Dan - keyboards, percussion, samples & other oddities
Dilf (er, ... I mean 'Wilf') - drums, electronic drums, background vocals
The "Orange" EP
"No surprise" is one of the most interesting tracks
we've heard in the last N aeons- honest!
Unscathed
No surprise
Q-bix for the pigeons
Q-Bix for the Pigeons also appears on the Sound Off 2 CD (volume 2).
The Band in Review
I think I can honestly say that no-one in the history of popular music has ever been more
infectiously keen about their music than Dan from Dummy Head Stereo. There I was minding
my own business, scribbling a few notes and drinking my umpteenth pint of lager, when suddenly
this guy pole-vaults over the back of his seat (no mean feat in itself) and
starts telling me about the band...
Dummy Head Stereo formed about a year ago, and have spent the time becoming major players
on the Sheffield music scene with multiple performances at venues as diverse as 7-by-7,
the Leadmill, Lamacq's Radio 1 sessions, and Lakeside festival. With so much going
on in each and every track they necessarily pre-prepare some of their material on mini-disc,
but as a rule they try to do as much of their material live as possible; the result is a band
who are so absolutely together it's frightening. Their uniquely eclectic sound reflects the
remarkable depth of their musical roots. Dan has collected an astounding 15000-odd singles
going all the way back to the 1950s, though he's really a musical child of the 60s and 70s;
Wilf's a metallica freak (oh well), Robin's the Beck and Super Furries aficionado, and Dawn
prefers the gentle strains of deep purple, suitably entangled with 80s, Madonna, Duran2
and the like. All in all, my kind of people.
The music is truly original, and the number of embedded styles so enormous that it makes far
more sense to say they have a style all their own than to start explaining who they sound like.
But if you want to experience sounds at the extreme edge of indie-ness, you'll be hard-pressed to
find a better example of musical innovation.
Constructed for SheffieldMusic.Com (25 September 2001) by Alch. Dan was "interviewed" on July
10th, 2001 at the NCPM at Sound Off 2, a project funded in part by the European Regional
Development Fund and co-ordinated by Andy Muir at Red Tape Studios.