Son of Dork

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Also known as SOD
Origin United Kingdom
Genre(s) Pop Punk
Power Pop
Years active 2005 - Present
Website Son of Dork Official Site
Members
James Bourne
Steven Rushton
Danny Hall
Former members
David Williams
Chris Leonard

Son of Dork is a UK pop punk band formed by James Bourne after his previous band Busted, split in January 2005. The name of the band comes from a scene in the movie Problem Child where the chant "Son of Dork" is used. Their debut single, "Ticket Outta Loserville", was released in November 2005, reaching #3 on the UK Top 75. Their second single, "Eddie's Song", reached #10 in January 2006.

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[edit] History

James Bourne placed adverts in publications such as NME and The Stage in order to recruit potential band members for his new project.[citation needed] Drummer Danny Hall had spent ten years with hardcore metal band Spiral Rock, whereas guitarist Chris Leonard had been in band Stamford Amp, the house band on BBC's The Saturday Show in 2002 and had also toured with acts including Brian McFadden and Busted.[citation needed] David Williams was in an emocore band in south Wales and Steven Rushton was dividing his time between former band Mr Cheerful, college studies and a job in Sainsbury's.[citation needed]

In November 2005 Son of Dork released their first single Ticket Outta Loserville which reached number 3 in the UK Charts, followed a few weeks later with their debut album Welcome to Loserville. Follow-up single Eddie's Song was released in January 2006 and reached number 10 in the UK charts. The band's online community were fierce in defending the track from criticism. Son Of Dork then penned their next single "We're Not Alone" for Ant and Dec’s film Alien Autopsy, although it was never released as a single.[citation needed]

Son of Dork appeared as the Headlining act for the first “Sic Tour” in March 2007, and soon arranged their own headlining tour, the “Better Late Than Never” tour, which was due to take place in May 2007, but was later cancelled.[citation needed]

One of the songs James Bourne wrote is called "Slacker". Because of James' love of films some of the lyrics were based on the film Back to the Future. The lines 'But in school everybody said he was a slacker' is due to Marty McFly being called a 'Slacker'. In the first verse the lyrics 'He writes, science fiction novels' is also due to George McFly writing science fiction novels in Back To The Future.

[edit] The Future

After months of speculation of a split, on July 11, 2007 David Williams posted on Son of Dork’s Myspace Page that the band had split. Within hours however, James confirmed that the band had not split. Dave later announced that he had quit the band since he didn't want to be in band where everyone doesn't do anything for more than a year. Dave is now in a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex called Kobe.

In October 2007 Chris Leonard also left the band, saying "I've left but to be honest there wasn't really anything to leave. The band wasn't doing anything at all so obviously I wasn't prepared to sit around doing nothing all day when there's so much other stuff I can be doing so I moved on and I'm making new music".[citation needed]

Danny who still remains in the band has started a new rock band called DeFo also constising of five members. DeFo made their debut performance on 7 December 2007.

Steve has been working with other unsigned artists and writing and producing songs which may be used for Son Of Dork or other projects. Most recently he has produced the debut album for a new pop rock band called Eighth Wave. In the last year Steve has become a successful producer and his work can be seen on his myspace page. Steve Rushton's MySpace. Now, Steve Rushton joined in a friend's band called Outrage where he is playing lead guitar.

James has been spending most of 2007 in America working with artists such as the Jonas Brothers and his girlfriend's band AvenueB. He has also started doing a few solo acoustic gigs in Manhattan and theres rumours that he has been writing lyrics for himself or his band and will be returning to the UK. He also uploaded a solo song called "Loser with No Life".[citation needed] His latest song is a duet with Olivia from Avenue B called What You're About. It can be seen on his youtube site.

James has stated on the band website that they would start writing new material soon but has yet to be confirmed.

[edit] Members

[edit] Ex Members

[edit] Tours

  • Better Late Than Never Tour 2007 (Headline tour) (Cancelled)
  • Sic Tour 2007 - Headline Act
  • Get Happy Tour 2007 (Support for Bowling for Soup with Army of Freshmen and Wheatus throughout the UK)
  • Welcome to Loserville Live Radio Tour 2006

[edit] Awards

[edit] Discography

Album Information
Welcome to Loserville

[edit] External links

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