Troublegum

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On 10 May 2018, the band announced via their social media that they signed a worldwide record deal with Marshall Records:

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People thought Troublegum had come out of nowhere, but all we’d known was hard work,” says Andy. “We had done two world tours that year, so we’d put in the legwork.” Because the band's name is accompanied by a question mark, it seems to indict that there may or may not be something wrong with the person, or group of people, in question. Our patients' collective "psychosis", or whatever term the behavioral, brain science officials deem appropriate, may be a natural product of being 'people in a band'...but has somehow been construed or escalated to them needing therapy? Because they may not be doing 'natural' things? That's what "Therapy" describes? The potential patients going to therapy? We have quite inquisitive minds and we are not cool. When we first went to Wiiija Records, the label boss Gary walker would take us out and he would be embarrassed because we would go and say hello to these bands and he would say ‘please don’t say hello to that band!” In London you had to have a respectful distance and you were not meant to blow your cool.’The band's first album, July 1991's Babyteeth, and its January 1992 follow-up, Pleasure Death, were successful enough to earn the band a major label deal with A&M Records. Both albums were underground successes, hitting number 1 in the UK Indie Charts. The attention led to support slots with both Babes in Toyland and Hole on their respective UK tours. A compilation of the two albums titled Caucasian Psychosis was prepared for the North American market, [4] and the band embarked on their first U.S. tour in October 1992. angry, anxious, self-hatred, melodic, lonely, male vocalist, energetic, rhythmic, sarcastic, heavy, melancholic, dark, pessimistic, passionate, introspective, aggressive, misanthropic We sat down and said, ‘Look, this could go either way – we could get people on board and say all the things we always wanted to say, but it could go stupendously wrong and we’ll be in all sorts of trouble,’” says Andy.

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Their words were: ‘Strike while the iron’s hot,’” says Andy. “The last show was on something like December 23, and the day after Boxing Day we were in a studio in Lincolnshire with no songs, trying to work on the follow-up. We were exhausted.” Cover [Front Cover Image: Red Drawing], Artwork [Hand Photoworks: Blood Hand, Cream Hand, Hammer, Glove] – Nigel Rolfe Not being pigeonholed can have disadvantages because people like categories. If you go into any metal shop they have a sections like a grunge section and then these little arcs of scenes and we were never part of these and we get left out of all that and when magazines make their revisionist histories of what went on we get left out. At the end of the day, to be honest, it’s why we are still here and we have never had to break the band up. We have always had enough following worldwide to keep the band going and keep our heads down when things weren’t going as well. I think we will always be outsiders, where we are from is slightly unfabulous and that works to our advantage with one foot on the ground of where we want to go. I caught with Andy Cairns, vocalist and guitar player from the trio to discuss what therapy has done for him…

Some of their songs were used in movies and video games. "Auto Surgery" and "Teethgrinder" are featured on Electronic Arts' video game Road Rash for the 3DO, Saturn, and PlayStation consoles while "Nowhere" is featured on EA Sports's video game " NCAA Football 2006" for the Xbox, GameCube, and PlayStation 2 consoles.

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UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". everyHit.com . Retrieved 24 December 2008. After the tour wound up in October 1996, Therapy? finally took a long break. They reconvened after a few months and spent most of 1997 writing, rehearsing and recording the follow-up to Infernal Love. [8] [4] There was always an undercurrent of youthful exuberance, violence and piracy": Why The Cult's Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury aren't scared of summoning the ghosts of their past by resurrecting Death Cult He released the set without even bothering with a single to precede it, preferring fans to hear it as a whole entity – an archetypically progtastic move”: Prince’s Around The World In A Day The Gemil Box Therapy Question Mark". Archived from the original on 28 October 2013 . Retrieved 16 November 2013.I grew up as someone who wasn’t exactly pin-up material, with weight and confidence issues, plus I had all this stuff I was carrying with me from Northern Ireland, the religious divide,” says Andy. “All that was in there.”

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The following album One Cure Fits All was released in April 2006. The album, produced by Pedro Ferreira, was a return to the melodic tendencies of High Anxiety and again divided opinion among the band's fans. [11] On 21 July 2017, the band announced a double live acoustic album, Communion: Live at the Union Chapel, for release on 21 August 2017. [29] The album was recorded in London on 1 December 2016 during the "Wood & Wire" European tour. Andy: With Hellbelly, and Lunacy Booth and to a certain extent Unbeliever, my reading material was Flannery O'Connor. I was completely obsessed with O'Connor and that Southern Gothic style. With Hellbelly I had the lines, 'Jesus without the suffering' and 'Dead crow on a fence is your style'. I had the lyrics before I actually had the music. Cover [Front Cover Image: Red Drawing], Artwork [Hand Photographs: Blood Hand, Cream Hand, Hammer, Glove] – Nigel RolfeEverley, Dave (7 November 2019). "Therapy?: How Troublegum catapulted three unlikely Irish lads to stardom". LouderSound . Retrieved 15 July 2022. The second studio album from Trent Reznor’s industrial noise project featured March Of The Pigs, Closer and the original version of Hurt, later covered by Johnny Cash. Deluxe Edition releases of both Troublegum and Infernal Love were released by Universal Music on 31 March 2014. [24] The band promoted these releases with a series of retro video and audio uploads to their official YouTube channel, proceeding a short UK tour in early April. A compilation of singles from 1992 to 1998 followed on 14 April 2014 via Spectrum Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music, titled Stories: The Singles Collection. With hindsight, Ewing's departure seems to be imprinted within the grooves of Infernal Love. Not only is he lower in the mix, his playing seems far less expressive, strangely muted, already disillusioned perhaps. Ewing quit the group during the Infernal Love tour, fearing that if he didn't he would "go mad". He then disappeared into obscurity, depriving the world of one its most exciting young drummers.
Incidentally, you can keep What's The Story, The Bends, and that Sparklehorse album with the clown on the front. The best album of 1995 (and second best album of the 90s) was Infernal Love. Dr Victkurt Cobainstein dealt with the unsettling success of his second album by doing too much heroin, hitching a lift on Captain Albini's expeditionary ship, pursuing his Nevermind monster to a mansion in the North Pole hoping to slay it with nothing but a borrowed shotgun and a copy of In Utero, before slipping tragically under the ice. Andy Cairns dealt with the unsettling success of his second album by taking lots of cocaine, shaving his head, investing in false moustaches, and making a bizarre goth-pop album in Peter Gabriel's recording studio. I ask myself where is this wisdom! where is this holy wisdom you are meant to have at 40- where has that gone!