the time signed to EMI and had already been working on different projects. Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore met in 2000 after being introduced by Steele's A&R executive, Simon Moor, in a bar in Sydney.
The duo have won a number of Australian music awards, with Walking on a Dream receiving 11 nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 2009, winning seven, including Album of the Year. As a live band, they have performed internationally and are known for their flamboyant appearance and elaborate stage sets. The band are signed to EMI Music Australia/ Virgin. The band's second album, Ice on the Dune, was released in June 2013, preceded by lead single " Alive" on 16 April. The album provided a number of internationally charting singles including " Walking on a Dream", which peaked at number ten on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and reached number sixty four on the UK Singles Chart, and " We Are the People", which peaked at number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart. Įmpire of the Sun's 2008 debut album, Walking on a Dream, brought the duo international success and has been certified double platinum in Australia and gold in the United Kingdom. The duo is a collaboration between Luke Steele, of alternative rock band The Sleepy Jackson, and Nick Littlemore, of electronic dance band Pnau. Empire of the Sun are an Australian electronic music duo formed in 2007.
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