WE ARE THE DOGS BLOG

Rikki 'Foot Cam' New Song

2011-01-30T13:50:00.000-08:00

Rikki 'Foot Cam' Pedal Test

2011-01-28T06:05:00.000-08:00

Dogs Pinhole Cam

2011-01-27T05:47:00.000-08:00

Random Captures From 2010

2011-01-02T08:19:00.000-08:00

The Sign Of Making It

Bottoms Up

Paul And Johnny 'Dirty South Basement'

I Want You To Know 'Lyrics'

Duncan-dogs 'Garage Jamming'

Dirty South - Before The Carnage of 300+ Dogs Fans Tearing The Place Up.

The White Boards 'A Plethora Of Ideas'

Above Paul's Driving Seat Shortly Before The 10inch Tom Was Placed Between Snare And Hats.

JC

Rikki-dogs

Rack Mountable EQ'zzzzz

Dazzling Lights 'Coventry Soundcheck'

Black Barn Demos

Andie 'Potential Dogs Mascot For 2011'

The Quarter House Roof

The Magic Drum Riser Down At The Mill

The Rabbit Hole

Burt Lancaster's Boat - Devon

The Cornfield Capturing The Moment

JC's Vocal Mask

The Mill

Our First Pledge House Party

Margate

Moho Manchester 'Northern Dogs Are Nuts'

Moho Telephone Box

17 Pints Please !

Bar Talk - Manchester

Paul's Chod Rig, Not Easy To Tie .. For Use Over Weedy Swims .. It's Caught Many Carp

Mark 'Dogs Front Of House' - He's A One Off

Pledge Launch

Paul Doing Elvis Back Stage At Dingwalls

We'll Keep On Digging The Archive.

Dogs New Years Eve Show

2010-12-21T04:33:00.001-08:00

Dogs Working With Sound

2010-11-24T03:21:00.000-08:00

Dogs 'The Bathroom Sessions'

2010-11-24T03:00:00.000-08:00

Working Title 'Digga Digga' Drums 'Foot Cam'

2010-11-24T01:51:00.000-08:00

Dogs Documentary Teaser 3

2010-11-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

DOGS (Preview 3) from Mustashrik Mahbub on Vimeo.

The Short Walk To The Driving Seat - Stirling

2010-11-04T05:08:00.000-07:00

A Drummers Life ..............

Cool Crowd - Stirling

2010-11-02T05:11:00.000-07:00

DOGS CHRISTMAS SHOW 2010

2010-10-22T02:56:00.001-07:00

It's going to be big

Not While I Breathe 'Play Station 3 Version'

2010-10-18T12:34:00.000-07:00

York Dressing Room Walk Through

2010-10-17T05:40:00.000-07:00

Polystyrene Wars - Cheltenham

2010-10-17T05:31:00.000-07:00

Preview Trailers For A Documentary Film About Cult UK Band, DOGS. Coming Soon.

2010-10-04T05:19:00.000-07:00

DOGS (Preview) from Mustashrik Mahbub on Vimeo.

DOGS (Preview 2) from Mustashrik Mahbub on Vimeo.

A Few Moments Captured

2010-09-28T05:49:00.000-07:00

Rikki At McQueen

Probably The Best Ceiling In The World

In A Pub Between Luton and Coventry

The View From The Driving Seat 'Coventry Sound check'

Duncan-dogs

Kevin-dogs

Rikki-dogs

McQueen The Final Roll Call

2010-09-03T12:24:00.000-07:00

McQueen Show - The Final Roll Call !!

We are down to the last remaining tickets for our McQueen show, so get in quick if you want to come. Due to your loyal support we feel it's only fair we let you in on a few of the nights happenings.

There's going to be music, poetry, burlesque, hula girls and a world famous close up magician wandering the crowd.

Below is how the evening will unfold.

7:00 Doors and DJ

7:30 - Big Deal - Great new up and coming band - read about them in the Guardian this weekend - www.myspace.com/weareabigdeal

8:00 - Matt Abbott Performance Poet and Compere - fresh from Leeds and latitude Festivals

8:15 - Anna Balesque - A mixture of Burlesque and Ballet from Cirque de Soleil performer

8:30 - The Amazing Marawa - International Hula Girl Star from The Famous La Clique Circus troupe - La Clique

9:00 - Dogs

then DJ's till late

Tickets from www.dogsmusic.com/gigs

See You There

Dogs x

2010-08-24T14:55:00.001-07:00

http://www.bombshellzine.com/focuson/dogs.htm

bit of nostalgia before the storm

2010-08-23T07:21:00.001-07:00

you WILL remember
The 8th of September

Birmingham Archive

2010-08-19T03:52:00.000-07:00

A Room With No View

Can't Remember What we Ordered

The Perfect Hangover Cure

Windows From Sawmills

2010-08-19T03:47:00.001-07:00

over the bay

from the live room

from the control room

'WE ARE THE DOGS' GERMAN EP REVIEW TRANSLATED 4.5/5

2010-08-04T01:12:00.000-07:00

           Taken From Motor.de - Alternative Musikpropaganda

How  fast-moving the music business is, is easy to demonstrate with the  history of "Dogs". In 2004 some guys somewhere in England decided to  form a band which they named after the most loyal friend of mankind.  Later on they were signed by Island Records and in 2005 they've got 3  singles from their first album in the Uk Charts. 2007 then the next  album which gets positive reviews from almost everywhere. It seems the  band is on the right way.

But the honest sound of the quintet doesn't  really go with the new zeitgeist anymore. Indie-bands like The Klaxons  appear on the scene and the scene gets more and more infiltrated by  electronic music. It seems that the band is at the crossroads after  their drummer and their guitarist leave. The years go by until the  release of their new 6-tracks-EP which they can proudly sport.

In the  first song "cost of loving" drummer Paul Warren makes pretty clear how  ingenious he is. Warren and new guitarist Kevin Iverson produce a crisp  rhythm which is the fundament for the familiar & diverse voice of  Johnny Cooke. It's reminiscent of Jimmy Eat World (Clarity).

"The  Sorry Scene" sparks immediately too. This song is a bit more catchy and  delivers the first radio-capable hookline on "We are the dogs".

The  band sounds strong and solid which you wouldn't expect given their  history. The new musicians help to improve the sound, which sounds  well-thought-out but never overcrowded/overloaded.

"the floor fell  away" is more dreamy whilst "long walk home" sounds more of  post-hardcore a la Disco Ensemble. But both tracks are as sophisticated  as the rest of the songs of the EP.

So that's how the band manages it  easily to get old and new fans on board and that for a number of  reasons: the rhythm, the vocals which are emotional but never drippy,  and the interaction of both guitarists, Kevin Iverson responsible for  the rhythm and Rikki Mehta, responsible for the sophisticated fiddling  and wonderful melodies.

On top of that you've got the great  attitude of the boys which is so refreshingly honest that you'd like to  meet up for a pint. And while the indie-tronic scene staggers towards  its creative collapse, and indie-punk-bands like The Gaslight Anthem  finally get their well deserved slice of the success-cake, Dogs couldn't  have picked a better time for their comeback.

This confident EP raises hopes for the next Dogs-Album on which the band is eagerly working on at the moment.
Our waiting time till its release couldn't have been more sweetened with "We are the dogs".

Thomas Kasperski

Carl And Lisa's Wicked Pledge House Party

2010-07-19T10:04:00.001-07:00

We have to tell the world how amazing this tasted, sorry to those vegetarians out there but you just don't know what you're missing.

Washed down with some beer.

Johnny making Paul's mini drum kit look even smaller.

Setting Ourselves Up.

England's 12 Seconds Then Memory Ran Out.

Turn ...

EP plug for Germany/Europe

2010-07-02T01:16:00.000-07:00

What we're trying to say is 'We are The Dogs' EP available on ITUNES.

Fly Like Eagles

2010-06-24T03:18:00.000-07:00

I'm going fishing too

2010-06-17T11:11:00.000-07:00

I'm gasping like a Crucian to get casting into that brown unknown! Fuck, is that the gayest thing anyone ever said. I must think before I talk. I used to love fishing and I'm gagging to have a go but Paul's very serious and he's testing my commitment first. He'll have me shadow casting in rehearsals soon. Also it's an early rise and singers need their kip. However, I am determined to get on it, watch this space. Johnny x

Paul Goes Fishing

2010-06-16T01:32:00.000-07:00

Seeking a break from the mountains of EP orders and jiffy bags Paul went in search of big carp for the day.

Action came pretty fast with this amazing 19IB.2oz common carp, fished to a gravel patch down a narrow channel.

"the magic to carp fishing is seeing the fish swim off in the same condition you caught it in"

19IB 2oz Common Carp

Two Rod Setup

The yellow one in the front got snatched by a pike a few hours after this was taken, it was rather unbelievable.

The Big Riff ... Sawmills 2010

2010-05-30T02:26:00.000-07:00

Dogs Fight

2010-05-28T09:43:00.000-07:00

'WE ARE THE DOGS' EP ART

2010-05-28T02:06:00.001-07:00

Feverish

2010-05-28T01:22:00.000-07:00

Johnny here testing my new I phone from the sick bed. A feverishly throat infected night behind me full of dark echos from a new song we're working on, currently called 'broke the ropes'. Woke earlier in a panic as I was late for school, for an instant I believed it and time travel was truely possible. I suppose you could get stuck in a dreamed past and make it all the way to home time with a really punchy fever. The new songs are sounding really exciting, we only lament the lack of hours we get to work on them. So, I hope this post posts x

... Manchester Moho

2010-05-18T09:55:00.000-07:00

Arrived In Manchester after Driving All Night

Filmed In 'lack of sleep' Quality

Moho Souncheck

Propping Up The Bar

Margate To ..........

2010-05-17T10:03:00.000-07:00

Margate Beach is great if you don't look behind you.

Band Shot ( Paul Is Taking This Picture )

Johnny and Paul Losing Their Minds

2010-05-04T11:24:00.000-07:00

Over egging the BV part in 'The Cost Of Loving', it sounded better in our heads than it did on record. Obscenities have be muted out of this clip

House Party

2010-04-26T01:39:00.000-07:00

We'd like to thank Lisa and Graham for putting on such a great night.

A Couple From The Christmas Show

2010-04-26T01:33:00.001-07:00

Just Like Christmas Morning

Before The Madness

There's A Strange Sound Coming From The Mill

2010-04-15T04:06:00.001-07:00

We spent hours trying to find the right sound without using synthesizers or keyboards. Eventually at around 2:30am in the morning Rikki and Kevin came up with something that blew us all away.

It consisted of running three amps at the same time along with a combination from both of their pedal boards. ( Turn Volume Up )

Getting A Sound At Sawmills

2010-04-09T03:27:00.000-07:00

Paul's Walk To his Driving Seat - repost

2010-04-01T07:47:00.000-07:00

Living the dream.

Backing Vocals To Track One, maybe

2010-03-29T10:40:00.001-07:00

Arrival

2010-03-29T09:27:00.000-07:00

Load Out

2010-03-29T08:35:00.000-07:00

The boat sunk shortly after this was taken

Sawmills

2010-03-29T08:30:00.001-07:00

On a cliff, by the sea

2010-03-29T08:11:00.000-07:00

Sawmills

2010-03-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

The Loading Bay

Kevindogs - he's on to something here.

2010-03-18T11:10:00.000-07:00

Kevin 'going his own way'

The Quarter House Walk

2010-03-18T10:45:00.001-07:00

Official Unseen Footage

'No Way Out' BV Jam Black Barn Dec 09

2010-03-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

'No Way Out' has officially be shelved for the foreseeable future.

'The Floor Could Fall Away'

2010-03-18T10:11:00.000-07:00

Suspended above The Quarter House 'after hours'

It's fun when you're drunk and bloody terrifying when you're sober.

It takes three people at one time so all five of us got on it and jumped up and down all at once.

We don't like Caged Birds

2010-03-11T03:54:00.001-08:00

Back In The Garage

2010-03-11T03:50:00.001-08:00

"Not While I Breathe" early days

2010-03-11T03:42:00.000-08:00

WE ARE THE DOGS BLOG

Rikki 'Foot Cam' New Song

Rikki 'Foot Cam' Pedal Test

Dogs Pinhole Cam

Random Captures From 2010

Dogs New Years Eve Show

Dogs Working With Sound

Dogs 'The Bathroom Sessions'

Working Title 'Digga Digga' Drums 'Foot Cam'

Dogs Documentary Teaser 3

The Short Walk To The Driving Seat - Stirling

Cool Crowd - Stirling

DOGS CHRISTMAS SHOW 2010

Not While I Breathe 'Play Station 3 Version'

York Dressing Room Walk Through

Polystyrene Wars - Cheltenham

Preview Trailers For A Documentary Film About Cult UK Band, DOGS. Coming Soon.

A Few Moments Captured

McQueen The Final Roll Call

http://www.bombshellzine.com/focuson/dogs.htmbit of nostalgia before the storm

Birmingham Archive

Windows From Sawmills

'WE ARE THE DOGS' GERMAN EP REVIEW TRANSLATED 4.5/5

Carl And Lisa's Wicked Pledge House Party

EP plug for Germany/Europe

Fly Like Eagles

I'm going fishing too

Paul Goes Fishing

The Big Riff ... Sawmills 2010

Dogs Fight

'WE ARE THE DOGS' EP ART

Feverish

... Manchester Moho

Margate To ..........

Johnny and Paul Losing Their Minds

House Party

A Couple From The Christmas Show

There's A Strange Sound Coming From The Mill

Getting A Sound At Sawmills

Paul's Walk To his Driving Seat - repost

Backing Vocals To Track One, maybe

Arrival

Load Out

Sawmills

On a cliff, by the sea

Sawmills

Kevindogs - he's on to something here.

The Quarter House Walk

'No Way Out' BV Jam Black Barn Dec 09

'The Floor Could Fall Away'

We don't like Caged Birds

Back In The Garage

"Not While I Breathe" early days

http://www.bombshellzine.com/focuson/dogs.htm

bit of nostalgia before the storm