Dodgy
are an English powerpop rock trio that rose to prominence during the Britpop era of the 1990s, best known for their hits "Staying Out For The Summer" (their debut hit that reached #19 in the UK on re-release in 1995), "If You're Thinking Of Me" (#11) and "Good Enough" (their biggest hit, reaching #4 in the UK chart). Their music has been compared to that of The Who and The Hollies and more generally, with the Northern Soul movement.
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Career
They are frontman
Nigel Clark (
bass),
Andy Miller (
guitar) and
Mathew Priest (
drums).
Redditch's Clark and Priest met
Londoner Andy Miller whilst swimming after placing an advert "
Jimi Hendrix required" in the
magazine Loot
.
The
band's debut
album,
produced by
The Lightning Seeds'
Ian Broudie, demonstrated a comprehensive grasp of classic
British pop influences particularly from the late 1960s. In many ways the
album pre-dated the
Brit-pop sound, as
Blur's
Modern Life Is Rubbish, that would come to dominate the scene with the arrival of
Oasis (Who would in fact support the band on more than one occasion in their early career).
During the 1990s the band gained significant popularity for their live performances and tendency to appear in the music press with a cheeky story. Drummer
Mathew Priest suggested he was the love-child of
Aphrodite and
Keith Moon, whilst
Andy Miller was once so busy on tour that he forgot it was his Birthday. It was often reputed that
David Soul of
Starsky and Hutch was a huge Dodgy fan. One other fan of the band gave them a goldfish which they named
David Wilkie and took on tour.
The band concerned themselves with social issues by supporting
War Child, the
Liverpool Dockers' Strike,
Charter 88 and youth democracy campaigns.
While Clark was absent from 1998 to 2007 to pursue ongoing
solo projects, Priest and Miller continued the band as a five piece joined by the
vocalist David Bassey;
keyboardist Chris Hallam, and
bass player Nick Abnett. This line up of the group would record one album,
Real Estate
, released in 2001. This album was produced and mixed with Robin Evans at T-Pot Studios in
Scotland (funded with help from the
fans). On their "
Dingwalls to
Dingwall" tour in 2000, the group visited the
Hebridean island of
Taransay to entertain the
castaways being filmed for a BBC reality television programme.
The original line up of the band, Clark, Miller, and Priest, returned with a
live album,
So Far On 3 Wheels - Dodgy On The Radio
, in October 2007. In the summer of 2007, the band announced a reunion tour, featuring the entire original line up, with shows to take place in the winter of 2007. These plans were abandoned however, when guitarist Andy Miller fell out of bed, chipping a bone in his arm in the process. The rescheduled tour took place in March 2008.
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See also
- List of British pop musicians of the 1990s
- List of Britpop musicians
- List of NME covers
- List of performers on Top of the Pops
- List of Never Mind the Buzzcocks episodes