Dan Tuffy is an Australian-born musician, he was bass guitarist and vocalist for Tasmanian band, Wild Pumpkins at Midnight from 1984.
[2] 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.
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.
He produced two Big Low albums and 2 EPs, which have received praise in Europe and were due to be released in Australia.