about us
Hideous Dress started the way a lot of good bad ideas do: alone, in a bedroom, with a guitar and a phone propped up on something that probably shouldn't have been holding it. That's where Jordan first started filming grunge covers back in early 2024, just messing around for whoever happened to be watching. Then one clip took off out of nowhere, racked up tens of thousands of views overnight, and suddenly "whoever happened to be watching" was a real number of people. Within a year that had turned into thousands of followers, all waiting for more than just covers — so Jordan figured he'd better actually start a band.
Funny enough, the name came before most of the lineup did. Jordan and bassist Kat first crossed paths working retail, both equally baffled by one specific dress on the shop floor — an absolute monstrosity that customers, somehow, kept buying. It became a running joke between them, then a bit of a mascot, and eventually Jordan just took it home. These days it makes the occasional stage appearance, usually with zero explanation, which feels about right.
The rest of the band came together almost as randomly. Jordan ran into Cade and Damien separately, on totally unrelated trips into town, took one look at each of them and decided — correctly, as it turned out — that one was a guitarist and the other a drummer. Both got recruited more or less on the spot. No auditions, no plan, just a gut feeling that happened to work out.
Our first proper show was at The Dublin Castle, and it set the tone for pretty much everything since. Halfway through the set Jordan decided he needed a pint, shouted for his mum, and she appeared from the back of the crowd holding a beer above her head like a trophy, passing it hand to hand all the way to the stage. Nobody planned that. Nobody could plan that. It's just kind of how things go with us.
Live, we're loud, a bit messy, and not all that interested in being smooth around the edges — the songs are about the stuff that actually winds us up, and about each other, usually both at once, with enough room left over for a bad joke or two between songs. We're still the same four people who got roped into this by accident, just with better amps now. Come say hi at a show sometime — check the shows page for what's coming up.