How fast did 2012 go by?
DOGMAN LIVE - THROUGH THE YEAR - 2012
January 25th 2012 saw me play AS the featured
artist at the wonderful Artist’s Hangout at Foulridge at the Café Cargo by the
canal wharf. What a great venue! Teaspoon and me watched films, listened to
other musicians, looked at art and enjoyed a creative evening. I played a set and
really enjoyed the appreciation of a listening audience.
The months always seem to disappear quickly these days but
last year in February marked the end of the Black Horse (Gregson Lane, Hoghton)
music-nights after many years and some great Dogman gigs and brilliant open mic
evenings. It was a great night (Rob Fielding and others played) with Pat
Gaffney joining me on stage. We made it one last real blast to mark the end (Jo
and her partner retired from the pub). Fortunately, I have some recordings kindly
made by the host of the open mic nights, John Poulton, taken from times when
Matt Wells joined me on a set.
You are
welcome to sample the magic of those nights with a couple of songs see link for SET on Soundcloud. click on the link to hear some live tracks
EMERALD ISLE EXCURSION
In April, my wife and I travelled by car and ferry to West
Port, County Mayo in Eire to meet up with Teaspoon and Matt Pawson and family to
enjoy a musical week and a change of scenery.
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| Dogman and Teaspoon in Eire |
We had some really great times
playing the pubs and chilling (see link to Youtube for a filmed version of
Marvin Gaye’s What’s going on with me and Matt Pawson). click on link to see video by Teaspoon
The owner of the famous
pub at the bottom of the Holy Mountain gave us a great revue after we played there
one evening. I had met up with him in the day and played him a couple of tunes
to get us the gig. Paid in beer they were calling us to play on late into the night!
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| Dogman at Campbells |
'WONDERFUL GIG' - THANKS FROM EIRE
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| Matt Pawson on guitar |
Dear David,
Greetings from Campbells! I hope this finds you and
Catherine doing well. I have been planning to e-mail you since your visited
Campbell's last month to express my appreciation for the wonderful performances
you gave here during your visit.
THANK YOU to you, Tea Spoon and Matthew for performing
here. It was wonderful to have you play here and it was one of the best ever
performances here. I do hope you can make it back again.
Please extend my sincere thanks to Tea Spoon and Matthew. Also, please extend my best wishes to Catherine and the
family members of Tea Spoon and Matthew. It was a great pleasure meeting you
and I hope I will see you here again! Best regards,
Padraig Fitpatrick Campbell, Murrisk, Westport, Co. Mayo,
Ireland
THE YEAR OF COLLABORATIONS
Alongside my steady collaboration with Mikans, I ‘had a
ball’ recording alongside music and remixes by Indigolab from Midlands (Lost –
folk fusion), Middleschoolfrown from Scotland (sounding very Blue Nile) , Roy
Taylor from Canada (fab flute on Trouble I’m in), Kenetic from South Africa (fab
remix of Galileo see link) Ali Warlow aka Harm0nizer, down South (a dance remix
of Bright and Beautiful) and the brilliant Peter Brown in Florida for my spoken
word recordings. click on link to hear collaborations
PLAY IT AGAIN JIM!
I played the famous vegetarian restaurant and acoustic
venue, Jim’s Café, in Colne, on several occasions (With Ray Irvine on keys in August) including a great gig in July
with Ghost Radio and Teaspoon as support.
I enjoyed playing there again with Ray for The
Blues Festival Fringe in August.
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| Dogman and Ray Irvine at Jim's Cafe for the Blues Festival |
Finally, to end the year I played a set for the Singer songwriter night. This was the first time myself and Mikans had played together live and the experience was excellent.
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| Poster kindly designed by Mark Bennett |
We are hoping for a video - from the brilliant Railton Lee Johnson (Shadow of the Hill Productions). This acoustic Christmas session included Teaspoon and Matt Pawson, Paul Aiden and James Hirst who all played brilliantly. This was my last of the year’s gigs in December.
As Dogman, I played as the featured artist (The
Queens Folk Night’) but it was fun to play local pubs too including The
Dog Inn at Whittle le Woods, The Last Orders ‘Buskers Ball’ Hindley Wigan,
The
House with no name, Bolton, the Red Lion, Wheelton, The Plough (twice and on the last occasion alongside old friend David 'Crick' Calderbank) at
Euxton/Leyland. Our version of Light my fire is still the talk of the lane!
and the excellent Saturday afternoon music venue, Heebie Jeebies, in Liverpool.
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| DOGMAN AND DAVID 'BLIND CRICK' CALDERBANK |
and the excellent Saturday afternoon music venue, Heebie Jeebies, in Liverpool.
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| Dogman @ Heebie Jeebies Liverpool, pic Johnny Sands |
DOGMAN UNPLUGGED
THE NEW ALBUM FOR 2013
I had already begun recording with Teaspoon for an EP the
previous year – a new song Avalanche came from those Higgin Street sessions
with Matt Pawson on guitar and Lois on harp. The NEW songs grew and grew and so
the EP will become an album - THE NAME NOT DECIDED YET with, hopefully, a bonus CD of Crossbreed remixes
from my collaboration with Mikans. Click on the link to hear some unplugged songs
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| Dogman playing live in Eire 2012 |
THIS NEW YEAR?
I will write about 'Dogman for 2013' in my next blog. But
for now, this musician is resting and planning some very different music for this
Newest of Years!!
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