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To The Dogs

About Me


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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/11/2006
Band Website: youtube and twitter, just add /tothedogsmusic
Band Members: Mat: Bass. Double Bass. Bongoes. Triple Bass. when we've made one.
Ben: Lead Guitar. Piano. Vocals. Glockenspiel. Bass.
Eddy: Drums. Percussion. Piano. Glockenspiel. Lemon Shaker.
Joe: Vocal. Guitar. Piano. Glockenspiel. Lemon Shaker.
Influences: JOE
sigur ros
loney, dear
radiohead
bon iver
regina spektor
rufus wainwright
king creosote
james yorkston
bob dylan
bowie
suede
django reinhardt
leonard bernstein
sergei prokofiev
pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky
dmitri shostakovich
claude debussy
charles darwin
motown
oliver postgate

EDDY
Radiohead
Stan Getz
Debussy
Britten
Thom Yorke
Doves
Blur
Damien Rice
Nine Inch Nails
Enter Shikari
Elbow
Thrice
Kings Of Leon
Neutral Milk Hotel

MAT
Sly and the Family Stone
Chic
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rage Against The Machine
John Butler Trio
Dave Brubeck
Stevie Wonder
Ozomatli
N*E*R*D*
The Mars Volta
Ohio Players
Rascal Flatts
Parliament/Funkadelic
Motown (The Funk Brothers)
The Shadows
Zapp
The Doors
Isaac Hayes
John Mayer Trio

BEN
Radiohead
Feeder
Deadmau5
Death Cab For Cutie
Aqualung
Augustana
Bombay Bicycle Club
Passion Pit
Zero 7
Orbital
Ravel
Chopin
Debussy
Sigur Ros

Sounds Like: We don't really know. Suggestions?

Ruby and her Whorses - 'Still as lovely as the first time I met them (although I haven't met the bassist but I'm sure he's lovely too) just with even better songs. I mean, like, properly good songs, like you'd hear on the radio, or Top of the Pops. Lovely.'

Containz Nutz - 'Telekinesis with turtles when trouts try out for the toothbrush totem-polers'

Keagan Barr - 'Well they sound like a heavenly descent of an angel only they arnt really angels so it sounds just like a descent really. ... basically, if whales could fly and chimps could talk then these guys wouldnt be good. there we go, how was that ???'

Neal Zetter (myspace.com/nealzettercomedyperformancepoet)- "Sounds like? Absolutely nobody else at all and that's gotta be a good thing because originality is the one of the key ingredients to success - and they deserve it as they are spiffingly good"

John Alfred Longott "'To The Dogs' sounds like the workings of your favourite author's brain as he's reviewing his best novel, alone by the sea, while the tide gently rushes the shoreline and a silent rain begins falling, announcing the coming storm."

Two in the Hand "A lovely racket"
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

battling bands

we recently entered the third heat of Suffolk Soundwaves Ultimate Bands contest, despite our spectacular failure last year.the show was last night in felixstowe, and we played alongside walkway, timot...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:37:00 GMT

4th member

I'd like to personally welcome Ben Phillips to our new improved line-up, and can't wait to start working with him!Usually Joe writes these so they're probably better and more charming. But you get the...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:15:00 GMT

tom

just a little note to commemorate the untimely passing of Thomas Marshall.he was always incredibly supportive of us, and it's awful that he had to come to such an early end.always in our thoughts, and...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:24:00 GMT

are wine gums just lovehearts for alchoholics?

we've done two new songs.hospital coffee and no thank you.and no, we can't take the second one too seriously either.but they have pianos and everything."i'm sorry i broke your camera, man""his cameram...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:23:00 GMT

my girl

a new song.and it's motown.recorded and produced and arranged by us.really really quickly.:)joe x
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:43:00 GMT

the news

hi there.we had a practice yesterday, and it turned out we've written a song each.one's positively jazzy (owing to the fact if listened to nothing but rufus wainwright for a month now), one's a bit ne...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:55:00 GMT

an instant message i recieved from eddy

"Eddy Spirit took the "when will you die??" quiz and the result is: 9th december , 2028SHIT!"
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:28:00 GMT

the news

we played a great show in kentish town on saturday, with alex body and the fantastic International Christian Playboys (check them out in our top friends).the whole show is on youtube, if you find our ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:49:00 GMT

big to blog?

noticed how the best bands get really big, then too big for their boots, and too big to blog, and speak to their fans? we're the other thing, we're too little to blog, no-one reads it, we can't be ars...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:26:00 GMT

Bass Player

We have a bass player now by the way (if you haven't noticed/cares) He's called mat "captain funk" Sanchez-Walker, Turns out a band needs a bass player more than a fish needs a bicycle.We're also just...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:38:00 GMT