CANCELLED: Dinosaur Pile-Up at The Fleece, Bristol

Thu 29th Nov | 7.30pm | All Ages*

Dinosaur Pile-Up
dinosaurpileup.com

Dinosaur
Pile-Up are an English alternative rock band who formed in late 2007.
Hailing from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Current members are lead singer and
guitarist Matt Bigland, drummer Mike Sheils and bassist Johnny Seymour.
They are also often compared with the Seattle grunge scene of the early
90s.

Dinosaur Pile-Up formed after Matt Bigland's old band Mother
Vulpine split up back in 2007. Matt had been creating songs used for
Dinosaur Pile-Up whilst he was in Mother Vulpine. Matt recorded a demo
tape consisting of the songs "My Rock 'n' Roll", "Love Is a Boat and
We're Sinking", "Melanin", "Let's Get Up", "What Howard Said" and "I Get
My Direction" whilst he was still in Mother Vulpine. A short time
later, after Mother Vulpine broke up, Matt recruited Tom Dunford on bass
and Steve Wilson on drums to complete the line up.

Matt Bigland
has said he thought of the name 'Dinosaur Pile-Up' after watching the
2005 film King Kong. Matt Bigland has said in an interview; "I watched
the remake of King Kong. Which was pretty bad! It was ages ago, before
this band, or even the idea of this band ever existed. Anyway, there was
this part in it where this stampede of dinosaurs, the front one is shot
in the leg or something, and it trips up, and then all these huge
dinosaurs trip up, roll down this hill, and it just ends up in this
massive pile up, and everything in between them survives. I thought it
was ridiculous, and as a joke I said, I have to start a band called
Dinosaur Pile-Up.

Dinosaur Pile-Up then released My Rock 'n' Roll
EP in late 2008 and the Traynor 7" and The Most Powerful EP in the
Universe in 2009. Also in 2009, they played on the BBC introducing stage
at Leeds Festival and were invited on tour with alternative rock group
Pixies on their European tour. Then in 2010, Tom Dunford and Steve
Wilson left the band. Steve Wilson joined the band Japanese Voyeurs
(whom Dinosaur Pile-Up would later tour with on the Rock Sound Exposure
Tour alongside The Xcerts), and Tom Dornford-May joined the punk rock
band Fake Death. This meant that Matt would have to bring in new members
Harry Johns (formerly of Old Romantic Killer Band) on bass and backing
vocals and Mike Sheils on drums. Matt Bigland then went into the studio
to record Dinosaur Pile-Up's debut album Growing Pains.

The
recording of Growing Pains took place between late 2009 and early 2010
in the space of about two and a half months. Growing Pains was recorded
solely by Matt Bigland playing all the parts on the album in a home
studio in Bridlington. After the release of Growing Pains in October
2010, Dinosaur Pile-Up began a full UK tour, also playing in the rock
exposure tour and various dates across Mexico, as well as supporting
slots with bands such as Feeder, Cage the Elephant, Turbowolf and Twin
Atlantic. By August 2011, the band had finished their tour and are set
to record their follow up album due to be released at the beginning of
2012. On December 1, they uploaded to their SoundCloud and Facebook
accounts demos of two tracks, "In My Room" and "Thread", which are said
to be featured on the up-coming album.

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*Under 16s must be with an adult.