Jason Singh Gets Set For Taxiride To The Top, Fame No Longer Creeping Up Slowly!

Remember Taxiride? That bunch of Nice Guys^TM who managed to be confusingly successful, with Get Set somehow ending up on the Election soundtrack and their hilariously badly titled #1 album Imaginate doing all sorts of things to commercial radio around the turn of the Century? (We love using that phrase.)

Well, if you felt a gaping hole in your life since the last time you heard Everywhere You Go played on Video Hits, fear not, as Taxiride frontman Jason Singh is BACK! (And yes, Taxiride army, we are aware that the band is still together and playing such illustrious gigs as the Regatta Festival in Brisbane.)

At a showcase for his new band, Future Role Models (can’t you just see that on merch?), reps from three rival record labels were apparently jostling for position in the front row.

The story fails to mention names of the record labels, so while we are presumably meant to think of EMI, Warner and Universal, they could just have likely been Frankston-based start-ups with a small business grant. Nothing, however, could have prepared us for the earnestness of this quote from Singh, regarding Taxiride’s rise and fall:

“They (industry) wanted us to be a boy band and we thought we were The Eagles,” he said yesterday.

Such is the tragic fate suffered by so many late-’90s non-threatening male pop vocal groups, but Singh is no JOHNNY COME LATELY – he better get used to LIFE IN THE FAST LANE if he wants to avoid some HEARTBREAK TONIGHT and get this career reinvention on the road before HELL FREEZES OVER.