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Alex Dingley

About Me

Alex Dingley found his first guitar amounst the sea weed, driftwood and dead jelly fish on Llansteffan beach. Amazingly, after clearing away the crustation and milldew it was still perfectly in tune, though salty in tone.Alex de-tuned it and decided that he liked it much better."I Lost My Honey In The Grass" was recorded under the dying sun of 2006 and the new moon of 2007. As we searched the hill tops of North Wales for a feeling we did not know we'd lost we found a forgotten land that the glaciers made, both below a mountain and atop the world where the jagged hill tops spit and fondle the sky like breaking waves in a frozen storm, threatening to meet and to block out the light completely.The ship was cunningly hidden, its masts inconspicuose amoungst the crosses of the tomb stones and in the hull we made camp, lit a fire, ate buttered bread and sardines from the tin, told far fetched stories and attempted to convey to one another just how confused we actually are.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/05/2007
Band Members: Alex - Vox/Guitar.

Jinx - Drums.

Nigel - Bass guitar.

Swci - Vox/Keyboards.

Lead Guitar- Rhys Martin.

The Alex Dingley Band are a 5 piece who worked together on the top floor of the same crummy office block before the smoking ban and a stormy night brought them together beneath a window ledge in Cardiff central. Although Jinx and Swci don't smoke they enjoy the camaraderie that perfect strangers can find beneath a dripping lentil. Nigel has since given up but still yearns for the death stick. Alex has pretended to quit as an early April fools joke. Rhys entertains himself by asking passers by to 'pull his finger'. They now live and play together in the South Wales area and are presently gigging the album 'I Lost My Honey In The Grass'.'I Lost My Honey In The Grass is available at: Spillers Records Cardiff or online at www.kimberleyrecords.co.uk



Influences: Er.....I should hope that its everything I'v ever heard, seen, done, smelt, tasted, touched, loved, hated........every sensibility my parents passed on to me......every time I'v tried to be cool and felt guilty for it.....every fucking dire boy band.......everytime somebody's pushed in front of me in a queue, trying to spell queue, cue , que??... every bank manager who's told me I'v got no credit.....every time I'V LOST MY WALLET.....every girl who's knocked me back, every girl who hasn't, every girl who I never even asked..............getting up in the morning still pissed......cracking night but can't remember much of it.......daytime television....good luck, bad luck,the unknown.......the existance of God....no God....multiple gods.....er fate, fairy tales, power cuts, toxic waste, global warming, how people can be so rubbish, how people can be amazing, how some people can twist your atoms so that they buzz around the room with happiness...........getting lost without a mobile phone, fear of terminal diseases, not wanting to die by accident.......er.....the end of the world....getting into milk cartons.....green milk Ughhhhh! Long car journeys, the sea side, getting all my sunshine and vitamins, five pieces of fruit a day!! What does that mean? Do five grapes count or do you have to go for big fruit.I'v only eaten two bananna's in my whole life gospel truth! Gospel!! Unrequainted love.....unrealistic dreams peddled by hollywood. Every story has a happy ending, love is easy, celebities know best, celebrities look best, everbody should look like a celebrity, bow down to the god of the silver screen! How much longer can we possibly believe this crap?.......humiliation, FEAR of humiliation, pride,shyness, vanity, vanity guilt, jealousy, PANIC!!! sadness, exitement, SCANDAL, gossip, not ever wanting to come over as a twat, giving money to beggers and worrying for the rest of the day that they've spent it all on crack, nostagia,the golden past, black and white photo's, the colour blue, the colour green, climbing trees, falling out of trees, the first time I stayed up past midnight,fear of getting old.........although every time I wake up in the morning I'v changed my mind about someone or something and I wish that I could only remember what I was dreaming about!

Sounds Like: A monkey with salt in his eye........er.......two packets of crisps fighting.........a rubber tree falling in a concrete forrest.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Thomas Edison on 'BBC Introducing with Tom Robinson'

Hello!        Long time 'no-nothing' from me. I still havn't developed the habit of posting a regular blog, which can really be considered 'not to be taking full advantage' of all the facilities that ...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:25:00 GMT

MYSPACE PLAYER GONE MENTAL!!!!!! (+ some good news)

Hi All,          Tried uploading a new song onto my Myspace player earlier and it's since gone mental and keeps trying to play the same song 'twice over'....whi...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:10:00 GMT

Apologies for the mess up at the Social July 1st.

Hi,      This message is a 'just in case apology' for anyone who might have come to see us at the introducing night at the Social  in London but missed us.  &n...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:58:00 GMT

Blag!

        Ok! At the beggining of this month we played with Dirty Pretty Things in Camden, Lurrrndon and I guess I should have 'blogged' this up earlier  but...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 10:52:00 GMT

Schooners show 26th Jan

Hi there again! Does anybody read this? I don't know! But if you do then I'd better let tou know that we have a gig in Schooners Swansea on the 26th of January with Spencer Mcgarry season! Its our 1st...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:33:00 GMT

The year 2000 and 8

Well 2008 is here, brand new starts, keep fit, need to GET fit first, kick  those baaaad habits that you really enjoy, eat healthy, press ups in the morning, lo...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:05:00 GMT

Albums out!

          Knew there was something else I had to mention. The new albums out and available to buy from all the main independant Welsh music shops. If you l...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:46:00 GMT

Big Thanks

Ha! Think I mentioned that I was RUBBISH at posting blogs! This one is just to say a big thankyou to Spillers for having us yesterday and to everyone who made the effort to attend  a venue with n...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:38:00 GMT

Dempseys gig.

                     Well er.......how are we today?! Played a gig on Monday in Dempseys which I hope...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:13:00 GMT

First things first!

Well first things first! A virgin page, a barren wasteland brain and all that! I expect to be as slow a starter at this as I am at most things......a hands in the air Ludite who will eventually become...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:16:00 GMT