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David Gunn

A shot in the dark

About Me

I'm originally from Langholm in the borders of Scotland, now in London. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------If you like any of my songs and would like to hear some more, send me a message with your postal address and I'll get a copy of my most recent demo sent out to you.-------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/30/2005
Band Members: Dg & his FG180
Influences: Bert Jansch, Nic Jones, Bob Dylan, Paul Curreri, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Kelly Joe Phelps, Neil Young, M Ward, John Renbourn, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Iron and Wine, Martin & Eliza Carthy, Dolorean, Alasdair Roberts, Jens Lekman, Adem, James Yorkston, Wilco, The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, Okkervil River, Joni Mitchell, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, John Fahey, Fionn Regan. -------------------------------------------------- Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver, Haruki Murakami, Charles Bukowski, Don Delillo, Flannery O'Connor, Barry Hannah. -------------------------------------------------- Test Cricket, Films, Michael Palin, Avro Simones, People I know, Tea, Wikipedia, History Books and Channel 4 news.
Sounds Like: "Compellingly mature grass roots folk, tinged with yokel blues" - IKTOMS (31/05/2007) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ "Think a young Bert Jansch" - All Aboard The Mudlark (21/06/2007) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ "David Gunns incredible geeetar finger picking craft is along the lines of m ward. I could have listened all night. At times gentle tickling folk music, iron and wine style and at others bonny, eye-brows liftingly moving." - Folk Fae Fife (09/04/2007) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ "Demon fingered" - Scaledown (29/03/2008) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Song from the archive - weekly (no. 8)

Hello,At the moment, I'm a bit busy to do any recording or gigs, so I've decided to do a weekly thing on here called 'song from the archive', where I post an old song of mine that would otherwise sit ...
Posted by David Gunn on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:30:00 PST

Never said nothing

Ever lacked inspiration for songwriting?The inspiration has been found... missed connections ads.The results are here;http://www.neversaidnothing.com/It's rumoured that DG has a couple of songs up abo...
Posted by David Gunn on Tue, 27 May 2008 01:20:00 PST

Lighting Fires demo and extras for free download

Hello everyone, A little while back, I posted a few of my demos here for free download, under the title of 'Lighting Fires'. As the old link has expired, I've decided to re-post it with some extra tr...
Posted by David Gunn on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:41:00 PST

Free 8 track demo download

You can download a 8 track collection of my demos for free if you message me I'll send a link; David Gunn - Lighting Fires This collection of tracks were recorded over the last year or so and I've dec...
Posted by David Gunn on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:16:00 PST