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Friday, October 28, 2011

Does It Offend You, Yeah?-Dance-Punk

Does It Offend You, Yeah? is a British band out of Reading, Berkshire. Formed in 2006 by James Rushent and Dan Coop, This band is revered as the band who has "busted the dance-punk world wide open". Their first album "You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into" was a breakout hit and helped them climb to the top of the charts. In 2008, they were nominated the Breaking Artist for the Rolling Stone. In 2011, their second album "Don't Say We Didn't Warn You" was released after Chloe Duveaux and Matty Derham joined the band. Most have seen them on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show and The Last Call with Carson Daly show as well. Does It Offend You, Yeah? has recieved many more awards and recognitions including: ninth most listened to band in 2008, and Best alternative music list of Itunes in 2008. There is no real way to pin point these guys' genre of music. They are so dynamic that they have been compared to band such as: Daft Punk as well as Rage Against the Machine. One of the coolest aspects of this band is the fact that their name comes from an episode of the popular TV show, The Office.  
According to an article from Wikipedia, the band says, "Everybody thinks the name is some kind of statement but it's a quote from David Brent in an episode of The Office. "When me and James Rushent first started writing music together we decided to put it up on MySpace We needed a name to put as our profile name so just put what was the first thing that was said on TV, we switched it on and Ricky Gervais said "My Drinking - Does it offend you, yeah?" so we just went with that. No thought went into it whatsoever."—synth player Dan Coop, NME.com interview


The band is:


James Rushent: Lead vocals, bass guitar, synthesi
Rob Bloomfield: Drums, backing vocals 
Dan Coop: Synthesizer
Matty Durham: Guitar, backing vocals
Chloe Dureaux: Bass guitar, backing vocals


   


"Epic Last Song": Music Video Sample:


Pictures retrieved from Google. Quote from Wikipedia.







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