Dan Hartland profile picture

Dan Hartland

Dan Hartland

About Me

Dan likes it when there's a flier to link to in this box so he doesn't have to read nonsense about himself. He's currently working on a new record with cellist and long-time collaborator Dan Todd. Catch them live to see what that'll be about.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/21/2006
Band Website: danhartland.com
Band Members: Dan Hartland - vocals, guitar, songs
Dan Todd - cello
Influences: Ryan Adams, Tom McRae, Gillian Welch, Silver Jews, Mountain Goats, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Jenny Lewis, Leonard Cohen, Ben Folds, The Beatles, Josh Ritter, Laura Cantrell,The Band, Ray LaMontagne, Joanna Newsom and the rest.
Sounds Like: This .
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Help Selfless Me Out

I played in Cheltenham last week at a night promoted by Vince Freeman, a top gent if ever there was one. his is a musician friend of mine. He recently won the UK Indy Awards 2008 Best Male Solo, I li...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:19:00 PST

Working Memory

That there fresh new fellow in the player is called Working Memory. He is a new song, and he has been recorded using a doohickey like the one I infamously tested on The Gadget Show.Seemed to me I'm do...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:47:00 PST

Resident At Large

Tonight I start a monthly residency at The Queens Arms, Birmingham. It helps that this is my favourite little place in the city, but also of course it means that you know where to catch me once a mont...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:56:00 PST

’Til Christmas Comes Again

Alas, Christmas is over, and thus we enter in to the bleakest part of winter, with no massive spending splurge to keep our spirits up as the bills flood in. Ho hum.I did see a poster for Easter in a T...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:04:00 PST

Drains

Apparently, Severn Trent Water are giving away fat traps. These are devices to keep all your Christmas fat in rather than pour them down the drains. Which will inevitably clog your pipes up with conge...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:42:00 PST

Christmassinessism

My guitar had its Christmas present early today. Courtesy of the kind people at Hobgoblin Music Birmingham, the guitar now has a lovely clear pickguard where its poor little cedar top has been getting...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:41:00 PST

Adventures in Static Monochrome

I have a new place for you to go when you're bored, where there will be fun and games or at least a tune or two. I've know some people called the Bavarian Country Singers and Comrades and some other p...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:38:00 PST

A Bite of the Apple

It has come to my attention that my EP, On Someone, is now available to buy via iTunes. To this end, you can help me out, if you fancy it. First, of course, if you are a technophile type and haven't g...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:06:00 PST

You Don't Talk To Me

For a limited time only, please to enjoy a live version of 'The Reason', heard recently on WCR FM where DanT and I played a live session. It's a song I wrote years and years ago, but I thought it'd be...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:12:00 PST

Live FM Session

If you can't make any - or, let's be honest, all - of the lovely gigs coming up over the next month or so, you can catch some live Hartland sounds on WCR FM next Tuesday evening, between 7pm and 9pm. ...
Posted by Dan Hartland on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST