The Magnetic Fields, Soft Cell, Hefner,The Mekons, Kate Bush, Regina Spekter,Bright Eyes, Antony and the Johnsons, Bloc Party, Johnny Cash, Pulp, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Guided By Voices, Joanna Newsome, The Kaiser Chiefs, Leonard Cohen, Tony Bennett, The Sex Pistols, Billy Bragg, Cole Porter, Radiohead, ATB, Right Said Fred, Nirvana, The Pogues, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Futureheads, ABBA
a DIY CD of the dave's music, constantly updated to become the most up to date representation of The Dave's music. Yes that's right its a personalised CD, it's an exclusive CD, it's a fucking one off each time you buy, if The Dave becomes a world wide success it will be worth a fortune on ebay!
(when you order the dave: THE ALBUM you will be given one of the many different album covers unless you message me and specifically request your favourite cover and I’ll do my best to make sure that you get the one you want!)
About The Dave:
I started learning guitar at 15. I still use the same guitar. It was second hand when I bought it. I'm 26 in october. I can't tune it, I have to wait till someone who can happens to be around. There is a penny superglued to it that I stuck there when I was 17. There used to be matches as well but they have fallen off. I drew biro lines over it. I don't know why. I can't play bar chords.
I write songs and play them to people.
I learnt guitar so I could do this.
I don't need to play guitar very well in order to write songs.
I think this is why I have never developed into a brilliant guitar player.
We take the paths of least resistance even if we think we are taking the longer way.
I want to play guitar well.
But maybe I don't want to enough.
There is something that I like about the rawness of what I do, though.
We lose so much through learning, sometimes more than we gain. A child at 5 knows more (in some ways) than an adult. A cliche but at the same time the truth.
Or a truth.
If you dig my tunes and lyrics then you might like these other things I write/sing/perform in:
If you happen to be around.. I would like to invite you to our live gig on the 30th June at The Old Queen's Head in Angel, 8pm. I am really looking forward to perform with the hammered dulcimer and tabla live on stage. Would be great to see you there! Much love, Tina x
Join us for another Big City Redneck Presents! Another wonderful eruption, nay, ejaculation of good music at the Buffalo Bar this month!
What can I say? We won’t disappoint.
Buffalo Bar June 19th £6 on the door… 8.30pm till they kick us out…
Mama Shamone http://www. myspace. com/mamashamone “Put Mama Shamone on at any venue and they are likely to take the roof off, this was one of the best live shows I’ve seen in years - certainly one of the best in London. In my opinion these guys are destined for greatness, it felt like I was witnessing history being shaped-something was just so right about what they were doing up there.” Vibe Bar
We Yes You No www. myspace. com/weyesyouno “We Yes You No sing about the end of the world, the end of everything. But in an apocalypse that would sound like this I would buy god’s last EP” – Big City Redneck
Language http://www. myspace. com/languageuk “"The verbosity of funk, the poetic twang of intelligent pop. The bridge between Franz Ferdinand and Smashing Pumpkins perhaps" – Bugbear
18TH MAY 1980, 28 YEARS AGO....THIS WORLD LOST ONE OF ITS GREATEST POETS......TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT AT WWW. MYSPACE. COM/THEJESSICADESCENT, WE SALUTE MR CURTIS AND ALL HE GAVE US,
'Listen to the silence, let it ring on Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun We would have a fine time living in the night Left to blind destruction Waiting for our sight'
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