Out of their cage and into the studio (From Western Telegraph)

Out of their cage and into the studio

DOGZUKI Title: Dead Again Release date: July 28th.

Dogzuki are holding a launch party to celebrate their forthcoming single at the Queens Hall, Narberth on Friday.

Formed last century, Dogzuki are a four-piece band based in Pembrokeshire, who play a no-holds-barred hybrid of ska,rock, new wave, punk and grunge.

Inspired by the dynamics and primal screams of the Pixies; Clash-esque melodic reggae bass riffs; choppy Stiff Little Finger rhythms; the vocal tones of Bowie, Cobain, Black & Albarn; the windmill posturing of Pete Townshend; The Beatles subtle but infectious harmonies; industrial N.I.N power beats and Flea-based funk twists - Dogzuki are a melting pot of pretty much all that has gone before them.

The four characters who make up Dogzuki are: Ger Ashby (Vocals), Steve Dehtiar (bass), Buckley (Guitar) and Mat Scarll (drums).

Every now and again Dogzuki are let out of their cages and into the studio. The result from the band's last big day out, is the band's forthcoming single, Dead Again.

Dead Again is a classic angst ridden song, written about hitting rock bottom. It's about the point where a person, not for the first time, considers taking their own life to escape their own reality. However, Dead Again is also about starting again, looking at what you would have missed out on if you had gone ahead and ended it all. It's about reincar-nation in one lifetime, scraping away the old personality, discovering your real friends, getting a second, third, fourth chance to find that one person who will be there however low you are, another chance to find love, another chance to love life.

The idea behind their B -side, Head In The Shed, is about the part of the mind that allows us to dream, that little place we drift off to before suddenly snapping out of it. Dogzuki's singer Ger explains: "Everybody has a place in their mind that they can recluse too, lets just call it our sheds. The little places you can experience sanity in a messed up world. But the shed can be used too much - the more depressed you get, the more bolts go on the shed door and the more the windows get boarded up, and before you know it you can't get out of your shed at all.That's when you have to break it down, rejoin the real world for a bit and then start building a new shed."

Dogzuki have had their skunk rock sound aired by radio stations across the UK, as well as internet radio stations across the world.

They have just played at the Compass Point Festival in Cardiff and are now coming back home to promote their new single.

Dogzuki (pictured) will perform on Friday, along with The Hot Puppies from Aber, Betamax from Pembroke Dock, Nikolai from Carmarthen and Random Perception from Fishguard.