Someone To Follow

Clemency For Bill Stickers

Short Drive Home

Into My Daze

So, So Good At Telling Lies

The Latter

Why Play Dead

What If

Too Dark To Imagine

Thank Bake

Television Sounds

Do You Want Me

Dork Turnspit began in 2008 as a bedroom project of singer and guitarist, Marc Nellis. 5 demos were recorded and put up on Myspace, back when it still kind of worked, and nothing more was thought of them until early 2009 when a friend, Lee Dixon, showed a surprising interest in them and begged Marc to start a band using these songs. A highly skilled bassist, Lee was desperate not to play the instrument any more and thought he'd look infinitely more hip if he was on lead guitar and backing vocals. The more he begged the sterner Marc's resistance grew until one day, apropos of nothing, Marc relented and the two began working on some new tracks.

Come April, after many beer-fuelled writing sessions, the two had come up with an album's-worth of material and Lee's former bandmate, Rod Jameson, had been added to the line-up on drums and quips. The band had one rehearsal together sans bassist, Lee and Marc played one acoustic gig in Lancaster and then Marc inexplicably decided to "do one" and moved to Edinburgh. Given the geography and distinct lack of cash this made rehearsing highly improbable, if not impossible. Thus a year's hiatus ensued but Marc was still prolifically writing during this time and when he moved back to England had a whole two new songs to show for his time away - a total of 6 minutes and 51 seconds. 

Upon Marc's return the band tried out several bassists but for myriad reasons none stuck. A strong desire to play live meant Marc decided to demote himself and play bass instead and the band played a few gigs from June 2012 in this guise. Thankfully somebody eventually came forward and said they'd like to play bass with us. This somebody was musical bigamist Darren Leadsom. The line-up complete, the full sound that was envisaged 3 years previous was finally realised.

The band made a DIY CD of 10 demos in 2013 and blagged a (very) mini-tour of Scotland that summer. A full album recording is in the pipeline.

"Keeping the balance of grandeur and accesibility right is an important thing for band's that aim big, otherwise they come off sounding pretentious and self-important. Thankfully though Dork Turnspit have done just that" - Life's a Beach blog

"Friday 15th June, Lancaster, Yorkshire House: Lithium State/Scragfight/Dork Turnspit/Pink Socks £3/£2" - The Guardian

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