Current members are lead singer and guitarist Matt Bigland, drummer Mike Sheils and bassist Jim Cratchley.

Their past members include Steve Wilson (2008-2010), Tom Dornford-May (2008-2010), Tommy Davidson (2008), Harry Johns (2010-2011), and James Sacha (2013).

Bigland recorded a demo tape consisting of the songs "My Rock 'n' Roll", "Love Is a Boat and We're Sinking", "Melanin", "Let's Get Up", "What Howard Said" and "I Get My Direction" whilst he was still in Mother Vulpine.

A short time later, after Mother Vulpine broke up, Bigland recruited Tom Dornford-May on bass and Steve Wilson on drums to complete the line up.

[5] Matt Bigland then went into the studio alone to record Dinosaur Pile-Up's debut album Growing Pains, and bassist Harry Johns and drummer Mike Sheils were recruited for the rhythm section for live shows.

[7] In November 2011, Matt Bigland posted on the Dinosaur Pile-Up website that Harry Johns had left the band to concentrate on his solo project and that two people known as Alessio and Scott were filling in on bass and second guitar.

[10] On 22 January 2013, Dinosaur Pile-Up announced the follow-up to Growing Pains, 'Nature Nurture', with the free-download of 'Lip Hook Kiss' off the band's website.

In late February 2014, the band undertook another U.S. tour supporting Middle Class Rut with additional showcases at South by Southwest.

[12] In the middle of March 2015, after the constant teasing of something being announced at 11:11 of random days,[13] revealed a brand new song entitled '11:11' via a SoundCloud stream[14] and the album title 'Eleven Eleven'.

This outraged the band, with drummer, Mike Sheils stating in a 2017 interview in the US, 'it's really strange, yeah, as it seems like a lifetime ago we recording the whole thing now, but over here it's fresh as a daisy.