My Dad Is Dead

My Dad Is Dead was a recording project of musician Mark Edwards. The project began in Cleveland, Ohio in 1984. My Dad Is Dead has released twelve full-length albums before it officially ended in 2011. A new group called Secular Joy was formed later that year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Mark Edwards first played drums during the very early portion of the 1980s, performing in the bands Thermos of Happiness and Riot Architecture before they both dissolved by 1984. In August that same year, Edwards began to learn guitar and started to write music under the name of My Dad Is Dead. Early live shows consisted of him performing guitar and vocals with percussion duties done by a drum machine.Edwards’ name for his project was a nod to both of his parents having died by the time he was 24 years old.
==Links to Peel==
Peel seemed to have discovered the group in 1987 when he played a track from their 'Peace, Love & Murder' album on his show. However, according to available tracklistings on this site, Peel didn't seem to play songs from their 1988 release 'The Best Defense' LP. Nonetheless, Peel did play, 'The Only One' from their 1989 release, 'The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get', album on his radio programmes and invited the group to do a session for his programme in 1990, which they performed three tracks. Bastro, a group that Peel was fond of, later covered My Dad Is Dead's 'Nothing Special', which peaked at number 45 in the 1990 Festive Fifty. Tsunami also covered My Dad Is Dead's Water's Edge as a session track for Peel's programme in 1993.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1990-05-27. First Broadcast: 26 June 1990. Repeated: 23 August 1990
*Without A Doubt / Water's Edge / Nothing Special
==Other Shows Played==
;1987
*31 July 1987 (Radio Bremen): Open Wide (album - Peace, Love & Murder) Birth
;1990
*10 January 1990: The Only One (album - The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get) Homestead
*25 June 1990: The Only One (2xLP - The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get) Homestead
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
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