Tip of The Week: Dog is Dead - Young
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| 15:09 UK time, Friday, 11 February 2011
Our latest Tip of the Week comes from one of the stand out acts from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing stage at Glastonbury last summer.
Dog is Dead pulled one of the biggest crowds we've seen at Glasto, and I still can't decide what was the biggest pulling factor; maybe it was the old school Nirvana t-shirt, maybe it was the saxophonist's big orange hair, or the drummer's Scarface-esque swimming shorts, or that retro basketball shirt; or maybe it was the delightfully inviting sounds of the saxophone and its melodic friends that Glastonbury passers-by just couldn't resist on a sweltering hot Avon afternoon.
After watching that, is it just me, or can anybody else smell the slightest hint of summer festivals 2011 in the air? Not so much the smell, just the sense that the smell is coming. The sense that the warm, magical smell of cider, sweat, and drum beats has embarked on its annual migration to our nostrils, as people start working out which festivals they can/want to go to, like a giant strategic game of hedonistic chess.
Dog is Dead are one of those bands that will always get a festival party poppin'; they dress like they should be in the crowd, and play that way too, smashing down the band-crowd barrier and bringing that true 'we're all in this together' festival spirit.
There are five of them, they're from Nottingham, and they've been described as "Louis Armstrong lost in Disco", which for me conjours up some magnificently colourful images of the great jazz legend running around a never-ending LED-floored maze, with silver disco balls spraying out confusing rays of light and blasting out from the walls. Surely that image alone is enough for you to seek this band out in the coming festival season?!
Maybe I'm getting carried away with all this festival talk in mid February, but it's cold outside and I need my fix, so if you want to join me, close your eyes, grab an imaginary beer (or a real one), and imagine we're all in a sunny field holding hands and listening to Dog is Dead playing this week's wonderful Tip of the Week - Young.
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As is now routine, Young has been added to the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing slot on the Radio 1 playlist for the next week, so you'll be hearing plenty more of it.
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