The Dogs D'Amour

The Dogs D'Amour were a British rock band formed in 1983. Originally featuring lead vocalist Ned Christie (legal name Robert Stoddard), guitarists Tyla (legal name "Tim Taylor" whose previous bands included Kitsch and Weird G

The Dogs D'Amour were a British rock band formed in 1983. Originally featuring lead vocalist Ned Christie (legal name Robert Stoddard), guitarists Tyla (legal name "Tim Taylor" whose previous bands included Kitsch and Weird Girlfriend), guitarist Nick Halls, bassist Karl Watson, and drummer Bam.

The band started in late 1982 as the Bordello Boys and enlisted Robert Stoddard (aka Ned Christie) as lead singer in early 1983. Stoddard was responsible for the band's name and cowrote many of the bands early songs with Tyla. The Dogs D'Amour played around 50 shows and recorded many songs throughout 1983. Two separate recording sessions were recorded during this era of the band. On the strength on the 2nd session, the Dogs D'Amour were contracted to Kumibeat Records out of Finland. But shortly before the band were scheduled to record their debut album, Ned quit the band in late 1983 over musical differences with guitarist Tyla. Another reason for the split was that Ned had recently started up another band with Bam called On The Wire and had his own prior recording commitments scheduled with On The Wire around the same time that the Dogs D'Amour were to record the debut album. Tyla took over on lead vocals for the departed Ned Christie and recorded the band's debut album The State We're In in early 1984. Ned and Bam (who had left the Dogs D'Amour around the same time as Ned) continued with On The Wire in 1984 and enlisted Swiss bass player Mark Drax. The "classic" Dogs D'Amour lineup then became Tyla (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Jo "Dog" Almeida (Lead guitar), Bam (drums), and Steve James (bass, harmonica, saxophone, backing vocals).