They made their debut on local label Flying Nun with the Come Back Special EP. Driven by a huge student radio following, the EP crashed into the NZ top 30 and was followed by two even more successful singles, 'Fingerpops' and 'Beelines To Heaven'.

By this stage, commercial stations were spinning the band and 'Beelines' was racing up the charts of Australia's hugely influential Triple J network.

The band's gold-selling debut album Last Exit To Garageland was released in 1996 and sailed to # 3 in the national charts. Interest in the band from Mushroom Records in Australia, Foodchain in America and Discordant in the UK encouraged the young four-piece to look further afield. Deals were signed and the following year a relocation to London was the result. Garageland were going to take on the world.

Eighteen months of hard touring later saw Garageland play over 300 gigs around the globe - from prestigious festivals in Switzerland, Paris, Reading in the UK and the Big Day Out in Australia to the toilets of the UK and cupboards of the USA.

Their singles broke into the UK Indie Top 10 and the US College Top 75. They have worked with some of rock's most renowned producers, from Alan Moulder to John Cale and Ben Grosse.

In late 1998, Garageland returned to New Zealand to record their second album at Neil Finn's Roundhead studios in Auckland. Do What You Want was the powerhouse return for these efforts, an acclaimed album that yielded the band their highest charting New Zealand single in 'Not Empty' and their biggest pop crossover hit with 'Kiss It All Goodbye'. Do What You Want was again licensed in Australia, the USA and also in Japan.

Garageland toured New Zealand and Australia supporting the album throughout 1999. Their extensive 1999/2000 summer tour with the Exponents saw the band's original members - singer/guitarist Jeremy Eade, bassist Mark Silvey and drummer Andrew Gladstone - all win their 500th cap for the band, as well as cheerfully enduring Jordan Luck's nightly introductions to bemused Exponents audiences as "Garageland... New Zealand's greatest living band, raarrrghhh....!!"

In early July they began recording demos for the third album and they headed out for a series of North Island dates through late July and August.

Garageland entered the new millennium with the firm resolve that their next album will see them fulfil Jordan's promise. And with their songs and well-honed musical chops, they are kitted up to do just that. Now off the road and well into recording the new album at Kare Kare studios with Malcolm Welsford, they began knocking together an exhilarating collection of songs. The band sat down for a serious session of band bonding and then belted out 12 pop classics from an arsenal of about 40 songs.

Halfway through the sessions, the band received the call from their American record label, Foodchain, to let them know that the previous album Do What You Want had been released in the USA. Garageland took off to complete a highly successful "meet the press and fans" tour of the United States in support of the album, thereby gaining "buzz band status" among the upper echelons of the U.S rock media and cementing themselves as ones to watch stateside in the near future.

The U.S Rolling Stone magazine gave them an excellent review, raving about the album before the record company publicist had even got around to sending them a copy. Lead singer Jeremy Eade was duly summoned to the legendary music paper's New York offices for an interview and meetings with the editorial staff. The cover must not be far away...

The USA music bible "Hits" magazine squeezed in some glowing praise for the talents of Garageland, while industry heavyweight Billboard magazine gushed accolades and compliments as it "highly recommended" the band and its recordings.

The band set the SXSW annual music festival alight headlining alongside The Black Crowes and our friend Stephen Malkmus. Their performance fully justified the organiser's decision to single them out as a band to watch at the prestigious conference - their smiling mugs graced the cover of the festival programme. Manager Campbell Smith had to explain to many over-eager A&R people that the band had already released the second album in the USA - they'd have better luck trying to get the soon-coming Scorpio Righting album. Not bad for two weeks on the road...

Garageland promised their record label something special for the new album Scorpio Righting. It's a 100% POP/ROCK ALBUM which covers nearly every favourite musical genre of the band from kick-ass Stones riffs to weeping country ballads to full foot on the floor power- rock. The new guitarist is Dave Goodison and his riffy tight playing is mixing remarkably well with the lazy playing of the original threesome creating some beautiful rock'n'roll moments amongst the West Coast surf.
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