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Dirty Dwellings

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Member Since: 29/06/2006
Band Website: www.dirtydwellings.co.uk
Influences: Radiohead, Four Tet/Fridge, Juana Molina, Hood/Bracken, Tortoise, Slint, Gomez, Boards of Canada, Bjork, The Beta Band, Grizzly Bear, Broken Social Scene, Eels, Modest Mouse, Beck, The Caribbean, Air, Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, American Analog Set, John Vanderslice, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Goldfrapp, The Cardigans, Vines, White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Cooper Temple Clause, DJ Shadow, U.N.K.L.E., RJD2, Massive Attack, Portishead, Death in Vegas, Maximo Park, Bloc Party, Jamie Lidell, Battles, Blur, Mogwai, Yo La Tengo, Calexico, Manitoba/Caribou, Broadcast, Squarepusher, Prefuse 73, The Mars Volta, Can, Bedouin Soundclash, Ladyhawk, The Police, The Beatles, Zombies, Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, Thee More Shallows, Oneida, Seaworthy, Espers, Elbow.
Sounds Like: I haven’t eaten in a week

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Essex Gig

Aloha! On our arrival from Hawaii we found an envelope on the doormat, nestled amongst the pizza adverts and spent fireworks. 'Hark', it read, 'Dirty Dwellings, the priapic pair, shall be stuffi...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:04:00 GMT

Rough Beats Weekend

Ahoy hoy!We just got back from the Rough Beats Festival oop north and a grand time we had indeed. After crawling into our sleeping bags (or not, as it was for some of our number) around the weird hour...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:01:00 GMT

General updates

Hello all, We've been busy behind the scenes lining up gigs, attempting to convene for musik machen, and individually thinking about things, like stuff. So, we'll soonly have some more music and anno...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:38:00 GMT

Dirty Dwellings get the remix treatment

Just as the threads were beginning to fray on one of our tracks, 'And That's Why&', it has been knitted a cosy new musical sweater by Zak Mering, aka Insted.  Lloyd's been a massive fan of his si...
Posted by on Mon, 14 May 2007 02:43:00 GMT

The Distance (new track)

Ok, so here is a track called something like 'The Distance' or 'Distance' or something. Lloyd loves this song and Jack kind of hates it because it involves a piece of hardware which he has issues with...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:23:00 GMT

New Song

We have not made music until now.  "Secret Houses" is the first of what will be a new wave in our musical conquest.  We like it very much.  Put headphones on and shove it in, please.&nb...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:53:00 GMT

New name, the future

Right, after the considerable amount of thought that went into Broken Sleep, I really should have made sure there weren't, say, 2 other bands with that exact name already.  Anyway, in the interes...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:19:00 GMT