myspace.com/daveeveritt… is where I park certain parts of my personality.
Otherwise, here are some roughs of songs I'm working on at the moment.
I've been playing an instrument since, at the age of seven, I stretched my weedy little arms over the jumbo guitar of my parents' Canadian lodger. When he went home, I made my own guitar from elastic bands, a biro, a ruler and a biscuit tin (you had to be there). Before that, I played my Nana's piano for hours and, before that, my grandad taught me to play Oh Susannah on a miniature harmonica, which amazing experience (to me at the age of about 4) got me started. Carrying on in this tradition, I hacked my first electric guitar from a cheap acoustic, the microphone innards from a tape recorder and a piece of metal curtain rail (the picture on the left was taken before the hack and, yes, I covered it in drawings - I was about 14). I survived several mains shocks but it sounded great and very dirty. I also made my own stereo and (for fun) used to manually phase my vinyl audio against reel-to-reel recordings by slowing up the turntable. I also covered my room in paintings, but that's another story.
At the moment, I'm a singer/songwriter/guitarist in Loscoe State Opera (it's not opera - but "folk inspired bedevilry that WILL make you happy", according to one review). It's nice that we've built up such a diverse and enthusiastic fan base - thanks, and keep coming!
Loscoe State Opera's website is going through a rebuild after the original .com domain was snatched by an evil money-grubbing domain name speculator due to a renewal-failure-oversight on our part. Do we care? Nope. We're now at: www.loscoestateopera.org. After a year of drama (Loscoe Soap Opera) we just started gigging again and headlined at Belper and Stainsby Festivals. This video is from our comeback gig after a year at Belper (some jump edits, but we've asked for the unedited version. If that's you, and you're reading this, hey - we'll pay :-).
Humbling to think we once shared a stage (and compared double-bass playing) with Gavin Bryars (who happened to be one of my former Fine Art lecturers). I still (very infrequently) play double bass with the 20+ year old Rain Garden,. Drifty ambient pathological-improvisers, we made up titles from science fiction books opened at random ten minutes before each performance - one of us would shout a page number, the other a line number, the third would read it out. We'd say that's a good title and write it on the set list (the worst was why do you look at me like that. Jim?). The Rain Garden were part of the 1999 Leicester Music Festival, as were Ensemble 8, with Ben Daglish from Loscoe State Opera (Ben once wrote lots of computer games music too :-). Oblong Music stocks recordings of The Rain Garden.