- There’s music on this page now (14th November 2010), still waiting for photos.
- The Dave Village music player is not very graceful at the moment, but give it time.
- Your browser needs to be HTML5 compatible - try a recent version of Safari, Chrome or Firefox.
- Music plays on modern smart phones too (tested on an iPhone and Palm Pre).
- It should play the songs sequentially, so you only need to click once to listen to the whole album.
Recorded: 2003 – 2009
Beyond The Trees LP, recorded 2003 – 2009
– We will write some background spiel for each album; place them in some kind of context, whether that improves the aural experience...
Dave Village was fed up with working in Derby so wandered back down to Cardiff. What is it with Cardiff? We can’t say, but he continued writing and recording songs all the same. His yearly average dropped somewhat, to one or two songs per year, but he kept to his usual musical standards.
He ventured onto the live scene during this time: performing in pubs, supporting a local Cardiffian band in an antics warehouse, arranged some reasonably successful folk nights (‘Folk Yew’), and wrote a charity song: ’For The Love Of Steam (an Ode To Richard Trevithick)’, which featured on the National Museum of Wales ’Respond’ musical project in 2009.
No musical back catelogue is complete without a Christmas Song. Dave would have been cynically tapping into the holiday market if he’d been a successful musican, but fortunately he didn’t travel down that path. It was written just before Christmas 2007, just before a recession hit town.
Will Dave Village release more matterial? Judging by his recent song writing average, we might have to wait until 2015 for his next album, failing a prolific period of song writing in the meantime. Maybe another EP by 2011? Time will tell.
We hope you enjoy the albums compiled on the website – a majority of the songs were never released before 2010, now you know why.
Until later, keep on keeping on (to quote Vic Chesnutt).
