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After leaving his previous band, Starfield to pursue his own musical ideas, Danny Faulkner’s Pre-Med is the latest, and many would argue
greatest project to come from the Essex based multi instrumental and
vocalist.
The story is a simple one, Faulkner attends a Bedouin gig, a band
formed by Hawkwind bassist Alan Davey and their former drummer Danny
Thompson. It’s here that he strikes up a conversation with the sticksman,
which in turn leads to a meeting with Davey and soon a firm and lasting
friendship is born, so much so that Danny ends up joining Bedouin as lead
vocalist.
Bedouin’s increasing popularity and profile leads to Alan leaving the
Hawks on a long term sabbatical but he decides to re-join Hawkwind full
time after 2000’s Hawkestra event at the Brixton Academy and this time
it’s Bedouin’s turn to be placed on the backburner.
Throughout all this Danny and Alan remain in touch and whist’s Davey’s
return to Hawkwind is a great career move for all concerned, Danny
returned to his home studio to work on new demos that would eventually
lead to Pre-Med and when Alan heard them he was so impressed that he was
eager to get involved in the project and eventually he lent his skills on
bass, keys and vocals to the album.
And so we’re up to date in 2008 and the album “Medication Time” is now
out on the Voiceprint label and a must for all fans of seriously good
music, taking influences from, (unsurprisingly) Hawkwind and space rock in
general but add to that liberal doses of ambient moods, a touch of drum
and bass, sci-fi theme tunes and some good old straight ahead rock
’n’ roll and you’ve got one of the most interesting and varied albums to
appear so far this year. Other guests to feature on the disc include Danny
Thompson whose already been mentioned, Steve Leigh former keyboard
player with Prog band Landmarq and last but not least Danny's brother Martin who contributed some of the lyrics to the album.
Although no live dates are planned at the moment a second album is
now complete and is also avalible from either voiceprint and all record stores.
More information as things progress
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The New Album
THE TRUTH ABOUT US
For the new album the band has undergone a line up change and
this time features the guitar talents of Eamon O’Neill.
Guests this time round include poet Martin Faulkner (Danny’s brother)
who has contributed all lyrics, Hawkind’s Jason Stuart who appears on
one track, “Death Of A Star” and once more we welcome back the keyboard
talents of Steve Leigh who makes his presence felt on “Has The Whole
World Gone Insane”
Musically, the album promises to be a natural progression from
Medication Time. Starting off with a 3 track onslaught of mind blowing
Space Rock that’s guaranteed to shake your fillings loose!. The album
then takes the listener on a musical journey leading them through the
realms of hypnotic instrumentals, classical ballads featuring piano,
strings and lush swirling synths which will take you to another
dimension. To cap it all the band also do their first ever cover
version, the Hawkwind classic, The Demented Man, that we can assure you
will not disappoint.
Once again all production and mixing duties have been handled by Alan
Davey and final mixing is being undertaken by Paul Cobbold.
And finally we’d like to say a special thank you to Kevin M Sommers who
produced the stunning artwork
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