Rhys David

Rhys David comes in two halves, there's the half that will never compromise, the rock god, the bastion of artistic integrity the part that will never kneel before the corporate c***- I mean teet. His songs are his babies and although thoughtful and considered feedback is always welcome, change for the sake of being more likeable or saleable is simply not on the menu. He produces material for promising talent whether they can pay or not, he produces radio drama's and writes purely for the love of it, he will happily spend an hour listening to a band who aren't very good because they've asked him how they can be better. The other half is the pragmatist (NOT prostitute, let's make that quite clear.), the half that writes to someone else's brief- who's? Whoever's paying of course. This is the half that teaches and coaches for cash, the half that coaches acts who's best hope is not to be quite as crap as they are now, the part that will swallow it's pride and take a part time job that's nothing to do with music if it means the other part can afford to buy new strings and a better sound-card. This is the part which sometimes has trouble getting through the day but without this one, the other cannot function. Both halves are a self taught singer/songwriter who has been writing material and producing his own recordings since the tender age of twelve. Descended from a long line of musicians/entertainers he is also a writer, an actor and produces and directs radio dramas in his spare time for the country’s first full time Community Radio Station of which he was a founding member. His musical influences are multiplicitous and eclectic, raised by a father who produced rock, punk and pop in the seventies and eighties and a mother who’s tastes leaned more towards Billie Holiday and Fats Domino. Rhys’s Grandparents also steeped him in Cole Porter, Gershwin and Berlin as well as heavy doses of Bach and Rachmaninov. After spending time in Nashville Tennessee learning to appreciate the care and craft of the country scene Rhys struggled to fuse his disparate tastes into a style of his own until, during the obligatory Seattle phase in the nineties, he finally discovered a unifying influence. Radiohead could blend seemingly any influences into more and more sophisticated work with each passing album without people successfully pigeon-holing them and he was finally assured that, as he had always suspected, music is music. There’s good music and there’s bad music and genre is just a way of deciding which groups of confused fashion-victims and unwittingly uber-conformist “individualist” teenagers you might not get mocked by this season. Letting go of labels gave him the freedom to write simply what sounds good to him, which is after all, the root of real integrity. To be true to one’s own tastes, and one’s own most honest critic, though always difficult, became the guiding principles of Rhys’s artistic endeavours. Whether audio, visual or literary, Rhys seeks to one day create something for which he would himself be willing to go into a shop or onto a website and fork over hard currency.--------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !