The Dog Faced Hermans were a four-piece band whose style could be described as anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk is punk rock that promotes anarchism. The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

 incorporating folk

Folk music

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 and noise influences as well as unorthodox instrumentation

Instrumentation (music)

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History

Dog Faced Hermans formed in Edinburgh

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, Scotland

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 in 1986, but later moved to Amsterdam

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. The band was closely associated with The Ex, and this resulted in a joint tour of Europe

Europe

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, a split cassette and "Stonestamper's Song", a collaborative single released under the name Ex Faced Hermans.

They disbanded in 1995, with members of the band moving on to other notable projects including the Canadian ensemble Rhythm Activism

Rhythm Activism

Rhythm Activism was a Canadian musical collective, revolving around the core duo of Sylvain Côté and Norman Nawrocki. The group, based in Montreal, performed a politically radical brand of "rock 'n roll cabaret"....

, and Holland's The Ex, with whom they collaborated and were closely affiliated and in whom guitarist Andy Moor has been a member since 1990. Drummer Wilf Plum now plays with Two Pin Din

Two Pin Din

Two Pin Din are a two-piece indie rock band based in Amsterdam, Holland, formed in 2005. The band is a noteworthy new project from experimental punk rock musicians Andy Kerr and Wilf Plum formerly of the influential groups Nomeansno and Dog Faced Hermans, respectively. Lacking a rhythm section,...

 and "Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp".

Members

• Marion Coutts - vocalist, trumpet, bells
• Colin Mclean - bass, guitar, steel drum
• Wilf Plum - drums, scrap metal, foghorn
• Andy Moor (The Ex)
  Andy Moor (The Ex)
  Andy Moor is an experimental musician, best known as the guitarist of the UK band Dog Faced Hermans and the Dutch punk collective The Ex. He was also a founding member of Kletka Red and along with Isabelle Vigier and Yannis Kyriakides created the experimental music label Unsounds.Moor was born in...
  
   - guitar, viola, "hippo tube"
• Gert-Jan - live sound

Singles

• "Unbend" (7", 1987, Demon Radge, UK)
• "Bella Ciao"/"Miss O'Grady" (7", 1988, Calculus, UK)
• "Too Much For The Red Ticker/ Timebomb"(7", Konkurrent Records 1989.)
• "Peace Warriors" (7", 1993, Compulsive, UK) split single with Jonestown

Albums

• Live Action & Increasing (Tape, 1988, Demon Radge, UK)
• Humans Fly (12" EP, 1988, Calculus, UK)
• Everyday Timebomb (LP, 1989, Vinyl Drip, UK)
• Mental Blocks For All Ages (LP/CD, 1991, Konkurrel Records/A Bomb)
• Hum of Life (LP/CD, 1993, Konkurrel Records/A Bomb)
• Humans Fly / Everyday Timebomb (CD, 1991, Konkurrel Records)
• Live at the "Ancienne Chocolaterie" (Tape, 1991, Demon Radge)
• Bump and Swing (CD, 1994, Konkurrel Records/Alternative Tentacles)
• Those Deep Buds (LP/CD, 1994, Konkurrel Records/Alternative Tentacles)

With The Ex

• "Lied der Steinklopfer" ("Stonestamper's Song") (7", 1990) released under the name Ex Faced Hermans
• Treat (Tape, 1990)

See also

• The Ex
• Rhythm Activism
  Rhythm Activism
  Rhythm Activism was a Canadian musical collective, revolving around the core duo of Sylvain Côté and Norman Nawrocki. The group, based in Montreal, performed a politically radical brand of "rock 'n roll cabaret"....
  
  
• Submission Hold
• Two Pin Din
  Two Pin Din
  Two Pin Din are a two-piece indie rock band based in Amsterdam, Holland, formed in 2005. The band is a noteworthy new project from experimental punk rock musicians Andy Kerr and Wilf Plum formerly of the influential groups Nomeansno and Dog Faced Hermans, respectively. Lacking a rhythm section,...
  
  

External links

• Unofficial fansite including audio and lyrics