Interview Dinosaur Pile-up
This Leeds power-trio are gearing up for a busy 2010
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There was a distinct silence from Leeds grunge lovers Dinosaur Pile-up last winter. After a summer racket including an EP, a Leeds Festival spot on the NME/Radio 1 Stage and a tour supporting the Pixies, they seemed to slip into hibernation, out of focus and out of the music circuit.
“Getting to support the Pixies! That blew our minds,” says Matt Bigland, “but there’s been a lot going on with the band since.” The goings on include recording an album and, most notably, the emergence of a whole new band line up. The band is (for the time being), creatively, a one-man project. Bigland has obsessive drive to push his own ideas in music and this has been clear ever since he left his former group Mother Vulpine, preferring to fly solo in the writing and recording.
“The way I write is pretty weird for some people, it definitely doesn’t leave much room for filling stuff out as a band, not at this stage anyway. I got in to the studio to make the album and gave myself two months to do it. I had a clear idea of what I wanted it to be. I’d chosen to do it on my own rather than as a band because I felt I’d been building up to making this record for a while. Before DPU even existed. I wanted to say what I wanted to say.”
While Bigland had locked himself away writing and recording the album, the DPU line-up of last summer shifted with both drummer and bassist shipping out onto new projects. Mike Shields moved in on drums and also provides some additional conversation for the live shows, and Harry Johns of bluesy rockers Old Romantic Killer Band now fills in on bass and supports on vocals. “I always liked being a three,” says Bigland, “and with Harry backing me up with singing it seemed to just fit.”
With the album and band all set in place, the boys are gearing up for a tour this September and a relaunch the DPU storm of 2009. “I’d like to get some nice supports to go out with, and get busy taking over the world I guess. It’s gonna be fun,” says Bigland.
New single ‘Birds and Planes’ is out now ahead of the album release Growing Pains later this year.
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Posted on Wednesday 21st July 2010
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