Dingoes Ate My Baby
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Dingoes Ate My Baby play at the Bronze |
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| First appearance | Inca Mummy Girl |
| Last appearance | The Initiative |
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| Name | Dingoes Ate My Baby |
| Purpose | Music |
| Membership | Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne |
Dingoes Ate My Baby is a fictional rock band on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[1]
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[edit] Band members
Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne - Lead guitarist (played by Seth Green). Oz dated Willow during high school. After his departure she always kept a poster of Dingoes Ate My Baby on her dorm wall. It's unknown what happened to the band after Oz's departure from Sunnydale.
Devon MacLeish - lead singer (played by Jason Hall). Devon is a friend of Oz and he also briefly dated both Cordelia Chase and Harmony Kendall.
[edit] Band name
The name of the band refers to the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance. The incident occurred in Australia in 1980 - a baby disappeared under mysterious circumstances near Uluru (Ayers Rock). The mother, Lindy Chamberlain, camping with her family, claimed to have seen a dingo carrying her baby from their tent, and immortalised the phrase, "The dingo's got my baby!". She was convicted of murdering her baby but later acquitted when new evidence suggested that the baby was, in fact, killed by a dingo.[2]
[edit] Buffyverse appearances
The band is first mentioned in the unaired Buffy pilot. Xander says, “They don’t know any actual chords yet, but they have really big amps”. They did not appear on the show until the second season, in "Inca Mummy Girl". Dingoes continued to appear throughout Seasons 3 and 4 until Oz left Sunnydale. Most of their performances took place at The Bronze, Sunnydale's local nightclub.
| Episode | Location | Songs |
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| "Inca Mummy Girl" | The Bronze | "Fate" & "Shadows" |
| "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" | The Bronze | "Pain" |
| "Dead Man's Party" | Buffy's House | "Never mind", "Pain" & "Sway" |
| "Homecoming" | The Bronze | "She knows" |
| "Band Candy" | The Bronze | "Violent" |
| "Revelations" | The Bronze | "Run" |
| "Living Conditions" | Buffy's dorm room | "Pain" (on stereo) |
| "The Harsh Light of Day" | The Bronze | "Dilate" |
| "The Initiative" | Frat House | "Fate" (on stereo) |
[edit] Music
The music of Dingoes Ate My Baby was actually composed and performed by Four Star Mary. Most of the songs that were used on the show featured on their 1998 album, Thrown to the Wolves, the title of which may have been inspired by Oz's lycanthropy. The band is featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album. They also made a one-time appearance as themselves in "Restless". They provided the music along with Christophe Beck to the Joss Whedon-written song, "Giles' Epiphany".
[edit] References
- ^ Childs, T. Mike (2004). The Rocklopedia Fakebandica. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 031232944X.
- ^ Stafford, Nikki (2007). Bite Me!: The 10th Buffyversary Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Canada: ECW Press. ISBN 1550228072.
[1.] - "Earshot"
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] Azaria Chamberlain disappearance
- Theage.com.au - Article on the mysterious incident and its aftermath
- Whedonesque.com - Whedonesquers discuss the article above
[edit] Four Star Mary
- Fourstarmary.com - Four Star Mary Official site
- Fourstarmary.co.uk - UK site
- Stlyrics.com - Lyrics for many of the most popular songs that featured on Buffy
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