ABOUT
DEAD ANYWAY are Kate Arnold (lyrics/vocals) and Marc Symonds (beats/instruments).
Both are from Gloucestershire UK
"We knew each other from our previous bands during the 1990s and mid 2000s and started working together as DEAD ANYWAY in late summer of 2019 after a chance meeting at a gig. Marc was already getting into recording techniques in his home studio and asked me if he could practice recording voices by getting me to read some of my poetry".
Five EPs and their debut album 'Trip Switch Lips' followed during 2020, all were recorded during lockdowns using one take vocal performances recorded into a mobile phone.
"I'm hearing quite a bit of poetry set to beats at the moment and no-one is doing it better than D.A. They've been quietly releasing absolutely banging EPs over the past year, each one better than the last. Kate's poetry is angry, funny, clever and occasionally heartbreaking. With a keen ear and turn of phrase, she holds a mirror up to today's world in all its sickness and absurdity while Marc's musical experiments are endlessly surprising, beats and hooks that brilliantly underpin and never detract from Kate's words. Their debut album is stunning". Michael J Sheehy
LISTEN
A phenomenal mix of poetry, electronica and guitars. It would be a very sensible idea for you to listen to this now. Go and download this now!
Stephen Morris 'songs in the key of...' Podcast
THE RECEIVER - EP
1.
The Receiver 02:16
2.
Sonnet 02:10
3.
Dead Anyway 02:57
4.
Reptilian 01:54
Released March 2020 Artwork by Andy Lewis
THIS TENDENCY - EP
1.
Karma Schmarma 02:57
2.
This Tendency 02:15
3.
My Hangman 02:30
4.
This Deconstruction 02:38
Released May 2020 Artwork by Andy Lewis
IDIOT BROAD - EP
1.
The Swab 02:28
2.
Cats and Dogs 02:38
3.
Idiot Broad 03:16
4.
Smoke Rings 02:05
Released June 2020 Artwork by Andy Lewis
WHIPPING BOY - EP
1.
Whipping Boy 02:22
2.
Two Cars 02:50
3.
Honey 02:23
4.
110% (#1) 01:57
Released July 2020 Artwork by Andy Lewis
B SIDES & ODDITIES - EP
1.
Resolve My Issue 02:07
2.
Flutter On Your Signal 02:31
3.
There Must Be Others 02:40
4.
Don't Stop, Go! 03:03
Released Nov 2020 Artwork by Max Tops
TRIP SWITCH LIPS - LP
1.
Trip Switch Lips 01:19
2.
Tube Guy 01:51
3.
This Battlefield 02:20
4.
Yo-yo Powder 02:16
5.
The Nerve Centre 02:20
6.
Have You Gone? 01:08
7.
8.
Our Biology 02:39
9.
A Good Day 01:05
10.
Cowboy Girl 02:28
11.
The Now 02:13
12.
The Lovely Divers 02:32
13.
This Is Not A Drill 04:36
Released Dec 2020 Artwork by Suzanne Barrett
DOLL HEAD - SINGLE
This track got me in ten seconds flat! The brilliant, abrasive Doll Head by Dead Anyway. Tom Robinson @ BBC Radio 6 MusicDistorted guitars over a breakbeat and synths, great use of chopped-in samples, it messes with your head but in a good way! I love Kate Arnold’s voice.1.
Doll Head 01.49
Released May 2021 Artwork by Suzanne Barrett
ARE WE DOING THIS? - LP
1.
The Metaphor 02:04
2.
Why Am I Like This? 02:53
3.
Doll Head 01:49
4.
Stretch Armstrong 03:07
5.
Two Mirrors 02:33
6.
Space Dust 01:37
7.
Black Snow 02:04
8.
The Lottery 02:36
9.
Frankenstein 02:22
10.
Taxidermy 02:07
11.
Bone Deep 02:28
12.
Tinkerbell 02:35
Released June 2021 Artwork by Suzanne Barrett
SPACE DUST - SINGLE
"A 90 second gem... this is a brutally unsettling slice of real life that just jumped out of the speakers at me,I really hope you are going to like this as much as I do, enjoy!" Tom Robinson BBC 6 MUSIC
Utterly brilliant, bonkers, 98 seconds of pure genius. Love it!Review courtesy of Steve Harris @ Fresh On The Net1.Space Dust 01:37
Released Nov 2021 Artwork from the Arnold family collection
HOUDINIS OF ENNUI - LP
1.
Let Go 02:39
2.
Moving Target 02:28
3.
R U OK? 02:53
4.
None of It 02:04
5.
Pillow Heads 02:13
6.
I'm Home 03:11
7.
Headless Chicken 02:12
8.
Rubber Legs 02:02
9.
The Prowler 03:06
10.
Conkers 02:16
11.
The White Horses 05:02
Released July 2022 Artwork by Sara Vielvoye
LIVE - GIGS
SAT 27TH AUG 2022
The Port Mahon 82 St Clement's St, Oxford OX4 1AW
Gappy Tooth Industries present...
He Didnt, Dead Anyway, and Haints.
Tickets will be priced £5 on the door, or can be purchased at a slightly discounted rate online at https://www.wegottickets.com/gappytooth
The Gappy Tooth team say: “We’re incredibly excited to announce that we’ll be hosting the debut public gig of Gloucestershire’s Dead Anyway. They effectively deal in twisted trip hop, bleak mordantly funny poetry, and surreal supercilious sneers. A cross between Sleaford Mods, Dry Cleaning and a belligerently tipsy Lamb.”
Quality mixed bag of sounds again at this month’s GTI with Oxfordshire’s Haints mixing power pop, and punk into a Lemonheads, Rise Against! and Jawbreaker-flavoured broth alongside Gloucestershire’s Dead Anyway, making their
live debut tonight and blending influences of Lamb, Sleaford Mods and Dry Cleaning into a
trip hop-poetry-punk gumbo. Bleakly entrancing instrumental guitar noise in a Slint vein from he didnt.The estimated running times for the evening are as follows:
7.30pm - Doors
8pm - He Didnt
8.50pm - Dead Anyway
9.40pm - Haints
10.30pm - Curfew
SAT 10TH DEC 2022
The Dublin Castle 94 Parkway, London NW1 7AN
BUGBEAR BOOKINGS present...
Quartermass 3, Artificially Yours, Dead Anyway.
Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.wegottickets.com/bugbear
We are thrilled to announce our debut London gig for the wonderful Bugbear Bookings at the iconic Dublin Castle in Camden.
Quatermass 3 - In a dark but enigmatic corner of the British psychogeographical mind map, just a stone's throw from Quality Street, natch, and also the flesh pots and gaiety houses of Brighton....we shall find fevered and psychedelically cerebral post punk rom the people behind World of Twist, Earl Brutus and The Dials. A must see outerspacial happening.
Artificially Yours - electronica and psych seamlessly stitched together by this rather fetching 3 piece. Getting plaudits from all quarters of the pop press right now and quite bleedin right too.
Dead Anyway - Talking of plaudits and pop press n all that here's a band from Gloucester whose remarkable music has been turning heads from Tom Robinson to Fresh On The Net- Marc Symonds and Kate Arnold make meaty loops driven techy and guitar splattered art pop that has a kind of Big Black meets Poison Girls feel, albeit on a moonlit night in a misty glade somewhere in the Forest Of Dean. If Dry Cleaning were from the wrong (right) side of the tracks...Can only be a good thing.
7.30pm - Doors
