INSIDE OUT
2008 (TV)
BBC
‘Performer/Recording Artist’
Where Are They Now documentary about seventies pop group Tonight. Featured drummer Gary Thompson moving on to the eighties, where he wrote and played guitar for Dooyah!
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THE WAY IT IS
1987
CAPITAL RADIO
‘Recording Artist’
Interview with Gary Thompson to promote Dooyah’s up coming London tour dates. Also featured The Boogie Brother Blues Band.
STUFF
Various Artists
1990 COMPILATION ALBUM
Love’s Where You Find It (Thompson)
Produced by Dooyah! And Roger Dexter
A C60 cassette of various artistes sold with Alive And Kicking magazine, a What’s On live band gig guide. Feature’s the Track Love’s Where You Find it, a 1997 single for Dooyah!
LOVE’S WHERE YOU FIND IT/SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
Dooyah!
1987 SINGLE
Love’s Where You Find It (Thompson)
Spend! Spend! Spend! (Thompson)
Produced by Dooyah!/Roger Dexter
AA sided single, co-produced with Essex Radio’s Roger Dexter. Received substantial airplay around the UK.
DOOYAH!
1985-1988
R&B POP BAND
UK
‘Frontman/Songwriter’
Jeff Kristian (vocals), Gary Thompson (guitar), Dave Dulake (keyboards), Pat McNamara (guitar), Dean Mahoney (bass), Graeme Turner (Sax/flute), Rick Mounsey (drums), Davyd Locke (drums)
Under Gary Winkler’s Globaldale Management, Dooyah! flourished on the R&B and live band circuit across the UK. Working with big names like Fast Freddie & The Fingertips, The Boogie Brothers Blues Band, The Bay City Rollers and Georgie Flame and the Blue Flames, Dooyah! appearances included The 100 Club, Dingwalls, The Town & Country Club, The Mean Fiddler and The Cliff’s Pavilion.
They headlined at The Herald Of Free Enterprise Disaster Festival and recorded with Stevie Wonder’s producer Malcolm Cecil. Radio appearances and play across the UK culminated in Essex Radio’s Roger Dexter co-producing their 1987 AA sided single ‘Love’s Where You Find It/Spend! Spend! Spend!’.
Dooyah! songwriter Gary Thompson had previously had chart success in the 70′s band Tonight. Dave Dulake currently fronts Virgo Intacta. 2008 saw Dooyah! featured on BBC television’s Inside Out. The live tracks In Praise Of Older Women and Wear It Out were written by Gary Thompson.