Who is this One Dog Clapping Person anyway?
Well, he wears glasses, has a big nose, man boobs and a pot belly. and long unkempt hair, usually in a bad ponytail.
Like that's a good description to distinguish he. You can do better than that
Oh, ok. One Dog Clapping is Flipdog, a 30 something songwriter with a little home recording set up which produces densepop, a recently coined neologism which he uses to describe his music and which, like all over-used genre names, is essentially meaningless. just have a bloody listen, it's not complicated.
His home recording history began in 1994 when he borrowed his dad's Tascam 4-track machine for a weekend, along with his (then) girlfriends bass guitar and her brothers Yamaha DD-6 drum machine. He was immediately hooked, even though the results of that weekends work sound laughable today (and no, you can't hear them, although they are better than Razorlight).
Over the next 6 years, Flipdog used his dads machine more and more frequently, and even compiled 6 'albums' of material. These were never published, though acquaintances were heard to say they "quite liked the 'accident' song..." I might put that up at some point actually, for all of its ineptitude.*
In 2000, Flipdog finally paid money for a machine of his own, a Roland 8-track digital recorder. This allowed him to make recordings of increasing quality which have ultimately led to this website.
In 2001, under the name One Dog Clapping, the album Puppy Spanners appeared on the peoplesound website. The world was resolutely not set on fire, (but when you come from the Flipdog family, you don't tend to be surprised by these things). No further recordings appeared on there, although some other tracks appeared via the Vitaminic website. More recent recordings have, up to now been the exclusive pleasure of his mates, due to the impossibility of getting any replies from the admin on the above websites, and disillusionment that these sites actually achieve anything.
For nearly 2 years, One Dog Clapping became a full blown live band which played mostly in Leicester, which came to an amicable end in November 2005. However, Flipdog has reclaimed the name as his own, and will make the best of his home recordings available via this site. And they are really quite good, but we shall blow that trumpet no longer and instead invite you to go and have a listen to a few examples.
If he's such an ordinary 'bloke' then, why call himself One Dog Clapping?
He just did.
not good enough. me want explanation.
oh all right then... the first few years of his four track recording saw him using the name Somebody Else's Problem, a name he got from the Douglas Adams famous trilogy. many people didn't like this, and even Flippy thought it was a bit cumbersome, but could't think of anything better. So anyway, he and his bro, they sitting on a bus one day going into town for to drink beer and get drunk, and they talking about this game on the Atari ST called Player Manager (this was 1998, by the way). Flipdog saying to Bro how he can't understand why he doesn't change the names of the teams, I mean, ain't it boring having Bristol play Aldershot when you could have The Raving Dangs playing against The Arse Destroyers, or Calling PLanet Earth playing 86% Snake? Bro replies that not everybody has, and I quote, an 'acid-head imagination like you.' Indignantly, Flipdog replies that he does not have an acid-head imagination, just cos he can come up with names like Wee Willy Wanker or One Dog Clapping.... 'That'd be a good name for a band,' interjects Bro.
so blame Bro.
*Why is there a * higher up?
that is to indicate a continuation of that thought. There will be a compilation cd of 4-track material called Please Wait Here While We Apologise for the Delay. There will be tracks posted on here, including, i feel certain, the aforementioned 'accident' song.
actually, there will be two albums. i just haven't thought of a title or a tracklisting for the second.
i notice from this site and other places that he flips between third and first person with NO consistency. WTF?
who cares? no, really. why does it matter? ask me an interesting question that he might want to answer.
So what's he up to now, apart from planning CD's no-one cares about?
On the performance side of things, Flipdog is now playing bass in Sons Of Itto. Sons of Itto happened almost by accident, when Milo asked him if he fancied playing his very occasional bass skills in the aid of getting Milo's project off the ground. Then there was that thing called musical chemistry which happened once drummer Purps signed up. So he stuck around, and hasn't yet been booted out.
Sons of Itto are actually liked by people, so ner.
It has also been witnessed by lucky observers that the Flipped one plays bass along to his dad's BlueSwamp Southern, a blues band who do mostly blues standards in their own rocky, swampy way (again, the description is meaningless, again i suggest you come and watch us play so as to know what we actually sound like, as i have no website to direct you to), although there are some original tunes in there. And the band features Daddy Flipdog too, though he calls himself Bob Dayfield.
Oh, is that all..?
When he gets time, he does more 'experimental' stuff under the guise of LastGnomeStanding. Have a look. I have no intention of trying to describe it. He doesn't get much time, though...
...and then there's the writing. Working on a mere 2 books - Who Let the Frogs Out? (working title) which is about a frog named Humphrey who kisses a princess and she turns into a frog, and all the hilarious consequences that follow. AND then there's The Book of Dysfunction, which is kind of like The Book of Disquiet by Alfred Pessoa, but a bit more dysfunctional, hence the title. Neither are imminent. As i said, he doesn't get much time.
and here's why....
What else do you/he like then?
These, amongst others
if you must contact he, send an email to flipdog [whois] (a) onedogclapping (dot) com (i'm sure you can translate that and take out the who is bit) though he is very boring. you have been warned.
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