FIRE DOG celebrates fives years of FIRE DOG in 2011.
FIRE DOG spins a sounds that shakes and stirs, POPs, and explodes! Serving up a playful attack of soul and surf. Irresistible harmonies, punchy rhythms, tight, howling pop arrangements, FIRE DOG makes you smile, FIRE DOG makes you dance! Over the past five years FIRE DOG has built a dedicated cult-like following.
Our plans for 2011 include new music to be released, a 7" record called Wait 2 Die !! It is our best music to date and includes special guest appearance by Ellen the Felon and members of Fattback, a tribute to Dave Hagerty !! I can't wait for you to hear it.
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It began in the year of the FIRE DOG (2006) according the Eastern Zodiac, when singer and songwriter Mark-O-Polo joined up with longtime musical comrades Brandon Manitoba and Celia. The connections run deep in this three-piece with relationships reaching back nearly fifteen years. The songs that Mark Pagano was writing seemed tailored to his musical friends, so Celia picked up a bass guitar and Brandon dusted off his drums and the three began to hone in on a new sound, fresh and electric. The group wasted no time and put out it’s debut record in the summer of that year featuring 12 original songs.
Uncertain what to do with their new found energy and optimism for making music as band, FIRE DOG decided to partner with LOVE-O-RAMA and let the banner days fly. The collective decided to put together an ambitious tour of the Western United States, playing 32 dates in 14 states, combing independent movies, live-video mixing, fire spinning, and original rocknroll, all with the aim to Spread the LOVE.
In 2007 the FIRE DOG anthem “2004 – May These Changes Make Us LIGHT” was selected to be the center piece for a collaborative winter performance that brought together an amazing and eclectic array of some St. Louis finest performers and artists. The first “May These Changes Make Us LIGHT” was held that winter at the Contemporary Art Museum, and FIRE DOG continued to be inspired.
In 2008 FIRE DOG took on the mission to “spread positive vibrations through songs of truth and intrigue, creating a sound full of energy and optimism for the 21st Century, to make the people DANCE!!” And they continued to hone in on their sound with new songs and the beginnings of a new record. In 2009 FIRE DOG released “Your Heart is a Muscle” on 12” vinyl and CD!!
2010 dogged it out with heart muscles thumping playing over thirty dates on the road in twelve states, reaching out to the Rocky Mountains, the southeast, the southwest, California, and the northeastern sea-board. Not to mention a steady dose of shows in the Midwest.
In this time FIRE DOG found fans at venues such as the historic Cafe Club Fais-do-do (Hollywood, CA), Nectar Lounge (Seattle, WA), Lestat's (San Diego, CA), Pete’s Candy Store (Brooklyn, NY), Millcreek Tavern (Philadelphia, PA), The All Ways Lounge (New Orleans, LA, The Off Broadway and Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (St. Louis), The Beat Kitchen (Chicago), The Blue Note (Columbia, MO), The Replay Lounge (Lawrence, KS)!!
Your Heart IS a Muscle -- Venice Cafe
FIRE DOG in Portland, OR
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