DD Smash

DD Smash
Origin	New Zealand
Years active	1980–1986
Associated acts	Th' Dudes, Disciplin A Kitschme, Lip Service, Hello Sailor
Past members	Dave Dobbyn Peter Warren Rob Guy (Revox) Lisle Kinney Andrew Clouston

DD Smash was a New Zealand pop/rock band formed by Dave Dobbyn after the breakup of Th' Dudes.

Members included Dave Dobbyn (guitar, vocals, songwriter), Andrew Clouston (Saxophone), Peter (Rooda) Warren (drums), Rob Guy (Revox) (guitar), both formerly of Lip Service, and Lisle Kinney (bass guitar), formerly of Hello Sailor.

Originally formed in New Zealand, the band was resident in Australia for much of its existence. The band were briefly called 'Dave Dobbyn's Divers' until drummer Peter Warren came up with DD Smash. Dobbyn says the name "seemed to say everything about what we were into, which was having a jolly good time and blasting out music."

DD Smash, mainly based around Dave Dobbyn as the main songwriter, produced hits including the show starter "Devil You Know ", "Outlook For Thursday" and the more 80's sounding "Magic (What She Do)".

By late '81, DD Smash signed a recording deal and immediately set about recording their debut album, with Ian Morris in the producer's chair.

DD Smash released their debut album in 1982. Titled 'Cool Bananas' it debuted in the national chart at #1, an historic first. It remained in the chart for 24 weeks and became triple gold. The album's biggest hit was 'Devil You Know.' In '82 the 'Top Male Vocalist' award was won by Dobbyn, 'Top Group' went to DD Smash; 'Cool Bananas' won 'Album of the Year,' Ian Morris got 'Producer of the Year' for it, Doug Rogers and Paul Streekstra got 'Engineer of the Year' for it, and it won 'Best Sleeve Design.' [1] "Devil You Know", "Outlook For Thursday" and the more 80's sounding "Magic (What She Do)".

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