Dot Allison is a Scottish singer/ songwriter who has made significant inroads in electronic music circles, most notably as a result of her tenure fronting the band One Dove in the early 1990s. In addition to solo ventures, Allison's career has concentrated on collaborative efforts, and has seen her working beside the likes of Death in Vegas, Hal David, Arab Strap, Scottish dance troupe Slam, Kevin Shields and club stalwarts Massive Attack. She released her debut album, Afterglow, in 1999 to generally positive reviews. A song-oriented pop outing, it was followed by the electro and house music inspired We Are Science in 2002. Stylistically, her music has been described as "trip-pop," and owes a great deal to late 1980s/ early 1990s British electronic music. The original three members of Massive Attack. ... Scottish can refer to: Look up Scottish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary (as an adjective) things to do with Scotland (see also Scots and Scotch) (as a noun) the Scottish people. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Hal David (born May 25, 1921 in New York City, New York) is an Jewish-American lyricist and songwriter. ... An arab strap is a sexual device usually made of leather and a metal ring that is fastened or cinched around a human males genitalia. ... Kevin Shields (born May 21, 1963) is an Irish rock guitarist and producer who fronted the London-based shoegazer band My Bloody Valentine in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... The original three members of Massive Attack. ... Electro is either a) a prefix used to indicate a relationship to electricity, as in electro-mechanical, or electro-magnet, or b) a stand-alone word. ... House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. ...
Dot hooked up with Heavenly Records, as well as Death In Vegas mainman/Heavenly Social DJ Richard Fearless, and her career took on new life.
If DotAllison's last band, One Dove, were underachievers par excellence, then Afterglow is the sound of one woman determined to give it her all.
On her debut solo album Allison tackles a host of instruments and an even wider range of emotions, sometimes in the space of a single song (check the desperate/ecstatic mantra "Message Personnel").
DotAllison is so soft spoken and unassuming that it’s a bit odd to watch her speak of sitting on the beach with dream producer Andrew Weatherhall listening to Primal Scream’s Screamadelica demos, or how she had a problem with a drunken voyeur in her garden a few years ago.
As Allison sits on a couch in the green room of the Palace, her posture is as rigid as her skin is incandescent, and she beams with excitement while speaking about how she moved to Glasgow at age seventeen to be closer to acid house clubs.
Allison is really too modest to elaborate, but she does say she frequented clubs in those early days at least three or four times a week.
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