David’s Story

David was born in Manchester, where he got his first taste of performing in folk clubs. He soon took to writing his own songs and playing them on acoustic guitar and over the past 20 years has played many hundreds of gigs in numerous venues around Britain, as well as performing in France, Belgium and the United States.

Along with playing in his own right, David has also supported top songwriter Boo Hewerdine, folk legends John Renbourn and Dick Gaughan and American banjo virtuoso Tony Furtado.

After being a familiar figure on the Manchester acoustic music scene for 15 years, David moved to Weymouth in Dorset and now plays regularly in the South West of England.

While in Manchester, David recorded two CDs of his songs in local studios. Meeting Tom Toomey, lead guitarist with legendary band, The Zombies, led to him recording again at Tom’s Blue Door Studios in Somerset. Tom brought his own production and engineering skills to David’s songs, adding contributions by a string of top musicians and some magic sprinkles of his own on guitar. The result was a four-track EP, Silver Thread, which was launched at the end of 2019.