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Artist
Remainderfour
7+ albums
indiepunk rock
about
The seeds of remainderfour grew out of the ashes of UK emo-hardcore veterans Otherwise. After that band split in the summer of 2003, guitarist Chris Wooding and drummer Paul Coleman set about putting together a new project that would better reflect the musical direction that they wanted to take: heavy yet melodic, accessible yet interesting, and most importantly unique. To facilitate this approach they switched to playing different instruments to those they had played in Otherwise, Chris taking the bass and Paul the guitar. The next step was to find someone to front the band. Both were adamant that the vocalist would have to be outstanding for the project to work, and having been in bands with exclusively male singers in the past they wanted female vocals for Remainderfour. They found their frontwoman in Gemma Mather, a friend of Chris’s whom he knew from his university days in Sheffield, and former singer of eclectic nu-metal rockers Mine. A chance meeting at a party brought them Steve Durham to complete their lineup, a drum student who also plays for tech-metal outfit coMA Kai. With all four members now in place and together in London, the songs started coming. Through their contacts in previous bands, Remainderfour began securing themselves gigs all over England. They went into the studio for the first time to record a three-track demo with John Hannon, producer of Hundred Reasons, Kids Near Water, Dead Inside and countless others. In 2005 they released their album On W
