Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
The Black Dog (band)
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Current line-up=== In 2001, Downie teamed up with Richard and Martin Dust, owners of the label Dust Science Recordings.<ref name="milk">{{cite web |url = http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/blackdogiw.htm |title = THE BLACK DOG Interview |work = The Milk Factory |accessdate = 2009-02-09 |date = 2005-09-01 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090219224031/http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/blackdogiw.htm |archive-date = 19 February 2009 |url-status = dead }}</ref> Since then, they have started to play live again and have released eight EPs and four full-length albums on Dust Science.<ref>[http://www.dustscience.com/Artists/TheBlackDog.php The Black Dog profile] on the Dust Science website</ref> Their first album, ''[[Silenced (Black Dog album)|Silenced]]'', was released in 2005. The second, ''[[Radio Scarecrow]]'', was released in 2008 and was very well received<ref>[http://www.dogsquad.co.uk/tbd/?p=277 Reviews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006095542/http://www.dogsquad.co.uk/tbd/?p=277 |date=6 October 2011 }} at dogsquad.co.uk</ref> and nominated for DJ Mag's Best of British 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.djmag.com/index.php?op=bestofbritish|title=DJMag.com|website=DJMag.com|date=24 January 2022}}</ref> The follow-up to ''Radio Scarecrow'', ''[[Further Vexations]]'', was released in 2009. It was described as having a dark cynicism of [[Orwellian]] practices of government and the passivity of the general public.<ref name="ps-vex">{{cite web|url = http://www.progressive-sounds.com/features/The-Black-Dog-Further-Vexations.asp |title = The Black Dog - Further Vexations |date=2009-01-19 |accessdate=2009-02-09 |work = Progressive-Sounds |last = Jones |first = Simon}}</ref> "We’ve helplessly watched with mounting horror, while the government trashed the country, signed away its sovereignty to Brussels (with a flourish of a specially minted silver pen), sold off precious national industries and assets at next to bargain basement prices, and indulged itself with two utterly pointless wars which it couldn’t afford," the group stated on their home page.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theblackdogma.com/tbd/?p=696|title=The Black Dog – Further Vexations – Released 27/04/09 - Releases - The Black Dog|website=The Black Dog}}</ref> In May 2010, the Black Dog teamed with creative agency "Human"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humanstudio.com/|title=Human|website=www.humanstudio.com}}</ref> to create ''[[Music for Real Airports]]'',<ref>[http://www.musicforrealairports.com/live/index.php Music For Real Airports - The Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410152746/http://www.musicforrealairports.com/live/index.php |date=10 April 2010 }}</ref> described by them as "a contemporary reply to [[Brian Eno]]'s [[Music for Airports|work]] from the 70s". While Eno's album is well known for being peaceful and sedate, The Black Dog intend theirs to be tense and bittersweet, saying "This record is not necessarily a comfortable listen. But it captures the spectrum of emotions stirred by airports."<ref>[http://www.musicforrealairports.com/live/album.php Music For Real Airports - The Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211131104/http://www.musicforrealairports.com/live/album.php |date=11 February 2010 }}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
The Black Dog (band)
(section)
Add topic