Public Release Date: 17th November 2023
Band Name: TBelly
Song Title: DA DA DA DA
Single, EP, or Album: Single
Location: Brighton, UK
Record Label: Independent
Mixed and Produced By: Russell Keefe
Genre: Blues Rock
ISRC #: UKFGC2300008
Band Members For Recording:
TBelly - All Vocals/Keyboards/Programming
Connor Baxter - Guitar
Influences:
Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Prince, Doctor Feelgood, Tom Waits
The story behind the song:
Da Da Da Da is a fantasy song, bringing in a magical New Orleans vibe.
A song about trying to find out who you are and your place in, a crazy mixed-up world.
TBelly Social Media and Links
Facebook: @tbellyofficial
https://www.facebook.com/
Instagram: @keefe.russell
https://www.instagram.com/
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/gb/
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/
YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ZVFQnMFPIAE?
TBelly DJ Liners
1. TBelly's second single since his last album released in 2021. The title track from the last album featured Dennis Dunaway from the Alice Cooper group on bass guitar.
2.TBelly is better known as Russell Keefe, joint lead singer and keys player with the iconic UK band “Slade” along side the legend that is Dave Hill.
TBelly Biography:
TBelly is a solo project for singer and songwriter Russell Keefe.
The band's first album, “Dead Men Don’t Pray” was released in 2015.
The album got fantastic critical acclaim in the USA, Europe, and the UK.
TBelly released his second album, “I Never Want To See Me Again” in October. 2021.
Dennis Dunaway, who is the original bass player from the Alice Cooper Group played on the title track.
Russell has had a long and varied career in music, both on the road and in the studio.
Having played in many original bands in his early years, Keefe recorded albums and singles for Polygram and United Artists.
In 1991, he joined Les Mckeown's legendary Bay City Rollers and toured the world for 16 years.
With McKeown, he also played on and wrote songs for two studio albums and a live album recorded in Japan.
During that time, he also toured with the British blues/psychedelic band The Pretty Things playing keyboards.
In January 2019, he joined the 70's and 80's iconic rock band Slade, singing lead vocals jointly with bass player John Berry and playing keys along side
original guitarist and legend Dave Hill and drummer Alex Bines.
Slade plays gigs all over the UK and Europe. Keefe has also written music for television drama.
Press Quotes:
"These guys are a whole lot closer to the likes of Moreland & Arbuckle, Johnny Sansone, or the Stephen Stills/Kenny Wayne Shepherd/Barry Goldberg supergroup The Rides – although perhaps slightly more polished and diverse even than any of these.”
- BluesPowR Blog
“TBelly make some fine music, but it is their vocal performance that grabs the ear and engages the spirit. Blues songs can compress deep and complex feelings into a few lines, but when they are projected with this kind of power and conviction, they can also open a door into a world of shared experience.”
- All About Blues Music
LYRICS:
“DA DA DA DA” by TBelly
Yellow tail gotta life to sail supposed to be just one
A pink flamingo waits and just soaks up the sun
Let my mind go free It just wanders around
There’s some love in there just waiting to be found.
Bit coin me this and I might bitch coin ya back
Suppose if your mad you go straight in the hat
See a snake pass by, it just said hello
I gave it a wave and it slid down below.
Chorus:
Well if I have to be something
I’ll be something they call Da Da Da
I’m Da Da Da Da.
Simple solutions to some complicated facts
Complicated desires need me calling the past
Cyandied or multiplied or any ide you like
Leave me as cold as the snow in the night
Yellow tail me this and I might Yellow tail you that
I might be winding down but I’m ready for that
I’m seriously, curiously just lying around
The yellow tailed freaks dressing up like a clown.
Chorus
Well if I have to be something
I’ll be something they call Da Da Da
I’m Da Da Da Da.
Normalize to formulize well I just don’t care
I left it alone in the dark to be fair
The yellow tail left it just got out of town
Put on the mask and then I am the clown.
Chorus:
Well if I have to be something
I’ll be something they call Da Da Da
Well if I have to be something
I’ll be something they call Da Da Da
Well if I have to be something
I’ll be something they call Da Da Da
I’m Da Da Da Da.
Yes I’m Da Da Da Da
I’m just Da Da Da Da
Yes I’m Da Da Da Da
