Rising Sun Acoustic Night

Tonight I'm playing an acoustic night at the Rising Sun in Crewe. It's a totally acoustic night with everything played through the air without any microphones or PA system.

I'm going to be recording with a portable recorder and if the quality is good enough I'll make some songs available for download through the website.

I'll be playing guitar and ukulele as well as singing and will be joined by Nick Bayes on acoustic bass. We'll be joined by various musical friends including Suzie Does It and Phil Maddocks.


(Tim from Suzie Does It having a go on the uke)

Sidelines - live on the banks of Loch Ness

I've just got back from a few days up in the Highlands of Scotland and on the way back decided to record a quick video on the banks of a (very windy) Loch Ness:



The song is called Sidelines and was written last summer. Although it's not been recorded except in demo form I've started to play the song in my live set, particularly at more acoustic or folk styled venues. Let me know what you think, and whether you'd like to hear it recorded properly.

Website and Facebook changes

Having somewhat neglected the website for the last few months, I've started working on bringing it back up to date and adding some new social features.

A lot of the features on the site use features from other websites and I've changed the navigation bar at the top of the pages to reflect these changes including:

• Removing the Photos and Videos links which previously showed content from YouTube and Flickr within the site. The videos and images are all still available by visiting my pages on those sites directly.
• Removing the links to my MySpace page (more below), Bebo, Reverbnation and Indiestore. I now rarely use Bebo or Reverbnation and although they are updated automatically with status updates, these are the same as you will find on Twitter at twitter.com/dayvedean. Indiestore no longer exists.
• Adding Twitter to the options - despite using it for years, for some reason I didn't previously have a link to Twitter on the navigation bar.

I've also started to integrate some more social features from Facebook including a 'Like' button on the song pages for Octagon. I'm hoping to expand on this more and to make the navigation on the site more about the albums and songs rather than repeating the same information in the shop, lyrics and discography pages. I'm also starting to make use of HTML5 audio on the site which means that you will be able to listen on a wider variety of devices including mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads. Watch this space... And let me know if there's any changes you would like to see on the site! Either send an email to mailinglist@dayve.co.uk or leave a comment on the Facebook page.

While I'm freshening things up, I'm also going to be making some changes to the Facebook page at facebook.com/dayvedean out of necessity as much as anything else as I will be switching over to the new profile soon. It's now possible to include web content on the page so I'm hoping you will be able to access a lot of the content from the main site without having to leave Facebook. Again, any suggestions welcome.

Finally, I've removed the main link to MySpace from the website. Although I still have a profile over there at myspace.com/dayvedean there have been some major changes taking place on their site which has resulted in my page appearing to be broken! Although I've made changes to clean it up, they don't appear to be taking any effect. So feel free to pop over there and have a look but it seemed to make sense to remove the link at least for the time being.

Upcoming shows

I'm going to be playing a free show tomorrow (Friday 11 February 2011) evening at Square One in Crewe as part of their Unsigned Friday series.

I'll be playing an acoustic show along with bassist Nick Bayes, starting around 9pm. Square One is located on Mill Street in Crewe, close to Crewe Station.


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I'll also be back at Symphony in Sandbach on Monday (14 February 2011) for a Valentine's Day special Meet The Songwriters evening. This is a busy night for Symphony so both upstairs and downstairs rooms will be open and booking is advised. I'll be performing in both rooms in a purely acoustic format over the evening along with fellow singer/songwriters Guitar Mal, Hayley Strangelove and Sheena Bratt.

Symphony is located on Congleton Road in Sandbach. They can be contacted on 01270 763664.


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Support shows

I'm going to be playing some support shows over the next few months:

Firstly this Saturday, 6 November, I'll once again be supporting The Christians at The Box in Crewe.

Later in November, on Saturday 20th, I'll be supporting Undiscovered Soul at The Rose & Crown in Biddulph, Staffordshire.

Then next year, on 8 January I'll be supporting Katy Lied at Darlington Arts Centre.

Edinburgh 2010

It's two years since the official launch of the Octagon album and the month long run of Octagon '08 shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

I'm back in Edinburgh again today to celebrate with a show at The Pear Tree stage as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Laughing Horse Festival.

I'm playing an acoustic set along with Nick Bayes on the outdoor music stage at 6.30pm. It's free admission so come along if you're in town. Otherwise I'll hopefully be uploading videos and photos from the show over the next few days.

Forum Music Centre with Katy Lied

I'm playing at The Forum Music Centre in Darlington tonight supporting Katy Lied.


It will be an acoustic set with Spoons on bass. Hopefully I'll have more photos and videos of the show to upload later.

Check out Katy Lied on their website at www.katylied.com.