Tuppenny Bunters

Dave and Fi Dulake became TUPPENNY BUNTERS in 2012, the same year they got married. Fi had been the Hammond player in Dave’s previous band, The Virgo Intacta, who were on The White Stripes “Satan” tour as 1st support. 

Parallel to running a notorious Southend music pub, The Railway Hotel, the duo, after naming themselves after Regency prostitutes, set about capturing the sound they perceived, a piano dripping garage/pop wall of melodies and chord shifts.

 Their first album was recorded live to a Studer in the cellar of the pub. They released it on their own label, Dansettual; called “A Tuppenny Upright”, the results, while sketchy, present them well. 

At times, the piano (a Bluthner upright) threatens to cuddle you to death, at others it appears to be absently flipping you off, and the drums are tuned high, dirty and loonar. If they were cleverer, or could be bothered, they’d be prog. Cooler, or if they both dressed like Fi, they’d be psyche, and if they didn’t constantly feel the need to burst into song, for their sheer sonic nerve they’d be garage. 

Their 2nd album “The Tuppenny Hangover” was recorded at Gizzard Studios, and came out in March 2022 on the Dansettual label.