Dave grew up in the North East of England but after a spell in London he settled in the south west where he worked and raised a family. During that time he started performing around town solo and in bands initially doing covers but increasingly original material.
Eventually the urge to publish his own songs drove him to record and he has to date released 6 albums of original material , often collaborating with longtime friends.
Dave writes from the heart and produces mature songs with warmth and humour. His themes are love and loss delivered with sympathetic and cinematic imagery on a personal and universal scale. His scope ranges from historical to contemporary stories sometimes on a world stage and varying from tragedy to love but always accessible and engaging.
Although he writes on acoustic guitar, his albums always present an eclectic range of genres from folk fingerstyle to blues, Latin and Jazz. It's difficult to pigeon-hole his songs which often veer off in different musical directions.
Check out his music on the Albums page. These include August Moon, The Usual Suspects, Snow on Northern hills, Highly Strung, Hand Picked Tunes. and his latest work Short Stories.
