Member Since: 01/02/2007
Band Website: www.bigdaddysdead.com
Band Members: Adam Love
Miss TBR & Bijou Bijou
Mohsen Ataei
Mr Tassell
Influences: Big Daddy’s Dead is not an electro band. Big Daddy’s Dead is not a disco band. Big Daddy’s Dead is not a gothic band. And yet somehow it is all three and then a little bit more.
Big Daddy’s Dead is a strange mixture, a bizarre configuration and an unusual alchemy. A series of contradictions; upbeat melancholy; retro-futurism; orgiastic coldness and diabolic gospel.
Founded three years ago by two englishmen abroad, Adam Love & Marc Tassell; Big Daddy’s Dead rose from the flames (or rather sprang from the wreckage) of two cult musical projects "The Fags on Crack" and "We Are Your Friends".
Joined by the Iranian DJ - Mohsen Ataie and their backing singers the Deadettes, divine Miss Bijou Bijou & the delicious Miss TBR from Paris. Big Daddy’s Dead have performed live in the best clubs in Paris (Le Point FMR, Chez Moune, Le Baron, Le Paris Paris, Le Pulp (RIP), La Java, the Batofar, The Ladies Room & the OPA) and with their new revamped line-up are preparing for performances with their new visually enhanced live show in the New Year at le Théâtre de Vanves as part of the play 'Le Repas' by the french author Novarina.
So this pan-european pan-sexual band began to create an brand new sound. The sound of Big Daddy’s Dead is "hard to define" (it's so bizarre, hard to pin down, a shooting star)". Maybe it's due the varied nationalities of the group. Maybe it's due to the divers musical references they quote as influences; Roxy Music, T-Rex, The Gang of Four, Cabaret Voltaire, X-Ray Spex, Kate Bush, Gloria Jones, The Passions, The Creatures, Divine, Dolly Parton, Sylvester, Prince, Lee Hazelwood, The Sweet, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Slits, Grace Jones etc.
Maybe its just because it is a unique sound. Dirty Disco or Dead Beat? Call it what you will but the effect is most definitely more than the sum of its parts; the electronic beats and bleeps; the techno nappes and breaks; the 70's sirens both female and analogical; the new wave moaning and the hi-nrg groaning; highlighted by the choir of fallen angels.
And then there is the voice of the lead singer. It's been described as "impossibly baritone", a "crooner overdosing" as well as many other terms that are unfit for publishing. It's dark, its deep, it's lacking technique but it breathes you in then spits you out. Counterbalanced by the luscious Deadettes whose presence is both spacial and sensual, raunchy and distant; an echo of a sigh.
Big Daddy’s Dead is probably the best anglo-franco-irano electro-disco-gothico band in the world. It is probably the only one.
Sounds Like: The Moon
making love to
the Stars
Record Label: Ready and more than willing