No Dice - s/t

Name: No Dice
Album: s/t
Year: 1978
Style: Pub, Hard, Blues Rock
Similar Bands: J. Geils Band, Cheap Trick, Who, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker
One-Word Review: Five-Drinks-In-Bar-Rock
Based Out Of: London, UK
Label: Capitol

 Cover, Sleeve, Record

Back, Liner Notes, Record

No Dice (1978)

1. Why Sugar 3:52
2. Crystal Clear 3:51
3. Foolin' 3:21
4. Silly Girl 3:45
5. Down N' Dry 3:55/
6. Happy In The Skoolyard 4:24
7. Spacey Romance 3:47
8. Salt in The Wound 5:39
9. Someone Else's Gold 5:08

Album Rating: 7.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Roger "Peaches" Ferris - Vox (Konrads, Shooting Party)
• Dzal "Deezal" Martin - Guitar (March Hare, Mona Liza Overdrive, Box of Frogs, Adrian Snell)
• Gary Strange - Bass, Writer (March Hare, Merlin, Shooting Party)
• Chris "Kitty" Wyles - Drums (Victims of Pleasure, Shakin' Stevens, Paul Roberts, David Studdert's Mumbo Jumbo, Auteurs, Placebo, Black Box Recorder)
• Robert Wace - Producer
• Phill Brown - Producer, Engineer
• Steve Smith - Producer
• Dick Palmer - Engineer
• Carter - Remix
• Warren Dewey - Remix
• Ken Perry - Mastering
• Dice Section - Backing Vox
• Dave Moore - Keys (Bop Brothers, Strangeways, Thea Gilmore)
• STEVIE Smith - Harmonica
• Roy Kohara - Art Direction
• Ken Anderson - Design
• Paul Nugent - Photography

Unknown-ness: Never heard of No Dice. But to be on Capitol records, there must have been something special about them at some time. They too, employ the red, black, and white color scheme, which makes me think they were also going for the new wave pub rock sound of the time. Art direction paints them as bad boys with the arrest photos, no nonsense facial expressions, big X on the back, and contrasting names like Peaches and Kitty.

Album Review: Vocals somewhere between Roger Daltry and Rod Stewart, and a fun, energetic pub rock sound puts these guys a dime a dozen bands like this absorbing the new wave image, but still playing "classic rock." A little Honky Tonk and harmonicas further perpetuate the blue collar good times drinking soundtrack like a roadside pub's house band. Apparently the singer "Peaches" was in a band called the Konrads in the 60's, whom also accounted David Bowie as a member at one period of time.

Stand-Out track: why sugar 

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