Feb 2001 - BBC Online Southampton

Josh and Steve from The Dum Dums

Late afternoon drinkers in Southampton had a musical accompaniment to their pints as pop band The Dum Dums brought their promotional signing tour to the City with an impromptu pub gig.

A lucky fan with Josh and Stuart

The demand to see the three lads from London was so great that their acoustic set had to be moved from a High Street record store to a city centre pub. The band have played the school assembly hall circuit and Saturday morning kids TV. Plenty of their younger fans turned up to hear their brand of punk and pop. There was still a queue well out into the high street as the band returned to the Tower Records store to sign copies of their CD - "It Goes Without Saying", as well as posters and various bits of clothing.


Fans wait to see The Dum Dums

Their current single is only 150 copies short of Martine McCutcheon's latest release in the battle for chart supremacy - so every sale counts. To this end, the band have spent the last 10 days in a promotional frenzy - crisscrossing the country and meeting their fans in record shops in an attempt to beat Martine.

Josh in action

It's been quite a year for the threesome - five months after their first release, they played in front of 72,000 people supporting Jon Bon Jovi at Wembley Stadium. The band are also mates with Robbie Williams whose melodic rock influence are apparent in their short set. The boys are jetsetting for a while - Japan and the States beckon. By the end of the year they will have a new album out and are promising a return visit to Southampton.

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