Taxiride

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Taxiride
Background information
Origin	Melbourne, Australia
Genre(s)	Progressive rock Garage rock Pub rock Acoustic
Years active	1997–present
Label(s)	Warner Music Group Mandarin Music
Website	Official website
Members
Jason Singh Sean Mcleod Tim Wild Dan Hall
Former members
Tim Watson Andy Mcivor

Taxiride is a rock band from Australia. They had three singles which impacted on the charts in the late 1990s and early 2000s - "Get Set", "Everywhere You Go" and "Creeping Up Slowly". They are influenced by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Deep Purple, Yes, Queens of the Stone Age, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead and INXS.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] History

Jason Singh, Tim Wild, Tim Watson, and Dan Hall started out in 1997 writing and playing in a lounge room in Camberwell, Melbourne. By 1998, they recorded a demo with songs for their first album. The band's first demo was given to a friend who was a taxi driver, so that he could play the demo to passengers in the cab. They would later ask how the demo was received whilst on the "taxiride". This was the inspiration for the group's name.

Soon after, the band signed a joint deal between Warner in Australia and Sire Records in the U.S., where they relocated to Ocean Way Recording studios in Los Angeles to work with producer Jack Joseph Puig. Their debut album Imaginate hit the #1 spot on the Australian ARIA charts and went double platinum spawning the top 10 hits "Get Set" and "Everywhere You Go", along the way snaring a Best New Artist ARIA award. To support the global release of their debut album, the band toured Australia, America, Japan and Europe through 1999 and 2000.

In 2001, with the departure of Dan Hall and the entering of new members Sean McLeod and Andy McIvor, Taxiride started penning songs in Melbourne, seeing then a four month move again to Los Angeles to work with producer Fred Maher and record at Conway Studios in Hollywood. In July 2002, they released their second album Garage Mahal. The album delivered the band a consecutive top 5 album and a platinum plus seller. Garage Mahal featured the top 5 hit single and number 1 radio song of 2002, "Creepin' Up Slowly". As with Imaginate, Garage Mahal was released globally and supported by the band undertaking a hectic promotion and touring schedule through Europe and Japan.

In 2004, Tim Watson left the band, and the rest of the members recorded the band's third album Axiomatic, which was released in September 2005. Recorded at their own new studio in Melbourne. The new album featured songs co-written with Chris Bailey from the Australian punk band The Saints. Two singles were lifted from the album, "Oh Yeah" (released in August 2005) peaked at number 40 on the singles chart and "You Gotta Help Me" peaked at #52 on the singles chart(released in December 2005). Axiomatic was released in Japan and India.

Taxiride released a new album Electrophobia in Australia on September 2006. Electrophobia features unplugged versions of their songs from their three studio albums.

In January 2007, Taxiride performed at the closing of the Australian Jamboree at Elmore, Victoria in front of a crowd of over 10,000.