Androids, The www.theandroids.com
The Androids formed out of the ashes of 2 young Australian bands in 2002 and took themselves and their music to the world in 2003.
It all began in 2002 when Tim Henwood (lead vocs/guitar) decided to leave his platinum selling band The Superjesus. Prior to joining The Superjesus , Henwood had established a strong career in Australia as a highly respected and in demand guitarist as well as being the front man of Australian indie rock darlings Plasticine. Henwood kept both bands running through the late 90’s , finding great success with platinum record sales and radio play , but after deciding to leave TSJ he realized it was time to start the new millennium with a new band.
Henwood recruited the Plasticine rhythm section of Marty Grech (drums) and Matt Tomlinson (bass) and the 3 old friends put their heads down and went to work in the studio recording a self financed record that would become The Androids debut album.
During the recording process the band jammed with dozens of possible 4th members , including flying potential contenders from O/S . But no one could fill the gap until Tim remembered Sam Grayson , whom he had met on tour a year before when their 2 bands played together. The 4 guys jammed on some of Henwood’s idea’s on Tim’s birthday in 2002 and the line up was cemented then and there.
From there Henwood, Grech, Tomlinson and Grayson worked their ass’s off touring under numerous names to raise the necessary funds to pay for the recording of the album. A few months later they had decided on the bands name (The Androids), signed deals with a major label ( FMR ) and management firm in Australia and were about to put out their first single.
For the end of 2002 and most of 2003 you couldn’t turn a radio on without hearing an Androids song within a ten minute slot ! While things were going well at home and the band were touring all over the country like men possessed , things were heating up in the USA as well. Someone from a very large LA based radio station had heard the first single while on holiday in Australia and taken a copy back to the US where it was quickly added to high rotation and began getting hundreds of requests almost straight away! At this point the band didn’t even have a label there yet and they would find out that this was a common story all over the globe for The Androids at this same time! However they soon signed a major international deal with Republic/Universal .
The Androids are a band with a point to prove and we can all look forward to a day very soon where we will be hearing them blasting from cars in the street, and the party next door, and sweating and giving it their all on stages all over the world again!
