Toy Dolls

  • Duncan Redmonds
  • Tom goober

The Toy Dolls are a punk band from England. They are the first band of fun- punk genre.

History

The Toy Dolls were founded in 1979 in Sunderland. The only remaining founding member Michael " Olga" Algar (vocals and guitar), born on 21 September 1962 at the British South Shields. In the 1980s, they were represented on Gary Bushells Strength Thru Oi compilation! ( Decca Records), even though they fit more in the Funpunk division; yet their concerts are quite frequented by skinheads. Since then, they are also successful internationally and have completed several tours on different continents.

The Toy Dolls playing fast, melodic punk rock - with atypically high for the genre in particular virtuosity of guitar playing by autodidact Algar - coupled with a high, quakendem singing and banal - jocular texts. Her biggest success was the band in 1983, Nellie The Elephant, a trimmed version of a children's song on Funpunk that made ​​it into the UK charts at # 4. Otherwise, the band draws attention mainly due to their frequent change of members at: The original line-up held just two months.

Currently ( 2006) there is a line-up of Algar, Tommy Goober (prop Thomas Woodford Blyth, electric bass) and The AMAZING Mr. Duncan (prop Duncan Redmonds, drums).

In March 2012, published the Toy Dolls her 12th studio album entitled The Album After The Last One. The The tour After The Last One - tour started in May.

Publications

Albums

  • Dig did groove baby (1983 )
  • A far out disc (1985 )
  • Idle Gossip (1986 )
  • Singles 83/84 (1986)
  • Bare faced cheek (1987 )
  • Ten years of toys (1989 )
  • Wakey wakey! (1989)
  • 22 tunes live from Tokyo (1990 )
  • Fat Bob's Feet! (1990)
  • Absurd ditties (1993 )
  • Orcastrated (1995 )
  • One more megabyte (1997)
  • On stage in stuttgart (1999)
  • Anniversary anthems (2000)
  • We're mad! - The Anthology (2002)
  • Our Last Album? (2004)
  • Treasured Toy Dolls Tracks Live (2006)
  • The Toy Dolls: Solitary Confinement (2007)
  • The Album After The Last One (2012 )

Singles

  • Tommy Kowey 's car (1980 )
  • The Toy Dolls EP ( 1981)
  • Everybody jitterbug (1982 )
  • Nellie the elephant (1982 )
  • Cheerio and toodle'pip (1983 )
  • Alfie from the Bronx (1983 )
  • We're Mad (1984 )
  • Nellie the elephant (new arranged version ) ( 1984)
  • She goes to Fino 's ( 1985)
  • James Bond ( lives down our street) (1985 )
  • Geordies gone to jail ( 1986)
  • Wipe out (1987, published in France )
  • Turtle Crazy ( 1990)
  • Lazy Sunday afternoon (1995 )
  • Livin ' la vida loca (2000)

Videos

  • We're mad VHS (1984 )
  • Idle gossip VHS (1987 )
  • Live in Japan VHS (1992 )
  • We're mad Idle Gossip DVD ( 2002)
  • Our Last DVD? DVD (2005)
Pop-Punk Punk subculture Punk pathetique Sunderland (Tyne and Wear) Bass guitar
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