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The Dudley Corporation

Year of the Husband!

About Me



Whoa. The Dudley Corporation are Joss, Mark and Dudley.
They do things like release fine records, get married and play tremulous rock concerts, travelling the world and losing small fortunes.
What are we at! The new LP, "Year of the Husband", is sitting in a pressing plant somewhere as we speak, the lawyers are figuring out when it'll be safe to unleash on your ears: We robbed a lot of these riffs straight from the lap of the gods, need to know if they're going to be litigious or not! With fancy art by Rick Froberg (Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes) visit Absolutely Kosher to find out when you can get your copy...
Our last LP "In Love With The Dudley Corporation" was considered the 56th best Irish lp of all time by Hot Press magazine, and came something like 8th or 9th in Alternative Ulster's records of 2004. Deadly. It was recently issued in Australia on Wireless Records through MGM.
We're going to keep it quiet on the gig front for now, apart from a couple of Charity things over the next few weeks, details below, but Summer '08 will see the most profitable tour of all time commence. Sorry, least profitable. In fact the most guaranteed to see our houses repossessed tour of all time. We love this!


Mark terroromising some Pinbackers .
"in Liebe With..."
Labels:
Europe - Scientific Laboratories & Laterax
US - Absolutely Kosher
Australia - Wireless Records
Japan - And Records


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/26/2004
Band Website: thedudleycorporation.com
Band Members: Lads

Some reviews...

"These Dubliners are the masters of gentle, wistful songs and lush soundscapes." - OK Magazine

"this Dublin three-piece have perfected the whole stop/start, quiet bit/loud bit thing. They manage to be both epic and minimal." - Q Magazine

"Buy it. The ghost of Chet Baker meets the ghost of Kurt Cobain on a sleepover at Burt Bacharach's ranch." - Evening Herald

"When they got to the crossroads with the sign reading 'comfortable mediocrity' one way and 'awkward brilliance' the other, Dublin's The Dudley Corporation are one of those rare bands who've chosen the latter" - Rock Sound

"they can balance anarchy and airplay, enhancing rhythmic rupture and emotional impact by slowing down and loosening up." - Irish Times

"The Dudley Corporation are arguably making the most compelling music in Ireland at the minute. Captivating and brilliant in equal measure" - Alternative Ulster

"fourteen more reasons to fall in love with the Dudley Corporation" - Hot Press

"Complex, edgy, stop-start rushes without becoming too convoluted to jettison their tunes. Super-smart stuff." - Irish Times

"It's been such a long time since a band has made a sound half as exciting as this. Only The Strokes have made a record as instantaneously thrilling in 2001." - Limerick Leader

“toe-tapping melodies, great vocal harmonies and crystal clear guitars” - Record Collector, UK

"It is a John Cusack of a rock album: the songs full of a robust, boyish energy, an I-can't-stop-myself hyperactivity, a tremendous intelligence and a tendency to go off without any notice on fantastic, mind-boggling tangents.” - Hot Press, Ireland

“’slanted and enchanted’ on a weird sugar buzz or something equally loveable” - The Event Guide, Ireland

Influences:
The above is Duds recently played eartunes.
Otherwise, Megadeth, Meshuggah, Drive Like Jehu and Caetano Veloso. Pummelling hardcore jums and delicious hippy nonsense suits us fine...
Sounds Like: warm nutella for your ears.

No big pics in the comments please, we just delete 'em!!!
Record Label: Not enough space here, so look up!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rest of Pinback Tour Diary

25/11/07 Whelans, Dublin The homecoming.... Dublin has become a bit of a funny one for us. We're convinced no-one likes us here anymore as we've been around for far too long and have bored the city si...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:19:00 PST

Euro tour diary, thus far

18/11/2007 De Engel, Den Helder Good lord. Every once in while along comes a gig that breaks you. I don't mean in terms of a band splitting, but bodies. We rolled into the venue at about 3pm, and the ...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:35:00 PST

Tour dates

The Dudley Corporation::: Hi folks, Just wanted to let you know our final tour dates before we set off on Saturday. We most likely won't yet have the new album on sale, but we *will*...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:29:00 PST

European Tour

Hey folksWho'd a thunk it? We're off on tour with Pinback again. The big fools.Before that, we've a bunch of Irish shows too, first one in Belfast ...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:32:00 PST

Newses

Deadly buzz.Take a look back on the main page, we're starting to ad dates for the Autumn release of the new album.2 big bits of news to come, firstly someone pretty special is having a crack at the ar...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:38:00 PST

Another update! Yikes!

Well, blimey, there you are. This is only going to be a brief one, expect a mail out soon with full details on the new (finally completed!!) album, tour plans etc., but golly if we're not too excited...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:59:00 PST

The Jums, as it were

What the... Somethings up. Strange sounds are rumbling. The year of the husband is coming into full effect. What are we blathering on about.... ...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:28:00 PST

see

i'm a wee bit drunk so forgive me, but i'm soooo tired of using precious moments of my boring day to excitedly log on to myspace with tantalising 'new message' promises, to only find them to be shamef...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:52:00 PST

Ging

:::The Dudley Corporation Howdy Looks like we can make it official then! Pleased to say that The Corpo have just sorted out a publishing deal with Rough Trade! Every once in a while, since I first ...
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Wed, 24 May 2006 10:40:00 PST

Songs

Couldn't fix the song player thingy, so I just deleted what was there and added some new stuff, so apologies for yer comments and that getting deleted, couldn't see what else to do!
Posted by The Dudley Corporation on Tue, 09 May 2006 07:12:00 PST