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{{short description|Australian-born musician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2014}}

'''Dan Tuffy''' is an Australian-born musician, he was bass guitarist and vocalist for [[Tasmania]]n band, [[Wild Pumpkins at Midnight]] from 1984.<ref name="WhosWho">{{cite book|title=The Who's Who of Australian Rock|last=Spencer|first=Chris|author2=Zbig Nowara|author3=Paul McHenry|url=http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/aboutww.htm|chapter=WILD PUMPKINS AT MIDNIGHT|chapter-url=http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=242300|orig-year=1987|year=2002|publisher=Five Mile Press|location=[[Noble Park, Victoria|Noble Park]], Vic.|isbn=1-86503-891-1|access-date=12 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015024603/http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/aboutww.htm|archive-date=15 October 2009}} Note: [on-line] version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.</ref> The band relocated to [[Melbourne]] in 1987, then to London in 1990 and subsequently to the [[Netherlands]].<ref name="McF">{{cite encyclopedia |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |author-link=Ian McFarlane |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop]] |title=Encyclopedia entry for 'Wild Pumpkins at Midnight' |url=//www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=785 |access-date=12 February 2010 |year=1999 |publisher=[[Allen & Unwin]] |location=[[St Leonards, New South Wales|St Leonards, NSW]] |isbn=1-86508-072-1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040419000206/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=785 |archive-date=19 April 2004 }}</ref> Tuffy later formed the folk/blues band Big Low which performed his semi-autobiographical songs and stories and, as from 2007, he was a resident of The Netherlands.

==Biography==

===Early years===
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Tuffy was born and raised on the north coast of [[New South Wales]], Australia, where he worked on a cattle station and played in a handful of local country bands as a teenager before leaving the land and heading south to [[Tasmania]] to study botany. In 1985 he played some of the teenage tunes he had written about birds and fish to members of Wild Pumpkins at Midnight and they asked him to join. Record releases and international tours followed as the 'Pumpkins' relocated first to [[Melbourne]], then London and later to [[Amsterdam]],The Netherlands in a career that spanned 13 years, 9 albums and tours of Europe including UK, [[Baltic states]] and [[Eastern Europe]]. {{citation needed|date=August 2014}}

===Later years===
As from 2007, Tuffy lived in The Netherlands with his wife and two children. He recruited two multi-instrumentalists, Michiel Hollanders and Marc Constandse, for Big Low. Tuffy established the Smoked Recordings label including a studio. He [[record producer|produced]] two Big Low albums and 2 EPs, which have received praise in Europe and were due to be released in Australia. He has produced albums for other artists and is the manager/bass player of a Balkan music outfit, Parne Gadje, which has recorded three albums and signed a European deal with Rough Trade. {{citation needed|date=August 2014}}

==References==
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