Dogs Die in Hot Cars

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Dogs Die in Hot Cars are a Scottish band which became popular^{[citation needed]} in the UK and international music scene around the same time as Biffy Clyro and Franz Ferdinand.

History

In July 2004 they released their debut album Please Describe Yourself (Produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley) which included the tracks "I Love You 'Cause I Have To", "Godhopping" and "Lounger". "Godhopping" peaked at #24 on the UK Singles Chart and remains the band's biggest hit. "I Love You 'Cause I Have To" peaked at #32 on the UK Singles Chart and narrowly missed the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States

The band's name comes from a RSPCA campaign to advise dog owners not to leave their pets in hot cars and has often been a strong talking point of polarized views. In an interview with U.S. Rolling Stone magazine, singer/guitarist Craig Macintosh mentioned that "Rolling Stone in Australia said it was the best band name in the history of rock & roll. But then the NME said it was the worst".^[1]

The band lists their influences among others as Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles and Talking Heads. Craig Macintosh's voice and singing style have a striking resemblance to that of Andy Partridge's of the British band XTC.

On September 18, 2007 the band posted a blog on their MySpace website indicating that they had decided to end all work on a new album. With this news they also said that they are going their separate ways and may or may not reunite.

A song of the band's, entitled 'Nobody Teaches Life Anything' (found on 2004 release Man Bites Man EP) was used in a lengthy television advertising campaign in the UK by Boots.

Around April 2008 the band began to release their second album demos along with their individual track files, free to download from their website for people to use to make their own versions of the songs and then send those versions back to the band. The band would then later announce a closing date, after which they are going to compile the second album using ideas from the submitted versions from their fans, and share 50% of the royalties that come from its release with everyone who has contributed towards making it. The project was called "Dogs Die In Hot Cars is making Pop Nonsense"^[2]. The closing date was announced for May 1, 2009 - no information has yet been given as to how long the compiling process may take, or an estimated date of release for the album.

Band members

• Craig Macintosh (vocals, guitar)
• Gary Smith (vocals, guitar)
• Lee Worrall (bass)
• Ruth Quigley (keyboard, vocals)
• Laurence Davey (drums)

All these members attended Madras College in St Andrews as secondary school students.

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Singles

Compilations

• Nano-Mugen Compilation (with "I Love You 'Cause I Have to", 2005)

Teachers 4 (Soundtrack to the Channel 4 Television series) (with "Celebrity Sanctum", 2005)

References

External links

• Official web site