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    • Howe 'Bolt From The Blue' - EP Review by Drew Davies
    • Last Bullet EP - Review by Ruth Ayris
    • Appeal: Stolen Drum Kit
    • Monument
    • Saint Jude
    • Best of 2011
    • The Mercy House
    • Voodoo Six
    • Wasted Sinners
    • Cavalar
    • Voodoo Six - Ticket Giveaway!
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    • The Graveltones Announce European Tour Dates In Support Of Debut Album
    • Wille & The Bandits To Release New Single ‘Gypsy Woman’ From Forthcoming Album
    • Buffalo Summer Announce Tour Dates and Debut Music Video
    • THE GRAVELTONES: HOTLY-TIPPED LONDON ROCKERS ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE
    • TOUCHSTONE TO RELEASE DEBUT SINGLE 'FLUX' FROM UPCOMING ALBUM ‘OCEANS OF TIME’
    • Leslie West to release new studio album 'Still Climbing'
    • Classic Rock Roll of Honour Nominations announced
    • Stephen Stills & Kenny Wayne Shepherd form blues rock supergroup "The Rides"
    • Whitesnake announce new live album "Made In Britain" / "The World Record"
    • SCHEMATA THEORY: UK METAL NEWCOMERS RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
    • JUDAS PRIEST - GLOBAL CINEMA TOUR
    • Peter Frampton announces London Roundhouse Concert
    • The Graveltones release pledge campaign
    • Tracer to release new album "El Pistolero"
    • Joe Bonamassa to release "An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House"
    • VOODOO SIX ANNOUNCE IRON MAIDEN TOUR SUPPORT & NEW ALBUM
    • Peanut Butter Lovesicle to Embark on Headlining UK Tour This February
    • Voodoo Six march into a new era
    • Pig Iron join Paul Raymond's Album Launch in London
    • Jeff Healey to release "As Years Go Passing By" Live CD/DVD
    • I AM I to play Download 2013
    • Rival Sons announce European & U.S/Canadian tour for 2013!
    • Caravan's 40th anniversar​y UK tour starts January 8
    • Leonard Cohen returns to the UK in 2013
    • Dog's D'amour reunite for London/Wolverhampton Shows
    • Led Zeppelin celebrate high chart position. Gig to be shown on BBC 2
    • Bettye LaVette plays London JazzCafe on Tuesday December 11
    • I AM I release new single, 'YOU'RE THE VOICE' on 10th December , also release 'EVENT HORIZON' digitally worldwide the same day.
    • UFO'S PAUL RAYMOND - NEW SOLO ALBUM RELEASE
    • AC/DC: COMPLETE CATALOGUE MADE AVAILABLE ON iTUNES // LIVE AT RIVER PLATE OUT TODAY
    • EUROPE's "Bag of Bones" UK tour starts this Wednesday!
    • DON BROCO: "THE PRIORITIES TOUR" ANNOUNCED
    • AC/DC - NEW VIDEO "You Shook Me All Night Long" and release date for 'Live At The River Plate' Album
    • BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - BRAND NEW VIDEO FOR "TEMPER TEMPER"
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    • Michael Schenker launches official "Temple of Rock Live" trailer
    • Beverly McClellan Cancels UK tours dates with Steve Vai
    • Charley Pride UK November Tour starts Friday 9th November
    • Michael Schenker announces "Temple of Rock: Live in Europe"
    • Jon Bon Jovi flies back to New York to help victims of storm
    • Europe 'Bag of Bones' UK Tour
    • Happy Halloween from Alice Cooper
    • Stuka Squadron no more!! Welcome Iron Knights!
    • Bon Jovi announce UK tour dates in 2013
    • Joe Satriani announces June 2013 UK tour and confirms new studio album
    • Thin Lizzy add Trucker Diablo as Special Guest at Belfast show in December!
    • Toto's Steve Lukather to release new solo album "Transitio​n"
    • Joe Bonamassa to make recording history at 4 London venues
    • Aerosmith New Video 'What Could Have Been Love'
    • Beverly McClellan Album Release and UK Tour with Steve Vai
    • Classic Rock Roll Of Honour announces Duff McKagan as presenter
    • Tracer confirm new album and announce new member
    • Eric Johnson returns to UK fro nationwide tour
    • Focus release new album: 'Focus X'
    • Black Country Communion's only UK gig for 2013 CANCELLED
    • Flying Colours play only UK show this Friday!
    • Black Country Communion announce only UK concert of 2013
    • Led Zeppelin Release Historic O2 Gig
    • Stuka Squadron announce release date for new album 'New Sound of War'
    • Chelle's Rock Blog is looking for writers.
    • The Reasoning announce new album release date, artwork and tour dates
    • Breaking News: LA rockers Buckcherry announce UK 2012 Tour dates
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The Dogs D’Amour Are Back - And Not On The Juice - By Kate Thompson

4/24/2013

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They’re no ‘Victims of success’.
The original bluesy glam rock ‘n’ rollers - The Dogs D’amour - are back in all their glory, not ‘Back on the Juice’ as one of their songs once told but back on tour and in the studio some twenty years on.

The Dogs D’Amour are a bit like Marmite – you either love them or hate them –  and if you hate them it’s probably because you haven’t taken the time to listen to their albums, possibly because you once judged them on their slightly camp name. The ‘Dads D’Amour’ as a friend of mine recently joked they must now be called in middle age, are arguably living legends of British rock history, and here’s why…

Back in the ‘80s we saw The Dogs D’Amour play live at London’s Marquee, spent weekends at record fairs collecting their vinyl and copying the artwork (just one of the reasons I failed A Level Art.) And now, thirty years since they began and over twenty years after they last played live, I found myself in London’s Borderline, at a reunion gig and damn it was a good night, quite unlike any other in so many ways.

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What sets them apart 

The Dogs D’Amour have come a long way in 30 years, from the time when Punk met Glam head-on after The New York Dolls had made way for Hanoi Rocks. A ‘guyliner’-wearing kick against the harshness of pure Punk and a wild and sexy alternative to the very tame New Romantics of the time. It was Blues meets Punk meets Rock - gloriously sleazy in its sound.

They were a central part of the 80s glam punk scene, with bluesy overtones and notable influences of the Rolling Stones and The Faces and yet a sound and a style all their own, with references in their lyrics to 60s and 70s comedy icons including Tony Hancock and Monty Python, and literary giants Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs. Theirs was a romantic and poetic lyrical style, quite unlike similar bands around at the time. They reached a certain amount of commercial success in their day, reaching no. 26 in the charts with Satellite Kid in 1989. Hell, they were on Top of the Pops!

In Wait Till I’m Dead, a song about Tony Hancock featuring the lyrics:

“Wait till I’m dead, and you will see, what all the fuss was about,

Wait till I’m dead, and you will see, what all the shouting’s about…”

The song goes on: “1968…” (the year Hancock committed suicide) and has an eery audio clip of his voice on the end, urging listeners to “Go on, buy the record, don’t mess about!” Like the best music, it does much more than entertain, it makes you think.

Indeed another layer to their cultural depth is the accomplished album artwork of lead singer Tyla, with its stylised caricatures of the band. No one could write them off as just another 80s rock band, there was always so much more to them, and there still is.

The rock n roll fundraiser – Cancer is a Cant

Lead singer, Tyla stepped away from his solo career to put the most famous line-up of Steve James, Jo and Bam back together, to raise funds for old friend Paul Hornby, the band’s former drummer, notably once compared to Keith Moon. Hornby played drums on the album The State We’re In and is now fighting stage 4 colorectal cancer… in some style, it has to be said. Dressed in a smart suit, bandana and hat, with his usual pirate style earrings and now a walking stick too, Hornby was there in the audience with his beautiful wife Catheryn, having flown over from their home in LA just days before.

I had got to know Paul through the rock ‘n roll radio show The Dark Heart of Camden and got in touch with him as I wanted to help raise awareness of the Cancer is a Cant fundraiser. He told me of how supportive his old friends had been and came over for the reunion.
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The live show - The Borderline, London Fri 22nd Feb 2013

At their first live show of the latest tour the music was as gloriously high-energy as ever with all the old favourites including the wild and upbeat Last Bandit and the slower ballad of the Bullet Proof Poet plus a handful of new tracks including the memorable Flameboy. Tyla's thought-provoking lyrics and sexy ‘gravel on velvet’ voice was just like the old days.

Die-hard fans had flown in from all over the world to be there. I have never been to a gig where every person there knew every word of every song played – even the new ones. And what an atmosphere of community there was with founding members of fan clubs meeting up with like-minded online acquaintances for the first time. This was a long awaited reunion and the atmosphere was electric.

The set list also included: Last Bandit, Firework Girl, The Kid From Kensington and Wait Until I'm Dead and, of course, How Come It Never Rains.
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The Dogs D’Amour are certainly not the Victims of Success they once sang about. Fans, old and new, are now looking forward to More Unchartered Heights of Disgrace with rumours of a new album and further touring a closely guarded secret. Watch this space… For more on the Dogs D’Amour please go to: https://www.facebook.com/thedogsdamour

Live show rating: 4/5
Interview response from lead singer: 0/5

Set list:
Last Bandit
Firework Girl
The Kid From Kensington
Wait Until I'm Dead
Everything I Want
Flameboy
Heartbreak
Billy Two Rivers
Bullet Proof Poet
Get by
Medicine Man
Victims of Success
Trail of Tears
How Come It Never Rains
Errol Flynn
Drunk Like Me

Encore

Ballad of Jack 
No Gypsy Blood
Sometimes
What You Do 
Satellite Kid 
I Don't Want You to Go 


Please read more of Kate's writing at http://katethompson.webs.com/music
7 Comments
Tucker
4/25/2013 03:04:24 pm

What a lovely post! Wish I could have been at the gig. Love the bit about failing your A-level Art - they nearly did the same for me! Remember copying Tyla's 'handwriting', drawing torn parchment round everything I wrote and presenting his lyrics as poetry in my GCSE English class - what other band can claim all that! Met Tyla once at a solo gig at the Bierkeller in Bristol years back and in the state I was in all I could say was "Thank you"! When really all I needed to say - cheers!

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Kate Thompson link
4/26/2013 05:03:04 pm

Thanks, twas a labour of love! Might do a follow-up interview with the man himself - Paul Hornby - who is the real star of this piece. Watch this space... KT

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Alexa De Strange link
4/29/2013 12:21:00 am

awesome review :)))))) xxx

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graham
4/29/2013 01:19:26 am

great revue kate,good cause too!still in touch with hornby i was roadie for his band 051 over 30 years ago and still mates.hope his health improves.regards graham

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Moonshine Shack
9/7/2013 07:09:24 am

Hey you were..are ..my heroes...I played The 100 Club on August 3rd...only took 51 fucking years ...but did it ,check out Moonshine Shack on Facebook...playing Stage Door' Waterloo tomorrow night...07944 256670 thanks guys..you're the only reason I'm doing this...long story...

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Kate Thompson link
9/8/2013 07:03:55 pm

Hey Moonshine Shack, thanks for your comment.

I'll make sure it gets to Tyla, Bam, Jo and Steve for you!

Rock it tonight and keep in touch. https://twitter.com/RockWritings Big love K x

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John B Spiraldive link
3/4/2017 04:18:00 am

The dogs were my favourite band back in the day. When I was 19, I was getting bored of stadium rock, screaming guitars & "heavy metal" stereotypes & wanted to find a more bluesey sound. I was listening to the bluesey side of Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Whitesnake & also more traditional blues music, which i found was missing the hard rock rhythm. I saw them doing Satellite Lid on Top Of The Pops & The Dogs gave me that unique sound that i was looking for. So I bought the single, Graveyard of Empty Bottles, Dynamite Jet Saloon & Errol Flynn, Straight, Unchartered. Saw them live all over North West England Liverpool, Manchester, Buckley, Stoke, Derby, St.Helens... They were set to make it really big but were probably the most criminally under-rated band of all time. The media wrongly grouped them with all the 80s hair metal "glam" bands (there was that element to the image in the early days) but they played that stripped down retro blues rock years (decades) before it became fashionable & were the first band to introduce that sound to a new generation (i was 19 when satellite kid was out). The also unknowingly played a vital part in the early grunge scene by bringing Mother Love Bone (who evolved into Pearl Jam who nowadays have a similar cut down electric/acoustic sound) out on tour with them. Not a lot of people know that. More recently I've popped up to Middlesborough to see Steve in his guitar shop & cafe, had a sneak peek at some new Jo Dog & The Desperados tunes & bought a hand painted acoustic guitar off Tyla. Its not arrived yet but will put something on youtube when it does.

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