Dog's Dinner
Fresh chaotic tuneful punk
WHO?
Norwich band Dog's Dinner make a fresh chaotic tuneful punk sound, and if you were setting up a band at the age of 15, you would want to have fun. And it's pretty obvious this four piece have had plenty of that in the 18 months since they formed. They are a band with a mouthful of chatter and a hatful of stories.
SOUND LIKE?
Youthful, lively, wild and carefree punk. Definitely punk, though they don't rule out that could change in time.They readily admit they started from scratch. Tom O'D could play guitar, Josh taught himself by listening to Dylan and Jacob could play a bit of drums but that was about it. "Even now we are still very much learning our instruments," said Tom S. So how come people have begun to notice them so early on in their career? Currently in their last year at school, they feel the clock is ticking; they have one year to make their mark before they scatter to all parts of the country for work or study.
LIVE?
"We waited until we thought we were good enough before we started gigging," said Jacob. "At the start we got on to some good bills like playing with other young bands at the Waterfront through Tilting Sky. We played on the same bill as Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons at the Stanford Arms in Lowestoft. There were all these seasoned punk rockers and we loved it. It was great to play to the kind of audience we really wanted to play to.. those who would appreciate us for our roots. We like to have a good time when we're playing." The band are getting around the city venues, next playing Gonzo's Tea Room for Mighty Lamb Production alongside Perfect Mistakes, Dutty Menace and Peach Club on the 10th December.
FUTURE PLANS?
The band have a Doctor Who mug in the corner of their rehearsal room and any time they have any cash or earn something through gigging it goes in there. Their dream is to record at the Sickroom studios and are currently writing more songs for an EP release. They promise there may even be one ready for their December gig. "In the end," Jacob says, "we want to look back on it all and think we did a really good thing, something we can be proud of, that we did all we could and that we feel we achieved something."
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