 29/05/2009 Nuts and Bolts: Matt Bigland, Tom Dunford, Steve Wilson,
Stomping Ground: Leeds, formed 2007
Set to Soundtrack: Good ol’ fashioned moshpits
Destined to Upset: the Shoreditch crowd
You’re in Business if you like: Jimmy Eat World, Grandaddy, The Melvins, Smashing Pumpkins, Mudhoney
Dinosaur Pile Up are a band that take things back to basics. Out of the window with any pretensions and into the mix with Brontosaurus sized riffs, pounding drums and impassioned vocals. If the original glimmer of promise shown by the Vines hadn’t descended into mediocrity, then DPU are a bit like they would have sounded.
Notion caught their set on the ‘Levi’s Ones to Watch’ stage recently at the Great Escape music industry shindig in Brighton and can confirm that their balls-out sound is every bit as all-engrossing live as it is on record. They put on an ear bleedingly loud, raucous show the highlight of which was their track ‘Traynor’, which came into life with the squeal of feedback before a crunching, distortion-soaked riff and screamed vocals were unleashed.
You might think their name is a reference to their heavy, aggressive guitar-led sound. Or maybe a tongue-in-cheek joke about their 1990s musical reference points being out of fashion and pretty much extinct in today’s musical climate. But you would be wrong. ‘I went to see the remake of King Kong,’ laughs singer and guitarist Matt Bigland. 'It was really overblown and ridiculous and there’s this huge chase sequence where about 12 dinosaurs just pile into each other, at that moment I just knew I wanted to start a band called that. It’s not really meaningful or anything, I just thought it was funny.’ |
