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The Dirty Backbeats
Psychedelic / Blues / Punk

"BBC INTRODUCING w/ TOM ROBINSON-BE SURE TO LISTEN!"

Leicester,
United Kingdom

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Member Since5/29/2005
Band Websitethedirtybackbeats.com
Band MembersGrant - Vocals
Rob - Guitar
Jess - Drums
Lee - Keys
Ian - Bass
InfluencesTom Waits
The Doors
The Sonics
Muddy Waters
Captain Beefheart
Love
The Bonzos
Nuggets

Booking / Press Agent: daniel@mixedtapeagency.co.uk
Sounds Like"Like going to the circus on acid!" www.fipzie.com
A riotous concoction of blues, punk and psychedelic gypsy rock, Leicester’s Dirty Backbeats’ live shows are pure chaos, reigned in only by the magnetic pull of their awesome onstage antics and exhilarating music. Expect sweat, blood and tears, and some of the most original and magical music to come out of the midlands. Pure rock’n’roll for the 21st century.
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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 13 2008 8:00P
loughborough orange tree festival loughborough
Jul 18 2008 8:00P
The George Tavern - The Acid Gallery London, London and South East
Aug 1 2008 8:00P
Vibe Bar London, London and South East
Aug 21 2008 8:00P
CHARLOTTE - w/ THE DEATH SET leicester
Sep 6 2008 8:00P
DERBY FESTIVAL - cancelled derby
Nov 14 2008 8:00P
93 Feet East London, London and South East

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   About The Dirty Backbeats



The Dirty Backbeats are a high octane 5 piece combo from Leicester blending Beefheart's mystic blues skitz, Love's RnB infused psychedelia and a healthy dose of English eccentricity. The band honed their sound throughout 2005/6, attracting attention from national and local media and as a result have developed an enviable live reputation that has seen them compared to artists as diverse as The Cramps, The Who, Tom Waits and Kings Of Leon. This acclaim has grown considerably with recent airplay on BBC Radio6 from Steve Lamacq, Rob Da Bank and Marc Riley and Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1. The Band recorded a session for BBC Radio 2 for the Mark Lamarr show who has featured tracks from the band many times, including whilst covering for Jonathan Ross on his Saturday morning Radio 2 show. New songs are to be previewed at forthcoming shows before the year is out, whilst there is also talk of an EP release later in the year


> Timeout 08 Mark Lamarr faves The Dirty Backbeats, whose contageously eccentric psychedelic blues rock draws on Syd Barrett, The Cramps and Tom Waits with much eye-rolling and yelping from their amiably bonkers frontman.

"And there are much worse ways to spend a warm afternoon in a boiling Musician Stage tent than locals The Dirty Backbeats. The Mark Lamarr favourites look like three bands compressed into one and sound like about six, to be precise the Sonics, the Magic Band, Tom Waits, the Doors, Love and the Cramps. All that injected with several bucketfulls of energy goes into making their uniquely riotous psychedelic circus mutant blues sound, all sudden switches and tightly coiled rockouts, yet what makes them such a live spectacle is frontman Grant, entering the stage in a fox mask and unable to go a second without some sort of twitch, gesticulation, gurn or jump, hanging from the PA and stage structure and heading deep into the full tent on a couple of occasions. This is the third time we've seen them and they keep getting better and better, but the array of stunned faces exiting the tent and making directly for the merch tent told its own story".
SweepIng The Nation on the Summer Sundae Festival 2007

"The Dirty Backbeats get off to a false start when someone forgets to turn singer Grant's mike on, but once sorted their superbly out-there sound crystallises. Their fractured sound could easily have found a home on the famed Nuggets compilation, variously also reminiscent of the psychedelic explosion, Tom Waits, Love, the Cramps, mutant blues and all warped points west. Enhanced by Grant's unstoppable manaical mid-song gurning and 'dancing' and an ultra-tight band, unsuspected observers all around us are drawn in to what can only be summed up, using someone else's words, as a "gypsy circus troupe" and a spectacular way to, erm, end the build-up."
Metro Newspaper on The Summer Sundae Fringe Festival 2007

"Like a gypsy circus troupe with rabid Jack White ringmaster, The Dirty Backbeats act like they're the first to grow their hair and play awesome psychedelic garage rock."
The Fly 2006

"The Dirty Backbeats currently have a single doing the rounds via Sorted entitled 'The Bop' which we will be sending out begging letters for on the evidence of 'Sticks 'n' Bones' featured here - surreal kaleidoscopic helter skelter swamp pop that's part Pretty Things 'SF Sorrow' renting a vacant space from loon landlord Tom Waits inside the weirdly eccentric mind of Vivian Stanshall while being wrestled into dayglo oblivion by lashings of 60's keys - damaged stuff indeed."
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MANIACAL GARAGE ROCK STEEPED IN ORIGINALITY AND CHARM An unsigned band’s ability to crowd a large number of bodies into a small venue is a sure sign that things are afoot. When the band in question is as unique and off kilter as The Dirty Backbeats, that hometown buzz is entirely deserved. A frenzied freakshow of psychedelic blues, wacky rock headfuck and captivating song structure, The Dirty Backbeats can do no wrong tonight. Frontman Grant, darkly eccentric, jerks around the stage as if treading on live wires, while hirsute keyboardist Lee provides all manner of aural hues and panto weirdness. Like a less dense Eighties Matchbox paired up with a modern, schizo take on The Doors, this is a band whose engagingly familiar components are twisted up in a way that makes them utterly unlike anyone you’ve seen before. The galloping ‘Nightwatchman’ is equal parts quirky quickstep and Sir Digby Chicken Caesar from ‘That Mitchell And Webb Look’. Set closer ‘The Bop’, clearly a crowd favourite, is first ominous and then charging like a nutter, while new songs comprise extraordinary time changes and bursts of colourful English eccentricity. The Dirty Backbeats are a band you need to watch twice just to confirm your drink wasn’t spiked. >P>
Steve Bebee Kerrang Magazine Dec 2006
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Jul 6 2008 3:00 PM

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Jun 23 2008 8:48 AM

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Jun 22 2008 4:02 AM

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Jun 19 2008 4:36 AM

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Jun 17 2008 5:41 AM

Hellooooo!!

hope you can come down to londoooon!!

otherwise, see you in July at your gig ;->

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Helloooo!!!

This is a mid summer psychedelic week special!!

Hope you can join us and dance and drink and laugh :->

GoGos xxxxx

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Jun 16 2008 12:55 PM

alright grant its jake the cravattes drumer, yeah this is my band i told you about on friday.
have a listen see what you think n if you wona put us on some time at sumo or want us to play with dirty back beats my numbers 07507599014 or just my space us nice one, oh yeah wev got an organ player n all but he didnt join till after the recordings haha nice one
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Jun 14 2008 6:47 AM

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Jun 13 2008 5:00 AM

Hi guys.....hope you can make this

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Jun 12 2008 3:30 AM

I prefer to listen to your music rather than really go to the circus on acid... i think that means i like it ! ; )
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Jun 8 2008 3:46 PM

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Jun 8 2008 1:39 PM

LANTAN the reggae genie sending some love & support ..one love
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Jun 5 2008 8:01 AM

hey we are gonna rehearse next to you guys, I love the bop,a classic tune
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Jun 3 2008 1:18 AM

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Jun 2 2008 1:16 AM

Is that BBC Introducing I hear...I think it just may be ya know. Hats off you filthy filthy lil beauties!!

Lets spread this filth hey!! Much love love and cherry backwells! X X

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May 30 2008 4:01 PM

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May 25 2008 10:17 AM

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May 19 2008 8:16 AM

Hola Dirty Backbeats,

Thank you for coming to Kwids In and putting on a brilliant show.
You've definately gained some fans!
Hope to see you up in Liverpool again in the future.

Love Fifi and Gwenny
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May 19 2008 7:04 AM

mega gig at korova guys, we love the vinyl too
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May 18 2008 9:41 AM

Thanks for the add, and keep your ears peeled for "Sexy Bing Bang Bong!" our entry for next years Eurovision Song Contest!
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May 12 2008 3:54 AM

Hi all
Thanks for a great sweaty night at at THE DONKEY on saturday night.
Awesome stuff.
We must do it again

Gaz
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