Up On The Roof...
The wonderful, possibly ahead of their time, extremely odd and hard to 'pigeon- hole' band The Dancing Did...
...This song 'On The Roofs' taken from the 1982 album 'And Did Those Feet' released in the same year originally on the independent 'Kamera' record label and re-released by other indie label 'Cherry Red' in 2007.
The band were formed in Evesham, Worcestershire in 1979 and released their eponymous single in the same year on the 'Fruit & Veg Record Label'.
Most of their songs appear to be on the quirky side with subject matter like:
- Squashed things in the road
- The wolves of Worcestershire
- Haunted Tea Rooms
- The Green Man and the march of the bungalows (previously posted on this blog).
They did switch to 'Stiff Records' for the release of their 1981 single 'The Lost Platoon'. Likened to Tenpole Tudor's 'Swords of a thousand men'? Perhaps the two bands rubbed shoulders in the Stiff Studios?
All eccentrically English and surreal with music style described as "pastoral rockabilly" to a cross between "Steelye Span and The Clash" or hilariously by Dave Thompson of All Music in reviewing their album "The Cure meets The Wurzels"?
Video Source Many Thanks Go To:GeorgeDimakis@youtube.com
And Video Source for 'The Lost Platoon' thanks go to: CaptainWeltschmerz@youtube.com
Info Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancing_Did
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