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David Roberts

Still alive, its been a while so say hi.

About Me



OUT NOW: Acoustika Vol. 4 on 272 Records
Featuring MOONbow 'Dignity' Track 3, Available @ amazon.com

!!!!!FIND MOONbow on pure volume!!!!!! @ http://www.purevolume.com/albums/272records/acoustikavol4

Lyrically, David draws on his own experiences and battles with bipolar disorder, and psychosis, love, life, chemicals and spirituality.

Comparisons have been drawn with the likes of experimental musicians such as Elliott Smith and John Martyn and the now legendary Nick Drake, which whilst being obvious and definate influences to his playing style, it has never been his intention to imitate or emulate them.

David has just finished writing and demo-ing his second album, entitled 'Mantra' to be released early next year, and will begin playing solo acoustic shows within the next few months. -music is endless-

Photography: Hayley Bishop

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/8/2006
Band Members: David Roberts - Songwriting/Guitars/Vocals/Percussion

MOONbow live band includes:

Tim Titley - Drums
Steve French - Bass Guitar

Featured Vocalist - Emma-Jane
Influences: Thom Yorke, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Sqaurepusher, Joseph Arthur, The Mars Volta, Neutral milk hotel, Eliott Smith, Led Zep, Jeff Beck, Jason Mraz, Jose Gonzalez, The Police, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, John Frusciante, RHCP, The Doors, Santana, Roni Size, DJ Shadow, Dashboard Confessional, Debussy, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn,Skys Day Off, The genius that is Allistair Young, Martin Taylor, Al Stewart, John Williams, Radiohead, Brand New, Joni Mitchell, Tchaikovsky, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis, Tim Buckley, DeFacto ... to name but a few...
Sounds Like: Thom Yorke, John Martyn, Jose Gonzalez, and John Frusciante.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

He Cast the Light

I wrote and recorded this song many moons ago, but listening back to it today, it felt like the most honest and passionate piece of work that I had done.I feel like this is the direction my music shou...
Posted by David Roberts on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:56:00 PST

’Hoverfly’ featuring Emma-Jane

Today was really special.I had written a song called hoverfly, with female vocals in mind. Emma-Jane, a good friend of mine is someone I've wanted to work with ever since I saw her covers band play, a...
Posted by David Roberts on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:17:00 PST

The band!

Tonight was the first time the myself(dave) and adam were joined by drummer tim and bass player steve to work on the full live band setup for MOONbow. It was really special for me, to have songs that ...
Posted by David Roberts on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:44:00 PST

new look/ moonbow.co.uk

guys hope u are liking the new look to my page. it took literally months of preparation and planning. anyhoo please leave a comment, tell me what u think. much love dave x also u can now get to my sp...
Posted by David Roberts on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:54:00 PST

thanks

thanks to everyone who showed up on sunday at watercress was a great night and i really enjoyed playing. much love dave xx
Posted by David Roberts on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:48:00 PST

1000 plays!!

Just hit 1000 plays, thanks to those of you that have listened, there will be more new music up shortly xxx
Posted by David Roberts on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:16:00 PST

inspiration

read something quite inspiring today - cant remeber what it was
Posted by David Roberts on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:09:00 PST

hair

dreaming of a simpler time when tastes in music didnt define hairstyles
Posted by David Roberts on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:40:00 PST

hmmm

got some songs up, but the player seems to be failing sometimes, hmmm will try to rectify the problem if i can find out how
Posted by David Roberts on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:49:00 PST

Day 1

Hope to be getting some music up here within a week. Patience is a virtue.
Posted by David Roberts on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:33:00 PST