Hailing from Bishop Auckalnd, a small market town in County Durham Frankie Dobson quite simply burst onto the music scene when he played his first debut solo gig at none other than the Isle Of Wight Festival in front of a packed crowd! 

Starting his game off extremely strong like that has meant that Frankie has gone onto perform at a string of sold out dates sharing lineups with big name acts such as Sundara Karma and Vistas.

Frankie is no stranger to the music industry however having been a session musician and co-songwriter for other bands and artists such as Andrew Cushin as well as performing with artists such as The Clause, Billy Sullivan, Trampolene, Shambolics and The View and at various festivals in former bands he’s fronted. 

With Influences ranging across a wide spectrum from retro indie melodies to hard hitting punk, the song writing capabilities of Frankie Dobson are evident through his music. Couple this with his high octane live performances, and you’ve got yourself a winning combination.

Frankie Dobson is now breaking out and breaking the mould of what has gone before however, with his debut single release ‘Candy’.

‘Candy’ came into existence two years ago when he went to join Kyle Falconer at his songwriting camp La Sierra Casa in Spain. 

At the time Frankie was going through a massive writing block and went to Kyle for advice and Kyle told him “Frankie Man, stop messing aboot tryna get a tan. You just need to write some tunes. You’re from the North East man, just make it pure and North East and Mental Man”

So armed with that little nugget of wisdom, Frankie diligently took that advice and thought about the music he loves from the North East. Being particularly taken with the guitar chords featured in songs by The Futureheads, Frankie took this and imagined them being played in a power pop vibe by Paul Weller. He said that in his head he envisioned Paul Weller playing the track live at the 100 Club standing on his own hitting those chords as hard as he could and that’s how the intro to ‘Candy’ was formed. 

Once home from Spain, Frankie went back and revisited the song and it just hit him and the whole song thereafter just flowed and came to him in about 2 minutes. 

From start to finish ‘Candy’ is full throttle breathing life and excitement into the room. Lyrically Frankie says the song is about being in a relationship where you’re on the losing side of every argument, but for some reason, you’re always the one begging to stay. 

‘Candy’ was recorded at Kempston Street Studios in Liverpool with Chris Taylor who at the time had just finished recording the Miles Kane album ‘One Man Band’. 

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