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Dave Bishop

About Me

Dave Bishop has been developing his audience over the last 7 years in various projects; the most recent being his solo career and former band Night Train, of which he was the singer/ songwriter.

With a long history in the ACT music scene, Dave has been performing solo, in duos and bands for a number of years. A talented performer he has slogged it out in pubs and clubs all over Australia. From 2005 to mid 2007 he played 236 shows both as a solo artist, with his duo Detour and former band Night Train.

For the past few years Dave has been writing songs in preparation for a debut solo album. His songs, with their story telling lyrics & rootsy overtones, are reminiscent of a young Paul Kelly, and the fact Dave sings in an Australian accent with local subject matter means his music evokes a fresh contemporary Australian country feel.

Dave has achieved many milestones as a musician and is no stranger to performing and recording. His former band ‘Night Train have supported & played with many Australian touring acts: The Screaming Jets, Rose Tattoo, The Angels, Jimmy Barnes, Killing Heidi, Spiderbait, You am I, Magic Dirt, Something for Kate, Lee Kernigan, Alex Lloyd and Troy Casser Daly

Night Train were invited to play Canberra Day & Australia Day celebrations by the ACT Government and performed alongside acts such as Something for Kate, Alex Lloyd & Gina Jefferies. They were then invited by the Department of Defence to go to the Solomon Islands over the New Year period 06-07 to play for deployed forces. While there Dave also played some acoustic shows, from that he was invited to do a 10 day tour to Egypt & Cyprus to entertain other deployed Australian forces in June 2007.

Dave’s debut solo album “Above the Roof” features 12 of Dave’s original compositions and was recorded at Cloud Studios by award winning producer and musician Parris MacLeod. It also features well regarded musician Andrew Clermont.

The album has many stand out songs that could be classed as singles, from the first track ‘Train Station’ which is an acoustic rock song with strong vocals and intense piano and mandolin solo’s, to the more country style ‘Lock’n’Key’ which features amazing fiddle work from well respected artist, Andrew Clermont. The track ‘Did you Ever’ evokes strong emotion with lyrics of love and loss while the instrumentation goes above and beyond everyday music lovers’ expectations while the track ‘Selfish’ is an easy listening piece with beautiful string melodies over a simple guitar/ vocal. All other tracks in between feature something new and interesting.

The album was put together over the Christmas/ New Year period of 07/08. It is an honest tribute to Australian culture, partly inspired by the men and woman who risk everything by representing our great country in peace time and war, our Australian soldiers.

To get a hold of the new album 'Above the Roof' please place an order through the paypal box below. Your new CD will be posted FREE of charge!! Thanks for supporting independent music. You have NO idea how much we appreciate it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/01/2007
Band Members:

Influences: Paul Kelly
John Butler
Bob Dylan
Tom Waits
Family
Lots of blues & Folk musicians...
heaps inspires me!

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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Website

Hello!!Were heading off to Tamworth for a few gigs this morning, thought I'd just throw this up to let you kow we have a NEW website. Yey!!http://www.davebishop.com.au/Check it out :-)Also, keep an ey...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Black Sally Lane

Hi Guys!Just posted the original version of Black Sally Lane onto the myspace. Personally I think its better than the one that we (Night Train) released. What happened was we went & recorded it th...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:13:00 GMT

Album in Canberra Stores

G'day Folks, Hope your all well!! Just a quick one to let you Canberra people know that you can get my new CD (Above the Roof) from Songland in Tuggers or Landspeed in Civic. I just dro...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:23:00 GMT

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Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:13:00 GMT

Check out this event: CD Launch - Bishop/ Canham 16 May Greenroom

Hosted By: Dave Bishop When: 16 May 2008, 08:00 PMWhere: Green Room Canberra11 Altree CourtPhillip, Australian Capital Territory|75 AustraliaDescription:Dave Bishop Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Joint tours of duty well received in Sinai and Cyprus

Joint tours of duty well received in Sinai and Cyprus 5 July 2007 By Mandi Meldrum, Team Leader IDG Marketing On 5 June 2007, a nine-member Tour De Force contingent travelled to a little place called ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:53:00 GMT

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When my band (Night Train) were invited to do a tour of the Solomon Islands over 06-07 New Years we were stoked, the opportunity just doesn't come along for every band! We did the tour & it was a...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:45:00 GMT