Jamie Cameron & Luke Hayden play all of the instruments between them with a little bit of help from Jamie Slade on saxophone and Rachel Lanskey on viola/violin.
The Last Dinosaur live band includes (the wonderful):
Jennifer Hall (myspace.com/thejennyhall)
Ben Bennett Rachel Lanskey and
Matthew Simper
Mat, Luke, Slade, Jamie, Jenny, Ben
No computers were used in the making of this music! Multitrack recorders are our friends!
The Song Playing At The End Of The Film Of My Life
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Words from other people:
"This pair of 22-year-olds hails from around Cambridge, England, but their music renders geography peripheral (a paradoxical twist for song titled "Home"). Instead, they sound as if they've been hanging out in each other's basement, oblivious to what was going on musically in the outside world. The result is warm and confident and "jazzy" in the way that, say, Radiohead could be said to be jazzy, i.e. by their determination not to be confined by pop's rigid melodic structure." - John Sakamoto, The Anti-Hit List, Toronto Star
"Cameron and Hayden’s obsession with childhood only adds to the wonder of the music they make together. The experimentation, the naivety, the unknown. Their songs sound as if they are stepping out into the woods, blindfolded, not knowing what to expect - then recording their experiences onto a multitrack tape. Sometimes the experiences are quietly disturbing; see ‘The Greatest Film Never Made’, others simply dreamlike sketches, moments in time, ‘Gusts Of Wind Blowing In Different Directions’. [..] Keep your eyes well and truly peeled for these guys. It seems something very, very special is afoot." - Rich Thane, The Line Of Best Fit
"Listening to The Last Dinosaur is like reverting back to a far away childhood, full of innocence and soft-light pictures that cling to the memories of safety and comfort - your favourite jumper? Your 5th birthday party? That long vacation-drive past the lake as it glimmered and sparkled in the evening sunlight? Or the summer tree-house with the rope swing? I'd say it sounds like time slowed down, but I think it's more that time doesn't exist - a point where it becomes something else and you are left standing in the same place where all the tiny seconds go to when they are wasted away." - Souls On Tape
"A droning and jazzy march towards the dusk, thousands of people stomping, and receiving a hearty round of applause from onlookers and well wishers. A welcome return to nourishment after the Radiohead album starved some of my musical senses not fulfilled by “In Rainbows”, although it’s a fantastic album, and it’s still improving. The First Last Dinosaur is a song full of clarity, and big ideas realised in a subtle and careful way. They’re not climbing any peaks, or conquering anybody - they are just enjoying the journey, and so should you. I eagerly await a live show, and the coming together of something BIG!" - Nothing But Green Lights Blog
"A maelstrom of soul and pathos, grand, heart-breaking melodies akin to Sigur Ros packaged with the passionate delivery and burning lyricism of Antony Hegarty." - Club Ugly
"The first thing you notice about The Last Dinosaur is just how unhurried their music is. Its breath-taking, connected and beautifully natural in its raw form. Like nature itself, these songs seem to surround a journeyed existence, shrouded with wonder and mystery, whilst always marching to the beat of life's true drum. The result is warm, confident and very sweet.
I personally think that The Last Dinosaur are one of the most inventive things to have surfaced from the UK this year and are by far the coolest. No doubt there will be more from these guys! - Indie & Everything After Blog
"Out of the many unsolicited myspace band friend requests, it is the exception to find something I really like, probably compounded by the fact that I rarely take these solicitations up and listen to their music. There was something about The Last Dinosaur's profile picture of a child's drawing of a dinosaur that made me want to check them out (A child's wonder that the world we inhabit is the very same world those prehistoric monsters in the dirt roamed awakens my own dormant Dinosaur awe--as if to say, "F'n Giant Lizard/Bird Carnivores were here, man! Wake up!"). And so I did, and it is safe to say that The Last Dinosaur is one of these exceptions."- Hoboghost Blog
"i really LOVE what you are doing! i would love to hear as much stuff as you have to hear." - Simon Raymonde, Bella Union
..about Home: "This song, in its repeated claim to know what home is, in its hurried clicking and worries about time, is a fine expression of one thing: that bizarre feeling after you've moved out of your parental home, and you come back to your old bedroom and realise how small it is and always was, and how the people in your hometown are different and always were. And you realise that the light there has changed, something simple and crucial, and you'll never see it as it used to be again. It'll never be your bed or your bedroom again. You're alienated, your return bus ticket rustling in your pocket the whole time you stay there. And eventually, you say to yourself "time to go home", and you leave." -The Torture Garden
"This is the part of the episode where the camera slowly zooms out to juxtapose a weighty decision with its plain context. Wide shot of a twin bed in a stark hospital room. Steady cam of a Toyota leaving someone standing in the driveway. Close up of a hand reaching out to touch a cheek. Slow motion of sneakers sprinting down an empty street, black and glistening in the streetlight. Pan to boxes being packed. Montage of memories ending in a still shot of the rememberer sitting alone in a living room arm chair." I'm Just Sayin Is All...
"Listening to today's hypnotic song (almost 8 minutes' long) for the first time, the last thing I truly expected to find out about the artist behind it, was that it was recorded by two 23 year olds from Cambridge.
For some reason, I was certain that it had to be some weird solo project and not a real band, and, for the same reason, that this strange whispering voice as well as the warm guitar sound accompanying it, came definitely from the opposite side of the Atlantic. And those lyrics.. "This house will always be home to me, regardless of where i lay my feet.. it's home.. it's home"
So I hope that this rare, for their age, maturity, is soon rewarded with the proper release of their music through a real label, as in their myspace page they're listed as still 'unsigned'." Winter Academy Blog
"This is your lucky day, if you haven't had the pleasure of hearing this song yet..." -Sixeyes Blog
"This is possible the most heartfelt song we've featured - so far!" - Souls On Tape
"I believe this is the most beautiful track that Kooba Radio will ever play." - Myles Bartoli, Kooba Radio
thanks for the comment! we enjoyed your set last week at portland arms, was a good evening. hope to come and see you again sometime when your next in cambridge.
thought i'd come by for a visit, it's been a long long time.... your new music sounds great!! love "atoms".... sat here listening to all the tunes.... great stuff!
haha, yepp, and I dropped dirty so now the extended me 6 months and I sentenced me to 7 days in jail, next week, ha, yea, it's all good though, fuck em they can't stop me, ha.
But that's awesome man, I'm really looking forward to hearing the album.
Hey man, sorry it's been taking so long, but I just filmed half of the Record Player video yesterday, and I'm trying to have the rest of the filming done by the end of the month. I wanted this to released by Halloween, but all these project I've been involved with and dealing with probation, bbut I promise no matter what it will be done before December, I'm really putting a lot of work into it, even though the idea is a lot simplified from the original idea I told you, you'll be impressed by it's deep concept and amount of detail, but yea, it'll be good, and I like to take my time on things to make sure of it. Oh yea, and there's a burial.
! not at all my friend. in fact, only yesterday did i get the go ahead to begin experimenting with sounds for this (as my gear was being held at a friendly house all along). but before anything happens, i need to go see where the wild things are.
I most defiantly am! But my sound isn't always the same... for instance on this album I am trying to put out called "Spirit and It's Unwinding Tale", I will have more noise and a circuit bent keyboard and more homemade drumming and piano but of course it will not all sound the same either... thank you friends
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