Newquay- UK, UK
Dwarves Live
Friday, August 6, 2010 07:00 PMRelentless Boardmasters Festival
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Festival!
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Corporation (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Saturday, August 7, 2010 07:00 PMCorporation
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BLACKPOOL, UK
Dwarves Live
Sunday, August 8, 2010 06:00 PMRebellion Festival
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Rebellion Punk Fest!
Manchester, United Kingdom
Manchester Moho Live (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Monday, August 9, 2010 07:00 PMManchester Moho Live
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Glasgow, V2
Ivory Blacks (Glasgow, V2)
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 07:30 PMIvory Blacks
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Newcastle, Y8
Cluny (Newcastle, Y8)
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 08:00 PMCluny
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London, United Kingdom
Monto Water Rats (London, United Kingdom)
Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:00 PMMonto Water Rats
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Horton, NORWAY
DWARVES LIVE
Friday, August 13, 2010 07:00 PMKanalrock Festival
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Bristol, UK
Dwarves Live
Saturday, August 14, 2010 09:00 PMThe Croft
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LONDON , UK
Blag Solo Acoustic
Sunday, August 15, 2010 10:00 PMWindmill Brixton
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DWARVES MIDWEST SHOWS 7/15-7/19
Monday, July 12, 2010 12:32 AMYou must see the infamous Dwarves this week across the Midwest w/ Turbo AC’s!
St. Paul, MN- Station 4- Thur July 15
Madison, WI- The Frequency Fri July 16
Chicago, IL- Reggie’s Sat July 17
St. Louis, MO- Fubar Sun July 18
And then catch Blag solo and hilarious!
Chicago, IL- Liar’s Club Mon July 19
Dwarves East Coast Shows- New Website!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 03:48 PM
www.thedwarves.com has a new face- and some new tits! Check the dirty pics, the videos, the history and listen and download to a huge array of Dwarves songs. It’s a Dwarves fan’s dream come true!
You must see the mighty Dwarves with the Turbo AC’s this week on the East Coast-
Albany, NY Thursday, June 17,
Bogie’s
Reading, PA Friday, June 18,
The Silo
Baltimore, MD Saturday, June 19,
Sonar
New York, NY Sunday, June 20,
Bowery Electric
Cambridge, MA Monday, June 21,
Middle East
New York, NY Tuesday, June 22,
Blag Solo Quickie at Generation Records
New York, NY Tuesday, June 22,
The Local 269 Blag Solo Acoustic. First time in NYC!
DWARVES ACOUSTIC AMOEBA RECORDS SF JUNE 8 at 6pm
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 01:28 PM
The original Dwarves celebrate the release of HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED’s solo record ‘Sunday School Massacre’ with a reunion of the mighty Dwarves. Blag Dahlia, Sgt. Saltpeter and HeWho himself bring you the finest in punk rock music acoustically retarded for your pleasure. Come down to the record store and request your favorite Dwarves song. We won’t actually do it, but it’s nice to hear from our fans sometimes!
BLAG SOLO ACOUSTIC Sat.5-29 in SF with TRAINWRECK
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 04:00 PM
See Blag with the mighty KG from Tenacious D as he unleashes Trainwreck on an unsuspecting world. Much humor and good cheer, so come on out and check the show. Asshole!
Bottom of the Hill Saturday May 29
Blag Acoustic SF St. Patty’s/DWARVES in SoCal and Vegas 4/8-4/11
Friday, March 12, 2010 03:30 PMYou heard right folks, the mighty Dwarves return to Southern California and Sin City to teach the uninitiated exactly how to rock.
Thurs April 8- Huntington Beach, CA @ Blu Café
Fri April 9- Hemet, CA @ The Palms
Sat April 10- Las Vegas, NV @ Boomer’s
Sun April 11 San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick
Thrill to the exploits of the Dwarves! Hail the return of Clint Torres and the emergence of Father Pat O’Phile. See End of Power and Compton, SF and all the other bands who remind you how great the Dwarves really are.
And if you’re lucky enough to be in San Francisco on St. Patrick’s Day, see Blag solo acoustic with the Filthy Thieving Bastards at Thee Parkside. Sean Wheeler and Zander will be there, too!
Blag Acoustic San Diego Saturday 2-20 Hensley’s Pub
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:39 PM
See the great and magnificent Blag Dahlia acoustic at Hensley’s Pub in Carlsbad. With Joe Sib’s California Calling opening!
DWARVES Feb 4-7 OAKLAND,PORTLAND,SEATTLE,SAN JOSE
Sunday, January 24, 2010 12:47 PM
In anticipation of the summer release of the DWARVES ARE BORN AGAIN LP the DWARVES announce 4 classic shows. Not to be missed!!!
Thurs FEB 4 OAKLAND- Uptown Theater
Fri FEB 5 PORTLAND- Dante’s
Sat FEB 6 SEATTLE- El Corazon
Sun FEB 7 SAN JOSE- Voodoo Lounge
BLAG Solo Acoustic in San Francisco at Hotel Utah, Thursday 1/21/10
Friday, January 8, 2010 09:51 PM
BLAG Solo Acoustic in San Francisco at Hotel Utah, Thursday 1/21/10. Appearing with Joe Sib’s California Calling. An evening of great songs and really bad guitar playing for the whole damn family!
DWARVES NEW YEAR’S CALGARY CANADA! LOS ANGELES DEC. 30!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:56 AMThe Dwarves return to LA at the Dragonfly with Compton SF and the Valentine Killers 12/30. Don’t miss Nick O. as he returns from Oslo, Australia!
New Year’s Eve finds the Dwarves conquering Calgary, Canada at the Distillery. Mayhem, madness and maple syrup will flow plentifully as we perform old classics and new stuff from the upcoming The Dwarves Are Born Again.
DWARVES NEW YEAR’S CALGARY CANADA! LOS ANGELES DEC. 30!
BLAG SOLO ACOUSTIC SF 12-19 and LA 12-22
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:44 PM
BLAG will be performing solo acoustic to benefit Pirate Cat Radio 12-19 at the Thee Parkside in San Francisco. Bands include HeWhoCanNotBeNamed and Persephone’s Bees!
BLAG will be performing solo acoustic to benefit Music Cares 12-22 in Long Beach at DiPiazza’s. Joe Sib will be doing spoken word.
And remember, even when Blag does a benefit, he still doesn’t give a fuck about anyone else!
And don’t miss the DWARVES 12-30 in LA at Dragonfly and New Year’s Eve in Calgary, Canada at the Distillery!
THE DWARVES music becomes inescapable in film and television swelling HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED’s bank account and ego beyond all proportion while the band appears in hardcore porn films like ‘Rocksuckers’ and soft core television like ‘Playboy’s Nightcalls’ where REX EVERYTHING’s oversized penis becomes caught in the tailpipe of HUGH HEFNER’s Maserati.
BLAG and Producers ROYCE CRACKER and THRUSTY OTIS discover female pop singer ANGELINA MOYSOV in an Azerbaijani bus station and the result is the classic album CANDY NOW! Audiences are stirred by the sultry siren and the retro lounge tunes and this prompts an extensive tour of Oakland, California.
BLAG begins to perform solo shows around the world insisting that he is the only artist who can play an acoustic guitar and not be gay at the same time. Critics vacillate between outright disagreement and complete avoidance as Dahlia congratulates himself for learning an additional chord and remembering songs that he’s already written several times before.
Guitarists CHIP FRACTURE and THE FRESH PRINCE OF DARKNESS form MOTOCHRIST and END OF POWER to capitalize on the DWARVES now legendary status, while drummer GREGORY PECKER forms the percussion heavy GNARLY WATTS and magically sprouts hair.
The Dwarves tear up Europe with appearances at the Leeds and Reading Festivals and on BBC radio who continue to spin instant classic 'SALT LAKE CITY.' The SLC video is filmed during the Dwarves tour of Japan where they perform live and on NHK Radio Tokyo. Australia and Hawaii feel the sickness as KMFDM drummer DUTCH OVENS makes his debut and HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED corners the market on drugs and prostitution. GREEDY WORLDWIDE is created to launder money from DWARVES merchandise across the globe. Our heroes appear on MONSTER GARAGE, PLAYBOY'S NIGHTCALLS and on soundtracks for tv shows like VIVA LA BAM, HOMEWRECKER and SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. CLINT TORRES appears with soul crooner GNARLS BARKLEY and several television stars including L. RON HUBBARD.The FEFU video is made by BOB SEXTON with a little help from naked pin-up nymphets the SUICIDE GIRLS. Fetish artist DAVE NAZ contributes a huge dose of perversion as the Dwarves premiere a video that can't be shown for a song that can't be broadcast. Nudity, violence and dwarf love make FEFU the most popular GREEDY/MVD release yet and stations across the country spread the video virus while a full length FEFU dvd showcases 20 years of live insanity following the Dwarves from their midwest origins all the way to intercontinental infamy. BLAG DAHLIA releases his second novel NINA along with a spoken word cd. The reaction to this depraved tale of a wayward teenage girl is swift and harsh.
Careening wildly from garage punk to hardcore, from hip hop to bubble gum pop, from art rock to sheer noise, the album takes a gut wrenching journey through the dark heart of American music to the dirty soul that lies beneath. The single "SALT LAKE CITY" delivers the death blow to pop punk while DJ MARZ and the GREEDY BROS. supply the insane B-side.
The new record features lifetime Dwarves favorite HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED along with new stars FRESH PRINCE OF DARKNESS, CLINT TORRES and Drummer WRECK TOM. The Dwarves first female member TAZZIE BUSHWEED later starts DUTCH OVENS with industrial thrashers KMFDM.
The Dwarves Must Die also features cameos by ERIC VALENTINE, DEXTER HOLLAND (OFFSPRING) BLACK JOSH FREESE (VANDALS, PERFECT CIRCLE), SAN QUINN (GET LOW PLAYAZ), NASH KATO (URGE OVERKILL), SPIKE (ME FIRST & GIMMIE GIMMIES) and the immortal GARY OWENS (SPACE GHOST). Cover Photographer MICHAEL LAVINE's dirty pictures ride the line between smut and sheer genius to a place where parental advisory stickers dare not tread. Nudity, religion and death find _expression in the most audacious Dwarves cover since the immortal .BLOOD, GUTS & PUSSY.
SPIN magazine rates .Blood, Guts & Pussy as the most offensive album of all time, edging out the ROLLING STONES and 2 LIVE CREW. SPIN also honors the Dwarves in its' 7 Greatest Rock'n'Roll Hoaxes, but the late HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED still has no comment. The venerable PLAYBOY and the scrappy new MAXIM both rate Dwarves records as among the sexiest album covers of all time.
In 2001 REPTILIAN Records releases .HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, a collection of new versions of classic Dwarves songs. Shows with the Damned, Motorhead, and other old folks follow. BLAG and the artist known as HAIRBOY produce tracks for SWINGIN UTTERS, GODAWFULS, HOLOGRAMS and other underground bands. Blag becomes the announcer for SF cult favorites Incredibly Strange Wrestling and begins the HOW 2 WRITE GOOD column for the Wave Magazine. Dwarves tour Australia with BLOOD DUSTER in 2002. A comedy cd by BLAG DAHLIA- METROSEXUAL is released by Australian label High Voltage.
The Dwarves also supply tracks for films like GHOSTWORLD and ME, MYSELF & IRENE, television shows like VIVA LA BAM and SPONGEBOB and surf and skate videos by guys so cheap even we won't mention them. The Dwarves also supply the track "Kids Today" featuring the MATCHES and the AKAs for the compilation ROCK AGAINST BUSH Vol. 2.
Notorious for their ferocious live performances spanning over two decades, the Dwarves tour the world in support of The Dwarves Must Die. In this age of prepackaged punk and ready-made rebellion, the Dwarves remain fiercely independent and unrepentant to the end.
Ready to warp the minds of a new generation, dope producers Blag Dahlia and Eric Valentine team up to create an ambitious follow up to 1998s "The Dwarves are Young & Good Looking". Fresh from helming Top Ten hits for Smashmouth and Third-Eye Blind, Valentine experiments with a more brutal form of pop-music and in the process drags Punk-Rock kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.
The album- "The Dwarves Come Clean" is a schizophrenic effort that jumps frenetically from hook-laden power-pop to skin-crawling hardcore, from dirty novelty songs to disturbing new-metal production pieces, in the process mutating the whole spectrum of modern and retro rock styles.
Blag the Ripper enlists the help of songwriters Mr. Everything, Wholley Smokkes and HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED who join a host of guest artists (DJ Marz, Luke Sick, Swingin' Utters, Toys That Kill) to further fracture the heads of record buyers desperate for something new.
Recalling the classic "Blood, Guts & Pussy" album, photographer Michael Lavine captures the return of dwarf icon Bobby Faust as he cavorts with two luscious nymphettes and a bubble machine for the album's cover. So much for Wal-Mart.
Once again, the British press salivates for the new Dwarves record, but this time even America is starting to catch on to the San Francisco Rock Legends. Adding bassist Chip Fracture (Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, Machine Gun) and drummer Gregor (Excel, My Head) the Dwarves take their ever expanding line-up to the stage.
Once again the nation and the world prepare to hide their daughters.
Also completed at this time is BLAG DAHLIA's novel "Armed To The Teeth With Lipstick", illustrated by MARC RUDE. The book is deemed brilliant, but incomprehensible by the New York literati, and finds a receptive audience in Japan where its lack of a coherent structure is embraced as 'how to write good'. RUDE goes on to national prominence by piercing CHELSEA CLINTON at a Stanford rugby match.
After the release of "Y&GL" through underground labels THEOLOGIAN and RECESS, EPITAPH boss BRETT GUERWITZ signs the DWARVES during a psychotic episode, believing them to be similar to BAD RELIGION, except without all the big words and stuff. Outraged fans picket the label's posh Silver Lake offices when they discover that the album was actually financed by corporate giant GREEDY for a reported 250K (Kenyan).
The album is a critical favorite, but offers to tour with MARILYN MANSON, HOLE and THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS are rejected when singer BLAG JESUS learns that the DWARVES will have to play before the headliner. What follows are appearances in The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and The UK where unruly fans lob pints of beer and cocaine and pledge their undying support . These same fans later riot and demand their foreign money back after witnessing yet another ten minute DWARVES show.
The late HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED is revived by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical School. The DWARVES mark the event by creating their longest album to date, "The Dwarves Are Young And Good Looking" with producers ERIC VALENTINE and J BRADLEY COOK. Instant classics are "Everybodies Girl", "We Must Have Blood", and "You Gotta Burn", the record becomes a cult favorite at skate parks and junior high gang bangs while still in its pirated cassette edition. 
SGT. SALTPETER teams up with self styled producer BLAG DIAMOND to create the "Venus With Arms"-Ep for Chicago's ATAVISTIC label. The label balks at releasing the original cover which shows a teen-age girl having her arms lopped off by surf music legend SWOOP KUDLER. Sales are meager, but singles on MAN'S RUIN and REPTILIAN receive extensive airplay on Armed Forces Radio.
BLAG DAHLIA, in conjunction with Atlanta socialite and recording legend COL. HARPER HUG writes and produces "Blackgrass" by backwoods Beethoven EARL LEE GRACE. Released in the US by Sympathy For The Record Industry the album garners mixed reviews in Nashville, but cover versions by WILLIE NELSON, BILL MONROE and a posthumous MINNIE PEARL yield lucrative publishing splits.
The DWARVES become staff producers for GREEDY's San Francisco office. A unique profit share system allows them to attempt the hostile takeover of CHASE MANHATTAN BANK within weeks by cornering the market in South African Kruggerands.
DWARVES shows with OFFSPRING and GREEN DAY are widely credited with resurrecting California pop punk. VADGE MOORE is badly injured when he attempts to jump over all five members of POISON IDEA on a skateboard. AMPHETEMINE REPTILE MANS RUIN and SYMPATHY release various singles and comp tracks for completists.
Back in the USA, sold-out appearances in LA, San Francisco and New York prompt an appearance on HOWARD STERN's Show where a typically laconic HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED strips naked and performs BACH's "Das Wohltempierte Klavier". Not to be outdone, drummer VADGE MOORE schedules his own guest spot on "Late Night With CONAN O'BRIEN", only to be bumped in favor of television's PUNKY BREWSTER. A brief Green Room affair quickly fizzles.
MOORE later releases his solo effort "Everything and Moore" featuring MONDO GENERATOR bass player and rabid dog MR. EVERYTHING. The record goes amethyst in Belgium (2,500 copies certified sold) but the tour is cancelled when guitarist WHOLLEY SMOKKES of Norwegian deathmetal band HEMI is accused of capitol murder, church burning and skating ABBA's pool. On the lam in Holland the trio acquire drugs from sampling DJ MARZ. The promise of working with the DWARVES and encountering women who shave brings them all to the USA shortly thereafter.
With Seattle transplants CRASH LANDON and MARKY DeSADE rounding out the line-up, 'Sugarfix' is released. The single "Anybody Out There " is selected as the official anthem of the 1994 Special Olympics. The DWARVES continue to fuck and fight their way across America. A possible breakthrough cameo on "Beverly Hills 90210" is cancelled when HEWHO refuses to cover his genitalia while performing. SALTPETER briefly leaves the band for a career in proctology, but soon realizes that he actually encountered more assholes on tour and in Seattle. The DWARVES video "The Scum Also Rises" is released and promptly banned for obscenity and the worst live audio in the history of film.
Meanwhile, the Grunge-Lite movement invades Hollywood. Heavy metal cover bands shave their poodle cuts and trade in their spandex for flannel shirts, while aging A&R men pound their coke spoons into syringes. The DWARVES continue touring and collecting viruses while hospitalizing rabid fans in places like Richmond, VA and Jacksonville, FL. A cease and desist order finally brings them to Europe with the REV. HORTON HEAT. Even with the entire country of Switzerland mobilized against them, the DWARVES perform to capacity crowds all over the continent.
Every show becomes a fight, every fight becomes a riot and every riot becomes a legend. With no venues in the Mid-West willing to risk a DWARVES show, and California promising a fresh crop of pubescent fans, HEWHO's army prepares to conquer the Golden State and then Seattle.
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HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED dies in a mysterious wrestling accident in Kankakee, IL. A nation of snotty punkers mourns their fallen icon, as BLAG collects donations for the funeral and winters in St. Croix. SUB/POP announces intellectual bankruptcy, and the Grunge era passes quietly, silent but dead.
"Thank Heaven For Little Girls" is released to capitalize on the press from "BG&P". Once again radio picks a favorite and "Dairy Queen" begins climbing the charts only to be derailed by a lawsuit from the Dairy Queen Ice Cream Co. that pulls the record out of the stores and off of the airwaves once again. The record is briefly remarketed as "31 Flavors of the Dwarves", but the damage has already been done.
Tales of riots and violence at shows spread, gaining hype with every city. The DWARVES, formerly banned everywhere, begin an era of non-stop touring as fans await the first onstage fatality. Sold out shows follow in San Francisco, LA, Atlanta, Chicago , D.C. and New York. HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED introduces total nudity into the act, proving that everything is a little bigger 'out there'.
Teaming with grunge guru JACK ENDINO, the DWARVES create the classic "Blood, Guts and Pussy" record in a startling 17 minutes. Wowed by the group's productivity and their ability to find horny girls even in Olympia, the emerging SUB/POP label releases the record sporting a classic MICHAEL LAVINE photo of full-frontal, blood spattered strippers cavorting with a naked dwarf. The backlash is instant.
Retail chains across the country refuse to stock the record as pre-pubescent consumers clamor for the already legendary album. Executives at LA's KRQR hear the record and place "Drug Store" in heavy rotation. 
The record lights up switchboards at radio across the country, but interference from the then powerful Parents Music Resource Center leads to it being just as quickly yanked from the airwaves. A statement from the PMRC reads in part-
"...this record contains nudity and encourages kids to drink cough syrup. 'Blood, Guts and Pussy' is an outrage, an abomination and an affront to little people everywhere. The DWARVES are not healthy for children and other living things."
Much has been written about how the DWARVES brought rock'n'roll to Seattle in the late 80's and showed a bunch of underfed junkies how it was done. Appearing on the west coast with NIRVANA, ROLLINS, L7, DINOSAUR JR. and URGE OVERKILL they begin a four year reign of terror that yields three classic CD's and sends audiences running for their lives all over the USA, Europe and the tolerable parts of Canada.
Rumors of onstage sex acts, drug abuse and random violence prompt a petition to circulate at Berkeley's GILMAN STREET venue asking the DWARVES to please "stop hurting people and stop eating meat, OK?" BLAG DAHLIA changes his name to JR. HIGH and joins SF glam band PENETRATION. The band is a huge success in LA, but when word leaks that members of the DWARVES are involved they are banned from appearing in public without heavy metal clothing on.
Rumors of onstage sex acts, drug abuse and random violence prompt a petition to circulate at Berkeley's GILMAN STREET venue asking the DWARVES to please "stop hurting people and stop eating meat, OK?" BLAG DAHLIA changes his name to JR. HIGH and joins SF glam band PENETRATION. The band is a huge success in LA, but when word leaks that members of the DWARVES are involved they are banned from appearing in public without heavy metal clothing on.
Attempts to play live at this point in their career are always disastrous. Original singer JULIUS SEIZURE is stabbed over a cocaine deal and novice singer BLAG HISTORY MONTH is forced to sing at a MINUTEMEN show in Chicago. The band change their name to the DWARVES and release the seminal and fluid HORROR STORIES album. Combining garage rock and toilet humor, the DWARVES begin their full frontal assault on rock and roll.
SLOPPAGE skinsman SIGH MOAN joins the new line-up and pens "Lick-It", the first DWARVES song to be used in a TV advertisement for postage stamps. SALTPETER begins work on his "Tales From The Toilet" soundtrack, which recieves a Grammy nomination for Best Four-Track Audio. He later quips, "We put the Poop in Pop!"
Appearing in Chicago with the CRAMPS, DWARVES singer BLAG JESUS is told to leave Illinois or face criminal prosecution for impersonating a celebrity. Drummer SLAMBEAU becomes the band's first fatality, falling off the roof of Medusa's in an amphetemine haze shortly before the band's relocation to San Francisco.
The DWARVES reputation for live mayhem begins in 1983 when an early version of the band (SEXUALLY DEPRIVED YOUTH) perform at a high school pep rally. Following their performance the group is expelled for hiring teenage art models to pose nude with bowls of fruit balanced on their heads. After changing their name to SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE, the "Hard Day's Nightmare" Ep is released and degenerate artist JON STRAUS creates the Skull and Boners logo.
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For a complete list of downloadable Dwarves songs and full album downloads go to http://thedwarves.bandcamp.com
FEFU from The Dwarves on Vimeo.
Salt Lake City (clean) from The Dwarves on Vimeo.
We Must Have Blood from The Dwarves on Vimeo.
Come Clean from The Dwarves on Vimeo.
Bitch I Love You from The Dwarves on Vimeo.
Over You from The Dwarves on Vimeo.
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