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Davy McGowan

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About Me


Get Thy Bearings - The Donovan Fanzine.........by Davy Mc Gowan and Tom Grierson
Donovan fanzine. For details about this and the latest COVER STORIES CD, email me at [email protected] next issue of Get Thy Bearings (..9) is tentatively scheduled for late 2005. Get Thy Bearings issues 1-8 plus, Donovan Scrapbook & What's Bin Did and What's Bin HidMy good friend Ade Macrow - the world's top Donovan expert - putting his money where his mouth is. You want to know about matrix numbers? Ade's yer man!
The recorded works of Davy Mc Gowan
The literary works of Davy Mc Gowan
Literary Infulences
Joseph Addison, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henry David Thoreau, Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton, Walt Whitman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sylvia Plath,Charles Dickens, Michel De Montaigne, Thomas Mann, Graham Greene, JRR Tolkien,Percy Bysshe Shelley, Frederich Nietzsche, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hazlitt,Philip Larkin, Oliver Goldsmith, Alan Garner, Sherlock Holmes, F Scott Fitzgerald, John Cowper Powys, Charlotte Bronte
Finnish newspaper article
Tarja - The TJD BandEllen, Doug and me

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/7/2005
Band Members:
The Mescaline Smugglers
Clickherefor a link to the recordings we made in Finland this year!
Influences: The Incredible String Band Memphis Jug Band Donovan Bert Jansch Mississippi John Hurt Davy Graham Charley Patton The Clancy Brothers Django Reinhardt Tommy Johnson Tom Waits The Corries Lester Young Pierre Bensusan Leonard Cohen Pentangle Stan Getz John Renbourne J.J. Cale Muddy Waters Robert Johnson The Rolling Stones Antonio Carlos Jobim Bob Dylan Gus Cannon's Jugstompers John Martyn Little Walter Paul Butterfield
Type of Label: None

My Blog

NEW OLD SONGS

I tend to forget about myspace for large swathes of time - but it was the only way I could think of to send a message to someone today so I found myself logging in and realising the songs hadn't been ...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:14:00 PST

TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG

.....that is the question? But - what the hell. The news has been so funny this week it's the only comedy worth watching on TV. First this woman called a Teddy Bear Mohammed and got thrown in jail in ...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:04:00 PST

RICHIE HAVENS GIG

Tom and I went to see Richie Havens at the ABC Theatre in Glasgow tonight. Richie will be 67 on Sunday - but what a great performance he gave. His humility, kindness and downright decency shone throug...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:37:00 PST

EARLY RISE

Woke up at 7.30 a.m. this morning - which is pretty serious shit for me! Might be something to do with trying to stop smoking - haven't had a cigarette since Saturday - and can't really say I'm missin...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:30:00 PST

BLOGS....and other entertainments

Just got back from 3 weeks in Finland yesterday and all I get are bleats about blogs...or the lack of them.....I'm only writing this one to keep Melissa happy.....but I think she would be better off p...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:14:00 PST

LES & ELLS, STEWART & DAVID

A bit like Bob and Carol Ted and Alice without the sex (Does anyone remember that movie? Not surprised - it was shite) Anyway - met Ellen at Bellshill Station - where they've seen fit to move the sea...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Sat, 13 May 2006 05:10:00 PST

WASSUPP????

Nothing much to report. Went to Tom's on Friday - got drunk. Went to a wedding on Saturday - got drunk. Went to the pub on Sunday - got drunk. I suppose that's why I've nothing much to report....can't...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Wed, 03 May 2006 04:03:00 PST

NEW SONGS

All the new songs on the site will be available on the new Mescaline Smugglers CD we recorded in Finland last month....got to say I'm pretty happy with what I've heard of it so far.
Posted by Davy McGowan on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 05:00:00 PST

A CENTURY OF SWEARING

The History of Swearing  Last Century's Great Moments in Swearing 1900 Shot by an anarchist while standing on a Brussels railway station, The Prince of Wales utters the immortal words, "...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:39:00 PST

LONG LIVE FINLAND!

Finland was cold. Think of brass monkeys wearing thermal underwear and you get the idea. I touched down at Helsinki Airport at 4 p.m. local time and Jore and Tuomas were there to meet me - with a coup...
Posted by Davy McGowan on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:59:00 PST