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About Me

Big Al Davies started as a drummer with a band called Pyjama Souffle in 1985, he moved onto Keyboards with Caerphilly Punky-pop band the B Days and sang a couple of songs each set which gave him the taste for singing live.He left Doc Savage in 1987 after forming it with Pete six who was the B Days manager at the time, but he did sing live with them in Caerphilly a couple or three times until he fell off stage after a small slip and some brandy.He formed his own band as a singer-guitarist with Dave Grayland and Neil Williams and they had no fixed name and a couple of gigs before he left to rejoin himself as a solo singer songwriter (for want of a better description), he is a singer that writes songs, but doesn't sound like James Taylor.Along the way Al has played bass with Doc Savage in Caerphilly and the Sheds in Rudry, keyboards and Vocals with The Caerphillybillies and mandolin with the Wickhams (a fake paddy band band of Welshmen) he also plays mandolin with a yet un-named act called either the Pikes or the Mainwarings or the Beer Kats or the House of Lords.He released a cassette on Brainwash tapes in 1988 called "God and Fish" another called "Guts For Garters" in 1990, in 2000 he appeared on the Martin Newell tribute album Re:Newell playing the Brotherhood of Lizards tune "Rusty Iron Sun", he then had his first worldwide album release last year with "Feztastic" which includes two songs produced by Pete from Doc Savage and the crowd pleaser "Landlubber".He is currently trying to complete his next album called "The Ploughman's Lunch" and is working on a project with Roger Radio and Ron Bookless along with mail artist Michael Leigh.Big Al has written nearly 300 songs and is a close personal friend of Emperor Rhubarb with whom he shares a birthday and a mistress.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/9/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/bigaldavies
Band Members: Big Al Davies Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Ukulele, Banjoele, Keyboards, Harmonica.Pete Six: Plays Guitar and sings backing vocals sometimes and produces tracks sometimes.
Influences: Bonzo Dog Band, Tiny Tim, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, R Stevie Moore, XTC, Martin Newell, Brotherhood Of Lizards, Cleaners From Venus, Andy Partridge, Lounge, Easy, Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Ramones, Tom Waits, Holly Golightly, The Family Mahone, The Pogues, Christy Moore.
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Profile courtesy of Brainwash tapes
Record Label: Brainwash Tapes
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Poor Elaine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwknKz2SHR4 ...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:16:00 PST

I’m Having the wrong life

I've just uploaded a new song that was written and recorded today and I believe will be the first track on my follow up to Feztastic which celebrates it's first birthday in a couple of weeks. The new ...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:58:00 PST

GTFM-ON THE RADIO

http://www.gtfm.co.uk/ I'm on the radio at the above address this time tomorrow night. It will be on 22.00 GMT, you can listen and watch via a webcam direct, I'll be playing songs from the album...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:55:00 PST

The Eagle has nearly landed

The album is being pressed at the moment and will be available from the weekend. Al...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Wed, 16 May 2007 02:13:00 PST

Landlubber

I recorded a brand new spankin' version of Landlubber today after listening to the original master tape last night. I put on a mandolin and a ukulele today instead of the electric guitar on the ...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:06:00 PST

Feztastic-the album new message

There is a new group for flickr people who view this blog, all about the making of the Feztastic CD, and will also feature pictures from the launch party. Any loal musicians that fancy helping me play...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:10:00 PST

Feztastic-the album

OK, the album shouldn't be too long, and I fancy doing a launch party for it, anyone fancy helping me play live get in touch, or if anyone has any ideas for a venue then just tell me. I will post more...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:35:00 PST

I've been tagged

http://blog.myspace.com/rich_hayward I've been tagged by Rich Hayward (Blog above), and have to post as follows:- Instructions 1.Grab the nearest book. 2.Open the book to page 123. 3.Find the fifth se...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:33:00 PST

Songtastic

I've just changed a couple of tunes here and have more podcasts and songs available at http://www.treemo.com/users/bigaldavies/channel/ Support your local fez wearing musician. Al ...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:13:00 PST

The CD

I'm working on some new songs this week, hopefully to complete the long running Feztastic CD and then start an acoustic 4 track ep called the Ploughman's Lunch. I may run a sort of competition on flic...
Posted by Big Al Davies on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:28:00 PST