They were influenced by whatever they could get their hands on: Pere Ubu, John Barry, Miles Davis, Burt Bacharach, Patrice Rushton, Dr Buzzard's Savannah Band.
In those formative, 'post punk' years many new young 'new wave' bands played support to Dislocation Dance, like China Crisis, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Scritti Politti, and an adolescent Mick Hucknall. A very young, radical and entrenched vegan, Tim Booth, hitched a lift in Dislocation Dance's tour bus and brain stormed names for his new band: "what do'ya think about James?" Many took a little piece of Dislocation Dance's extraordinary ability to plunder and experiment with them the echoes of Dislocation Dance's influence can still be heard in the late '90's: would there now be a Cardigans or Belle and Sebastian?
Signed to the Buzzcock's label, then Rough Trade Records in the early '80's Dislocation Dance remain a curiously important, but strangely undocumented contributor to pop history. Dislocation Dance stormed through musical genres. Eclectic and unpredictable, they created new hybrids and blurred the boundaries between pop, dance and jazz.
Now, reconstituted and rejuvenated and back on the road
Thanks guys! new songs going up on my page today so check them out! great to hear from you.... that gig in whally range feels almost like a life time ago! hope all is cool with you x
At last Dislocation Dance are on the web! may we be the first to post a comment and wish you all success in new ventures. lots of love Andy and Richard xxxx
