Artist description Hard pop trio incorporating traditional line up of guitars bass and drums augmented with live strings, samples, spoken word, etc.Dollhouse is an artifice, a confection, a creation designed and made perfect for viewing by invitation only. The Dollhouse is a perfect world where everything is ordered and set in place. Furniture is bought and made to scale, clothes are made for the characters who inhabit each room. Stories can be told about these people. The characters and their lives can change dramatically inside the macro-verse. And importantly, everything inside the Dollhouse can be taken down, rebuilt and reorganised at will.The Dollhouse is a laboratory for experimentation where rules can be made and broken. In many ways the Dollhouse is the perfect place to create music. It is transient and ultimately it can be pointless. But sometimes, if we are lucky, the characters and the rooms can have lives of their own. Some of the material that Dollhouse has produced is already beginning to do this. We create material and send it out into the world like paper boats on the surface of a pond. Some sink, some are drowned. Some succeed. This is Dollhouse.

Music Style Songwriters rock and alternative.

Musical Influences We love songwriters so list list includes (but is not limited to) Ben Folds Five, Semisonic, Tindersticks, Sparklehorse, Younger x 2 28, The Dum Dums, Suede, Marc Bolan, early Bowie, mid seventies Stones. Angelo Badalamenti, Tom Waits, Ivor Cutler, etc. etc.

Similar Artists Blur, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Pulp, Marc Almond, Beach Boys,Semisonic, David Bowie

Artist History Formed 1997, lineup changes in 1998. Much recording in 1998 and 1999 while searching for new members. Continuing to attract attention during '98 and now Dollhouse has a momentum of its own. 1999 Sees a new home for Dollhouse in a converted artists community.

Group Members Rich -Guitars Vox, Math - Kit. Many thanks to: Matt Mcardle;(vox)& Matt Rus;(tech support). Guest musicians too many to mention but including; Roger Newell,Mike Devine,Tony Foster,Reg Shaw (and many thanks to all)

Instruments Guitars and writing; Richard Riley. Drums; Math Harvey. (guests) Vox; Matt Mcardle

Press Reviews "... Dollhouse continue to unnerve and amaze..." "Unusual rock groove, MP3.com!"

Location Bristol, UK - United Kingdom

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