Michael Dog

Thanks for visiting my page.

For the last few years, I've been co-hosting the DOGS IN SPACE chillout tent at SOLFEST in Cumbria.

If you haven't come across Solfest before, you've been missing out on the absolute BEST festival in the North of England!! You can get a feel for this off the wall, friendly and wonderfully lighthearted event by having a look at http://www.solwayfestival.co.uk

For people missing that MEGADOG vibe, Dogs in Space takes it's cue from Megadog's long-running eclectic predecessor CLUB DOG which ran weekly in London between 1985 and 1993 featuring all manner of contemporary music and live performance. Dogs in Space is the closest thing to the old Club Dog/Megadog show that you'll find anywhere...just a more downtempo version of it.

We run non-stop all day and night over the 3 days in a beautifully decorated, carpeted marquee with full DJ and VJ support, easy chairs, sofas and the best cafe onsite. The photographs on my 'pics' page give an idea of the kind of vibe that we create over the 3 days.

Better still, these 2 videos give a good idea of what you've been missing. Maybe see you there next year?

As for me...

It was like this:

In brief, I worked out what 'hippie' meant sometime in my early teens and never looked back. Now I know what 'old hippie' means and I'm just about getting used to it. ...Went to the Stonehenge free festival at an impressionable age, kept going back, helped set up Club Dog, went to loads more free festivals back when they were still 'free' then co-ran Megadog (www.megadog.co.uk) for more years than I can remember and finally set up Planet Dog Records (www.planetdogrecords.com). DJ'd for more years than I can remember, playing everything from bangin' hard trance to house, drum n' bass and all manner of chillout tunes (not in the same set though!). I still dabble and advertise my rare but perfectly formed DJ appearances in the 'gigs' section of this page...don't hold your breath though, they really ARE rare!!

A few years back, I co-wrote an album with my old mate Steve Rowlands from Full Moon Scientist, the first recording project I'd been involved in for a little while. The album's called 133 Thursdays and is available on Interchill Records (www.interchill.com) catalogue number ICHILLCD028. The tracks on this page are from the album. You can check out all the album tracks at www.pushmipulyu.com or the full(er) Pushmipulyu story at www.myspace.com/pushmipulyu.

...WE EVEN MADE A VIDEO FOR OUR TRACK 'REVERIE' WHICH WE CALLED 'PUSHMIS GO MAD IN THE BLUEBELLS or AN OBJECT LESSON IN HOW NOT TO TAKE YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY!' HAVE A LOOK AT THIS BUT YOU HAVE TO PLAY IT RIGHT TO THE END:

Check back in a while and I might just have managed to write something a little deeper/more cosmic /more informative but for now, thanks for having a look at this page and remember...

Live each day as if it were your last one on earth and one day...you'll be right!

(Dr Murray Banks)

Or if you prefer...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

(from a sign that greeted arrivals every year at the entrance to the Stonehenge free festival)