Imaginary Dreamers' latest single Right Before You out now on all streaming platforms!

A unique, personal take on rock'n roll!
Originals London based band delivering contemporary songs that are both bold and fragile. Passionate captivating music with lots of dynamics and changes. Together with well known classic covers they storm stages everywhere. 
Working hard this year 2023 writing new batch of singles for a brand new EP and adding lots of great, new textures to the whole. stay tuned! 
Armed with stellar new bandlineup and songs we're ready to kick it up a notch! 


Imaginary Dreamers are Kevin on vocals-guitar, Andy on bass, bv and Gonzalo on drums!

some Imaginary Dreamers live gigs we played in a nutshell past years :

June 26 - 2015: Sinbin/Plough'n Harrow, Leytonstone,London
June 30 - 2015: Proud venue, Camden, London
July 11 - 2015: Cargo, Shoreditch, London
July 21 - 2015: Enterprise, Camden, London
July 25 - 2015: Sebright Arms, Bethnal Green, London
August 12 - 2015: Powerlunches, Hackney, London
August 14 - 2015: The Workshop, Shoreditch, London
August 21 - 2015: The Gunners, Highbury, London
August 22 - 2015: The Asylum, Chelmsford (Essex)
August 28 - 2015: Stag's Head, Hoxton, London
August 29 - 2015: Urban Bar, Whitechapel, London
August 30 - 2015: The Romany, Northampton
August 31 - 2015: Poco Loco, Chatham,Medway,Kent
September 5 - 2015: Luna Lounge, Leytonstone, London
September 9 - 2015: Surya, King's Cross, London
October 9 - 2015: The George Tavern, Whitechapel, London
October 24 - 2015: Renaissance Alternative Music fest, The Slimelight, Islington, London
November 11 - 2015: The Good Ship, Kilburn, London
December 14 - 2015: The Comedy Pub, Piccadilly Circus/Leicester Square, Central London
15 January 2016 - T-Chances, Tottenham, London
28 January 2016 - The Birdsnest, Deptford, South London
29 January 2016 - The Workshop/Roadtrip, Shoreditch, London
30 January 2016 - The Rafters, Maidstone, Kent
06 February 2016 - venue tbc, Chatham, Kent
13 February 2016 - The Spice Of Life, Soho, London
18 March - Hope And Anchor, Islington, London
22 April - tbc, Canterbury, Kent
05 May Radio Session + interview Radio PhoenixFM, Brentwood, Kent
08 May Amersham Arms, New Cross, Revolution animal charity benefit fest
28 May Vegbar, Brixton
29 May Surya, King's Cross - Heritage Festivala
10 June The Gunners, Highbury
11 June The Green Room, Welwyn Garden City
18 June Alleycat, Denmark Street, Soho, London
24 June The Lounge, Archway, London
European Belgian long weekend tour:
28 July - Kid's Rhythm & Blues Café, Antwerp
29 July - Rock Café Twilight, Oostende
30 July - festivalweide, Brugge
31 July - Wingene fest
17 August - Dublin Castle, Camden
25 August - New Cross Inn, New Cross
29 August - Poco Loco, Chatham, Kent
30 September - Poco Loco, Chatham, Kent
02 October, Redfest Dublin Castle, Camden
20 October, Fiddler's Elbow, Camden
plenty more in 2017 and 2018.

current 2019 gigs = April onwards,

11 April + Fiddlers Elbow Camden
25 April + The Unicorn Camden
07 May + Dublin Castle Camden
30 May + Biddle Bros Clapton
plus lots more tbc

2020 gigs:
January: New Cross Inn, New Cross.
                 The Continental, West London
February:
                High Wycombe pub free house gig,
                Kimbofest, Prince of Wales, Chatham.
                Hope and Anchor, Islington, London. 
March 5th:
            Nambucca, Holloway, London.

Rest of the booked gigs and tours were cancelled due the Covid 19 global crisis.

2021:
slowly restart of live events summer 2021:
20 June: New Cross Inn, London
18 July: Hope and Anchor, London
14 August: Kimbofest, Billabong Comedy Pub, Rochester, Kent.

more tba!



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imaginarydreamersofficial@gmail.com

I make music about the Thelemic path, and other life experiences.

Electronic noise and metal influences with occult themes.

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Skinny Puppy formed in 1982 from the partnership of cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton) and Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Key was dissatisfied with the pop direction of his then-current band Images in Vogue and began Skinny Puppy with the intention of doing something more raw and experimental. The duo recorded their first self-released cassette Back & Forth in 1984, with help from Dave "Rave" Ogilvie. This was the beginning of a long partnership between Skinny Puppy and Rave, who would serve as their producer until 1993, again in 1995, and was occasionally listed as a member of the band in album liner notes. Back & Forth drew the attention of Vancouver startup label Nettwerk, who signed the band later that year.

The dark electro-pop styles of the debut EP, Remission, and first album Bites the following year, earned the band a fervent fan base. This era saw the creation of such now-immortal underground hits as "Assimilate", "Smothered Hope", "The Choke", "Dead Lines", "Last Call", and "Far Too Frail".

Dwayne Goettel, who played synthesizers and samplers, joined Skinny Puppy in 1986. Classically trained as a pianist/keyboardist, Goettel had previously worked with the synth pop band Psyche, among others.

Their audience expanded with a distribution deal with Capitol Records/EMI, while Play It Again Sam issued a number of their releases in Europe. Their production values continued to improve with the addition of Goettel on Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse in 1986 and Cleanse Fold and Manipulate in the year that followed. "Dig It", "Addiction", "Chainsaw", "Stairs and Flowers", and "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" are prominent songs from this period.

Skinny Puppy toured for three years in North America and Europe; a live performance at Toronto's Concert Hall in 1987 was released on VHS in 1989 and CD in 1991 as Ain't It Dead Yet?

Over time, the band became outspoken advocates for animal rights, and used the European Head Trauma tour and North American VIVIsectVI tour to draw attention to the issue. The title of the album, VIVIsectVI, released in 1988, was a pun intended to associate vivisection with Satanism (i.e. the "666 sect"). The album's lyrics dealt with criticism of pollution, chemical warfare, deforestation, rape, cocaine addiction, and the promotion of sexual abstinence to stop the spread of AIDS/HIV. The lead track "Dogshit" was released as a single in 1988 under the name "Censor" (due to censorship issues, radio stations urged the band to change its name for radio airplay) while the single "Testure" (which denounced the vivisection of animals for research purposes) reached No. 19 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1989. A music video was produced for "Testure" featuring footage of a man being tortured by monstrous-looking surgeons, augmented with clips from The Plague Dogs and Unnecessary Fuss, and included a statement denouncing vivisection. Key and Ogre were arrested for "disorderly conduct" at a 1988 concert in Cincinnati, Ohio after an audience member, believing the stuffed animal Ogre was "vivisecting" to be a real dog, called the police.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the band members also worked on various side projects. Key and Goettel were involved with The Tear Garden (a collaboration with The Legendary Pink Dots), Doubting Thomas (an outlet for their non-Skinny Puppy instrumentals), and the rock band Hilt. Ogre struck up a friendship with Ministry's Al Jourgensen and joined Ministry and some of its side projects on their live tours. For Skinny Puppy's fifth album, Rabies, released in 1989, Jourgensen joined Rave as producer.

Their next album, Too Dark Park, was released in 1990. The album is built on the harsh electronic rock of previous albums, yielding the singles "Tormentor" and "Spasmolytic". Environmental degradation was a major theme on songs such as "Nature's Revenge" and "Shore Lined Poison" while layers of background noise grew to a crescendo on the album's closer "Reclamation".

The album that followed two years later, Last Rights, pushed the dark noise of Too Dark Park further into experimental territory. In 1992 the single "Inquisition" was released. Another single, "Love In Vein", was made but not released until some of the remix and b-side material intended for it appeared on Brap: Back and Forth Series 3 & 4 in 1996. The "Killing Game" video and tour backing film were directed by William Morrison.

Ogre, Key, and Goettel signed a contract with American Recordings and moved to Malibu, California in 1993 to record The Process, a concept album inspired by 1960s cult The Process Church of The Final Judgment, with Roli Mosimann producing. Artistic and personal differences caused Ogre to leave Skinny Puppy in June 1995. Goettel was found dead of a heroin overdose in his parents' home two months later. The Process was eventually completed with Rave, released in 1996, and dedicated to the memory of Goettel. It was an overall stylistic departure from their previous albums, prominently featuring untreated vocals, guitar, and more accessible song structures. The liner notes that accompanied the CD included thank-yous to "Electronic Music Lovers" and "Puppy People" followed by the words "The End" in bold type.

Several collections were released while Skinny Puppy was dormant, including Brap: Back and Forth Series 3 & 4 in 1996 and The Singles Collect and B-Sides Collect in 1999. Nettwerk commissioned a remix album in 1998; titled remix dystemper, it featured classic Skinny Puppy tracks re-worked by a diverse range of artists, including IDM pioneers Autechre, alt-metal band Deftones, rapper/hip hop producer Guru and Industrial mainstay KMFDM. Ogre and Mark Walk also took part, contributing a breakcore remix of "Dig It" and an updated version of Remission's "Smothered Hope" with new vocals by Ogre.

In 2000, Ogre and Key reunited and performed live as Skinny Puppy for the first time since 1992 at the Doomsday Festival in Dresden. The live album Doomsday: Back and Forth Series 5: Live in Dresden was released in 2001. Key joined ohGr on drums for its 2001 tour, while Ogre appeared on the track "Frozen Sky" on Key's 2001 album The Ghost of Each Room. The first new Skinny Puppy track in several years, "Optimissed", appeared on the Underworld soundtrack in 2003. Ogre, Key, Mark Walk and various guests, including Danny Carey of Tool and Wayne Static of Static-X, recorded the band's ninth studio album, The Greater Wrong of the Right, released in 2004 on Synthetic Symphony, a sub-label of SPV, their European distributor since the mid-1990s. The new Skinny Puppy sound was in a similar vein as The Process, with a somewhat more rock-oriented style. Skinny Puppy toured North America and Europe in support of the album in 2004. Skinny Puppy toured Europe again in 2005, and returned to the studio to complete their next album, Mythmaker, which was released in January 2007.

According to a news posting on the official Skinny Puppy website, the band's next studio album was originally slated for release in October 2009, but the release of this album was delayed due to insolvency issues with the SPV label (thus leading to Ogre naming the 2009 tour the "In Solvent See" tour). These issues were not expected to be resolved until the end of 2009. However, the "In Solvent See" Tour took place as planned.

In May 2011, Skinny Puppy announced that they finished recording a new album titled HanDover, which was released in October of 2011.

A live album, titled Bootlegged, Broke, and In Solvent Seas and recorded on the band's 2010 European tour, was released on June 12, 2012 by Metropolis Records.

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