The attention led to support slots with both Babes in Toyland and Hole on their respective UK tours. Both albums were underground successes, hitting number 1 in the UK Indie Charts. 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. The move was helped by Lesley Rankine of Silverfish, who passed the band's first single on to Gary Walker of Wiiija. Their use of guitar feedback as a "fourth instrument" and unconventional song structures, combined with a darkly original approach to lyrics and imaginative use of samples pulled from cult movies and obscure documentaries, led them to be spotted in 1990 by London-based independent label Wiiija Records. Therapy? quickly came to the attention of local music fans with their distinctively uncompromising style. The band also took whatever support slot they could, opening for the likes of Loop, Ride, Teenage Fanclub, Inspiral Carpets, Tad, Fugazi and Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
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The band's early years followed the familiar pattern of hard graft on the local alternative music scene, with Cairns often putting in a full day at the Michelin tyre factory (where he worked as a quality controller), then speeding across Northern Ireland in order to make it to gigs. During the summer of that year, the band made its first tour through the United Kingdom with The Beyond, catching the attention of influential DJ John Peel along the way.
The single was limited to 1,000 copies and released on the band's own Multifuckinational Records.
Therapy? released its first single, called Meat Abstract in July 1990. Their sound was becoming highly influenced by artists of the indie rock movement such as The Jesus Lizard, Big Black, and The Membranes as well as new beat disco acts such as Belgian outfit Erotic Dissidents. They followed this up with another four track demo tape ( Meat Abstract). Deciding to play live, they recruited McKeegan and played their debut gig at the Belfast Art College supporting Decadence Within on 20 August 1989. In April they recorded a four track demo tape ( Thirty Seconds of Silence) with Andy playing a bass guitar borrowed from Fyfe's classmate Michael McKeegan. The two spoke afterwards and agreed to meet for rehearsal in Fyfe's house in Larne with Andy playing a small practice amp and Fyfe playing his kit with brushes. While attending a charity gig at the Jordanstown Polytechnic in early 1989, Andy Cairns noticed Fyfe Ewing playing drums in a punk covers band. The band has released 15 full-length studio albums and has sold over two million albums worldwide.
Therapy? are currently signed to UK independent label Marshall Records. Following the departure of McCarrick in 2004, the band have remained a stable three-piece since. Neil Cooper replaced Hopkins on drums in 2002. Ewing's departure in early 1996 preceded the arrivals of his replacement Graham Hopkins, and Martin McCarrick on cello and guitar. The band signed with major label A&M Records in 1992, for which they released four albums, most notably Troublegum in 1994 and Infernal Love in 1995. To complete the lineup, the band recruited Larne bassist Michael McKeegan. Therapy? recorded their first demo with Cairns filling in on bass guitar. Therapy? are a Northern Irish rock band from Larne, formed in 1989 by guitarist-vocalist Andy Cairns and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing. Wiiija, A&M, Ark 21, Spitfire, Blast, Amazing, Marshall
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