Hyde. The town that spawned Hyndley and Brady, the place where Dr Shipman had his practice, the home of Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton...Even the BBC time travelling cop show "Life on Mars" is based in Hyde. With credentials like these, you just know this is a town like no other.
Nothing ordinary about Hyde.
Nothing ordinary about DILE either.
Originally hailing from Hyde, DILE was the brainchild of lead singer Dennis Matthews and comprised of customers who used to come into his record shop to buy the sort of music that just wasn’t available in the other stores. Armed with people of a similarly eclectic taste in music, the first DILE CD was born and the first gigs took place.
From that first CD, the standout track “Garstang” was soon picked up on by local radio stations and quickly became a cult favourite with listeners helping the band win a huge army of fans drawn in by the bizarre but amusing imagery created by its lyrics.
A few line up changes later and another CD in the bag, the band line up has now settled into its present state earning a reputation as a live act to look out for. Support slots with the likes of The Fall, The Undertones, Half Man-Half Biscuit, Hugh Cornwell, The Alarm and soon, Stiff Little Fingers at Manchesters Academy 1 mean that the Ska-tinged pop/punk/indie/rock mix that is DILE is set to get more and more popular with the masses.
Having SOLD OUT their own headline show at Manchester’s Academy 3, organising the recent “Song’s in the Key of Life” charity event at the 1200 seater Hippodrome this year and being picked as one of the final 7 bands from over 500 demos submitted to Unknown Pleasures for the Manchester International Festival, it looks like you are going to be hearing a LOT more DILE in the future. Best keep ‘em peeled!!
Keep On Keepin' On
1. Anthem, 2. Perry Boys, 3. Uncle Nobby, 4. Mister Overby, 5. Dig The New Breed, 6. Attitude, 7. A Twisted Love Song, 8. M5, 9. Take The Skinheads Bowling, 10. Scally, 11. Miracle Millie.
1. Wot is D.I.L.I.E Stylie/Football Factory, 2. Gotta Gettaway, 3. Forget The Atkins Diet, 4. 24 Hours from Delph, 5. 667 The Neighbour of the beast, 6. The Ballad of ................Lee, 7. She's a Bit Brian Clough (mate), 8. My Favorite New Band, 9. The Massive "heed" Song, 10. Christmas in Hyde (Doomsday in Hattersley), Plus a few extras.
1. Big Guy Blue Coat, 2. Werewolf Of Hattersley, 3. Eddie Muncher, 3. Interstella Overdile, 4. Garstang, 5. 7ft Roo, 6. Dead Man Not Walking, 7. Love Thy Neighbour, 8. Chineese Courtcase, 9. Coburns Brown.
I was going to try and make a rhyme similar to Ottawan's D.I.S.C.O. for D.I.L.E. but I got confused and distracted by a sparrow wearing a bob-hat at my window.
GOOD MORNING!! It's the Wake Up Show! Hey we are on the air right now...send us your music and we will play you right now. Check us out xradio.biz email your music to sandy@xradio.biz
si , you and big D are coming on my lil show on tues , send me the name of a track by a band that has influenced you and i will get it played for you along with a few dile ones too :O) bet Dennis has forgotten to tell you , i will ring the big daft dope tomorrow , though i dread ringing him as i can wipe out 2 hrs of me life he talks that much and i thought i was bad :O) i love him though really :O) Reet xx
A brand new tune from Night of Treason not due for release until 15th August , however due to the sad passing of Harry Patch the last WW1 soldier we have decided to put it up with a special slide show to honour him and all those who fought so we could enjoy our freedom...
The Midlife Dementia Show’ bring their radio sketch show to the stage for the first time…second time, at 9pm, Wednesday the 27th of May at Sandbar, 120-122 Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HL.
They aim to make the majority of you brake into that involuntary human spasm called laughter. Some of you will involuntary open your bowels as a reaction to our humour. Some of you will leave. Oh yes we are quite close to the bone and one of them will get the bone on stage.
Andy C, Andy W and Colin recreate some of their popular sketches and maybe create some new ones as the show goes live. Did the Virgin Mary really get pregnant through Immaculate Conception, or did she just have a bit on the side? Have Walker’s crisps taken leave of their senses? Is Moon Unit Zappa really Prince Charles? Did Jimi Hendrix find a brontosaurus skull in his garden? Where did they get this information, and if so, where? What’s this pain in my scrotum? Is it serious? Should they consult theiry GP? Do you care? Probably not but if you don’t want to stay at home and recreate the final episode of ‘The Prisoner’ with the people on your street and your old headmaster as number 6, you could do a lot worse than to check them out next Wednesday.
Admission is £4 on the door or £2 with a student c
People of Manchester – we’re playing the delightful, Moho Live on Thursday 21st May. Their will be jugglers, taxidermy, colouring in, advanced sock puppetry…In fairness probably just music – but we may pull a few shapes! So get down! X
The Midlife Dementia Show goes live the first Tuesday of every month 7pm till 10pm on Manchester Radio Online. The first show being this Tuesday the 2nd December.
As a friend of Killaflaw we'd like to give you the opportunity of purchasing our uniquely numbered, limited edition CD single 'Revolution' which also includes the much loved 'Holy Fuck' on the B side.
There are only 1000 copies in existence and further copies will be sold without these unique numbers, so here is your chance to own a piece of music history from the LIPA award winning band dubbed by Eddy dance/rock guru Temple-Morris "the missing link between Soundgarden and The Prodigy"
The record is of course also available to buy as MP3 download.
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