| Biography | The Dodge Brothers are a British skiffle band from Southampton playing Americana, rockabilly, bluegrass, folk, country and blues music. The band includes film critic and BBC television presenter Mark Kermode, along with Mike and Alex Hammond and Aly Hirji.
The band played on the BBC Two programme The Culture Show, which is co-presented by Kermode, in 2007 and took part in the same show's 'Busking Challenge' in 2008. The band have appeared on Kermode's video blog 'Kermode Uncut', playing 'skiffle' covers of blockbuster movie soundtracks including Star Wars, Star Trek, The A-Team and Smurfs 3D. The music heard on the 'Kermode Uncut' blog is extracts from The Dodge Brothers' music. They also provided skiffled movie theme tunes for one round of a quiz show on Simon Mayo and Kermode's BBCRadio 5 Live Christmas show in 2010. The Dodge Brothers have played the live accompaniment to classic silent movies at music and film festivals around the country, accompanied by silent movie pianist Neil Brand.
In 2006 they recorded their first album, a self-titled record of covers from "the songbook of weird old America". In 2008 The Dodge Brothers released their second album Louisa and the Devil, the first with the present line-up and featuring mostly original material "written to sound old". The track 'Died and Gone to Hell' also features Billy Lunn of The Subways on vocals and guitar. The band's third album, The Sun Set, was recorded at the famous Sun Studios in Memphis. |