Fly Tower gig

On Thursday 21/09/23 we played a gig at the Fly Tower, part of the Abbeydale Picture House. Kind of meaningful, since Nick used to go there in the 60s to watch movies! The venue is an extraordinary place, 4 stories high behind the main screen of the cinema. It’s run by CADS who are working […]
Bergen Floss

Martin gave a talk about Discus Music on Chapel FM Radio recently, playing Das Rad and other marvellous music. The story behind the label is well worth a listen!
A gig! (and about time too)

After far too long a gap, we have a gig lined up at the Fly Tower in Abbeydale Picture House. We’ll be playing tracks from our recent album “Veer”. Thursday 21st September, 2023 – book here. Support will be Åyusp – a Sheffield based duo consisting of Graham McElearney and Paul Jonathan Mills. The band was […]
Steve Dubbadale in the studio

Our famed percussionist laying down some grooves…
Bandcamp Listening party

Discus Music just announced a Listening Party for Veer – 154CD (2023) The event is scheduled for: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM BST We’re celebrating the release of Das Rad’s fourth Discus Music album Veer. Please come along to Bandcamp’s new “listening party” to hear the album and join the live chat – […]
Recording bass…

A short (cough) video of Jon laying down some fretless bass on a track from our forthcoming (as yet untitled) album.
Maugermash

A remix of one of the tracks from “Laik Tors”. The footage of dragonflies was taken in the Lincolnshire Wolds at 8 o’clock in the evening.
Nick’s solo album

Das Rad Guitarist Nick Robinson has released a solo album “Lost Garden” on Discus Music. Created solely with a guitar, the music has attracted favourable comments from Adrian Belew and Steve Hackett and several other notables. The album is a world away from the typical guitarists cliched “riff with melody” albums and explores the […]
and then there were 4….

As the world seems to be establishing a new equilibrium, we’ve decide we should work towards some live dates (before zimmer frames become essential). Having thought it through, we realised that Martin has insufficient limbs to play sax, keyboard and bass simultaneously so we’ve invited the amazing Jon Short to “come on down” and join […]
Picture This

After a day trip to Sandal Castle in Wakefield, we’re now wading through several hundred images to select one for the “Laik Tors” album sleeve, not an easy task!
We are officially “interesting”!

Snooker legend Steve Davis has an excellent radio programme, “The Interesting Alternative Show” well worth checking out. He recently played a track from our second album “Adios Al Futuro“!
Spank that plank!

Here’s a quick snippet of guitar from a track on our forthcoming album “Laik Tors”. We didn’t want you to think Nick has gone pentatonic in his old age 😉