The Dog Faced Hermans struck up a deal with Dutch record label Konkurrent for the release of 1991’s Mental Blocks for All Ages and 1993’s Hum Of Life , which featured covers of songs by free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and American no wave group 8 Eyed Spy . A…
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The band found affinity in Dutch anarchist group The Ex , whom they’d been introduced to through members of Chumbawamba . The Ex and Dog Faced Hermans toured Europe, the United States, and Canada together and released the single Lied Der Steinklopfer / Stonestampers Song under the name Ex Faced…
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While in the UK, the Dog Faced Hermans made numerous appearances on the BBC , recording three songs for The John Peel Show in 1987 and appearing twice on the TV programme FSd in 1988.
The band claimed that they got their new name from a scene in a Frankenstein movie, stating “where a woman dreams that her husband, whose name is Herman, gets turned into a dog,” although the phrase actually occurs in the 1933 horror The Vampire Bat . When the band started,…
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