ABOUT CHRIS WADE

"Chris Wade is really the only contemporary musician who could stand in line to take Neil Young’s crown..." Pennyblack Music on Wade's music project Dodson and Fogg

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 novel Cutey and the Sofaguard, records with Nigel Planer under the name Rainsmoke and pens books on music and film, as well as writing the ongoing Hound Dawg Magazine. He also wrote and directed the film, THE APPLE PICKER, featuring Nigel Planer and Toyah Willcox, which was picked as official selection for the 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. His articles have been featured in such publications as Dark Side Magazine and Shindig. He lives with his partner artist Linzi Napier, daughter Lily, a rabbit named Bing, a fish named Gil, and 4 cats, Malcolm, Fat Ozwald, Violet and Mr Bottomsley.
   Chris started writing full time in 2009. In 2010, Chris worked with Rik Mayall on an audiobook of his comedic story Cutey and the Sofaguard. A year later he worked with comedian Charlie Chuck on an audiobook called You Only Live Once (Thank Goodness). He began writing non fiction and fiction titles regularly, and also started Hound Dawg Magazine, an online arts publication, that has included a blog, free PDFs and physical magazines.  
   In 2012 he started his music project Dodson and Fogg, which has featured such people as Hawkwind's Nik Turner, Nigel Planer, Toyah, Scarlet Rivera and Celia Humphris of folk legends Trees. He continues to write books, release music, make experimental films, and work on other projects. His subjects for non fiction include Madonna, Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper and many others. Over the years he has conducted Q and As and interviews with such varied people as Sharon Stone, Donovan, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Henry Jaglom. He also worked with Peep Show star Matt King on the audiobook The Hunt for the Mayor of Smoochyville. His documentaries have focused on George Melly, Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin.



FULL CV

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)

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
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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: Music Inspired by the Book (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
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DODSON AND FOGG SINGLES
Meet Our May (2012)
Leaves They Fall (2013)
It's All Right (2013)

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

AUDIOBOOKS
Cutey and the Sofaguard - read by Rik Mayall (2010)
Daddy Treacle - with Shawn Dimery (2010)
Blandness of Strangers – with Shawn Dimery (2010)
Clowns – with Shawn Dimery (2011)
You Only Live Once Thank Goodness – read by Charlie Chuck (2011)
The Snatcher – read by Hannah Melbourn (2012)
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)

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) - Zombie horror
Collected Bits of Glass and Muck (2016)
​Watching the Tracks (2019)
​Three Curious Tales (2020)

POETRY BOOKS
Tha Sea of Night (2020)

NON FICTION BOOKS
Hugh Cornwell The Hoover Dam Companion (2009 and 2012 editions)
Malcolm McDowell On Screen (2009, 2011, 2017 and 2018 editions)
True Ghost Stories from Leeds – Published by John Merril Books (2010)
The Cat Profiles – feline charity book with Linzi Napier and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (2011)
Classic Film O Lucky Man (2011 and 2018 editions)
Speak of the Dead (2011)
Interview with the Hound Dawg  (2012)
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)
Robert De Niro On Screen (2015 and 2019 editions) 
Madonna: On Screen (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)
Dodson and Fogg Companion Book Volume One (2016)
​The Music of Neil Young (2016)
Music Talk: An Interview Anthology (2016)
The Music of Hawkwind (2016) - with Paul Garbutt
George A. Romero: On Screen (2016)
Dennis Hopper: On Screen (2016)
​Bob Dylan in the 1970s (2017)
The Music of John Lennon (2017)
Woody Allen: On Screen (2017)
Stanley Kubrick: On Screen (2017)
​The Kinks and the Village Green (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)
​Bob Dylan in the 1980s (2017)
​The Music of Paul McCartney (2017)
The Films of Martin Scorsese: 1963 - 1995 (2017)
​Orson Welles: The Final Cut (2017 and 2020 editions)
Steve Buscemi: Top Ten Movies (2017)
​The Story of Derek and Clive (2017)
Sharon Stone On Screen (2017)
Classic Film Series: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (2017)
​Classic Film Series: Once Upon A Time in America (2017)
Dennis Hopper: The Complete Film Guide (2017)
​Bob Dylan Through Time (2017)
Buster Keaton: The Later Years (2018)
​Madonna in the Eighties (2018)
Jack Nicholson On Screen (2018)
Aspects of Salvador Dali (2018)
​Classic Album Series: Black Sabbath Paranoid (2018)
​Picasso: The Later Years (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)
​Classic Film Series: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (2018)
​From Malaga to Paris: The Formative Years of Pablo Picasso (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)
​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)
​The Music of Frank Zappa 66 - 92 - two books compiled together (2020)
Charlie Chaplin: The Later Years (2020)
Picasso's Muses (2020)
Marcello Mastroianni: Complete Film Guide (2020)
​Gerard Depardieu On Screen (2020)
Italian Director Series: The Films of Ettore Scola (2020)

ARTICLES
Hound Dawg Magazine - countless interviews and articles in PDFs, magazine and blog form (2009 -) 
Burnt Frowner Fanzine - Three Issues (2020)
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)
Scenes Magazine (2020-)

PODCASTS AND COMEDY ALBUMS
Hound Dawg Radio (2011 - ) 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)