BORN 29-8-1945 Manchester UK
Southend High School in Essex.
Met Robin Trower and Gary Brooker. Played in Paramounts early 60’s whilst at school.
Left to study chemistry at Leicester(Paramounts meanwhile turned professional)
After some post graduate work in Waltham Abbey, was asked to rejoin his old friends who had by now transmuted into Procol Harum.
Played organ and sometimes bass on 7 albums and toured extensively with them mostly in USA and Europe.
Played keyboards on a A Frankie Miller US tour in 1977.
Visited Australia late 77/78 where he met his wife Vicki.
Eventually moved to Melbourne Australia 1980.
Played keys with Chris Stockley and Sam See, then with Richard Clapton and Kerryn Tolhurst.
Gradually drifted into writing soundtracks for documentaries and TV ad’s and no longer had time to do live gigs on any pemanent basis.

The computer age has meant that music caqn be done increasingly well in a home environment (although he likes to finish off work in a “proper studio” such as Joe Camilleri’s Woodstock which is packed with vintage valve equipment and is only cycling distance away)All this has enbled him to work on some uncommissioned projects( see list).

He has also been able to record both grand piano and Hammond organ in his home for sessions based as far away as New York City( see list).

Once in a blue moon he will play live.Did a gig for Mark Hilton’s record launch and one or two for Kutcha Edwards( with Paul Hester)

CLIENTS

DDB FORD
DDB TELSTRA CADBURY
DDB CADBURY TELSTRA
DDB SYD AGREE SHAMPOO
GEO PATTERSON BATES NISSAN
CLEMENGER SYD LOTTO
McCANN ERICKSON HOLDEN
CLEMENGER HARVIE MAZDA PORTMANS
BATEY AD’S S’PORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES, TOURIST BOARD
CAMPAIGN PALACE MELBOURNE RIO CORONA
Y&R ADELAIDE MITSUBISHI CASINO
KWP ADELAIDE CLIPSAL 500
O&M DULUX BMW SHELL
DDB S’PORE GARUDA AIRLINES
CLEMENGER MELBOURNE DULUX SORBENT UNCLE TOBY JUST JEANS
MERCEDES JEEP
WHYBIN TBWA SLEEPMAKER GROSBY
SINGLETON TELSTRA

Greenland

Doco shot in 80s by Canadian Mike Boland.
One of the Kayak rowers (Larry) on the expedition played acoustic guitar.
The theme track segued from his guitar to an electric one.

1. BOB DYLAN

This started back in the 90’s when I bought the CBS bootleg CD’s which included Dylan actually reading some lines he had composed for Woody Guthrie around the time of his death. This is to my knowledge the only recorded instance of Bob speaking lines as opposed to singing them with instrumentation.
So I started splitting the reading up using a sampler and putting music to it with the intention of presenting him as somewhere between a rap artist and a beat poet. A lot of my friends (including producer Chris Thomas) were enthusiastic about this and some years later when I found myself with a lot more equipment at home, decided to take the project further and separated the reading into three sections with different beats in each.
And an epilogue (music only). This has been completed(2000-01) but is as yet unreleased.

2. MARCEL PROUST

In 2000 I decided to tackle the great work “In Search of Lost Time” which weighs in around 3500 pages in English. After the initial effort of getting started I became hooked
And all these characters seemed familiar to me. And I became intrigued by “The little phrase” which was the theme for Swann being in love.
So I wrote and recorded five pieces all at home .

3. SHIPPING FORECAST

Whilst being driven back from a Gary Brooker gig in Chichester in 2002 I heard the shipping forecast on the radio for the first time in years. Back in Melbourne I found I was able to receive these forecasts on the internet so I downloaded one and put music around that in a similar way to the Dylan project.

4. ALLEGRI GONE TROPPO

This ia another thing that was started in the 90’s. It was revived recently simply because having Pro Tools at home has made it easy. It took a couple of samples of Allegri’s Miserere and put beats around it with no disrespect intended. This is nearly finished.
But it does need a decent studio and engineer to finish it.

5. DAVE’S FIRST GIG

This is on the surface a rather silly project. This band is if you like the Alan Partridge of music.They worse than the Troggs or the Grateful Dead and a lot worse than White Stripes( sorry Stripes fans)
But hang on a minute-have the above not made shitloads of money? And don’t I need a cash cow to kick start the more serious projects?

Dave’s First Gig’s influences are garage, Booker T Hip-hop and –let’s face it- glue.

The first recording “Tax Cuts for the Rich” is as bad as anything I have come across and the second “The Spam Busters” nearly as bad. ( This track actually got used in a new John Safran project but it was completely unrecognisable by the time various people had got hold of it)

T. S. Eliot

“The Waste Land” is one of the most complex pieces of poetry available, but it has an irresistible flow that invites having a go at

William Faulkner

Title: As I Lay Dying

This must to some extent have inspired Graham Swift to write Last Orders.
It would be nice to see this film done by the Cohen Brothers.
Meanwhile the intention is to combine ”down-home” banjo / dobro music with Copland style Appalachian orchestration.