DOLLBOY – ARTIST PROFILE
February 13th, 2006 by rui
Oliver Cherer AKA Dollboy is a standard issue balding egghead living in East London with a penchant for slightly noodly jazz and electronic music.
He was a founder member of highly acclaimed and entirely unsuccessful big beat rockers Cooler, on Polydor, achieving single of the week three times with three singles in NME, Big Issue and on Steve Lamaq’s BBC Radio One show. They were regularly called upon for remixes and re-worked such bands as; Shed 7, Rare, Terrovision, Elastica and Alabama 3.
They toured with Bentley Rhythm Ace and Fuzz Townsend and did a BBC Breeze Block live session for Mary Anne Hobbs.
On Cooler’s break up in 2000, Oliver went on to make music with no beats to enjoy privately in the bath at home. He was persuaded by friends to release some of this new gentler music and tracks started turning up on various compilation CDs. This lead to a name and radio airplay (XFM Nick Luscombe’s Flo-Motion) which in turn lead to events and a label and a first album, “Plans for a modern city”. The record was very well received and was picked up and played all around the world. Extracts from “Plans for a modern city” have been used on BBC Radio Drama and BBC TV documentary shows. Dollboy, featuring a full live band performed to great acclaim at 2004’s Big Chill.
In November 2004 Oliver wrote and performed the music for a play “Attempts on her Life” by Martin Crimp at The Diorama in London.
Oliver has recently returned to remixing and has produced mixes for Tunng, Mighty Math, Animat, Woodcraft Folk and Digitonal. He was also a winner in the recent Penguin ReMixed competition with “Status” featuring the philosophy writer, Alan de Botton.
