Ed Dodd does words and Owen Gaffney does music and We have something that may interest you.
Influences
no-one in particular but just maybe: 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, James Joyce, Tricky, Creedence Clearwater Revival, 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, The Shangri-Las, Peep Show, Palace
"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."
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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 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).
Don't just take our word for it check out this video of Alex James shooting from the hip, out on a limb but telling it as it is dudes. We give you Alex James on The War Crimes
"Stillness Beckons" on my radio show, The British Breakfast on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia USA this Saturday between 9-11am est which is either 2-4pm or 3-5pm UK time. Love it and one of your other top 8's; Dandelion Radio. Great stuff all the way around.
"Russian Dolls" on my radio show, The British Breakfast on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia USA (www. wrir. org)today between 2-4pm UK time which is 9-11am my time. Love it man.
Thank u very much! Perhaps will i have the pleasure to meet you one day..
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The War Crimes are exclusive session guests in my May show on Dandelion Radio, providing four new tracks during the show. Dandelion Radio is a fully-licensed, John Peel inspired Internet station that is run and presented by volunteers recording monthly shows.
The War Crimes are featured in my April show on Dandelion Radio, a Peel-inspired online station playing exciting new and unsigned music. They will also be featuring as exclusive session guests in next month's May show, providing four tracks recorded exclusively for Dandelion Radio - more news of that next month. Dandelion Radio is a fully-licensed Internet station that is run and presented by volunteers recording monthly shows.
To view the schedule and listen to the audio stream, visit our website www. DandelionRadio. com, or find us on MySpace at myspace. com/dandelionradio. Hope you can find the time to listen to our fine shows...
Russian dolls are really sweet and your music remind me a little Badalamenti and David Lynch. There is a distant melancholia here, and i like that. Friendly. Christian
hello! glad you found us, I (kasper) like the mood in your songs, especially quarantine. and the picture of Kerouac, I just love him! take care and if you want have a look on our site, se will have some new songs soon! take care /relieves fatigue
