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Dave
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I was born on January 6th 1965. The number 1 single on that day was ‘I Feel Fine’ and that was probably the last time I actually did.
By the time I reached adolescence, I decided that learning to play the guitar would be a good way to impress girls. It wasn’t, as it turned out. Nevertheless, I formed a band with some like-minded spotty herberts. While we considered ‘Spotty Herberts’ as a band name, we eventually settled on Second Thought and it was under that banner that I first trod the boards as bassist, keyboardist and vocalist, though not all at the same time.
Various New Romantic bands followed throughout the ‘80s, each one getting slightly less new and considerably less romantic with each passing year. I eventually ended up in the band Fade (www.fadeuk.com) with my colleagues Steven Brown and Martin Orr. After a brief flirtation with a record company, (who expressed a mild interest in a demo we’d sent off) our live appearances became less and less frequent.
It wasn’t until I acquired an electro-acoustic guitar in 2001 that I experienced something of a renaissance as far as live performance is concerned. Since that time, Fade have played numerous gigs at such venues as The Oaks (Walkden) Jim Cooley’s (Bury) The Blue Cat, (Stockport) and The Briton’s Protection (Manchester City Centre).
It was during this time that I formed a comedy double act with Tony Kinsella. Naming ourselves The Bootleg Mark Chapmans, (a line lifted from a Half Man Half Biscuit song) we launched ourselves on the comedy circuit, playing such venues as the Frog and Bucket, XS Mallarkey at Bar XS, Mirth on Monday at the Iguana Bar, (supporting Justin Moorhouse), the legendary Buzz Club, the Blue Cat (with Terry Christian in the audience) and, eventually, the Comedy Store, as part of the 2003 Comedian of the Year competition, presented by Roy Barraclough. We came fourth. Shortly after being interviewed by Billy Pearce on Radio Lancashire, we decided that there was just too much laughter in the world, so we packed it in.
I now regularly play solo acoustic gigs (doing a mixture of cover versions and my own songs) in such places as the Crescent, Salford, Fuel Bar, Withington, Roscoes, Swinton, The Weaste, Salford and, most recently, the Salford Salutes Dylan gig at the King’s Arms.
I started my musical career sure in the knowledge that my passion, talent and persistence would inevitably lead me to musical superstardom. I now work in a library.
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