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The Dave

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the dave: THE ALBUM
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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:
The Middle Class Bastards: Listen To Them Here
Apples For Everyone: Listen To Them Here
The Trailing Edge: Listen To Them Here and Here
Blowing My Nose On A Tissue Of Quotations: Read This Here
RE:ThinkDaily: Listen To It/Subcribe To It Here
A University Education: Read This Here
Window: Open The Window Here
To check me out in more detail: Visit Here
A great image by Banksy :
The Dave busking in a park:
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Member Since: 18/08/2006
Band Members: Dave Pickering

(Ben Jesstead Plays viola on Key, Daniel Weltman plays guitar and sings backing on The Bluest Line)

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Influences: 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

Sounds Like: The Magnetic Fields, Guided By Voices, Bright Eyes, The Red House Painters, Billy Bragg, SomeOldLady, Alexander Cameron, Lou Reed, Son, Ambulance, The Mekons, Talking Heads

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Grace
by Chris Grollman

Image may/will stick on initial playing but perservere and press play again and it will work wonderfully (hopefully.)

" it's really sad that every day needs an antidote "

CG

An image from the very excellent show
Hazmat & Me

By Demonstrate
Record Label: i have no record label

My Blog

new trax

Yo,I have just stuck up my cover of the times they are a changing by bob dylan. I have not really stuck much to the original, hell I even changed the chords, but then as much as I like a lot of songs ...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 14:48:00 GMT

The F*cking Dave: ON HOLD

The gig has been cancelled (see last blog) and is being rearranged for some other time. I'll let people know when I know.
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:04:00 GMT

The F*cking Dave

For the sake of a one off crazy electronic dystopian perfomance I will be called The Fucking Dave for the evening of the 24th of April. See below for details:******************************************...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:00:00 GMT

Gig: Recumbant Culture: Decadence: 25 Aug 2007: Cabaret

Let me take you through my recent cabaret performance at25 Aug 2007, 21:15 - Recumbent Culture presents Decadence organised by Bunny Kills Meredith(Press pause on the mp3 at the side of the blog befor...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:06:00 GMT

Last Nights Gig

Last night I played a really great gig. It was strange because I had no one there who came to watch me apart from my girlfriend, Jen. Normally I at least have my dad as my other permanent fan club mem...
Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:21:00 GMT

Form Like Stars

The Dave is performing in a show on Saturday (23rd of September) in Hastings. The show is called Two Colours Of Toothpaste Mix in the Sink The Theatre company performing it is called Window.Here's a s...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:49:00 GMT

Stringless

My guitar looks sadder than a used condom that lies on a carpet. Its heart has been taken from it and now there is just space, so much space. When the strings came off it they twanged like pain. When ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:25:00 GMT