About Me

Dayve Dean is a singer/songwriter based in Cheshire, UK playing both solo and as part of the band James and the Giant .
2008 saw the release of his new album, Octagon, launched with a three week run of shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as a full band gig at Orchard Studios (where part of the album was recorded) and more intimate acoustic gigs along with Dan Logan for Oxjam in a couple of Oxfam shops. Octagon is available now from www.dayve.co.uk
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Member Since: 1/16/2007
Band Website: www.dayve.co.uk
Band Members:

Band members

James and the Giant

Dayve Dean - vocals, guitar, bass, piano, mandolin, glockenspiel, ukulele
Dan Logan - drums, guitar, percussion, mandolin, banjo
Steve Welch - guitar, bass, glockenspiel
Carl Hill - guitar, bass

Players on Octagon

Dayve Dean - vocals, guitar
Nigel Stonier - vocals, guitar, bass, piano, wurlitzer, mandolin, melodica and probably much more!
Thea Gilmore - vocals
Roy Martin - percussion
Simon Johnson - guitar
Fluff - vioin, viola, cello
Egan Gilmore-Stonier - vocal support

Players on Still Life

Dayve Dean - vocals, guitar
Nigel Stonier - guitar, keyboards, mandolin, bass
Paul Burgess - percussion
Mark Walker - bass
Steve Oates - programming
Steve Millington - keyboards

Videos

Starting Line - live from Llandudno

I Don't Want To Be That Man Anymore (live at the launch of Octagon at Orchard Studios)

Follow - live from the Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008)

View more videos at www.youtube.com/dayvedean

Influences: Aimee Mann, Thea Gilmore, Crowded House, REM, Tiffany, David Gray, Vonda Shepard, James Blunt, Nigel Stonier, Til Tuesday, Tasmin Archer, The Beatles, T'Pau, Carol Decker, Roxette, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, The Jam, Paul Weller, The Waterboys, Midge Ure, Nick Heyward, Tori Amos, Kylie Minogue, Erasure, Madonna, Belinda Carlisle, Take That, kd lang, Levellers, Natalie Imbruglia, Tracy Chapman, Shakespear's Sister, Marcella Detroit, The Connells, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morisette, Madonna, Tori Amos
Sounds Like: David Gray, Crowded House, Tracy Chapman, REM, Aimee Mann, Thea Gilmore, James Blunt, Busted, McFly, Nick Heyward, New Order
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

James and the Giant live at The Box in Crewe this Thursday, 30 April 2009

James and the Giant will be performing at The Box in Crewe again this Thursday, supporting Suki and the Science, along with The Valentines and Soda. Find out more about the night at myspace.com/thebo...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:10:00 GMT

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day! It's the first year I've come across it although apparently it's the 39th year it has happened. There's more information about it at earthday.net. It's time to start planning ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:43:00 GMT

James and the Giant playing at de bees, Winsford, this Thursday, 16 April

I'm playing a gig this Thursday with James and the Giant at de bees in Winsford, Cheshire. We're headlining, and will be playing with Cheap Cuts and Ian Scanlan so should be a pretty good night.Ticke...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:27:00 GMT

Facebook Comments

It's recently become possible to add Facebook comments boxes onto external websites using Facebook Connect. I've yet to decide whether I think this is a good thing - on the plus side it means that (i...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:35:00 GMT

Is Anybody Out There? Free song

This week's free song podcast, available at www.dayve.co.uk or through my podcast on iTunes, is Is Anybody Out There?Is Anybody Out There? was written around 2007 and was one of the songs which missed...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:57:00 GMT

Free song podcast: I'll Never Stop

It's been a busy couple of weeks which has meant I've fallen slightly behind on the free song podcast. Here is one for this week, and I'll see what I can do about catching up with the missing song! Ch...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:43:00 GMT

Song of the week: Foreign Ground (demo)

This week's free download, available from dayve.co.uk or iTunes (direct link available at dayve.co.uk is a demo of an old but as yet unrecorded song of mine, Foreign Ground.I wrote Foreign Ground in t...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:56:00 GMT

Rehearsal tonight

Another rehearsal with the band (who it looks like are going to be called 'James and the Giant') tonight - full band this time! We've been working on some of the new songs, which are Freefallin' (ori...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:36:00 GMT

Tell You (demo)

This week's new song of the week is now available from dayve.co.uk or (once it updates) through iTunes. It's the demo of Tell You, the full studio version of which appears on the Octagon album. ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:32:00 GMT

Wouldn't It Be Good

This week's song of the week is a cover of the Nik Kershaw song 'Wouldn't It Be Good' which I recorded sometime around 1995 with the group Substance. It's not massively representative of my curren...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:48:00 GMT