DanMingo

Press Release



DanMingo are Jerry Richards (guitars and vocals), Jon Moss (drums and vocals), Winston Blissett (bass and vocals) and Steve Swindells (keyboards and lead vocals).

Danmingo make their live debut headlining at Cafe Rocks at London's Cafe De Paris on Friday, Sept 7th, 2007.

For more details see http://www.danmingo.com and http://www.caferocks.co.uk

With a combined age of nearly 200, the fabtastic foursome are hoping to enter The Guinness Book Of Records as the oldest new rock band to make a live debut... ever!

DanMingo have received over 40,000 plays on http://www.isound.com, the massive US web site for unsigned artists , where they have also regularly appeared in the 'top ten most-played' chart. Their 'prequel' album 'Leap Of Faith' is also available to download at isound.com, for just $7.99, along with five free tracks. Their music could be described as 'Soulful, passionate, song-driven, genre-busting grooves from a gifted group of real players. A proper, proper band propelled by Steve Swindells' evocative lyrics and powerfully emotive voice.'

http://www.isound.com/danmingo

Winston Blissett has had a distinguished career as one of the UK's most in-demand bass players, having played with acts as diverse as Lisa Stansfield, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Dizzee Rascal, Lulu, Jimmy Cliff and Massive Attack (he recently completed the latter's world tour). He also plays with Protect The Beat, the all-star, jazz-funk band.

Jon Moss is best known as the co-founder and drummer of Culture Club, but has also played with The Damned, The Clash, Adam And The Ants, Shane McGowan, Kirsty McColl, the Stiff Records House Band and Cameo. He also currently plays with the rock band Dirth.

http://www.myspace.com/jonmossofdanmingo

Jerry Richards is known as one of the all-time great space rock guitarists and has played with Tubilah Dog, Hawkdog, Agents Of Chaos and, of course, Hawkwind. He also fronts a 'space rock supergroup' called Earth Lab which features all the other members of DanMingo, along with Simon House and Ron Tree amongst many others.

http://www.myspace.com/earthlab

Steve Swindells (55 this year!) is the singer/songwriter of the band and has played with Hawkwind (when they were known as Hawklords) and the 70s pop band Pilot as well as releasing two solo albums: Messages on RCA and Fresh Blood on WEA. His songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Hawkwind, Lulu, Daniel Pearce and The Who's Roger Daltrey. He has also been a highly successful club promoter (The Lift, Jungle, Bad, Downbeat and Groove) and party organiser (The Face and Time Out Magazines, Warner music, Prince and Madonna, amongst others) in the 80s, and, in the 90s, a journalist; writing extensively for Time Out and Attitude magazines. Steve also mentors, writes with, records and produces several young rappers, singers and songwriters in North West London.

For exclusive interviews with band members (inc ME) and a Q&A session with Steve Swindells register with http://www.theconnectionforum.com/


The email address to publish as a contact for DanMingo is: info@danmingo.com

For any photos, logos or publicity images please contact Steve at steveswindells@mac.com

http://www.danmingo.com

A hippy, a jew, a black and a gay, DanMingo are dying... to come out and play!