Hi there.
I would just like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you for your continued support and I hope to see you somewhere in 2009.
It?s been a pretty good year for me and my music. I was delighted to sign to Navigator Records earlier in the year and have been very pleased with how Whisky Hearts has been received and for all the great reviews it?s had. It even made the end of the year top ten at www.spiralearth.com
I?ve been lucky enough to play some fantastic shows this year around the country. I especially enjoyed my shows at The Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh and opening for both Eddi Reader and Joan As Police Woman.
I?ve heard some great records too this year ? Fleet Foxes, Gramercy Arms, Joan As Police Woman, Sun Kil Moon and possibly my favourite of all - the re-issue of an old album from the sixties by Rodriquez called Cold Fact. A great record.
I know it?s been a very tough year for so many who have been hit by job losses and the credit crunch. Seems the rich can still get away with pretty much anything while the poor have to pay for their mistakes.
On a positive note it looks like the US may have got the right guy this time in Barack Obama. Though time will tell.
So on we go into to 2009.
I?m really looking forward to hearing my song Whisky Hearts in Irvine Welsh?s new film Good Arrows and to my Celtic Connections show in Glasgow, both in January. Also in January Navigator will be releasing Raining In Glasgow as a single.
In February I'll be at the Darvel Lesser Town Hall in Darvel near Kilmarnock on the 6th. This is a solo show as part of the Acoustic Nights & Electric Evenings series. Info available at - www.darvelmusicfestival.org
Then in March I will be starting my UK tour which should take me through to the end of April with possibly a few shows in France too.
Details of towns and venues will be up on my website and Myspace very soon.
As always, if you?ve any suggestions of venues near you that I may have not thought of then please drop me a line and I'll pass the information onto my agent.
Well that?s it for another year.
Merry Christmas and all the best for 2009
Cheers
Dean
