The Dangerfields

Photo by Danny Crombie
The Dangerfields are a three-piece rock 'n' roll band from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Hell-bent frontman Andrew Griswold is joined by lead bassist Jamie Delerict, with various hired legends filling in on six-string.
The group's sound is an explosion of raw energy informed by six decades of great music. Debut album Born To Rock swaggers like the Stones, swings like the Ramones and kicks the fucking door in like Motörhead: this is the real deal.
Five years of relentless touring has dragged the band from the squats and pubs of the punk circuit to some of the largest stages in the land.
Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers personally invited the Dangerfields to support SLF on their historic 30th Anniversary UK and Irish tour in March 2007. The hugely successful, sold out trek took the band to legendary venues such as Belfast Ulster Hall, Glasgow Barrowland, Manchester Academy and London Astoria.
750 high voltage performances have been cranked out across the UK and Europe since 2002, including a devilish number 666 on 6th June '06 in Belfast.
The Dangerfields have shared stages with the Misfits, Dwarves, Zeke, Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Life Of Agony, Warrior Soul, Marky Ramone, The Damned, The Exploited, Discharge, D.R.I., Poison Idea, Agnostic Front and Rockbitch.
Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson selected the band to open for Therapy? and Funeral For A Friend at his BBC 6 Music roadshow in 2004. The power trio also appeared as guests of Snow Patrol at the massive Tennent's Vital 06 festival.
Self-released and self-distributed, Born To Rock has shifted 5,000 copies on the road. A follow-up, In The Night, is written, rehearsed and ready to rumble.
The Dangerfields are gonna kick your ass.
Chris Lindsay
Rush And A Push Management
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+44 28 9066 3022
+44 7860 338 832
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PO Box 1343, Belfast BT15 4HX
For live bookings please contact Andrew Griswold
For interview requests please contact Jamie Delerict
Photo by Iona Bateman
"I am slightly scared by Andrew Griswold. Off stage, he seems like such a nice young man. On stage, however, as frontman and drummer of the Dangerfields, he's a demon. Andrew manages to be the perfect frontman – not an easy task when you're stuck behind a drum-kit, you would think, but it's a role he fills with ease. And he's ably supported by Delerict and Vincent, who are so cool and possess such natural stage presence that they should be entitled to have their occupation listed as 'Rock God' on their passports. Rock 'n' roll does not get much better than this."
The Big List
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"Super-confident and rightly so 'cos they've got the tunes to back it up, the Dangerfields are quite simply a great rock 'n' roll outfit. Drawing the still relatively sober crowd down to the front of the stage this is instantly comfortable, home-cooked rock, nothing like what mama used to make."
Rock Sound
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"The Dangerfields roared onto the stage like the punk offspring of Nuclear Assault and Mötley Crüe, and while they still wear those metal influences on their studded sleeves the overall sound is now as individual and raw as early Motörhead. Drummer/singer Andrew Griswold sounds like Tom Araya gargling with Axl Rose's razor blades and he has joined that elite cabal of those able to properly front a band from behind a kit."
Alternative Ulster
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"Enter the Dangerfields. Rodney may be departed but the spirit lives on. Honed and muscular now, the hardest working punk rock band in Ireland have not sacrificed the raw edge for tightness. Andrew is slabbering at the audience, urging them to participate. 'Come and hear some real rock 'n' roll,' he dares a crowd possibly making a first time punk gamble. There is no erection section here. Smooch elsewhere, lovers, this is where you go to get your kicks."
BBC - Across The Line
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"The Dangerfields are tight, mean, and very much the 'fuck you' that Belfast deserves. While it's nothing unfamiliar to anyone who has ever had the pleasure of encountering Motörhead, Zeke or Dwarves, to complain about a lack of originality is to miss the point entirely. The Dangerfields are excellent, simply because their music hits you like a cannonball to the stomach. It's relentless."
Metal Ireland