This is my first proper post on here, even though it's been up and running for ages now. it's kinda lay dormant for a while, pretty much like the band. jayne and burnsy have both moved on to other (far less interesting) pastures, leaving the less popular but much cooler members to sift thru the rubble. to tide us over as we do this, we've been playing some of our more acoustic numbers with bacon on guitar and harriet on keyboards. you'll be able to see the fruits of our labours at our gig next Friday 22nd May at the Round (near the Cluny apparently, no me neither) as part of Evolution Unsigned. The Week that Was are headlining the whole thing so that shoud be good. In the grander scheme of things, me and Ben are currently recording a new single that'll be released via this blog in the near future. So watch this space...

Making me laugh lately- auto tune the news...

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'Frankenstein Songs' - The album launch

A dog's midlife crisis...

Dog Years
Dir: Richard Penfold & Samuel Hearn


Nowt to do with us, but this is a lovely short film. Nearly brought a tear to my eye it did..

Soon come...

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Our new album 'Frankenstein Songs' is finally finished (well it has been for a good couple of months now), and ready to go to press. More details will be posted here shortly but for now we strongly urge you to visit Richard's amazing website: http://www.blackteeth.net


*this is a chopped and cropped taster of Richard's fantastic cover artwork

Announcement from Music Junkie's Myspace:

Change of line up for Cumberland Night on Thursday 10th April

Unfortunately Night of Sevens have had to pull out due to the loss of their bassist, so we will put them on at a future date. However we are pleased to announce that Show Off Summer will be joining the bill to support Dog Years.

Also, John Nellist has had to pull out due to an injury, but Richard Dawson will also be joining the bill. Line up is now as follows (in reverse order):

Dog Years
Show off Summer
Richard Dawson
Adam Cooper

This stripped down/acoustic night will also include DJ, visual projections, cake and more... Cost £4. Doors 8pm. See u there!

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I should have blogged about this gig earlier. Shame about the Night of Sevens/John Nellist mishaps, but the new line up looks tasty anyway. We're gonna be playing a mix of old and new songs that we've never really played live before (since we went 'electric'!).

Irrelevant Grime Rant/Envelopes

Bah! Just remembered that I missed top Grime MC Skepta play at Stereo on Saturday because of our gig at the Bridge. That means I've now managed to miss Wiley, Trim (a no-show in the end-typical!), Dizzee Rascal and now Skepta play in Newcastle this year alone. Thats practically the entire Grime scene!

I understand few of you reading this will neither know about, or care about Grime music, but I reckon more of you pasty-faced Indie kids should give it a listen. It'll do you good! In fact, to start you off (or more likely, put you off), I'm posting this old video footage of Dizzee Rascal, quite literally as it turns out, battlin' Crazy Titch. (Crazy Titch is now in jail for murder). Scary stuff...




Note to the rest of the band: I promise never to mention Grime on this blog ever again. I should really be writing an essay for uni (deadline tomorrow) but I got bored so I wrote this. Please feel free to post your own irrelevant drivel. We did say we'd be posting 'assorted ramblings' on here didn't we? Burnsy! Fee! You're bound to be able to come up with some interesting/inane shit to spice this blog up a bit. And come to think of it, why isn't Jayne on here yet? Howay Big Janis!


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On a more relevant topic, I'm really looking forward to our gig supporting Envelopes at the Cumberland in May (See the lovely poster below) . Just borrowed their album off Jayne the other day, and I'm impressed. Should be a great night.

Here's a really good video of their song 'Freejazz' for you:



Definitely not to be missed...

Bridge gig photos

Big up Staggerin' Jon Lee and his Lo-life Drifters for putting this night on. There was a lovely atmosphere and we all had a great time playing :)

...the battle to eliminate racism rages on at the Cluny last Sunday.

Giggage...

This poster for our gig at the The Bridge Hotel on Saturday 15th March describes us as "Like a marriage of inconvenience between Bjork and The Shadows" (!!!)

What the F***?!

Dog Years – Music at Last.fm

Take a look at the 'similar artists' section on our Last FM page and weep....

Gig this weekend, Sunday 3rd Feb at The Tyne, with our friends The bulBs.

And its free...

Love music, hate racism gig

Dog Years are playing at the Cluny in Newcastle on Sunday 17th February in support of the LoveMusic HateRacism campaign. The gig is being promoted by North East mag NARC and will also feature People of Santiago and Seven Heroes.

In new music we trust...

We're gonna be on Huw Stephens' Radio 1 show this Wednesday, 23rd January. The show starts at 9pm, listen HERE.

Just Gimme Indie Rock!

Here's Mr Rossy over at Just Gimme Indie Rock, with a round-up of the Newcastle music scene, featuring an exclusive download of a track from our new album

'Disappearing footsteps'...has reappeared!

I inexplicably left out this track when I upped 'You can see the joins' earlier, so here it is for you now. Its meant to slot nicely in between 'Lonely bones' and 'Curse my name' in the running order.

Click HERE to download (for free of course)


We're in the final stages of recording and mixing our second album at the mo, but I'll probably throw up a couple of old songs that we didn't get round to finishing for our last album in the coming weeks. They feel like they need a home. Watch this space...

NARC FEST

Broken toy, live at the NARC FEST 2007



Bellyaches



Lonely bones




more to come...