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Doug started playing folk music at Gillingham Grammar School
with a bunch of friends in the late 60s. He went to college in Bradford
and met two other musicians who were staying in the same digs. Nigel
Martin, a cornet player with the Irwell Forge Brass Band and Pete Carr,
a drummer. They formed a band, and because two of them were studying
Russian, called it Tundra.
They played at many
folk clubs in the north of England before Doug moved back south and
formed Tundra mark 2 with Pete Learmouth and Mick Peters. Pete
Learmouth had already played with the first line up in Bradford and
after a while they looked for a girl singer. Her name was Sue Carroll
and the band became a four piece before Doug and Sue decided to get
married and also to go in a different musical direction as a duo.
They went
professional in 1978 and were one of the top folk duos in the country
before splitting up both professionally and maritally in 1984. Doug
pursued a solo career in comedy touring around the world with no less
than nine separate tours to Hong Kong, three to New Zealand and others
to various parts of the globe including Botswana, Dubai, UAE, Oman,
Russia, Australia, Japan, the Philippines and most European countries.
He formed the Hot
Rats to back a comedy show at the Brook Theatre in 1992. Doug is also
the PA announcer for Gillingham Football Club and has twice appeared
before 70,000 at Wembley stadium.
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