100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #54 Getdown Services – Dog Dribble

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Released: 2024

Explaining things to people, it’s hard isn’t it? What does it sound like, that tune? Who does it sound like? Will I know anything else by them? Is that the job here? Possibly.

The Getdown Services are childhood mates Ben Sadler and Josh Law, live in Bristol (They’re originally from the seaside resort of Minehead) and are happy to compare their music to the same kind of childishly anarchic gotchas of the BBC children’s show Dick & Dom in da Bungalow. Now that kind of programme would be considered too gauche even for a tweeny audience; the generation who grew up watching it though have a perhaps an understandable nostalgia at play.

Law described their work succinctly last year as “Disco and eighties and like seventies infused groove based music” but they’ve already moved on. Dog Dribble is a bit like Sleaford Mods before they came over all proficient, with a twist of funk like Snapped Ankles but without the trees, or the Viagra Boys if they were taking the piss out of themselves even more than usual. Actually, scratch that. Seriously, it’s hard to explain things to people, isn’t it?

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Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.