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Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin

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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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News December 2012

Winter's Greetings

We'd like to send you all our 'compliments of the season' (as the dustmen used to say) and assure you that we're still here and making music. We hope to release a new Stewart / Gaskin album in 2013: ten tracks are currently on the assembly line, mainly Dave Stewart originals. Nowadays the production process is nowhere near as tortuous as it was in the "good old days", when tracks such as 'Busy Doing Nothing' required two 24-track 2" tape recorders and numerous tape edits to lash all their musical sections together. If you're interested in reading about our pre-digital era recording methods and their evolution to the present day, Dave's article Time Trial (first published in 2010 in Sound On Sound, UK) explains the gory details.

We're a little concerned that of the seven billion people estimated to be alive on the planet, only 687 have so far said they 'like' us on Facebook. This means that up to 6,000,999,313 other people potentially dislike us. We therefore ask you to help tip the balance in our favour by 'liking' us on Facebook. Tell ten million friends to do the same, and we'll soon get there!

Dave's online Inside The Music article deconstructs the stellar ballad 'Star Blind' from Spin. The article features audio clips and music notation to help you figure out the chords (which aren't your standard E, A & B changes) - you can read it here.

The Complete Collection

        

The complete Stewart / Gaskin catalogue is now available on CD from our online store in association with our musician friends Burning Shed. All profits from these sales go directly to the artists with no record company involvement.

General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Pop

    Location South, Un

    Profile Views: 79608

    Last Login: 4/13/2013

    Member Since 4/22/2007

    Website www.davebarb.demon.co.uk

    Record Label Broken Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

  • Members

    Dave Stewart (keyboards), Barbara Gaskin (vocals). Live members: Andy Reynolds (guitar), Gavin Harrison (drums).
  • Influences

  • Sounds Like

    Pop music for grown-ups.

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About Us

Dave Stewart was a founder member of the UK organ trio Egg (1969-1972) and went on to play keyboards with Hatfield & The North, National Health & Bruford. He is recognised as one of the UK's leading keyboardists and rock composers, and is the author of two music books.

Barbara Gaskin was vocalist with the English folk-rock group Spirogyra. The two first met in 1969 and Barbara subsequently appeared as guest vocalist on some of Dave's bands' LPs. After the break-up of Spirogyra Barbara travelled in Asia for a few years, returning to the UK in 1978.

In 1981 Dave's solo single 'What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted' (featuring Colin Blunstone on guest vocals) reached the UK top twenty. Dave and Barbara then recorded a tongue-in-cheek version of the old pop classic 'It's My Party' which roared to the top of the UK charts and stayed there for 4 weeks. The single went on to become a hit worldwide, selling over a million copies.

Encouraged by these events, Dave and Barbara decided to stick together and have continued to release records independently on their own Broken Records label to the present day. Now happily engaged in making new music, Dave and Barbara would like to thank their listeners for their loyal support over the years.


Thanks to Stephen Green for setting up this page.

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