Dakota Oak

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Dave Tyack (born 4 March 1978, Hannover, Germany, died on an unknown date, probably in 2002) who also recorded under Dakota Oak, was a founding artist on the Twisted Nerve Records label. He recorded alongside fellow Twisted Nerve artists, namely Badly Drawn Boy and Andy Votel, on several releases and played drums with two further bands, Misty Dixon and D.O.T. He lived until the age of eight in a small village called Bredenbeck on the edge of the Deister wood. His debut full length album "am deister" was named after this rural location and many of its tracks were inspired by his childhood adventures. The family moved to Ashbourne, Derbyshire and it was at sixth form that he formed a short lived band with his friends James Rutledge a.k.a. Pedro and Jimmy Wright. He then studied maths at the University of Manchester. Having had no luck in finding band mates for a surf band, he started recording alone on a four-track, mainly playing bass guitar. Having heard Badly Drawn Boy's EP1 he started taking his tapes to Andy Votel who then worked at Fat City Records. After several months and numerous demo tapes, Andy decided to sign him to the fledgling Twisted Nerve Records; which had originally been set up in 1997 merely to release Badly Drawn Boy's recordings. His first release was on Twisted Nerve compilation All Oar Nothing and his recording moniker was Dakota Oak. The band Mum and Dad and the electronic artist Sirconical joined the label at the same time and the Twisted Nerve ros

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