Ahhh. Glad you asked! Well, it's a long story... Let's just say it involves alcohol, music and, erm, plastic dinosaurs...
Whilst at University I
played a few impromptu gigs with a couple of girls I knew. I wrote
some silly songs and played guitar, and they provided backing
vocals and provided the audience with something more aesthetically
pleasing than myself. With me, through the good gigs and the bad,
where my two model Diplodocuses, acting as mascots and keeping me
safe from any stray bottles. Hence, the girls christened me Danny
Diplo. Obvious really! I just stuck with the name as it was
suitably silly :)
Even to this day, I use the name Danny Diplo or Dan Diplo when I'm playing online games on the net, such as Unreal Tournament (I used to be in the once-famous [Spirit] clan). I also often go by the name Diplo when making my music and posting on various dodgy internet forums. And, as previously mentioned, I'm nothing to do with that DJ Diplo chappy in the U.S. who seems to have cheekily used the same moniker. Humph! So, if you've come here thinking I'm some kind of celebrity, well sorry, but I'm not. However, I'm always available to launch ships and open shopping centres, if you want to pay me lots of money to do so. Please contact me if you wish to give me large wads of cash. Thanks!
Diplodocus Squad
Poster for bands night at Liverpool Poly C.F.Mott Campus (now John Moores University) where we were bottom of the bill and the name was dubiously misspelled. Incidentally, the drummer in Luigi Klingon (just ahead of us on the bill), Phil Selway, went on to find fame with a certain band you may have heard of called Radiohead.
