Peter Stuart "best bet for stardom."
A DOG'S EYE VIEW OF AMERICA dog's eye view will be kicking off a tour with the Wallflowers beginning Monday, June 3, in Baton Rouge (see itinerary attached). "everything falls apart," the first single from dog's eye view's debut album happy nowhere has achieved Top 10 status on American AAA, AOR, and Alternative radio. The record is crossing over into Top 40 radio and shows every sign of becoming a classic hit for S ummer '96. The second single from happy nowhere is "the prince's favorite son." dog's eye view can also be heard performing "Dodge" on Sweet Relief II - The Gravity Of The Situation: the Songs of Vic Chesnutt, an album benefiting the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund.
A provocative video clip (which puts a genderblending spin on the notion of "TV" humor) for "everything falls apart" was an MTV Buzz Clip and is currently on rotation on VH1.
dog's eye view recently turned in a performance on David Letterman. happy nowhere has been among the country's 100 best-selling albums for the past two months with U.S. sales of more than 150,000 copies.
dog's eye view frontman/guitarist/tunesmith Peter Stuart cut his live performing chops on the small club circuit and found himself spending much of 1994 as a show-stopping scene-stealing opening act for Counting Crows, Tori Amos, and Cracker. The polar opposite of "laid-back, " Peter's raw-bone hyperkinetic performances--filled with disarming insight, painstaking honesty, and sly wry wit--won over American and European audiences. He also won over a slew of music scribes who found Peter's music, persona, and on-stage performance style worth lathering over.
1995 saw Peter on the road again -- this time with dog's eye view -- opening for artists like Matthew Sweet, Belly, and others. The release of happy nowhere has brought the press corps -- from the underground to the mainstream -- to the dog's eye view party.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer called the album "an intimate, 13-track confessional that treads the median between coffeehouse folk, smoky soul and joyous pop brilliance" and marveled at "How rare it is to find a troubadour like Stuart with memoirs as smart and compelling as happy nowhere, one of this decade's finest albums."
The alternative music magazine Bone took the time to accord dog's eye view some serious critical analysis: "Too often, we forget that the sheer power of one singular voice, be it Bob Dylan or Kurt Cobain, can resonate deeper than a world of clever guitar tunings and reconstructed samples.... honest-to-God soul-barers often endear themselves to a large and highly devoted audience.... rest assured that Peter Stuart and his band, dog's eye view, will be quickly courting such a following in months to come. happy nowhere, the group's dazzling debut, claws at the roots of day-to-day disenchantment with almost religious fervor...." People magazine observed that "Just like early Bruce Springsteen or recent Counting Crows, dog's eye view features the perfect balance between folkie-style introspective lyrics and intensely energetic pop hooks." USA Today singled out dog's eye view as a "best bet for stardom."
dog's eye view is:
Peter Stuart (vocals, guitar); Tim Bradshaw (guitar); Dermot Lynch (bass); and Alan Bezozi (drums). Check out the world from a dog's eye view
dog's eye view itinerary June 3 Baton Rouge, LA Varsity Theater June 5 Birmingham, AL Five Points Music Hall June 6 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse June 7 Charleston, SC Music Farm June 9 Carrboro, NC Cats Cradle June 11 Richmond, VA Flood Zone June 12 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's June 13 Knoxville, TN Flamingos June 14 Nashville, TN 328 Performance Hall June 15 Memphis, TN Omni New Daisy June 17 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater June 20 Ames, IA Peoples June 21 Osh Kosh, WI Shabang Festival June 22 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue June 25 Salt Lake City, UT DV8 June 27 Vancouver BC Town Pump June 28 Seattle, WA Showbox June 29 Portland, OR La Luna July 1 San Francisco, CA Slims July 2 Los Angeles, CA John Anson Ford July 3 San Juan Capistrano Coach House July 6 Tempe, AZ Gibsons
