Which is which?
Chas is the slightly bigger one sitting at the piano,
Dave is the slightly thinner one on the bass.
Is Dave the real Dave?
Bill Bailey once suggested on ‘Never Mind The Buzzc**ks’ that the current ‘Dave’ in Chas & Dave is some sort of imposter and the rumour started from there. We can confirm that that is definitely not the case and Dave is the original, one and only… Dave!! The suggestion could come from when the soul duo Sam & Dave toured with a different ‘Dave’.
Now that is out the way ...
Chas & Dave (often billed as Chas 'n' Dave) are an English pop rock duo, most notable as creators and performers of a musical style labelled "rockney" (a portmanteau of "rock" and "c**kney"), which mixes "pub singalong, music-hall humour, boogie-woogie piano and pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll". For a time, "Rockney" was also the name of their record label, and they achieved several British chart hits, their major breakthrough being "Gertcha" in 1979, which peaked at No. 20 in the UK Singles Chart, and was the first of eight Top 40 hit singles the duo played on. They also had nine charting albums. In October 2013 they released 'That's What Happens', their first studio album in 18 years.
