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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Dominic Chad
| image =
| caption =
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| birth_name = Dominic Chad
| alias =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1972|06|05}}
| birth_place = [[Exeter]], [[Devon]], England
| death_date =
| origin =
| instrument = [[Guitar]], [[Singing|vocals]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[piano]], [[synthesizer]]s, [[Bass guitar|bass]]
| genre = [[Alternative rock]]
| occupation = Musician, songwriter
| years_active = 1991–present
| label =
| associated_acts = [[Mansun]], Floating Bear
}}

'''Dominic Chad''' (born 5 June 1972 in [[Exeter]], [[Devon]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/birth-marriage-death-and-parish-records/births-and-baptisms/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=dominic&lastname=chad |title=findmypast.co.uk |publisher=Search.findmypast.co.uk |accessdate=2014-08-13}}</ref> is an English musician, formerly the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, arranger and co-writer of the [[alternative rock]] band [[Mansun]].<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p203321/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Mansum|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|publisher=[[All Media Guide|AMG]]|accessdate=8 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/paul-draper-chester-band-mansun-7511372|title=Mansun man in wide open creative space|first=David|last=Holmes|date=26 July 2014|website=Chesterchronicle|accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref>

==Biography==
===Early days===
Born in Exeter, Devon, Chad grew up in [[Maidstone]], [[Kent]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rock-the-world.com/mansun.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913133826/http://www.rock-the-world.com/mansun.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=13 September 2012 |title=MANSUN |publisher=Rock-the-world.com |accessdate=2012-08-31}}</ref> where he attended [[Maidstone Grammar School]]. Dominic went on to study French and [[Russian Language|Russian]] at [[Bangor University]], where he met bassist Mark Howard. They formed the band "Floating Bear" in 1991 with Lance Paine, Pete James and Iain Jenner and released a five-track cassette entitled "Barely Real".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lancepaine.me.uk/index.php?f=data_home&a=2 |title=www.lancepaine.me.uk |website=lancepaine.me.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426081457/http://lancepaine.me.uk/index.php?f=data_home&a=2 |archive-date=26 April 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The band regularly played at the university's student bar including an Amnesty benefit gig, and also played at [[Pontardawe Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seren.bangor.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/archive/pdf/1993/078-MAY04-1993.pdf|title=Seren|date=4 May 1993|website=Seren.bangor.ac.uk|accessdate=2020-07-14}}</ref>

===Mansun===
After being kicked off his degree at the end of the second year,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://website.lineone.net/~saintchads/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050215191919/http://website.lineone.net/~saintchads/ |archivedate=15 February 2005 |date=15 February 2005 |accessdate=2012-08-31|title=St Chad's welcomes *You }}</ref> Chad re-located to [[Chester]] where he worked as a barman at the Fat Cat Cafe Bar on Watergate Street and met [[Stove King]] and [[Paul Draper (musician)|Paul Draper]], with whom he formed Mansun.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/entertainment-chester/restaurants-chester-cheshire/2007/01/19/the-fat-cat-chester-the-cat-s-whiskers-59067-19290171/|title=The Fat Cat, Chester - The Cat's whiskers|publisher=Chesterchronicle.co.uk|accessdate=2012-09-01}}</ref> Whilst in Mansun, Chad worked as an [[arrangement|arranger]] and [[songwriter]], and co-wrote several of Mansun's songs with Draper as well as writing and performing a number of [[A-side and B-side|B-sides]] himself. He also took lead vocals on some of Mansun's songs, such as "Golden Stone", a B-side to "I Can Only Disappoint U" and a live cover of the [[Magazine (band)|Magazine]] single "[[Shot by Both Sides]]".

After nearly eight years together, Mansun broke up in 2003 whilst working on their fourth studio album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/mansun/14190 |title=Mansun To Split |work=NME|date=2 May 2003 |accessdate=2011-03-16}}</ref>

===Post-Mansun career===
Chad has since gone on to work as a support worker, supporting people with learning difficulties, physical disabilities and brain injuries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.charlottemcdonald.co.uk/meet-the-team|title=Meet the team | Basingstoke|website=Charlottemcdonald.co.uk|accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref> From 2005 to 2010, he worked as an ambulance medic in the London Ambulance Service. Chad studied at the Oxford School of Sports Massage completing their Level 5 BTEC diploma, and also works as a therapist. He also volunteers as a RNLI Lifeboat Crew member in his spare time<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wellbeingspace.co.uk/therapist-dominic-chad/ |title=Therapist - Dominic Chad - the Wellbeing Space |website=wellbeingspace.co.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121180922/http://wellbeingspace.co.uk/therapist-dominic-chad/ |archive-date=21 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and in 2016 participated in Team Trailtriker, "4 women and 4 men from the UK aiming to raise as much money for Oxfam whilst raising awareness of those battling cancer and widening awareness of a rare illness called POEMS Syndrome".

Chad also composed and performed the music for the short film ''The Man on the Moor'', directed by his friend Steven Rosam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2966326/fullcredits|title=The Man on the Moor (2013) - IMDb|accessdate=14 July 2020|publisher=IMDb}}</ref> He has also written and co-written episodes for ''Wussywat The Clumsy Cat'', a children's TV show screened on [[CBeebies]] from June 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4771486/fullcredits|title=Wussywat the Clumsy Cat (TV Series 2015– ) - IMDb|accessdate=14 July 2020|publisher=IMDb.com}}</ref>

As of 2019, Chad is working as an area manager with people who have learning difficulties.

==List of Mansun songs composed by Dominic Chad==
;Composed alone
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Title
!Release
|-
|rowspan=3| 1998
| "Face in the Crowd"
| "[[Legacy (Mansun song)|Legacy]]" (single)
|-
| "Inverse Midas"
|rowspan=2| ''[[Six (Mansun album)|Six]]''
|-
| "Witness to a Murder (Part Two)"
|-
| 2000
| "Golden Stone"
| "[[I Can Only Disappoint U]]" (single)
|-
| 2003
| "Slipping Away" (Instrumental Coda)
| ''[[Kleptomania (album)|Kleptomania]]''
|}

;Composed with [[Paul Draper (musician)|Paul Draper]] (and others)
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Title
!Release
!Notes
|-
|rowspan=4| 1997
| "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"
| "[[She Makes My Nose Bleed]]" (single)
|
|-
| "The Impending Collapse of it All"
| "[[Taxloss]]" (single)
|
|-
| "K.I.Double.S.I.N.G"
|rowspan=2| "[[Closed for Business]]" (single)
| with Paul Draper and [[Stove King]]
|-
| "Everyone Must Win"
| with [[Howard Devoto]] and Paul Draper
|-
|rowspan=12| 1998
| "Can't Afford to Die"
|rowspan=4| "[[Legacy (Mansun song)|Legacy]]" (single)
|
|-
| "Spasm of Identity"
|
|-
| "Check Under the Bed"
|
|-
| "GSOH"
|
|-
| "Hideout"
|rowspan=2| "[[Being a Girl]] (Part One)" (single)
| with Paul Draper and Stove King
|-
| "Been Here Before"
|
|-
| "Negative"
|rowspan=3| ''[[Six (Mansun album)|Six]]''
| with Paul Draper, Stove King and [[Andie Rathbone]]
|-
| "Shotgun"
|
|-
| "Television"
|
|-
| "When the Wind Blows"
|rowspan=3| "[[Negative (Mansun song)|Negative]]" (single)
|
|-
| "King of Beauty"
|
|-
| "I Deserve What I Get"
|
|-
|rowspan=3| 1999
| "Church of the Drive Thru Elvis"
|rowspan=3| "[[Six (Mansun song)|Six]]" (single)
|
|-
| "But the Trains Run on Time"
|
|-
| "What It's Like to Be Hated"
|
|-
|rowspan=7| 2000
| "Butterfly (A New Beginning)"
|rowspan=3| ''[[Little Kix]]''
|
|-
| "[[I Can Only Disappoint U]]"
|
|-
| "Soundtrack 4 2 Lovers"
|
|-
| "Decisions, Decisions"
|rowspan=3| "[[I Can Only Disappoint U]]" (single)
|
|-
| "Repair Man"
|
|-
| "My Idea of Fun"
|
|-
| "The Apartment"
| "[[Electric Man (Mansun song)|Electric Man]]" (single)
|
|-
| 2001
| "Black Infinite Space
| "[[Fool (Mansun song)|Fool]]" (single)
|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Mansun}}

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[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:English rock guitarists]]
[[Category:English male guitarists]]
[[Category:English male singers]]
[[Category:English male songwriters]]
[[Category:Musicians from Maidstone]]
[[Category:21st-century English singers]]
[[Category:21st-century British guitarists]]
[[Category:21st-century British male singers]]
[[Category:Alumni of Bangor University]]
[[Category:Musicians from Exeter]]

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