Dodgy

Lighting up the mid-1990s guitar scene with a string of feel good, summery hits, Dodgy's breezy indie pop made them one of the more successful stars of the Brit-pop era. Formed by Birmingham friends Nigel Clark and Matthew Priest, the band started life in the 1980s under the name Purple before the lads moved to London in 1990 and recruited guitarist Andy Miller. Their debut The Dodgy Album (1993), produced by Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie, failed to make much of an impact, but an acclaimed live reputation led to follow-up Homegrown (1994) making the Top 30 and as the Brit-pop scene grew, so too did the band's popularity. Staying Out For The Summer became one of the great indie anthems of the time, and third album Free Peace Suite (1996) proved hugely popular, reaching Number 7 in the UK and producing the Top 10 hits In A Room and Good Enough. The band split in 1998 with Clark going on to a low-key solo career, but re-formed in 2010 and released the album Stand Up In A Cool Place (2012).