Artist description tenboy acoustic Rock Pop.

Music Style Acoustic Rock Pop

Musical Influences The Beatles, Counting Crows, Crowded House, Hootie, The Wallflowers, Beck, Eels, The La's, David Gray, Boo Hewerdine, Neil Finn.

Similar Artists Counting Crows, David Gray, Crowded House, Bryan Adams, Del Amitri, Tom Petty & Neil Finn.

Artist History Singer/Songwriter Dean Cook has played in many Bands over the last 16 years as a Drummer, vocalist and Guitarist. Dean performs solo/acoustic gigs and also plays with various musicians under the tenboy name. Over the last few years Dean/tenboy have performed many times on UK TV & Radio and Dean is now making a name for himself as a strong Singer/Songwriter, plus in 2001 Dean recruited ace guitarist Ben Alexander into the tenboy fold and the duo are currently playing acoustic gigs promoting the latest tenboy songs.

Group Members Dean Cook (Singer, Guitarist). Ben Alexander (2nd Guitar & BV's).

Instruments Yamaha, Ovation & Cruze Acoustics, Ibanez Roadster electric guitar, Washburn bass guitar, Roland MC50 sequencer, Roland drum machines, Korg & Yamaha keyboards, Atari/Mac & PC, Steinberg/FruityLoops software, Yamaha sampler, Sony/Casio/Phillips mastering, Alesis/Vox & Yamaha effects, Fostex VF16 multitracker.

Albums They sed I'd neva do it in the garage (1992), House (1993), Standin/Mini Album (1993), Ate ten songs 2 rattle & hum too (1993), Standin (1994), Only the boy (1995), In the machine (1996), Unfatuated (1997), The Stamp Album (1998), Falling Acoustics (1998), One (1998), Falling Acoustics 2 (1999), Feels Like Fate (1999), I Can't Face The World Today (2000), Trains & Other Stuff (2001), Waiting (2001), Head Music (2002), All Blind (2002).

Press Reviews Various UK Press Quotes music compared with David Gray, Boo Hewerdine, Bryan Adams & Crowded House. Recent Press Quotes: "The Stamp Album is a rock/pop classic" (M.Davies/The Beat Mag/UK). "Too Pure is so catchy you could catch flu from it !" (D.Campau/Lonely Whistle radio show/USA). Face It All: "More crisply done pop rock from this talented Englishman, I dig this guys voice and songs" (D.Campau, Lonely Whistle Radio).

Additional Info Easy-EP (1995), The Crossroads-Video EP (1997), First Offence Live-Video (1997), The Story So Far-Video (1998), Gettin High-EP (1998), Stuck In The Middle-EP (2000), I Must Be Dead-EP (2001).

Location Birmingham, West Midlands - United Kingdom

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