Horsell Common were an Australian band from Melbourne, Victoria. They made their live debut in early 2002, following this up with a string of EPs, and released their first full-length album The Rescue on 29 September 2007. The album peaked at number 100 on the ARIA Charts. The band is named after a substantial area of conservation land south west of London where the Martians in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds first landed.