Dave Kusworth: Vocals,Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Darrel Bath: Lead Guitar,Backing Vocals
Martin Farrow: Drums
Chris Mcdougall: Bass, Backing Vocals
Dave Twist: Drums
Eamonn Duffy: Bass Guitar
Influences
The Heartbreakers & The New York Dolls / The Spiders from Mars / The.... Sensational....Alex....Harvey....Band / Matlock, Cook, and Jones / The Asheton brothers / The Sales brothers / Mott the Hoople.... Ariel Bender! / ChuckBerry / Townes Van Zandt / John, Paul, George & Ringo / Dee Dee, Tommy, Joey & Johnny / Lee, Wilco, Sparko & The Big Figure / Rod Stewart and the Faces pop group / T...R...E...X! / Roy Orbison / Bob Dylan / The Only Ones / Gram Parsons / Howlin' Wolf / The Great Paul Thompson / Marco Pirroni / The Monkees / Crazy Horse / Muddy waters / The Move / Eno / James Williamson and Iggy Stooge / Led Zeppelin, Cockney Rebel / Geezer Bill and Tony / Malcolm Young and Phil Rudd / The Alice Cooper Group / Slade in Flame / The Who live at Leeds and....oh yeah, The Rolling Stones!
Sounds Like
"The guitars are loud, deliberate and raw, sometimes spare and sweet, he deserves success of course."
Jeff Pike, reflex, USA
"Dave's voice is one of the purest in Rock 'n' Roll."
Nina Antonia, biographer- Johnny Thunders, New York Dolls, Peter Perrett, Brett Smiley
"Kusworth's songs, vignettes of rape, murder and desolation, brilliantly transmit a Dickensian pallor to the subways and corner shops of Birmingham."
Robin Gibson
"Ringing guitars with an upfront, punkish approach to matters of the heart."
Ian Cranna, Q
"He's mine and Alan McGee's and Bobby Gillespie's favourite songwriter and he has never really had much recognition. If you ask some American bands, they'll say 'Oh, dave Kusworth, he's brilliant!'
Joe Foster, Co-founder, Creation records, NME
"Classic English rock with guitars in the tradition of Ron Wood and Mick Ronson. It's clear that Dave has found a fine band and the perfect setting for his songs"
Max Decharne, MOJO, 2004
DAVE KUSWORTH GROUP ’THE BRINK’ DOUBLE CD OUT ON APRIL 21ST 2008
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Eamonn, Dave K and Dave T, Ebensee
Dave Twist and vintage champagne sparkle Ludwig- soundcheck, Birmingham
Eamonn, Austrian truckstop at dawn
Dave K, studio playback, Leamington Spa
Meet Paul Duffy!... our ever patient road manager and engineer
Dave Twist, Dressing Room, Somewhere...
Dave k, acoustic cover dubs for another fabulous track destined for inclusion on ’Silver Blades’
The talented Mr Darrel Bath adds backing vocals to ’The Brink’
Eamonn Duffy, waiting for a train, Leamington Spa
Band History
1977... Drawing upon the sounds of the Stooges and New York dolls, a 16 year old DAVE KUSWORTH forms TV EYE- Prime movers on Birmingham’s Punk Rock Scene, they share a rhythm section - EAMONN DUFFY and DAVE TWIST - with THE PREFECTS - a band well regarded by many, including Jon Savage, John Peel and Paul Morley. Duffy and Twist perform the same role today in The Dave Kusworth Group.
1979... Kusworth and Twist lure STEPHEN DUFFY (THE LILAC TIME) away from a fledgling DURAN DURAN to form THE HAWKS. A single is released, the band make local TV appearances and are entertained by several major A&R departments. However, Rock ’n’ Roll has temporarily fallen from critical and commercial grace and the band are ultimately passed over by the wider industry. Their ’BIG STORE’ has since been covered by THE JACOBITES and, in 2005, was recorded by New York singer-songwriter SPIKE PRIGGEN, backed, to the bands delight, by members of THE VOIDOIDS and CHEAP TRICK.
1983... Having contributed to the first solo recordings of SWELL MAP NIKKI SUDDEN, Dave is engaged by THE DOGS D’AMOUR as lead guitarist on their first european tour and throughout their debut album ’THE STATE WE’RE IN’. Latter-day Dog and former CRYBABY, UK SUB and IAN HUNTER BAND member DARREL BATH completes the line up of the DAVE KUSWORTH GROUP. THE JACOBITES, Dave’s longstanding partnership with NIKKI SUDDEN have carried his name and reputation to the United States where his songwriting has been feted by TOM WAITS, PETER BUCK and CHUCK PROPHET and his songs covered by EVAN DANDI AND MERCURY REV.
THE JACOBITES have continued to tour Europe, the UK and in the United States. They have released albums for a variety of labels- BOMP!, TRIDENT, GLITTERHOUSE and SECRETLY CANADIAN. Dave maintained a parallel career as a solo artist and as a leader of his own band THE BOUNTY HUNTERS.
CREATION RECORDS released THREADS by THE BOUNTY HUNTERS in 1989, and followed this with solo releasesALL THE HEARTBREAK STORIES and first career overview CHAMPAIGN EYES, LEMONADE POCKETS in the 90’s
Re-united with TV EYE and HAWKS drummer Dave Twist in THE TENDERHOOKS, Dave released Glam era homage ENGLISH DISCO in 2001, LIKE WONDERLAND AVENUE IN A COLD CLIMATE, 2004, saw the arrival of Darrel Bath on guitar. With the return of Eamonn Duffy at the years end, the new line-up, THE DAVE KUSWORTH GROUP, made their debut in Oslo, Norway at Christmas. Followng visits to France, Germany, The Ukraine, Belgium, Austria, and Greece all in the past few months THE DAVE KUSWORTH GROUP spent April and May 2005 at Woodbine Studios in Leamington Spa recording their new album SILVER BLADES.
Hi Dave, loved what you've done over the years, "Country Girl" was always a favourite Sunday morning song of mine...Well I say morning.... You might like what we do, have a listen sometime. All the best a.c.drift Thailand.
Hey Dave, thanx for the add! Hope to see you soon in berlin again? It´s long ago that you played here or did I miss it? Wish you all the best! Greetinx Anita.
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
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Hugs from Brazil, Claudio David
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....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...
"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters.
Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...
The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...
Hiya! Check out my latest efforts on MySpace Player and also –at higher sound quality (320kps) on the “Soundlick” player in my “Blog” section. Most are demos but I will be putting up my previous CD release for free soon.
Hit me up for possible musical collaborations –or feel free to leave comments about your own projects etc.
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...
"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…
It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…
This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!
"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)
Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
hello Dave. hope things are going well for you lately. I luv your music and I dig the pink jacket and sunglasses you have on in your profile pic. You got style!
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