Dirty Dike

It’s fair enough to think you know Dike. His vision is unfiltered and brutal, the thing is, he’s seen things you haven’t seen and never will.

What’s most important isn’t easy to explain, but he’ll do his best to take you (back) there. To an ocean of people, eyes rolled back, in a derelict building, chins swinging. Living. Or on the edge of a deep-stacked-ballast-bank, lurking, seven hours in. When everything was on the line and nothing mattered but the night. 

And keeping a hole in the fence alive.

Back when things were scarcely documented but for tape cassettes, or word-of-mouth, or an early-hours SMS. In convoys along motorways to angry towns. And convos on burner phones in the Regal pub. Sat around a picnic bench.

“Are you coming out?”

Sure it’s about the music, but at the same time there’s SO MUCH more TO the music. It’s a universe.

Welcome to the very centre, Dike’s Narnia cupboard, and each and every particle surrounding it.

Note To Editors:

‘Acrylic Snail’ is the fifth album from Dirty Dike. Following a three-year hiatus since his last solo outing ‘Sucking On Prawns In The Moonlight’ and after a ream of production work for the likes of Rag ’n’ Bone Man (‘Put That Soul On Me’), Ocean Wisdom (‘Chaos 93’) and Lee Scott (‘Butter Fly’) during that time, Dike is back with a brand new 14-track album; his most personal release to date and a body of work that shines a full-beam-floodlight on his formative years, but moreover, the dreamlike transition between then and now.

Firmly anchored in a chapter of the UK underground before everything went to shit, situated a couple removed from this current grizzly chapter, the songs bounce off the walls of abandoned industrial estates and whoosh by at breakneck speeds like trains-through-tunnels. The album embodies the freezing cold concrete pours, twilight toe slaps and irregularly shaped ballast banks of the network. In short, ‘Acrylic Snail’ pays homage to the things Dike saw in the very farthest reaches of night that made him who he is today.

Featuring a roster of guests vocalists (Rag ’n’ Bone Man, Jam Baxter, Lee Scott, Dabbla, Leaf Dog, Eva Lazarus, J Man, Ronnie Bosh, Inja, Killa P, Foreign Beggars) and production from a team of music makers (including Dike himself) ‘Acrylic Snail’ is an AAA invitation to Dirty Dike’s playground and further cements his hard-earned status as one of UKHH's greatest torchbearers.