Dutch Uncles

Formed in 2008 in Marple, near Manchester, Dutch Uncles sits within an English scene that has revived a highly mobile idea of pop, blending indie pop, art rock, post-punk and hints of math rock. The band brings together Duncan Wallis, Robin Richards, Pete Broadhead and Andy Proudfoot, with Daniel Spedding in its early period up to 2015. From its beginnings, Dutch Uncles has stood out for a nerve-filled rhythmic writing, sometimes irregular meters, a flexible and bright vocal, and a marked taste for arrangements that push rock formats toward something more angular and melodic. After a self-titled debut album released in 2009, the band refined this approach on Cadenza in 2011, then broadened it on Out of Touch in the Wild in 2013, where keyboards, percussion and orchestral textures take more space. Dutch Uncles then continued this evolution with O Shudder in 2015, Big Balloon in 2017 and True Entertainment in 2023. Over the years the band has toured with Wild Beasts, Everything Everything, Paramore or Garbage, and has performed on stages such as Reading and Leeds, Latitude, Bestival or Glastonbury. In the British music landscape, Dutch Uncles thus occupy a singular space, between sophisticated pop, rhythmic tension and melodic exploration.