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Come and enjoy Dave Thomson live in The Study! Music starts at 9pm!
Dave Thomson
If you’re going to create something that is from the heart, expect
to do it forever, and appreciate those who feel it with you; appreciate
those who don’t. Because we all feel love and hurt in time. From
the moment he realized he was a songwriter, Dave Thomson found his own
unique way of performing his songs, and unapologetically making
records that best fit where his message was coming from.
Such is
the case of his first solo release entitled, ‘Moths’. Recorded on 2
inch tape with producer Eric Vani, a.k.a. Rise Ashen, from Ottawa and
under Vani’s label Prose-Act records, the songs on the album are mixed
with melancholy and a hopeless romanticism that give the guitars and
strings ample room to breathe, and the songs a lot time to sit heavy on
your heart. With most of the recording being done between 2am and 5am,
Thomson deemed the album “midnight music”, and suggests that those are
the hours you should listen to it. ‘Veins’, Thomson’s second
full release, is an eclectic collage of 17 songs written over 4 years.
Recorded and produced with Jamie Williams at Maple Leaf studios north
of Barrie, ‘Veins’ features strong poetic acoustic songs like the
“Ligthfoot-esque” ‘the couple in the next room’, to heavier rock based
songs like ‘song to a dead man’, mixed with a little bluegrass tune
called ‘this old heart’. Sharing stages with musicians and
artists from all over the world, each individual song of Thomson’s
seems to draw comparisons to various artist that have affected him
throughout his life. Artists like Neil Young, Elliott Smith, John
Lennon, Thom Yorke and Frank Black, are all prevalent influences in his
new material soon to be released. Watching Dave Thomson
perform, you are taken on a ride through his heart. His voice, which
can go from sweetly smooth tone to a raspy wail, will sing lyrics that
are too honest and emotive to not relate with. Mixed with his want to
play whatever he finds on stage, you are destined to be entertained.
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