Daft Dog Writing Demo with Janie Price from EMI Norway writing week

What's My Name?

Daft Dog is Richard Scott and Scott Ralph.

Both born and bred in Stoke-On-Trent, they met as kids when Scott played drums (at the age of 11!) in Rich’s funk band – Rich being a bona fide teenager at the time.

When that didn’t work out the way they’d hoped, they went their separate ways, although both continued to beaver away at music and kept an eye on what the other was up to.

Since his teens, Rich wrote songs and was the driving force in a string of local bands, as well as always being involved in the musical projects of his brothers (Kelvin Andrews and Danny Spencer, pka ‘Soul Mekanik’). An early triumph was a release on his brother’s Pharm label that caused George Clinton to call up to tell him that the track “was the best damn Funkadelic record we never made!”. 

As a self-taught, multi instrumentalist, Scott spent the intervening years as a working musician. Along with writing songs, working in musical youth projects, & running his own studio, he also played as a session musician for many years - travelling the world as primarily a drummer and guitarist.

Only eighteen months ago, Rich and Scott came back together after a near twenty year break. Rich wanted to develop the songwriting that he had been doing with Soul Mekanik and needed a foil for his skills - Scott was the perfect candidate.

Since getting back together, they have built their new studio, written a whole raft of songs and hit upon a winning formula. The first fruits of their efforts are three cuts on the forthcoming Robbie Williams album, including one of the upcoming singles. 

In the studio, Scott plays everything and they both programme, although Rich’s natural place is also at the keyboard of both the piano and the Mac. When he needs something played properly – he admits he has to hand it over to Scott!

As writers they have a mainstream commercial bent and write both track and topline (melody and lyric). Their best results come when collaborating in the studio with an artist.


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