D and the Family Kart include: 'Dangerous' Dave Skinner (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar), Abe Cougar-Wolf (Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals), 'Growlin'' Ross McLaughlin(Bass), Lock Steel(Drums/Maurice Gibb Backing Vocals), The first ever ape in space - 'Mongonaut' Bongo 'Peanut' Maria(Bongos/Cigarettes), Sandy 'Kebab' Sanchez(Keyboards Extraordinaire), and El Kevano (Keys Tres-Extraordinaire)
Influences
Mostly Alcohol and Nicotine plus:
Parliament, Funkadelic, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Mel Bay, Buckfast, Pressure, Freddie Mercury, Hot Chocolate, James Brown, Bill Hicks, Talking Heads, Daft Punk, LRD, Scorpions (animal, not band), Grandmaster Flash, Muddy Waters, Mark Walters, Chic, Groove Armada, Ferenc Puskas, Mushrooms, Buckfast, Richard Pryor, Steve Kirk, Mongo Santamaria, Columbo, 70s Blaxploitation Soundtracks, Stella, Kippers, The Arches, Slam Tent at T in the Park, A Guy Called Gerald, Eddie Murphy, Pixies, Blackadder, Soulwax, 3-2-1, Courvoisier, Buckfast, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, The Black Crowes, Bullseye, Faith No More, Bryan Ferry, Arthur Monford, Prince, Starsky & Hutch, Regal King Size, Glen Michael, Palladin, Diego Maradona, Bee Gees, Buckfast, Neil Young, Buckfast, The Soprano's, Inner City, Alfredo Di Stefano, New Order, Chas & Dave, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Commodores, Limited Edition Black Boon, Freddie Flatcap, Johnny Cash, Trivial Pursuit, Derek Griffiths, Scatman John, Dennis Leary, Buckfast, Tom McKean (Boxed in in the heats), Dougie Arnott, Dr. Alban, Regal King Size, Haddaway, Ron Burgandy, Dr Kenneth Noisewater, Buckfast, Trivial Pursuit, Paul Shane, Red Stripe, Eusebio, Buckfast, Floella Benjamin, Dusty Bin, Bully, The A-Team, Buckfast, Golden Virginia, Red Leb, Saft Black, Widow, Soapbar, Pepé Le Pew, Regal King Size, Buckfast, Andy Bell, Vince Clarke, The Two Chimneys Bar Carvery & Grill, Gordon Skinner,Regal King Size, Benjamin Bareballs, Harry "tache" Preston, Alan Partridge, Buckfast, Derek Pinehurst, Brian Bumsex, Tits, Tiger Wolf, Leftfield, Total Recall, Benny, Harry, Quaid, Motor Booty, Stu Who, Inner City Sumo, Monkey Tennis, Arm Wrestling With Chas & Dave, Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank, Cooking in Prison
Sounds Like
We are preoccupied and dedicated to the preservation of the motion of the hips
"This could be the worst thing in the world. Its like crashing round at the D-Karts house, and waking up to find them sucking your cock' - Kunt & The Gang
"A D-Karts gig is an intense experience, like being sprayed with fecal matter." - Brian Bumsex
"Listening to the D-Karts is worse than sex. A lot worse, actually." - Jason Shepherd
"Up next were the D-Karts - they played, sounded like the Bee Gees with some bongos, and left. Yawwwn" Jamie Crossan jockrock.org
'One of Glasgow's best funk bands. You gotta love these guys, they are just plain crazy' Element Magazine August 2006
'They started off badly, tailed off slightly in the middle, and the less said about the end, the better. But apart from that excellent!' Captain Blackadder
'The Wee-Farts are, without hyperbole, a million times better than every other band in the universe' - One of the guys from Franz Ferdinand (maybe)
"Not unlike Chas & Dave. Never as good though." Chas or Dave
"Other artists include Bela, Wake The President, D-Karts, Samantha Seth, The Punchline Is Murder, Fokara, Daybreak, Laker and Futuro" Vivienne Nicoll, Evening Times
'No bad' - Kay Lockhart
'I love the bass players face' - Mrs McLaughlin
"Bar none, the greatest band in the world, without a doubt" - 'Dangerous' Dave Skinner
'A band slicker and more efficient than Kate Moss with a bag of charlie' some guy said about a band once. That band may or may not have been us and he may or may not have said it at all but more importantly we have managed to fill a space in what was once a vacuous box...
We are the D-Karts. The masters of verisimilitude bring funk attitude for the multitude from a great altitude. Were a Glasgow based band, our apartments smell of rich mahogany and have many leather-bound books within. You will be, I promise, staggered by the awesome power of a fully operational D-Karts...
And here is a photo of a couple of our fans:
Plus Dave HAS seen Branson's 'pickle'. His opinion: manageable.
JonZip, Jonny and Dave are gearing up to deliver another legendary helping of punkrockblues in Glasgow on 27 November...see below and get tickets HERE!!!
Saturday 22 Nov @ Blackfriars Basement. With Guest: Jamie Ramage Minimal / Techno / Detroit techno and all for the minimal price of £5 + FREE CDs for the first 50 people through the door :)
Next gig : Genre Is A Dirty Word, G12, Glasgow, 08/11/08
I'll be playing with Cinephile, Marco Bernardi, Conor Mason & The Lava Experiments. Special guest DJ Mash. Doors 7pm and first act on @ 7. 45 - get there early!
Hey guys i like your stuff. I'm an audio engineer working from Central Sound Studio in Glasgow. If you guys are interested in recording your own material in a fully equipped professional recording studio or just require the services of an audio engineer please get in touch and leave me a comment. peace.
Right click and Save As on the link below to download a free 320k of my track "Hit Em."
Decription - Funky breaks / wompy b-line / swoopy scratches / rocky guitar synth. The bass is tuned pretty low so sounds best on a sub or club system.. If you liked "Led Heavy" (which you can still download from my blog) then check this out.
Hope you enjoy and feel free to pass around to mates.
Big ups and check out my radio show on Brap. FM, every 1st and 3rd Tuesday 8pm - The Dope Beats Show, live from Bristol spinning the finest Breaks, UK HipHop, Funk and mashup.. :o)
please sign up to our new website......it's easy done just sign your e-mail and name and we'll send you updates of all our newsletter ,tour's, gig's, single and album releases...and loads more.......thanks for your time....love the law.....x
Hi D-Karts Hope you're good Just spreading the news ' 'Scratch Lesson 1' is out NOW EXCLUSIVE on beatport . Breaks & House mix's With support from Janette Slack (so hot right now interview ), Radio 1 , Kiss, Galaxy, Ministry + many more... Subscribe to Bermuda Triangle Records at beatport for alerts on new release's. Keep the beats blazing respect! Angel x
Whole Lotta Led, the UK's leading Led Zeppelin tribute act, are playing at the Classic Grand in Glasgow on Friday 15th August where they will be performing 'The O2 Set'.
More Information on the band can be found at their website and tickets for the show can be bought online now from TicketWeb, or from Tickets Scotland in Glasgow (under the bridge at Central Station).
THIS WEEKEND AT NUMBERS...
I-F (Viewlexx) - The man who exposed the world to the long forgotten sound of Italo Disco thru his Mixed Up In The Hague DJ mix series!
Truffle Club - live! (Dissident) - Glasgow legend and one-half of the Optimo remix team!
Hello, hope all is good just dropping by to say our album is now only £2+postage, for 12 tracks on limited edition cd our shop is http://d67. bigcartel. com, thanks and take care, Absent.
hi there thanks for accepting our request. we hope you enjoy our music and have the time to listen. we should hopefully be recording new material. so stay in touch yeh?
I added a new song to the player. It’s called “Frantic Freedom”.
It’s a live studio groove rock jam that’s funky as hell! Think of Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxey Lady” on steroids, and you’ll have a good idea of what’s in store for you when you hear the song. There’s also a companion live video for the song. And in the video I DO MY UPSIDE-DOWN GUITAR PLAYING THING. Ya gotta see it!!
**IF YOU DIG IT, YOU CAN BUY THE LIVE JAM TRACK FROM THE VID FROM MY SNOCAP STORE!
Also, I added TWO MORE videos. One is called “a little bit of my history”, in which I talk about some of the things that shaped me as a guitar player. The last new vid is called “Rocket Dreams”, a straight-up rock jam!
Hello, D-Karts just to let you know today's highlights...
Whiskas, frontman of Forward Russia and the founder of the Dance to the Radio record label will give a FREE talk today in he Studio, BD1 Gallery, Centenary Square Bradford at 1pm-1:45pm
Lightspeed Champion plays St Georges Hall, Bradford tonight £9/£7 tickets 01274 432000 www. seetickets. com
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