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Treatise (Millionaire Kidult Radio Edit)
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Treatise (Millionaire Kidult Radio Edit)
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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Down-tempo / Electro

    Location Nottingham, England, Stockholms län, SE

    Profile Views: 23344

    Last Login: 11/16/2011

    Member Since 4/4/2006

    Website shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/220.html

    Record Label Shifty Disco

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    The single 'Treatise' is available for download here ..www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/Treatise.. .... .. ...... cover stars 'GIRLS AT THE POOL'. Production still from The Rape of the Sabine Women. Photo by Benedikt Partenheimer for Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation. Reproduced with permission. .. ...... "These songs are Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright 154085, for a period of 280 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. Love Ed and Owen 2008." .............. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ Ed Dodd and Owen Gaffney are song writers. Described as 'resolutely uncommercial, wilfully perverse and quite perfect' by The Times newspaper. Ed is a writer who splits his time between Nottingham and the States. He criss-crosses North America, travelling light, picking up itinerant work and stories, keeping journals. Owen writes electropop. He learnt his craft at Confetti Studios in Nottingham, alongside Emma (Scout) Niblett. Owen has been writing with Ed on and off now for some years. ‘The first time I met Ed, I’d picked him up travelling south. Said he’d been waiting a couple of hours. It was raining.’ ‘Even to this day, we can laugh about exactly what was said, what we wore and what we smoked. Hitching, or picking up hitchers, makes you observant: you never know when you might have to recount it all in front of a judge.’ In 2006, they formed a new band, The War Crimes (named after The Specials song of the same name) following a conversation between Ed and Swedish songwriter Nicolai Dungar in a bar in Madison, Wisconsin. The War Crimes have performed six times in public. Seven if you include court appearances ('lewd' behaviour). .. ...... The single 'Russian Dolls' is available for download here ..www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/Russian Dolls.. .... ...... ...... ..

  • Members

    Edward S Dodd; Owen Gaffney

  • Influences

    no-one in particular but just maybe: Hunter S. Thompson, Ryan Giggs, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, The Smiths, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, Pixies, Jack Kerouac, Will Oldham, Nicolai Dunger, Milan Kundera, Stereolab, The Beach Boys, Tindersticks, Woody Guthrie, Belle and Sebastian, Pennyeach, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Angelo Badalamenti, The Fall, Fairport Convention, John Steinbeck, Benedikt Partenheimer, James Joyce, Tricky, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Half Man Half Biscuit, Paul Scholes, Jim Crace, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimmie Rodgers, The Macc Lads, Charlie Brooker, The Velvet Underground, Morrissey, Yo La Tengo, Count Arthur Strong, The Rolling Stones, Larry David, Massive Attack, The Shangri-Las, Lambchop, Eric Cantona, Chuck D, Peep Show, Kandalama, Sim, Sophie, George, Oscar, Jerry, Palace

  • Sounds Like

    The single 'Russian Dolls' is available for download from indie label, Shifty Disco. ..www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/Russian Dolls.. ...... .. ........ Single of the Month by Pennyeach ‘Gracie b’ (Shifty Disco) ‘From the moment this record begins it has a very accomplished feel. It’s a heartfelt ballad with some lovely bontempi style keyboard, totally redolent of wracked adolescents sitting in their bedrooms. A gorgeous repetitive piano motif just adds the final gloss to a wonderful release.’ © Record Collector January 2000

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