The Dinner Is Ruined is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band. Formed in 1991 by Dale Morningstar, the band plays an experimental

Experimental rock

Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....

 and improvisational brand of blues rock.

The band members are Dale Morningstar

Dale Morningstar

Dale Morningstar is a Toronto-based Canadian rock musician and recording engineer and producer, originally from Chippawa, Ontario.-History:Morningstar was the founding member of The Dinner Is Ruined, an avant-garde rock band based in Toronto in the early 1990s...

, Dave Clark

Dave Clark (Canadian musician)

-Biography:Clark is a respected studio musician and live performer, and has collaborated with such artists as Charles Spearin, Gord Downie, The Inbreds, Jane Siberry, Julie Doiron, and the Sun Ra Arkestra. He is perhaps best known for playing drums in the indie rock band Rheostatics from 1980–1995...

 and Dr. Johnny Pee. Clark joined the band in 1994 after they were booed on stage while opening for his other band, Rheostatics

Rheostatics

Rheostatics was a Genie Award-winning Canadian indie rock band, active from 1980 to 2007.Although they had only one Top 40 hit, "Claire" in 1995, they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and unconventional rock bands, a band whose eclectic take on pop and rock music has been...

.

Recording

In addition to their own albums, the members of The Dinner Is Ruined have recorded as part of Gordon Downie

Gordon Downie

Gordon Edgar Downie is a Canadian rock musician, writer and occasional actor. He is the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. He has released three solo albums, Coke Machine Glow in 2001, Battle of the Nudes in 2003; and The Grand Bounce in 2010...

's backup band on his solo albums. Downie's band also includes Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

 and Skydiggers

Skydiggers

Skydiggers are a Canadian roots rock band from Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:Formed in 1987 by singer Andy Maize and lead guitarist Josh Finlayson, the band soon added rhythm guitarist Peter Cash, drummer Wayne Stokes and bassist Ron Macey to their lineup...

 guitarist Josh Finlayson.

The Dinner Is Ruined

• Burn Your Dashiki (1991)
• Love Songs from the Lubritorium (1993)
• Worm Pickers Brawl (1994)
• Ice Cream, Drugs, Rubber Goods (1996)
• Elevator Music for Non-Claustrophobic People (1997)
• A Maggot in Their Heads (1999)
• Ray Charles Kinda Party (2001)
• Legion Hall (2005)

Gordon Downie

• Coke Machine Glow
  Coke Machine Glow
  Coke Machine Glow was the first solo album released by Gordon Downie, the singer for The Tragically Hip. It was released in 2001.Early copies of the album were released as a joint package with a book by Downie, also titled Coke Machine Glow. The book included the song lyrics from the album and...
  
  (2001, as members of The Goddamned Band)
• Battle of the Nudes
  Battle of the Nudes (album)
  Battle of the Nudes is the second solo album by Gordon Downie, lead singer of The Tragically Hip. It was released in 2003.Downie's backing band on Coke Machine Glow was credited as "Country of Miracles"...
  
  (2003, as members of The Country of Miracles)
• The Grand Bounce
  The Grand Bounce
  The Grand Bounce is the third solo album by Gordon Downie, the lead singer of The Tragically Hip. It was released on June 8, 2010.-Background:...
  
  (2010, as members of The Country of Miracles)

See also

• Music of Canada
  Music of Canada
  The music of Canada has influences that have shaped the country. Aboriginals, the British, and the French have all made unique contributions to the musical heritage of Canada. The music has subsequently been heavily influenced by American culture because of its proximity and migration between...
  
  
• Canadian rock
  Canadian rock
  Canadian rock describes a wide and diverse variety of music produced by Canadians, beginning with American style rock 'n' roll in the mid-20th century. Since then Canada has had a considerable impact on the development of the modern popular music called rock...
  
  
• List of Canadian musicians
• List of bands from Canada
• :Category:Canadian musical groups