DUBLIN 1987 - 1991
OVERVIEW
The Dixons sort of drifted together sometime in 1987, from the flotsam of Dublin wannabees, the Fallen Angels and Those Handsome Devils, via experimentation with country rock in the form of Hank Halfhead and the Rambling Turkeys and the blue eyed R'n'B of Fevertrain.

A number of high profile support slots garnered positive critical noises through 1988, earning the band the dubious accolade of 'best support act in town'.

The following spring saw the various band members leave all the other bands they were in and go full time
The Dixons first gigs back in Dublin that summer in the Baggot were sell-outs, with hundreds of the dedicated and the curious turned away. 1989 was dubbed as the ³summer of love² in the UK with the rave scene taking off, but for some Irish tabloid hacks it was the ³summer of fun².

Without a record deal, the band recorded a second 7in that autumn. This time, they put it out on their own label, Purple Records. Despite the absence of a plugger for the disc, it received a respectable amount of airplay and charted, peaking at No. 8.

The logical next step was to record a long player but without industry backing this would prove difficult. The low-fi classic Garagefolk-The Sunbed Sessions was recorded over a couple of months in Paul Thomas's sometimes miraculous Recording Company.

The seven-track mini-album charted at No.25 for a couple of weeks in the winter of 1990 and was the most financially successful release for the band insofar as it made its money back.

February of 1991 saw Purple records third release and the Dixons last. On twelve-inch vinyl, I'd Love To featured crunching guitars and a nod or two in the directions of the Spencer Davis Group and Jimi Hendrix.

The band's music finally began to find its natural shape that summer, drenched in jangling guitars and sweet harmony vocals, a sort of post-West Coast racket with Byrds influences creeping into a sound already heavily seasoned with essences of Rubber Soul and a pinch of Pet Sounds.
Soon, the record companies began to sniff around. Despite flirtations with U2ı Mother Records during 1989 which culminated in the bandıs debut 7in ³I Have Fun² coming out on the label in the early summer of that year, the groupıs management failed to reach agreement with the company on a longer term deal.

'I Have Fun' received moderately heavy rotation over the summer, while the band toured the country with the underrated Real Wild West and An Emotional Fish in a coach with a cargo hold full of beer.
They spent much of that summer recording in the idyllic environs of Armstrongıs Barn studio Anamoe, Co.Wicklow. Alas, the embryonic album with a working title Exile On Dame Street was never finished, as crises of confidence and economic hardships took their toll and The Dixons fell apart.

1987
- Band formed
1989
- Release of 'I Have Fun' single [04 July]
- Release of 'Ingrid Bergman' single [November]
1990
- Release of 'Garagefolk - The Sunbed Sessions' album [May]
1991
- Release of 'I'd Love To' single [February]
- Band split