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Simon, Donna, Alex and Daniel Doling

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Simon was drummer with World Domination Enterprises and Terminal Cheesecake as a youngster in the early 90's and also played bass with Cheesecake's label mates Thule. Then after time spent as promoter of North London dives such as the Bull & Gate and Monarch he took to many years on the road as front of house engineer with acts such as Gunshot, Collapsed Lung, Credit To the NationDream City Film Club & Fat - through whom he was fortunate enough to find a nice office position in a management company working alongside Cathal (Chas)Smyth(Smash)and co. Looking after the likes of Aquasky, Finitribe & Madness. He was soon able to build his own roster with bands such as King Prawn & Gunshot. After some-time he returned to his roots of sound & production and a year or so after Daniel was born in 2002 the family relocated to sunny Ipswich where, after working for The Junction in Cambridge (running a youth music project) he now manages the PA Supercentre as well as working alongside the marvelous Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer from Brighton, trying to make Chap-Hop a way of life. Also doing (hopeful)booking for Portuguese act 'Da Weasel' in the UK. Aside from that always up for playing & jaunts off DJing on the very rare (these days) instance and have been instrumental in helping establish the very-fine Blue Room Music venue in Ipswich and still trying to get to grips with Portuguese language after a year's night school and many trips spent to the western edge of the continent, which is where the goal is to be one day....

Mrs D (formerly O'Connor) is a retired metal warrior. Having spent the best part of a decade doing press for waaay too many bands, she hung up her cod-piece and accepted that it was time to pass the title of "Supreme Goddess of Promotion" (as bestowed by Joey DeMaio, be-loin-clothed "legend" from Manowar) on. Highlights of the past few years include building bands like Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Dimmu Borgir & God Forbid in the UK, working with many other heavyweights like Napalm Death, S.O.D., The Haunted, Nevermore, Strapping Young Lad etc., having the first ever female musician (the lovely Cristina) on the cover of Terrorizer magazine, followed by the first ever female winner of Best Vocalist in the readers polls in said mag (Our Ange from Arch Enemy) and generally kick-starting the renaissance in dodgy metal bands in the UK by persuading a promoter to put Udo Dirkshneider from Accept on once. Fistfuls of cash and happy gumbies ensued. Balls to the wall indeed. Now entering the second year of her English degree at the spanking-new University Campus Suffolk, she hopes to get a proper job one day, although will never say never!
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Donnas pointless new blog on the search for a Portuguese team

Hello and welcome to my new blog. Posts might be irregular due to an imminent new semester at uni, but it seemed a reasonable way of getting out of doing any reading.This is the first (and hopefully o...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:36:00 GMT

Is it really that long..

...since we wrote anything on here? Since it's only about five weeks (and counting) until we're off for another jaunt to Iberia, I felt is was only right that I put some old clap trap on here to...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:07:00 GMT

Off we go......

...In preparation for the european-wide celebrations of Simon's impending birthday (21 again - prove any different.). The Doling massive will be de-camping to our favoured European hotspot of Portugal...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:55:00 GMT

Alex Samuel Doling

The Doling Massive continues to grow.... Alex Samuel Doling  born 12.22am Saturday 30th September. Mother and Baby fine and well.
Posted by on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:46:00 GMT

WDE - Hotsy Girl Video

Found this on You Tube, it's a promo for Hotsy Girl that was taken from the scrapped full length movie that was done inconjunction with the Mutoid Waste Company (obviously well before my time with 'em...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:40:00 GMT

Friends Comments - Picture Disclaimer...Please read!

Whilst I'm honoured and flattered at some of the nice comments that friends and collegues have left on our page, I've been dismayed to say the least recently about some of the pictures that some of my...
Posted by on Thu, 25 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT

Possibly the truest words about music yet.....

  Join the 17 today! Bill Drummond (resident of Suffolk) has a new project. Anyone interested in joing forces on it? http://www.the17.org/index.htm
Posted by on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:07:00 GMT

New Zu & Dalek Video, loving this work..

This is top banana... http://www.monkeyloveweb.com/47thfloor/videozu/zu.htm  
Posted by on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:43:00 GMT

Streaming World Dom

The whole album 'Let's Play Domination' streaming online. This resource from Engine Studios is worth checking out, there's a few goodies on there. http://www.engine-studios.com/vpp/Punk/Pages/STreesLa...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:16:00 GMT

Online Cheesecake sounds...

Found this the other day. It's a radio station in Providence that seem to be regular Terminal Cheesecake spinners. The track, 'neu seeland' from Pearlesque Kings of The Jewmost, starts about 45 mins i...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:00:00 GMT