Their story is not about posting online, but about old school packing and posting a vinyl 7-inch single to a person of importance in the music industry – whether a booker in Australia (or Japan) or a radio legend at the BBC. In 2002 The Datsuns broke through in pre-internet ways: live performance, the John Peel radio show and UK magazines including the NME. They hit London town just before the NME lost its star-making power and the conversation about music moved from pieces of paper stapled together to the on-line buffet of audio and video nibbles.
V2
Hellsquad Records
Cooking Vinyl
EMI
Dolf de Borst - vocals, bass
Christian Livingstone - guitar
Phil Buscke Somervell - guitar
Ben Cole - drums
Matt Osment - drums