wednesday23 IX 2009@COOL CAT 8.P.M. ~ Coolcat

DELANEY DAVIDSON

In a country infamous for deep south ghosts, New Zealand...A landscape alive…The sound of the sea, a harbour in the dead of night..

These are moods in the music of Delaney Davidson and he describes these things as part of growing up for him..A restless feeling, a life of travelling from the age of one when his parents put him in a shoe box and drove him even further south.

Leaving school at age fourteen and starting his own ramblings, he played music from Sao Paolo to St Petersburg, and from Leeds to Timaru, and has played as guest for many bands including the Reverend Beatman, both live and in the studio, aswell as Zeno Tornado. Performing in the Basel Stadt Theatre's "Drei Groschen Oper" he is also at home in the theatre, and his eerie music is also well suited to film soundtrack.

Basing himself now in New Zealand and Switzerland, he toured with cult legends Dead Brothers and was instrumental in the sublime "Wunderkammer" album(Voodoo Rhythm), playing singing saw, lap steel, drums and vocals.

He also played lead role as jail bird Parrish in Marc Littlers film-noircotic odessy "The Road to Nod" (Slowboat Films) premiering on 28th july 2007, and has also starred in Slowboat films "VOODOO RHYTHM, The gospel of Primitive Rock and Roll", aswell as the feature length documentary on the Dead Brothers "Death Is Not The End".

Delaney now returns to his solo work. Having completed three successful solo European tours he is currently planning his fourth. He has supported bands such as mystic dark folkers Wovenhand, alternative song masters Tex Perkins and Tim Robbins in their T&T duo, and was invited to tour the USA in 2008 with Queen of the Underground Holly Golightly and the Broke Offs, where He attracted rave reviews and was been invited back to attend the SteelBridge SongFestival in Wisconson 2009. Delaney has just completed his second tour of the USA, establishing himself deeper into the roots of the landscape that his musical influences stem from, and finding a firm foothold in the terrain of western, blues and roots folk music.

Last year saw him release his second solo album Ghost Songs independently, and this year he is planning to release his third solo album on Voodoo Rhythm Records in October, aswell as a split single with the Reverend Beatman.

DISCOGRAPHY:

SOLO

2008................GHOST SONGS

2007..............ROUGH DIAMOND

ALPINE CRETINS

2007...............PITCH.INST.CHROME.MASTER.KEY

DEAD BROTHERS

2004............FLAMMEND HERZ.

2006.............WUNDERKAMMER.

BRASS BED

2001..................SAVE YOUR BREATH.

1998 ............... THE "NO" SINGLE.

SOON TO BE RELEASED

OCTOBER 2009

DELANEYS THIRD SOLO ALBUM, RECORDED IN VENICE AND SOUTH OF FRANCE, WHICH INCLUDES SONGS HE WROTE IN THE STEELBRIDGE FESTIVAL ASWELL AS HIS SPLIT SINGLE WITH THE REVEREND BEATMAN, WHERE THEY EACH PLAY TWO OF THE OTHERS SONGS..

RUMOUR IS IN THE AIR FOR A SPLIT LIMITED TEN INCH WITH HOLLY GO LIGHTLY AND THE BROKEOFFS