Dodgy, Chris Helme

Ticket: £15.00 Buy Now
Doors: 19:30pm
Age: 14

First time around, DODGY were together seven years AND sold over a million records with twelve Top 40s singles inc Staying Out For The Summer, In A Room, If You’re Thinking Of Me and Top 5 hit Good Enough (still a big fixture on radio playlists!)

They sold out the Brixton Academy three nights in a row and had an unprecedented 90-minute Saturday evening slot on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival in 1997, just before Radiohead.

The comeback album three years ago, ‘Stand Upright In A Cool Place’, was a long time coming (fifteen years!) since double platinum selling ‘Free Peace Sweet’, and from the four and five star reviews and media applause heaped upon Stand Upright…. it seems that the original line-up of the band had done the impossible – to reform the band and make a contemporary and relevant album, surpassing their previous work.

Testament indeed to the unique chemistry and overflowing creativity of Nigel Clark, Andy Miller and Mathew Priest. Creating a sound with “golden harmonies and echoes of CSN&Y and Fleet Foxes” and prompting The Word to say “They’ve just made the record of their career by a country mile” and The Guardian, “Dodgy’s new album is a revelation”.

And since the release of Stand Upright In A Cool Place in 2012, Dodgy haven’t really stopped as live gigs and festival appearances have always been an important part of the Dodgy experience, for many they are the perfect festival band ripping it up at Bestival, V, Glastonbury, Wychwood, Strawberry Fields, Hardwick Live, Kendal Calling and many more.

Now, three years on from the phenomenal reunion album, the band are finally ready to release their new album in Autumn 2015. The boys believe it is their best ever record, but they’re not the only ones – Cenzo Townshend (Florence, U2, Primal Scream etc) heard the demos and demanded to mix some tracks. Similarly, Rob Da Bank heard two tracks and offered Dodgy a slot on the Mainstage at Bestival in September 2015.

There you have it, million-selling band of the 90s reforms and tops previous work and achievements to huge fan and critical acclaim. They’ve done the impossible…