My Cornish songs on YouTube

 Keeping busy during lockdown? 

As well as working on my latest book I've been creating videos and posting them on YouTube. I've recorded a load of songs down the years and had an entire album's worth of songs inspired by my Cornish roots. I hoped to release it to coincide with the publication of my book 'The Call of Home' but health issues and other events put an end to it.

I've taken the tracks and used them to create a number of videos. Here's the link to the playlist-

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUpl2DKHl4JbhRH_nXRJD_bbhoGlTkN20

Other places to watch my videos

 Hi there,

I've been looking at posting my videos on other platforms as I move away from FB to alt-media.

Here's a link to VK.

https://vk.com/id545642675

I've also posted a few to Rumble

https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all

I'd be interested to know if they can be viewed where you are.

And a recent video I posted to YouTube

https://youtu.be/RgLYVweeYxE

Dave

Over seven years ago? How time flies!

 I was going through one of my external hard drives and found this review of my 2013 album 'Hard Times'.

This was the third part of my 'trilogy' of albums recorded after I went into remission from leukaemia. The first was a DCB Gospel album that I recorded in response to our reception at the 2011 Whitby Gospel Music Convention. It was followed almost immediately by the Dave Clemo Band's covers album called 'Other People's Greatest Hits' with 'Hard Times' hot on its heels.

Three albums in a little under two years. Thirty songs in all, half of them being original compositions. I sent the album off to be reviewed in the specialist music press and this was printed in Blues Matters magazine a couple of months later.

Same song- two versions

 This is a song that I co-wrote with Jerry Arhelger back in 2006 or 2007. This version of the song was recorded in 2008 during an impromptu session with my son Chris on drums and his friend Jay on guitar. I showed them the basic song then we got to work on the arrangement. What turned out was an almost 'Brown Sugar' style version of what was originally a good-time folky country thing. I recorded an acoustic version of the song on my 2013 album 'Hard Times'. 

Here are both versions. I created a video of the electric version and posted it on YouTube. The acoustic version can be heard on Soundcloud. 

Let me know what you think?

Acoustic version here-

https://soundcloud.com/dave-clemo-547315199/dave-clemo-im-too-busy-drinking-for-thinking

Another new video

 A couple of days ago I took a few hours off from book-writing and put this video together.

It's based on a song I wrote in about 2004 when I was suffering from a combination of ill-health, being out of work and having yet another church split to deal with. I walked away from church and hid my faith away for several years.

I recorded this song in my home studio with the help of drummer Cozy Dixon. Over a couple of hours we recorded the basic tracks for several songs. I added guitars, bass, backing vocals and lead vocals, mixed it off and forgot about it until 2017 when I remixed it for a collection of songs that I posted to iTunes.

Anyway,  I resurrected the track and added some images and made this video. I hope you like it!

 

 

 https://youtu.be/U1ujAmhV_Es

Keeping busy 2

I've been busy making videos of some of my old songs. You can find them on my You Tube channel. 

Mark Bryan, the drummer from Conspiracy, a band that we set up together back in 1977 recently found a couple of audio clips of our band. 

They were recorded on a ghetto blaster back in 1981. 

 I made up this video using some of the photos of the version of the group that were playing that night.

Keeping busy during lockdown 1

Just over a year ago I decided to put myself into quarantine in order to avoid getting the cough that has plagued me every winter for the last fifteen years. 

The winter of 2018/2019 was particularly bad. I coughed non-stop for six months and I didn't want it to happen again. 

I've been wanting to do a one-man show for the last few years but each year th cough put paid to it. This year was going to be different. I booked the 40 seat Bonkers Playhouse in Kettering and started advertising. Proceeds were to go towards the local hospice. 

All was going well. The show timed at just shy of two hours plus interval. Then the lockdown began- three days before the show was to take place. 

So what did I do when the regular pubs, open mikes and other musical events all closed? T

hat's what this blog is going to be all about.