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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
BBC Southampton
Online will have a full feature on the Dum Dum's visit soon.
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