In Conversation with Shaky Dawg - October 2009
originally published by Setting Sun, http://settingsuninterviews.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-conversation-with-shaky-dawg.html
A little background:
The basis of how I got this interview is straight-forward, trying to describe the band are another ball game. Flash back to Poets Express, a poetry and arts festival that I co-hosted back in July 2009, I ended up seeing my friend Kylyra's brother, Tor in action with his new band 'Shaky Dawg'.. If my memory is correct, they were that brand new there was nothing online on their website at the time, so it really was going to be a total surprise.
And it was - I was expecting perhaps industrial rock or prog rock (knowing what sort off Tor's other projects are like) but Country & Western on Acid with dollops off House in places. It was barking mad certainly, but sounded really fresh to me, so when I got back to England and started with the re-launch for Setting Sun, sorting out a interview with them as well as a new interview with Kylyra became a priority.
Ky's interveiw for regular viewers came quite quick. This interview took for reasons too long winded to explain took longer. Either way, it was worth it as they are superb. Check out them on Darkworld and download some of their mp3s. Cheers guys, and additional thanks to Ky for being the taskmistress here (lol)
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Setting Sun:
Hi. How goes tricks and whats happening At the moment?
(Tor) Hallo Andy. Well, O'Shott and I are finishing some techno underlays to new songs which should fill out our live show. Shott wanted to see the band doing a hour and one half length show.
I felt happy with the 45 min show we had for Poets Express. It gave us the ability to open for larger bands, but it did limit the shows we could take locally. So now it's back in the studio, trying to give the band enough choice to take longer shows, ourselves.
(Shott) And we got the Ep done on CD.
Setting Sun:
Can you next tell us a little bit about S-D What started it all off etc?
(Tor) I guess I'll start here and let Shott fill in what I missed. O'Shott Crawler began working with Dark World in 2005 when he agreed to front the Cafe Crawlers.
I knew his children and they had told me that he had so many songs he had written, and Dark World should try and get him to record them. At the time, Dark World agreed to let him do a recording of whatever he wanted after the Crawlers project ended.
