Gay Dad

Gay Dad are back! The eccentric power-pop trio that caused a media frenzy in the UK are back with an explosive new pop record, “Transmission”. Never before released in the US, this album is sure to stir up the same controversy and enthusiasm as it did in the U.K. Make no mistake, the revolution has begun…er, at least re-started.

artist history:
Gay Dad’s debut release, ‘Leisure Noise’, shot straight to the top of the charts overseas, and shipped over 25,000 units in the Unites States.. Now, flash forward to 2002, and Gay Dad is starting off the new year with a new album and a new attitude. Focusing on the music more than ever, they have produced a stellar album, and have proven that Gay Dad is back again and better than ever.

The band:
Gay Dad is a power trio consisting of frontman/guitarist Cliff Jones, Bassist Nigel Hoyle, and Nicholas Crowe on drums. Gay Dad is primarily the brain-child of Cliff Jones, whose eccentric and outlandish personality drives the spirit of the band.

Brit-pop phenoms Gay Dad were led by singer Cliff Jones, a onetime music journalist who first began conceiving the band during the early 1990s. Initial details are sketchy and the nascent group’s line-up was fluid, although drummer Nicholas “Baz” Crowe was a mainstay from the outset; a 1994 demo recorded with legendary Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham proved so disastrous it derailed Gay Dad’s momentum for over a year, however, and they did not make their live debut until 1995. Early gigs were often a shambles, and by 1996 Jones — who in the interim had developed a fascination with psychedelia and glam-rock — began to rethink the band’s approach; a subsequent demo earned Gay Dad considerable insider buzz, and in the spring of 1997 they signed to London Records. Their debut single, 1998’s “To Earth with Love, ” became a UK smash, and the band — in addition to Jones and Baz now comprising guitarist Charley Stone, bassist Nigel Hoyle and keyboardist James Riseboro — emerged as media darlings; the full-length Leisure Noise followed in mid-1999.