Artist description Raw and energetic Emo rock

Music Style Rock

Musical Influences Far, Kerbdog, Hundred Reasons, My vitriol

Similar Artists Jimmi eat world, Hundred reasons, My vitriol

Artist History Dullshine. Not dull, does shine. The band are relative newcomers, having taken only four years to evolve into the confident four piece that regularly surprise those as yet unacquainted with their energetic live sets or recordings. Here is a band that knows how to make friends and influence people. Providing a crowd for almost every touring band to have passed through Essex in the last 15 months, they enjoy the attention of the dedicated and ever growing toxic youth choir (the gang of skaters and park rats ever present at their gigs). The band promotes itself unconventionally. They record regularly and have given away hundreds of free audio and video CDs at gigs. Their music, images and merchandising is available free or at cost on their website, which to date has received over 30,000 hits. The bands messageboard is accessible to anyone with a mobile phone and they frequently make good on their claim to prefer playing a large crowd for no money than a small one for good money. It is this kind of accessibility that has allowed them to create the buzz and momentum so many aspiring young bands crave yet fail to achieve. You could easily stick Dullshine in the same box as Blink, Jimmy Eat World, A, Feeder or any one of hundreds of quality rock acts in the MTV2 mould. But you would be missing the point. Dullshine will admit to being crowd pleasers, will even admit to the occasional ‘influence’. But this is no carbon copy – with reference points a million miles apart, the bands approach to writing and creating a live set is summed up by their claim to “not just live breath and sleep music, but to kill and eat it too’.

Group Members Patrick Kay-Vocals and guitar, Stan Pang-Guitar and programing, Neil Wilson Drums and programing Christian Kay-Bass Guitar.

Instruments B.C Rich and Ibenez guitars, DW drums, Yamaha Bass

Location Chelmsford, Essex - United Kingdom

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