Dan Tuffy

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Central to Austalian folk/blues band Big Low are the semi-autobiographical songs and stories of Australian ex-patriate Dan Tuffy, currently resident of the Netherlands.

[edit] History

Tuffy was born and raised on the north coast of New South Wales where he worked on a cattle station and played in a handful of local country bands as a teenager before leaving the land and heading south to Tasmania to study botany. In 1985 he played some of the teenage tunes he’d written about birds and fish to a weird little band called Wild Pumpkins at Midnight. They were so charmed they asked him to join up. A string of record releases and international tours followed as the ‘Pumpkins’ relocated first to Melbourne, then to London and later to Amsterdam in a career that spanned 13 years, 9 albums and tours of the UK, Europe, the Baltic states and eastern Europe.

[edit] present day

He now lives in Holland with his wife and two kids but has he really settled down? Certainly long enough to have found & recruited two astonishing multi-instrumentalist virtuosos (Michiel Hollanders & Marc Constandse) for Big Low, establish the Smoked Recordings label and get a studio up and running. Also long enough to have produced 2 Big Low albums and 2 EP’s, all of which have received praise bordering on hysterical in Europe and all of which are soon to be released in Australia. He has also produced albums for several other artists and is the manager/bass player of a Balkan music outfit (Parne Gadje) who have also recorded 3 albums and have just signed a European deal with Rough Trade.