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    Dagoes, The

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    The Dagoes came together in Adelaide (South Australia) early in 1978, originally as Daryl Breakaway and The Niggers.

    They appeared on two independent cassette releases that same year,Β Live At The MarryatvilleΒ andΒ An Evening With The Dagoes. Both were recorded live.

    Building a considerable following around Adelaide (and billing themselves as The ‘Legendary’ Dagoes), the group recorded a 3-track EP,Β The Dagoes Sell Soul in February 1980, which included a cover version of We Sell Soul, a song byΒ Roky Erickson’s pre-13th Floor Elevators band The Spades.

    Doug Thomas financed the EP’s release for his newly formed Greasy Pop label.

    For most of 1980 The Dagoes comprised Dick Dago (real name Richard Cant) on vocals, Tony Rome (real name Neil Perryman) on guitar, “Frankie” (Doug) Thomas on guitar, Lou Ouiji (Ian List) on bass, Johnny Tomato (real nameΒ Beau Kostyszyn) on keyboards,Β Turk Nancarrow (Geoff Short) on drums, and Lilly Pointless (Lucy Potter) and Arna Terrazzo (Arna Eyers-White)Β on backing vocals.

    dagoes4Gino Earthquake (Nigel Sweeting) replaced List on bass and that lineup recorded the double singleΒ It’s YouΒ andΒ Rollin’ On.

    Phantom Records in Sydney reissued two tracks from the B-sides (Ten Years OnΒ andΒ Somehow) on a single in August 1981.

    Cant and Sweeting left in late 1981 and the lineup of Rome, Thomas, Tomato, Nancarrow, Dean Martin (real name James Tizard) on bass and Di Palma (vocals) released the singleΒ DauntingΒ in August 1982.

    Geoff Pin (real name Geoff Simpson) replaced Martin on bass, but the band broke up at the end of 1982.Β Members of the group recorded and performed as The Assassins and The Spikes.

    In 1984, Tony Rome, Richard Cant and Johnny Tomato re-formed The Dagoes with Peter Roth (guitar), Phil Hannaford (bass) and Andrew Griffiths (drums).

    That lineup was short-lived but did record the singleΒ HeartbeatΒ for Greasy Pop in August 1984.

    The Dagoes reformed with Doug Thomas in 1988 for a series of 10th-anniversary shows. In 1990 Greasy Pop issued the singleΒ Vatican Stomp/I Can Do What I Want, and in 1994 Ian List and Neil Perryman compiled all The Dagoes’ material on the CD collectionΒ Hot & Tasty Supreme.

    Di Palma
    Vocals
    Dick Dago (Richard Cant)
    Vocals
    Tony Rome (Neil Perryman)

    Guitar
    Frankie (Doug) ThomasΒ 

    Guitar
    Spiro Aggro (Ian Reedy)
    Guitar
    Johnny Tomato (Beau Kostyszyn)

    Keyboards, drums
    Otis (Quentin Lynne)
    Bass
    Dean Martin (James Tizard)

    Bass
    Lou Ouiji (Ian List)
    Bass
    Gino Earthquake (Nigel Sweeting)
    Bass
    Geoff Pin (Geoff Simpson)
    Bass
    Turk Nancarrow (Geoff Short)

    Drums
    Lilly Pointless (Lucy Potter)
    Backing vocals
    Gina Maria Dago (Cathy Fargher)
    Backing vocals
    Arna Terrazzo (Arna Eyers-White)
    Backing vocals
    Peter Roth
    Guitar
    Phil Hannaford
    Bass
    Andrew Griffiths
    Drums

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