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ABOUT CHRIS WADE"The man's a bloody genius! One of the most talented, hard-working and deserving artists that this writer has come across in half a century..." - Pennyblack Music "Amazing renaissance man. Always fascinating polymath." - Terrascope "One of the most interesting and productive musicians/artists out there today." - Elsewhere "I don't know where Chris gets his fantastic imagination from!" - Rik Mayall Chris Wade is a Leeds based musician, writer, filmmaker and artist. He is most known for his critically acclaimed music project DODSON AND FOGG. He worked with the late Rik Mayall on an audio recording of his own 2008 novel Cutey and the Sofaguard, records with Nigel Planer, and pens books on music and film, as well as writing Scenes Magazine and presenting the Scenes podcast. He also wrote and directed the film, THE APPLE PICKER, featuring Nigel Planer and Toyah Willcox, which won Best Film at Sydney World Film Festival. His first documentary was about the jazz singing surrealist George Melly, which was premiered at the Chelsea Arts Club in October 2018 and went on to have a number of theatrical screenings. He also made The immortal Orson Welles, which was shown on Talking Pictures TV, and is available on several streaming services, along with his other documentary work. His articles have been featured in such publications as Dark Side Magazine, Yours Retro, Best of British and Shindig. His subjects for non fiction include James Woods, Madonna, Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper and many others. Chris writes books on his favourite artists, such a sJohn Atkinson Grimshaw and Pablo Picasso. Over the years he has conducted Q and As and interviews with such varied people as Donald Sutherland, Oliver Stone, Jeff Bridges, Stacy Keach, Catherine Deneuve, James Woods, Sharon Stone, Donovan, Roger McGough, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Paul Auster, and Henry Jaglom. He also worked with Peep Show star Matt King on the audiobook The Hunt for the Mayor of Smoochyville. His other documentaries have focused on such folk as Picasso, Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin. In 2023 he released his first mystery thriller novella, Three Days in the Rain. He also releases books of his poetry. Chris now enjoys writing horror and sci-fi stories, with such books as Ghostly Tales and An Autumn Mystery. He continues to keep himself busy with book, magazine, documentary, film and music projects.... |
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FULL CV
DODSON AND FOGG ALBUMS
Dodson And Fogg (2012)
Derring-Do (2013)
Sounds of Day and Night (2013)
The Call (2013)
After the Fall (2014)
After the Fall Out Takes (2014)
In A Strange Slumber (2014)
And When the Light Ran Out (2015)
Warning Signs (2015)
Roaming (2016)
Walk On (2016)
White House On the Hill (2016)
Five Songs from the Cave (2017) EP
Down at the Beach (2017) EP
Follow the Path (2017)
Tales from the Hidden Village (2017)
A New Day (2018)
Awake (2018)
Tempus Fugit (2018)
Stopping to Admire the Flowers (2018)
The Best of Dodson and Fogg: Volume 1 2012 - 2018 (2018)
Phantom Gesture (2019)
Watching the Tracks (2019)
Watching the World (2019)
Swim (2019)
Waiting (2020) EP
Outside (2020) EP
Chance Meeting (2020) EP
Against the Wall (2020)
Watch the Moon (2020) EP and DVD set
In Your Dream (2021) EP and DVD set
Heading Out (2021) EP
Rarities, Outtakes and Lost Gems (2021)
When the Night Draws Near (2021) EP
An Eye on the Moon (2022) EP
The Book of Moods (2022)
Keep Up (2022) EP
Ten Years of Dodson and Fogg (2022) DVD AND CD
The Sea of the Night (2022)
Reflections (2022)
Pleasant Captivity (2023)
Three Days in the Rain (2023)
Through the Gaps (2023)
Movement in the Exterior World (2023)
Music for Strange and Mysterious Stories (2024)
Go Inside (2024)
The World of John Atkinson Grimshaw Soundtrack (2024)
Over the Way (2025)
One Afternoon (2025)
40 of the Best (2025)
DOCUMENTARIES
George Melly: The Certainty of Hazard (2018)
The Immortal Orson Welles (2019)
Charlie Chaplin: The Making of a Genius (2019)
Memories of Lindsay Anderson (2019)
Ken Russell: Portrait of a Maverick (2019)
The Early Years of Pablo Picasso (2019)
Remembering Marcello Mastroianni (2020)
Marlene Dietrich: Movie Legend (2020)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Genius of Film (2021)
Marilyn Monroe: Portrait of an Actress (2023)
The World of John Atkinson Grimshaw (2024)
ART FILMS
The Apple Picker (2017) - Director and Writer
Seven Days in Never (2017) - Director and Writer
Cuentos (2018) - Director and Writer
A Full House of Empty Rooms (2020) - Director and Writer
Watch the Moon - A Dodson and Fogg Film (2020)
The Girl and the Ice (2021) - Director and Writer with Lily Wade Napier
After Lunch on Planet Earth (2023) - Director and Writer
AUDIOBOOKS
Cutey and the Sofaguard - read by Rik Mayall (2010)
You Only Live Once Thank Goodness – read by Charlie Chuck (2011)
Reginald and Stanford - with Andy Wade (2012)
Who Killed Beaky Wilson – read by Brian King (2012)
The Hunt for the Mayor of Smoochyville - read by Matt King (2015)
The Murder of Wiggy Wheaton - read by Brian King (2015)
Promiscuville: Rise of the Dead - read by Brian King (2016)
Raymond's Room - read by Nigel Planer (2020)
The Confessions of Arthur P Watt Roy - also narrator (2021)
After the Wedding - read by Brian King (2022)
Adventures of a Careless Bastard - also narrator (2022-2023)
The Death of Arthur Kind - read by Nigel Planer (2024)
The Rat Faced Man and Roger's Place - read by Mandy Mouallim and Brian King (2024)
The Smoochyville Outsiders - also narrator (2024)
FICTION BOOKS
Cutey and the Sofaguard (2009)
Home in a Tick (2010)
What's That Funny Thing? - Kids poems and stories (2011)
Tales from the Nanna Home (2012)
Promiscuville: Rise of the Dead (2012)
Collected Bits of Glass and Muck (2016)
Watching the Tracks (2019)
Three Curious Tales (2020)
Three Days in the Rain (2023)
Strange and Mysterious Stories (2024)
Ghostly Tales (2025)
An Autumn Mystery and Other Science Fiction Stories (2025)
LITERARY JOURNALS
Peculiar Tales (2025-)
POETRY BOOKS
The Sea of the Night (2022)
Pleasant Captivity (2022)
Through the Gaps (2023)
NON FICTION BOOKS
BOOKS ON FILM
Malcolm McDowell On Screen (2009, 2011, 2017 and 2018 editions)
Classic Film O Lucky Man (2011 and 2018 editions)
Speak of the Dead (2011)
Robert De Niro On Screen (2015 and 2020 editions)
Madonna: On Screen (2015)
George A. Romero: On Screen (2016)
Dennis Hopper: On Screen (2016)
Woody Allen: On Screen (2017)
Stanley Kubrick: On Screen (2017)
Ken Russell: On Screen (2017)
Classic Film Series: Henry Jaglom's Tracks (2017)
Classic Film Series: Madonna in Body of Evidence and Dangerous Game (2017)
The Films of Martin Scorsese: 1963 - 1995 (2017)
Orson Welles: The Final Cut (2017 and 2020 editions)
Steve Buscemi: Top Ten Movies (2017)
Classic Film Series: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (2017)
Dennis Hopper: The Complete Film Guide (2017)
Buster Keaton: The Later Years (2018)
Classic Film Series: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (2018)
Orson Welles: Journey of a Filmmaker (2018)
Dustin Hoffman: The Classic Performances (2019)
Charlie Chaplin: The Complete Film Guide (2019)
Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg: The Movie Guide (2019)
Sophia Loren: The Movie Guide (2019 and 2021 editions)
Marcello Mastroianni: The Myth and the movies (2019)
Film Close Up: Woody Allen's Interiors (2019)
Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Guide (2019)
Classic Film Series: Italian Cinema of the 1960s (2020)
Italian Director Series: Federico Fellini The Film Guide (2020)
Classic Film Series: The Movies of De Niro and Scorsese (2020)
Charlie Chaplin: The Later Years (2020)
Marcello Mastroianni: Complete Film Guide (2020)
Gerard Depardieu On Screen (2020)
Italian Director Series: The Films of Ettore Scola (2020)
Theo Angelopoulos: The Film Guide (2021)
Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances (2021)
A Portrait of Michel Piccoli (2021)
Classic Film Series: Once Upon A Time in America (2017 and 2021 editions)
Classic Film Series: The Films of Fellini and Mastroianni (2021)
Gene Hackman: The Movie Guide (2021)
Sharon Stone: The Complete Film Guide (2022 plus older editions)
The Films of James Woods (2022)
Film Close Up: Smoke and Blue in the Face (2022)
A Portrait of Catherine Deneuve (2022)
Stacy Keach On Screen (2022)
The Films of Oliver Stone (2022) - Foreword by James Woods
Jack Nicholson: The Film Guide (2022)
The Cinema of Henry Jaglom (2023)
Donald Sutherland: On Screen (2023)
David Hemmings On Screen (2023)
Bela Lugosi: On Screen (2023)
The Cinema of Bertrand Blier (2023)
The Cinema of Bob Rafelson (2023)
The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki (2023)
Bill Murray On Screen (2024)
Tom Cruise On Screen (2024)
Jack Nicholson in the 1970s (2024)
Classic Zombie Cinema: 1932 - 1990 (2024)
Horror Movies of the 1980s (2024)
Classic Japanese Horror Films (2025)
BOOKS ON MUSIC
Hugh Cornwell The Hoover Dam Companion (2009 and 2012 editions)
United Kinkdom: The Music of The Kinks (2012)
The Music of the Incredible String Band (2013)
The Music of Black Sabbath (2013)
The Music of Captain Beefheart (2015)
The Music of Frank Zappa: 1966 - 1976 (2015)
The Music of Bob Dylan (2015)
The Music of The Beatles (2015)
The Music of The Velvet Underground (2015)
The Music of Madonna (2016 and 2019 Editions)
The Music of Jethro Tull (2016)
Madonna: The Music and the Movies (2016)
The Music of Frank Zappa: 1978 - 1993 (2016)
The Music of Leonard Cohen (2016)
The Music of Lou Reed (2016)
The Music of Neil Young (2016)
The Music of Hawkwind (2016)
Bob Dylan in the 1970s (2017)
The Music of John Lennon (2017)
The Kinks and the Village Green (2017)
Bob Dylan in the 1980s (2017)
The Music of Paul McCartney (2017)
Bob Dylan Through Time (2017)
Madonna in the Eighties (2018)
Classic Album Series: Black Sabbath Paranoid (2018)
Classic Album Series: The Music of Lindisfarne in the 1970s (2018)
The Music of Ozzy Osbourne (2018)
Classic Album Series: Bob Dylan Desire (2018)
Classic Album Series: Trees (2018)
The Life and Music of George Melly (2018)
The Music of Frank Zappa 66 - 93 (2020)
Album Close Up: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (2022)
Classic Album Series: The Stranglers - Rattus and Heroes (2022)
Classic Album Series: Kate Bush - The Early Records (2022)
Working with Bob Dylan (2022) - Interview collection
Album Close Up: Madonna - The First Album (2023)
Album Close Up: Lady Gaga - The Fame and The Fame Monster (2023)
The Kinks: 50 Great Songs (2023)
Madonna in the Nineties (2023)
The Music of Lady Gaga (2024)
BOOKS ON ART
Aspects of Salvador Dali (2018)
Picasso: The Later Years (2018)
From Malaga to Paris: The Formative Years of Pablo Picasso (2018)
Picasso's Muses (2020)
The Art of John Atkinson Grimshaw - A5 and A4 editions (2024)
The Art of Katsushika Hokusai (2024)
The Art of Richard Dadd (2024)
The Art of Vilhelm Hammershoi (2024)
The Art of Edward Burne-Jones (2024)
The Art of Frederic Bazille (2025)
BOOKS ON LITERATURE
Reading Paul Auster (2023)
Reading Brian Moore (2024)
Charles Dickens: The Later Years (2025)
MEMOIR BOOKS
Chris Wade and Rik Mayall Cutey and the Sofaguard Companion Book (2022)
Adventures in Music, Books and Film (2025)
INTERVIEW COLLECTIONS
Interview with the Hound Dawg (2012)
Music Talk: An Interview Anthology (2016)
The Best of Hound Dawg Magazine (2023)
BOOKS ON OTHER SUBJECTS
The Cat Profiles – feline charity book with Linzi Napier and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (2011)
Dodson and Fogg Companion Book Volume One (2016)
The Story of Derek and Clive (2017)
True Leeds Ghost Stories (2025)
OTHER MUSIC PROJECTS
Moonlight Banquet: Moonlight Banquet (2013)
Rexford Bedlo: Rexford Bedlo (2014)
Rainsmoke: Mean Meanwhile Single (2015) - with Nigel Planer
Sand Snowman and Chris Wade: Tell the Trees (2015)
Rainsmoke: Cicada Single (2020) - with Nigel Planer
Nigel Planer and Chris Wade: Five Songs Left (2020) EP
Nigel Planer and Chris Wade: Four Songs More (2021) EP
ARTICLES
Hound Dawg Magazine - countless interviews and articles in PDFs, magazine and blog (2009 - 2018)
East Leeds magazine ghost article (2010)
Shindig! Magazine: Hawkwind Interview Feature (2016)
Season of the Witch article for official George Romero Magazine (2018)
Best of British Magazine: George Melly article (2019)
Dark Side Magazine: Retrospective on George A Romero (2019)
Burnt Frowner Fanzine - Three Issues (2020)
Scenes Magazine (2020-)
Cinema Retro, piece on James Woods book (2022)
Dark Side Magazine: Piece on Videodrome (2022)
Articles for Taste of Cinema (2024)
Yours Retro: Rising Damp article (2024)
Dark Side Magazine: Bela Lugosi article (2024)
Hound Dawg Blog (2024-)
PODCASTS AND COMEDY ALBUMS
Hound Dawg Radio (2011 - 2014) comedy and music podcast with daddy Andy Wade Sr
Wade and Hart: Da Archives, Organ of Bread and Shoe Blow (2010 and 2011)
PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART
Various photos, art and illustrations posted online from 2010 to present
MISC. PROJECTS
Illustrations in Ghost Stories from Lincolnshire by Stephen Wade (2004)
Illustrations in Britain's Notorious Hangmen by Stephen Wade (2009)
Poetry in Cannon's Mouth (2009)
Poetry in Bareback Magazine (2009)
Poetry on Alternative reel.com (2009)
Introduction to Yuri Storasi's Bobbything (2012)
Editing - Gypsy Dave Mills: Knights of the Road (2013)
YouTube Show - Adventures in Music, Books and Film (2025-)
