Lighting up the mid-1990s guitar scene with a string of feel good, summery hits,
Dodgy's breezy indie pop made them one of the more successful stars of the
Brit-pop era. Formed by Birmingham friends Nigel Clark and Matthew Priest, the
band started life in the 1980s under the name Purple before the lads moved to
London in 1990 and recruited guitarist Andy Miller. Their debut The Dodgy Album
(1993), produced by Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie, failed to make much of an
impact, but an acclaimed live reputation led to follow-up Homegrown (1994)
making the Top 30 and as the Brit-pop scen...