Artist description Melodic hook laden jangle dream pop/rock.

Music Style Melodic guitar rock/ dream pop influenced

Musical Influences Ride, Wedding Present, dolphin,

Similar Artists ride, stone roses, wedding present, beatles, birds,

Artist History The strange and confusing career of Throw has spawned some of the more successful and impressive releases for the Failsafe Label. The band sprung from Failsafe boss Rob Mayes' desire to create a studio based song writing ensemble which would have a transitional line-up as the song required. In late 91 Mayes enlisted Drummer Steve Birss, the pair having patched things up (once again) after Birss's split from Dolphin in early 1990. Birss had been playing in British influenced four piece Elevation with David Hunt - Guitar, Dylan Pellett- Bass and Jeremy Talyor - Guitar and Vocals. Taylor was enlisted for Throw to add Vocals and Guitar and in mid 91. Throw did their first rehearsal, nutting out a few ideas which were to spawn the tracks Honeyblonde, Time Untied and Blinder. The next week the band recorded their practice and sent away the three songs to the QEII arts council for grant consideration. At the end of that week Throw performed their first gig in support of Naked Lunch at a private party, followed the next week by supports for the Bats and Breathing Cage. Throw quickly built up a strong set of material and in the space of a few weeks had penned the 17 songs which became their stable set. A month later Throw were headlining their own show at the Dux de Lux followed by a trip to Wellington with co-Christchurch bands Naked Lunch and Loves Ugly Children, playing a gig at the New Carpark to average attendance, and an Upper Hutt show to 6 locals and a bunch of locals who hung out in the other bar, who didn't like anything you couldn't ride your motor bike to. Throw also picked up one extra show at the hip and happening venue Bar Bodega with ex-Christchurch man Nigel Mitchell's new Wellington outfit (name since forgotten). This proved to be a fortuitous move for Throw, who impressed the local crowd, and particularly bar owner Fraser McInnes, who took a strong liking to the band and immediately booked them to perform again. McInnes' championing of Throw would also spill over to Taylor's post-Throw project -- Cinematic -- resulting in Bodega releasing the latter band's first album on the Beats Bodega label The Throw project in effect snowballed away from the original intention of keeping the line-up fluid and studio based and the Mayes/Birss/Taylor line-up found themselves heavily occupied with recording and performing over the next 12 months. After the initial rush had died down the band hit some internal political problems with Taylor wanting to claim full song writing credit for all material. Mayes objected to this on the grounds that at least half of the bands music was written or originated from Mayes ideas, and all the material the band performed was worked on and contributed to by all members. Taylor, being somewhat of a walking jukebox of modern pop music (if he has heard a song, he can play it), later conceded that he sometimes couldn't remember which stuff he'd written and which stuff he'd memorised from music he'd heard. This proved to be a central cause in the breakup of the band. In the meantime, after a few months of 'heated' negotiations, the songs were eventually registered with 1/3 credit to Taylor/Mayes/Birss. The situation had led Birss to limit his commitment to the project and Birss would now only perform in Christchurch, and for recording duties only. Mayes enlisted Caroline Easther to drum for the bands North Island shows, Mayes being a fan of Easther's drumming since her days in Beat Rhythm Fashion, through to the Chills, Verlaines, and Easther's own band (again, name forgotten). Taylor, Mayes and Birss shot a video for the lead track 'Wishes From Her Heart' for the All Different Things EP at the picturesque Castle hill, the band perched precariously on rock top, during intermittent snow and sunshine. Throw continued to perform around the country working toward their arts council fund debut EP release. Throw's work with Taylor culminated in a series of concerts building up to the release of the All Different Things EP. Taylor and Mayes played shows in Hamilton and Auckland (Powerstation with Semi Lemon Kola and The Nixons) with Easther drumming. These shows were followed by a Wellington date with Easther and a Palmerston Nth show as two piece with drums on backing tape, at the Feast of Stevens own EP release party. Throw were joined by Feasties Drummer Glen Fletcher for the last song of their set Away. Fletcher had that day committed himself to a psychiatric hospital for mental stress, leaving the feast of Stevens to spring him for their gig. Throw with 'Away' but by the end of it the song was racing out of control, leaving everyone present much amused. Taylor and Mayes drive back to Wellington straight after their Palmerston Nth set and find themselves at Bar Bodega with a small crowd of people and played their two piece line-up set to excellent response. Mayes and Taylor returned to Christchurch to prepare for their EP release concerts which entailed a release party at Mainstreet cafe where the band were to perform in a stripped back fashion as opposed to their normally full on power gigs, and a concert at the Dux de Lux. Tension between Mayes and Taylor had been brewing progressively over the previous few gigs and the situation came to a head on the day of their Mainstreet Cafe release party, resulting in Taylor refusing to attend. Throw played their last performance in the original line up at the Dux at the end of September with the band not saying a word to each other throughout the gig. Mayes took the next few months to work on the album, finishing off the songs the band had laid the basic tracks down for at the time of recording the EP. The Album was finished in Mid 1994 with initial singles being released to New Zealand on Air for inclusion on the Kiwi Hit Disc series. Taylor's desire to pursue his solo song writing led him to form Cinematic with new recruits -- bassist James Guthrie, and guitarist Andrew Friend -- along with Throw Drummer Steve Birss. 'Falling Inside Me' was released as a single backed with 'Freefall' and received a video grant from New Zealand on Air. A still from the video is used for the Rememory album cover. In March 95 the Rememory album is released. 'Nowhere Near' is released as a single backed with 'Time Untied', a track with its origins in Taylor and Birss's previous band Elevation. The track also receives an NZ on Air video grant. In June 95 Throw get another video grant this time for the track 'Honeyblonde'. Mayes decides to work with Camera man Brett Nicols and Director and Animator Gregg Page who had worked on The Springloader video. Mayes also attends the film shoot and assists Page on the video which is an animated claymation performance based video, showing the band performing as clay figures. The video is nominated for a New Zealand Music award as best music video, along with videos from Supergroove and Shihad. In August 95 'All Different Things' receives a video grant and Page and Nicols again make a video for this track, based on the story of a scientist who creates a three piece band to perform a love song to impress a girl. Mayes shifts to London in November 95 and continues to work on material for the follow-up album, Dream Baby Good-bye, which features unreleased and re-worked material from the original 1992 sessions as well as recently recorded material.

Group Members Rob Mayes Stephen Birss Jeremy Taylor

Instruments guitar, bass,drums, vocals

Albums rememory, Dreambaby Goodbye

Additional Info http://www.failsaferecords.com

Location Christchurch, canterbury - New Zealand

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