Jumbo news !!

Quite a lot has been happening here at Dodgy HQ, and as always when we know, so will you!!

We have more live dates including some wonderful Festival appearances added daily so keep checking www.dodgyology.com/gigs to see if we are in your area.

Latest GIG additions include an Instore Gig at JUMBO RECORDS in LEEDS on the afternoon of 21st April as part of RECORD STORE DAY where Dodgy will be celebrating the LTD EDITION HAND PRINTED Format of STAND UPRIGHT IN A COOL PLACE.

Later that evening we'll be making a special ACOUSTIC appearance at Bohemia, ACCRINGTON. https://www.facebook.com/BohemiaProjectAccrington?sk=app_200193303353101

We have also been invited to play a special show for WORD MAGAZINE called "A Word In Your Ear" on MAYDAY Tuesday May 1st at The LEXINGTON in that there LONDON - Early Bird Tickets are now on sale on dodgyology

We also have posted online "A LIVE FAN RECORDED BOOTLEG" of our Album Launch at BUSH HALL for you to share and enjoy, it features 7 live tracks from the night including New Tracks and some Dodgy live favourites. Please feel free to share with friends, visit: http://soundcloud.com/dodgyuk/sets/bushhallbootleg/

Don't forget we have NEW Russell Hardman design T-Shirts for sale online at www.dodgyology.com/shop

No doubt you have been listening to your copy of STAND UPRIGHT IN A COOL PLACE and no doubt it has become your favourite album of all time, this isn't our opinion of course we feel that may be our next one, it is the opinion of many fans and critics and they have kindly taken the trouble to let us know, which has been very humbling.

You too can take part in this love-in. There are lots of ways you can help us spread the word about the NEW album - maybe request a track on your favourite radio show; share the Video's on You Tube; read what the critics say on our press page (www.dodgyology.com/press and feel free to add you own comment; maybe post a review of your own on HMV.com, Amazon, Play.com etc OR iPhone users can download the NEW DODGY APP and get their friends to do the same.

AND FINALLY......At Christmastime we had a really successful Q&A evening online with the members of DODGY, so much so that we have decided to do another.... this Thursday, Mathew, Nigel and Andy will be on FACEBOOK & TWITTER to answer any questions and generally chew the cud with.

The event will kick off at around 9pm on www.facebook.com/dodgyuk and www.twitter.com/dodgyuk, If you want to guarantee they answer your question please submit to info@dodgyology.com anytime from now until then

To ask a question on Twitter simply send to @dodgyuk and end your question with #dodgyq&a

That's all for now folks and thank you for all messages - keep spreading the love, keep spreading the word

M,A,N...Dodgy x

Phone App Madness !!

Hello,

You could be reading this on your phone via DODGY'S brand new phone app.

If you ARE reading it via your phone, then....HELLO AGAIN! I hope you're not driving.

If you don't have the app, then you can get it FREE OF CHARGE right here

New Dodgy Phone App

That is all. As you were.

Spread the word...spread the love

Dodgy xx

The final set of interviews from 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place' the new album from Dodgy

 OK... look this straight in the eye. If you have/had been following this blog about Dodgy and the new album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place', everything was going fine until we got undone by these video links and so we put blogging on the back burner and concentrated on the the real job of the album release and surrounding gigs. Of course, so far so good, a skirmish with the outer reaches of the official album chart and a nice showing on the UK National Indie Album Charts at No.11

Let's tidy up our video interviews though and complete the set of interviews where we talk about each of the tracks - again a big shout out to Kris Thompson and his team for making these possible. So the remaining tracks people are:
TRACK 8 - ONLY A HEARTBEAT

TRACK 9 - FIND A PLACE

TRACK 10 - BACK OF YOU

TRACK 11 - HAPPY ENDING

Thank you to everyone of you who has bought the album, it means a lot to us and hopefully these interviews give a tiny bit of insight into what we were trying to achieve. Now this is out of the way expect more super blogging from Dodgy in the not too distant future - we have overcome our technical demons x x

Ah, Dodgy friends... technology.
HENCE - REVAMPED 02.03.2012 - ALL VIDEOS EMBEDDED
Sorry in the interruptions to posting the series of interviews we've done about all the tracks on the new Dodgy album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place'. It seems that Blogger/Youtube is out to confound us. Having happily let us post the first four we've been bashing the computoo with a hammer trying to get the others up. One way or another this post is going to include videos (or links to videos) for four more of the album tracks... no it's not... we can only get three at this point time... they are all there, locked safely in YouTube for private view but whoever's got the key has gone missing.

Anyway, unable to embed the videos here are links to us talking about three more of the songs 'DID IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY', 'WAITING FOR THE SUN' and 'RAGGEDSTONE HILL' (a favourite with the NME we understand ;-) - click on the image to be transported to the video or if that doesn't work the link via the title / heading should definitely lead you somewhere - amateurs we hear you cry! Are you enjoying these by the way? - hopefully they'll wet your appetite and give an idea of what we have tried to achieve

TRACK 5 - DID IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

TRACK 6 - WAITING FOR THE SUN

TRACK 7 - RAGGEDSTONE HILL

 
Phew... hope that works and as soon as someone helps with the technical stuff then we'll see if they can be embedded properly... OK - publish and be damned - ALL YOUTUBE LINKS UPDATED/CORRECT

New Dodgy album - ''We Try' and 'Shadows' from Stand Upright In A Cool Place

Here's another batch of the filmed interviews produced by Kris Thompson to accompany the tracks on the new Dodgy album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place'
First up, recalling the Liverpool Dockers etc..the track WE TRY

Second up today is a bit of background on  - SHADOWS

 
Hope these little treasures are giving a bit of insight into the album and a taster of what is to come when the new Dodgy album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place' is released next Monday (20th Feb)

New Dodgy album - 'Tripped And Fell and 'What Became Of You'

OK the new Dodgy album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place' is released in just 7 days time (20th Feb) .. woooeee. Thanks for all the continued support in every shape and form, it's just adding to the excitement.

OK over the next week in the blog we're going to be focusing in on the album in more detail and bring together a series of filmed interviews we did at the start of the year at The Boogaloo Bar in North London. For those that want or need a bit of context it's a little window into how the album songs came about.
Let's kick off with track one from 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place' - TRIPPED AND FELL

We'd like to give a big shout out to an exciting film-maker called Kris Thompson who filmed, edited and put these films together for us, above and beyond the call of duty. We met Kris at a roudy night at the This Feeling clubnight in Hoxton where he was filming us for the club. His camera assistant was Ollie Pearson, we linked up with journalist Terry Staunton who helped to get the info out of us (no waterboarding necessary) and a special friend Noel Thompson came along and helped out with sound. Noel did some live sound for Dodgy in the very early days and then moved into becoming a film soundman - so all top notch.
Here's Track Two - WHAT BECAME OF YOU

More tomorrow as we work through the tracks on the album ... thanks for reading /watching/ listening etc. x

The Maccabees, Tribes music purchases and the new Dodgy album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place'

Woah, D-Day or more accurately R-Day, the day that our new Dodgy album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place' is released, is screaming towards us at a rate of knots - COME ON 20th Feb and we're just hoping that word is getting around and people are getting prepared to part with their hard-earned readies to buy it.
As mentioned in the last post, if we are expecting people to fork out hard cash on a whole album of our songs, then the least we can do is make sure that we do the same and don't rely totally on listening to stuff on Poncify. The two new CDs that I ordered from Amazon have arrived, I do admit the choice was slightly random but both bands had been talked about in terms of 'saviours of UK guitar music' whatever that may be.
Discovered a great quote recently from Gruff from Super Furry Animals about the chance of another SFA record and he said that they had such a strong back catalogue that he'd let the public catch up and get into that first. You sometimes feel that about the whole of art and culture - all musicians, artists, film makers, authors etc JUST STOP. You know, for a couple of years at least, let everyone catch up. Well, let US catch up.

Anyway, back to those CDs,

Baby - TRIBES (Island Records) £7.99 - Amazon.co.uk

Well there's a good start, calling your first newborn debut album 'Baby' - that enables a bit of career building because if this one's a success we can have at least 'toddler' and 'teenager' to follow, though looking at the boys languishing about their bench on their cover, you wouldn't feel comfortable about leaving any baby in close vicinity. They certainly look the part, like The Strokes might after living in the Holloway Road for a year. In 2003. One member sporting a good beard can't be bad and they've even got a member called Miguel - there was a Miguel in Curiosity Killed The Cat as well.
Giving it a good listen, Tribes certainly know their way around an indie rock song, though the structures, sounds, lyrics and plots don't hold any surprises, for my taste it lacks a bit of invention. However, if you like to jump around to spunky, indie rock and you're a fan of Razorlight then I'd imagine that you'll love em. 'Corner of an English field' is a worthy attempt at an indie an anthem and 'Himalaya' is where they most cross paths with Razorlight - not sure which version of Razorlight though - pre or post dressing up box.

Given To The Wild - THE MACCABEES (Fiction) £6.99 - Amazon.co.uk

Of the two albums bought, The Maccabees is the favourite and where you'll find the most positives and that's not just because it was a pound cheaper. I met Orlando from The Maccabees once, backstage at a festival in Europe and he was suitably enhanced, shall we say, for that situation and having a merry old time. This is a few years ago now but please don't expect me or him to divulge the main thrust of that conversation.
The sound of the album is rooted in the left field but as this is their third album there's an eye firmly on the main stage. They've obviously learnt from the masters and like all great third albums (ex: Dodgy - 'Free Peace Sweet') it opens with a moody shorter 'intro' track and then one moment you'll hear flashes of White Denim type experimentalism next to Coldplay like epic-ness and old Orlando has got a unique, goose-like vocal style, which stands out. But then again, I quite like geese (both wandering and on a platter)

OK, so the result is, definitely keeping The Maccabees CD to delve deeper into it's potential treasures and to keep the music cycle moving we'll make sure that The Tribes CD is put back into circulation, either by putting it on Ebay or if anyone wants it just drop us a line and we'll pass it on. We've paid for it - I mean that wouldn't be harming the band or illegal, would it?

The next blog posts coming hot on the heels of this one will be focusing on the new Dodgy album 'Stand Upright In A Cool Place' and feature track by track interviews from producer Kris Thompson with us speaking about the album and how it came to be. Release date 20th February 2012