"Well, when people ask us why the band is called Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5, usually we just tell them that it's a sort of tribute to the Beatles, y'know Sergeant Pepper. Sergeant = Colonel, Pepper = Mustard. But that's not actually the truth.
One time, before we'd started up the band, the Colonel was down at Glastonbury - our spiritual home - and he was up in the North field, with some of his good friends. And they were having a good time, and smoking a little bit and whatnot, and suddenly the Colonel said 'If I ever have a band I'll call it Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5. So here we are.
We really connect to our fans - we call them the 6th Dijon. And we've got this real connection with them. Sometimes at gigs I'll go down into the crowd and start breakdancing with them, and this pit opens up, and we have competitions to see who can win a dance-off. I mean, it's a proper contest, people are proud of winning these little Games-Day-esque medals we have for first place. They've become a collector's item almost.
We all have our names in the band. Obviously there's the Colonel, he's the singer and sort of th-some people think it's a bit of a cult but that's stupid, they're missing the point of it. It's there to poke fun and have a laugh, and we're all about the symbiosis that can happen when you just enjoy yourself with other people. But yeah, I'm the Dijancer. It's a portmanteau of a few things - my initials are D.J, David John, and obviously adding the Dijon in there, and combined with 'Chancer'. So it makes Dijancer.
What? The Yellow Movement? Well, we were starting to get a bit of a following - regular people coming to our gigs and that sort of thing. And one day the Colonel stood up in between songs and said 'Fuck it, next gig we're at, everyone wear yellow.' and it sort of grew from there, so we use The Yellow Movement [the manifesto for the Yellow Movement is in the picture above] to sort of highlight this connectiveness we have with our fans, its a creative movement that we use to bring as much positivity into the world as we can.
Oh, I love being in a band. I'm a lover of music, and I love growing that awareness through the people I meet."
David Blair, my Couchsurfing host, and the Percussionist and Breakdancer for Colonel Mustard And The Dijon 5. The band have played to a sold-out Barrowlands (2000 people) and have played at festivals across the country. You can become a 6th Dijon here.
"Everyone's happy, everyone's smiling, no one here is sad anymore..."
One time, before we'd started up the band, the Colonel was down at Glastonbury - our spiritual home - and he was up in the North field, with some of his good friends. And they were having a good time, and smoking a little bit and whatnot, and suddenly the Colonel said 'If I ever have a band I'll call it Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5. So here we are.
We really connect to our fans - we call them the 6th Dijon. And we've got this real connection with them. Sometimes at gigs I'll go down into the crowd and start breakdancing with them, and this pit opens up, and we have competitions to see who can win a dance-off. I mean, it's a proper contest, people are proud of winning these little Games-Day-esque medals we have for first place. They've become a collector's item almost.
We all have our names in the band. Obviously there's the Colonel, he's the singer and sort of th-some people think it's a bit of a cult but that's stupid, they're missing the point of it. It's there to poke fun and have a laugh, and we're all about the symbiosis that can happen when you just enjoy yourself with other people. But yeah, I'm the Dijancer. It's a portmanteau of a few things - my initials are D.J, David John, and obviously adding the Dijon in there, and combined with 'Chancer'. So it makes Dijancer.
What? The Yellow Movement? Well, we were starting to get a bit of a following - regular people coming to our gigs and that sort of thing. And one day the Colonel stood up in between songs and said 'Fuck it, next gig we're at, everyone wear yellow.' and it sort of grew from there, so we use The Yellow Movement [the manifesto for the Yellow Movement is in the picture above] to sort of highlight this connectiveness we have with our fans, its a creative movement that we use to bring as much positivity into the world as we can.
Oh, I love being in a band. I'm a lover of music, and I love growing that awareness through the people I meet."
David Blair, my Couchsurfing host, and the Percussionist and Breakdancer for Colonel Mustard And The Dijon 5. The band have played to a sold-out Barrowlands (2000 people) and have played at festivals across the country. You can become a 6th Dijon here.
"Everyone's happy, everyone's smiling, no one here is sad anymore..."