Ironically titled You've Never Had It So Good...
3 minutes and 49 seconds of Dada Paradox in top sardonic and catchy form. Featuring collage, montage and unwitting cameos from Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and Nigel Farage...
Dada Paradox on the web...
Lo Fi guitar pop & rock with psychedelic & folk-ish tendencies by Ian and Liza Roure
"Ray Davies channeled through the prism of peak-era, mid-90s Blur...""Majestically Jangly"“Brilliantly lyrical, darkly funny”- New York Music Daily
Lucid Culture says:
"a missing link between Ray Davies & Robyn Hitchcock"
"...slacker pop with an Anti-Folk edge for the anti-Trump movement" -Nightshift, Oxford
Also: check out Liza's rockin' Progressive Retro Pop duo Tracy Island:
Stay Home, Stay Safe! Check out the lockdown Dada Paradox live video...
Hey everyone: since we can't go down to the Wheatsheaf at the moment, here's a video we made for the virtual Klub Kakofanney:
15 minutes of quarantined Dada Paradox fun featuring 4 - mostly new - songs - including the new, sardonic, soon-to-be single: You've Never Had it so Good...
Cheers for now and stay safe!
1. You’ve Never Had It So Good
2. The Castle Street Contingent
3. On Deep England
4. Find Ways To Matter
(c) 2020 Ian Roure (BMI)
Ian Roure: Guitar, Irish Bouzouki, vocals, FX
Liza Roure: Melodica, Organ, vocals
Collages by Liza
Here's a blog entry about an Irish Bouzouki: Ian's Bouzouki Story...
The story so far: back before Christmas Ian & Liza went to London where Liza bought Ian an Irish Bouzouki for Christmas. Ian bought a pickup and had it fitted to the Bouzouki - now it rocks...
May Morning Demos (New works in progress)
Testing the Oxford waters...
22 April at the Harcourt Arms open mic: Plundering the archives in Dada Paradox form - we played: Welcome to the Show & Logical Enough (2005) and Bat Boy Signs Up (2002)
A New Release!
It's a 7 track EP called Spray Tan Apocalypse - wherein we set the seemingly meteoric disintegration of American politics (2016-17) to hook-riddled retro-rock.
To stream, perchance to download, please click here.
We've Moved!
Dada Paradox have been officially operating from our new head quarters in Headington, Oxford in the UK since late February 2018.
Questions, questions, questions: if you are wondering why there is a shark sticking out of a house in the graphic below, click and ye shall find...
New Graphic for New Tune
Made a new collage that goes with one of the new Dada Paradox tunes we've been working on; inspired by a secret bar we were invited to while on holiday in Barcelona this is called La Vaca (Punk Rock Dream)
Mobile Flight on Spotify & iTunes
Dear Blog - it occurs to us here at Dada Paradox hq that some of you kids probably don't buy CDs any more and may want to check out the new album Mobile Flight on Spotify or iTunes. No problem - links below!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2N8M9TMURhvbK5nLeFbigI
Cheers,
Ian & Liza
Progessive Retro-Pop: A Minifesto
Progressive Retro-Pop: Blending sounds from 60s & 70s pop & rock music with lyrical barbs, irony, sideways hooks, and unexpected twists in song form, melody & subject matter.
We PRPs like our soaring melodies and tuneful hooks but we want our concepts and irony too...
This message brought to you by Dada Paradox.
~DP hq