If you want to see a magical baby being brought into the world pop on down to the CD launch of The Roadperformed live byGlad & Dave’s Dirt Band.
Big guitars, sing-along choruses, epic brass and a restless lyricism addressing change, life, death and beyond. That’s the sound of Glad & Dave’s album,The Road. Tracks such as ‘Get Me To The Devil On Time’ sound like Neil Young with a horn section, while on quieter songs such as ‘I Was A King’ they “channel Springsteen at his maudlin and melancholy best,” says Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst.
Glad Reed and David Claringbold began their magical and musical partnership while occupying an abandoned hotel in Darlinghurst during the ’80s. Reed originated from Dubbo, where she began her musical career with the Dubbo Civic Brass Band. Claringboldgrew up in the western suburbs of Sydney raised on a tasty diet of The Beatles, Motown, The Easybeats and Johnny O’Keefe.
Now Glad & Dave’s Dirt Band are on the verge of giving birth to another collection of tunes that encompasses all of their musical language. The Roadis the metaphoric love child of a couple who have survived the enduring craziness that a life time of rock’n’roll will throw at you, and have come out the other side with a sound and album that will make you want to celebrate how awesome life is even on the most monotonous of days.
Glad & Dave’s Dirt Band CD launch will happen at theLazybones Lounge on Saturday August 13 at 8pm with support actsTerry Serio and the Half Truths, and Stephanie Grace.
