Love, Life, Family, my kids , Boo Radleys, Pale Fountains/Shack, Pete wylie/Wah, Lotus Eaters, Queen, Beatles, Elton John, Motown, Radiohead, Embrace, Tears for Fears, Lloyd Cole, Ben Folds, Longpigs , Marc Almond, Antony and the Johnsons, Blancmange, David Gray, Heaven 17, Guillemots, Kevin Rowland and Dexy's midnight runners, The Feeling, OMD, Soft Cell, Keane, Adam and the ants, Aztec camera, Jeff Buckley, Jacques Brel, Teddy Thompson, sertab.
Sounds Like
REM, Michael Stipe, Neil Young, Radiohead, Embrace, Jeff Buckley, David Gray, Lloyd Cole.
Dale
Olivier was born in Pietermaritzburg in
South Africa but moved to London in the spring of 1990 and joined London band
Fur-lined. The band signed to Complete Music a division of the Cherry Red group
and recorded 2 singles. The first single was produced by Pat
collier ( Vibrators, Wonderstuff ). "
Love is Dead" was a 7 minute long Indie classic and got to no 4 on the
alternative music charts in South Africa on 5 F.M. The single and it's B-side "
Dear Jayne" also received a lot of airplay on Radio One , G.L.R and
more. Some of their gigs were attended by a then unknown Liam Gallagher. Second
single " Kitchen Party" also received a lot of radioplay and numerous
reviews in the N.M.E and MELODY MAKER. The band split due to tension and musical
differences.
Dale's debut self produced solo album "
Winter Colours in Summer" was released in 2000 and generated a lot of rave
reviews including the NME who called the single " In the country" "Brilliant
and Superb" and TNT who said "Destined for big things" . One
of the tracks " Jackripper" went to number 1 in Italy and Spain on the
Peoplesound charts and stayed in that position for a month. The album was a
lovely acoustic based drawing board for Dale's very personal lyrics and features
dreamy alt.country-ish songs like "In
the Country", "Jackripper" and epic piano ballads like
"Tonight ( Can't get used to losing you ) and more ".
His second solo album " Fountainhead"
was released in 2002 and featured some of Dale's most emotional and honest
songs. It was a much bigger and epic sounding record than his previously
acoustic debut. "Fountainhead"
is full of strings, emotional and honest vocals, piano, big drums, eery organs
and a lush production. The first single from "Fountainhead" was the
beautiful violin lead "Mary"
featuring Claire Watts. This very brave single is about Dale's aunty who suffers
from Down Syndrome and is in a mental institution in Natal, South Africa. ( Mary
since died in Dec 2004 Bless her soul but this song has immortalised her ). Even
though the song was not an obvious choice as a single Dale released it with a
bizzare video featuring him in an authentic 1960s straight Jacket. The video was
produced by Rudolf
Buitendach.
His self produced 3rd album followed and was a
limited edition lo-fi acoustic record that took him back to his acoustic roots.
The album titled " Hope and a Northern Girl" features 9 new acoustic
songs written by Dale in 2003. "Hope" features songs like: Judy, Hope,
Mad Mad World, I won't go away and more. Dale is currently a member of electro
pop outfit The
Ejector Seats and is also recording songs for his 4th album " Sugar Cane and Banana Fields " including new songs like "Time to say Goodbye", "Sorry", "Valentines Day", "Dan at the Gates" , "You want a family", "Sugar Cane and Banana Fields" and a cover of Edith Piaf's "No Regrets" + more so watch this space.
"FOUNTAINHEAD" the album from DALE OLIVIER now available from ..
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Hi Dale, The Mams have two spanking new tarty tunes up on our myspace page. They are two tracks from our forthcoming 9 track CD produced by Carl Bevan, ex-60ft Dolls. Hope you like! Best wishes, Jon x
Hey MR
Its Friday, yipeee, is it Friday there by you yet? haha
Can't wait to see you again and your new gal, we definately going to have some fun. What's your favourite number?
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