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Dave Gwyther

Songs about the world and the wars

About Me

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Change the world!
No one can deny that we live in an unfair unjust world. The rich get richer and the poor continue to get poorer. War continues to be raged on false pretenses and with great consequences. The child whose parents were bombed today in Iraq will become the terrorist of tommorrow. We claim to be fighting terrorism but we should be fighting the causes of terrorism, poverty, oppression, foreign dictatorship.
The world needs changing and this is the generation who has to change it. The developing world lays starved by us in the rich west. Unfair agriculture and trade subsidies prevent them frome earning a living and crippling debt repayments prevent them from pulling themselves out of poverty.
It is time to stand up and say this is our world, and we're not going to fuck it up!
Peoples of the world, regardless of race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, we must unite to change, nay, save the world!!
This is the new revolution, back to a time when the youth cared and voiced their opinions to the world. A time will come when poverty and war are forgotten words. It is time to bring about an age of peace, an age of freedom. We must scream it from the rooftops.
The British government want to spend around £25 billion to upgrade their nuclear weapons. The health service is in debt, babies are dying because their aren't enough midwives, education could be improved not to mention fighting climate change and global poverty. Yet the government want to spend £25 billion on upgrading their nuclear arsenal!
Why do we need nuclear weapons anyway? Its not like we could ever use them. If we did it almost certainly spells gloabl destruction. So the government is spending £25 billion on something we will never use. And don't any bullshit they tell you about them stopping terrorism, really, hows would is possbily do that?But would they even be British nuclear weapons? Hmm...not exactly. The war heads would be British, but the missiles to launch them are on loan from the US. In fact the satalite system that launches them is controlled by the United States so we can't launch a nuke without their permission. It sounds to me like this £25 billion nuclear weapons upgrade is really just upgrading America's nuclear weapons capabilities.
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The world is a huge place. It is so much bigger than all of us. It is full of so many different cultures and ways of life, all so different from the ones we grew up in. Go out and see one of these different aspects of the world. It is suprisingly easy to do.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/13/2006
Band Members: Track 1:
Dave Gwyther - vocals, guitar; Stuart Wills - Keyboard, vocals

Track 2:
Dave Gwyther - vocals, guitar; Rupert Bath - guitar, bass, keyboard

Tracks 3 and 4
Dave Gwyther - vocals, guitar, harmonica (track 3).

Tracks 3 and 4 recorded at Barn Door Records studio, Combe St Nicholas, Somerset, UK, 05/05/07.

New Demo CD 'Not Our Children, Not Their Children' available FREE now. Please email [email protected] for your free copy.

Possibility of an album coming out shortly, watch this space for details.

Influences: A bit about Dave...

I was born in Bristol and at the age of 7 I moved to Exmouth in Devon where I spent the rest of my youth. At 18 I went to Swaziland in Africa to teach at a Primary School. After teaching I travelled overland across Africa upto Egypt in the north. When I returned to England I went to The University of Northampton to study Third World Development with Philosophy. During my uni years I travlled to South East Asia and also to India where I taught in a High School. I now live in Seoul, South Korea, where I teach Elementary school English for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.

I started playing guitar at the age of 22 as I couldn't find a band to play with and really wanted to be a musician. I got so frustrated with what is going on in the world and my inability to do anything about it so I started writing songs. It helps me to vent some of my frustration and hopefully along the way might bring to peoples attention that the world isn't this tiny little existence we create in our comfortable societies but a harsh, cruel, power driven reality.

I hope to one day work for The United Nations so that I can try and make a real difference in the world rather than just singing about it.

I am inspired by the world around me, that which I have seen, that which I have left to see and the fact that this world needs changing. Musically I enjoy Donovan, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, the top 4 of my myspace friends, indie/rock music and the folk scene of Devon. I also played in the duo 'The Daves!' with my good friend Dave Harley, check it out:

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My Blog

Old Blogs

Dave on the radio/podcast! (June 21st 2007) Dave's 1st appearance on internet radio/podcast came on the light hearted 'Buster and Donnas Charity Show'. Click on the link below to listen (I am on near ...
Posted by Dave Gwyther on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:19:00 PST

List of past gig dates/venus

All gigs are in Devon, UK, unless otherwise stated. 2006 To be updated soon.... 2007 3rd Jan - The Northbridge Inn, Exeter 5th Jan - Barnfield Theatre, Exeter 10th Jan - Bed Bar, Torquay 11th Jan - Bl...
Posted by Dave Gwyther on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:07:00 PST

GIG DIARY 2007

January 3rd 2007 - The Northbridge Inn - ExeterSetlist:1. Bombs Make Terrorists2. Pretty Rev3. The Warless GenerationA shit start to 2007 with an awful gig at a rather empty Northbridge Inn. I sounded...
Posted by Dave Gwyther on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:14:00 PST