Dave McGowan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

steel guitar, fender bass, fuzz pedals, gadgetry, hats, Teenage Fanclub, red wine, red-haired girls (one in particular), vans shoes, old stuff, Isobel Campbell, travelling, 45rpm records, Italian food, European Union, working hard, rhodes piano, banjo, always for hire...............some records I played on lately........ Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground (2007) Future Pilot AKA - Secrets From The Clockhouse (2007) Mogwai - Mr. Beast (2006) Isobel Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets (2006) Summer Of Mars - Glaciers (2005) L. Pierre - Touchpool (2005) Eugene Kelly - Man Alive (2004) what's not to like??????????!!!!!!!!!!!???

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/24/2006
Influences: Stuff i'm loving at the moment..... 'Sno Angel Like You - Howe Gelb (LP) Any Way That You Want Me - Evie Sands(LP) Three's Co. - The Tyde (LP) Summer Goddess - Soil & 'Pimp' Sessions(LP) Reach Out Of The Darkness - Friend & Lover(track) In Colour - The Concretes(LP) Heyday (BBC Sessions) - Fairport Convention(LP) Happiness Is Just An Illusion - The Wildweeds(track) Previsao Do Tempo - Marcos Valle(LP) Not On Top - Herman Dune(LP) The Runners Four - Deerhoof(LP) The Fantastic Journey Of... - Dillard & Clark(LP) The Wolfking Of LA - John Philips(LP) Wild Blood - The Seeds(track) (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet - Blues Magoos(track) Hunters And Collectors - Can(track) Tender Are The Ashes - The Honeybus(track) Deluxe - Harmonia(LP) Oar - Alexander Spence(LP) Get Up And Get It - Jackie Mittoo(track) Joy Of A Toy - Kevin Ayers(LP) John B Sebastian - John Sebastian(LP) I've Gotta Know Right Now - Rose Valentine(track) She May Call You Up Tonight - The Left Banke(track) Breaking The Ice - Mojave 3(track) Sacundin Ben Samba - Jorge Ben(LP) Tree Coloured See - Nobody & Mystic Chords Of Memory(LP) Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth(LP) (Baby) Baby I Can't Take It No More - Tommy James & The Shondells(track) Psicodelico - Luis Carlos Vinhas(LP) Mirror - Emitt Rhodes(LP) I Think I Can Change You - The Marvelettes(track) Paint A Lady - Susan Christie(LP) Nicola - Bert Janch(LP) In The Reins - Calexico/Iron & Wine(EP) House Arrest - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti 5(LP) Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets(LP) The Amber Gatherers - Alasdair Roberts(LP) Underground - The Electric Prunes(LP) Desire - Bob Dylan(LP) Red Apple Falls - (smog)(LP) Don't Let The Rain Fall Down On Me - The Critters(track) Change Of Pace - Five Stairsteps(track) The Listener - Howe Gelb(LP) Nao Identificado - Gal Costa(LP) Abraham, Martin & John - Dion(track) Electric Mud - Muddy Waters(LP) Modessa - Bluebird(track) Person Pitch - Panda Bear(LP) Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (singles & demos 1964-1967) - Vashti Bunyan(LP) THE UNFAIRGROUND - KEVIN AYERS(LP)!!!!!!!!!!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Giant Sand in Andalucia

Just got back from a musical voyage to Southern Spain (one of my fave bits of the planet) with Howe Gelb's Giant Sand (one of my fave groups on the planet). Isobel Campbell was there too and the amass...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:59:00 PST

Kevin Ayers

I had the great honour recently of doing some studio playing for the wonderful Kevin Ayers..... his new record is called "Unfairground" and will be out sometime soon. The stuff I heard sounded fantast...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:15:00 PST

Alasdair Roberts tour..

I'll be doing some shows around the UK as part of Alasdair Roberts' touring group...... I'm really delighted to be asked to play for Ali - his last LP "The Amber Gatherers" has been receiving many spi...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:42:00 PST

Howe Gelb & friends at The Barbican....

really excited about this one! On May 2nd I'll be playing with Isobel Campbell at the 2nd show curated by Giant Sand's Howe Gelb (the 1st one was back in 2001 and featured artists like PJ Harvey, Spar...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:44:00 PST

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan tour

Happy new year!!I'm getting ready to hit the road with Isobel Campbell again - this time with the awesome Mark Lanegan sharing vocal duties. The group this time around will include ever-present Jim Mc...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:34:00 PST

Teenage Fanclub play Bandwagonesque in Glasgow!

Following the success of their Bandwagonesque extravaganza in London the other week, the fantastic Teenage Fanclub have decided to do it all again in the familiar surroundings of Glasgow's Barrowlands...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:57:00 PST

Evie Sands!

hey! I'm in the studio right now playing bass on some tunes Isobel is recording with the great Evie Sands. What an honour! Evie's first LP "Any Way That You Want Me" is one of my faves. She sings so b...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:06:00 PST

Mojave 3

Just had the pleasure of playing a few songs on pedal steel with Mojave 3 last night at their Glasgow show. What a great group! Their new single "Breaking The Ice" is a corker. Super- melodic surf-pop...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:37:00 PST

Barcelona..

I'm in Barcelona at the excellent Primavera Sound Festival where the likes of Dinosaur Jr. ,Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney, Yo La Tengo and Jens Lekman are playing but I'm having real trouble getting ou...
Posted by Dave McGowan on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:09:00 PST

Sweden!!!

Just left Sweden today - boo! it's been my third visit there in the last few months and each time it just gets better and better. Stockholm and Gothenburg are two of my favourite cities in the world....
Posted by Dave McGowan on Sun, 28 May 2006 10:40:00 PST