As the saying goes, "and now for something completely different". It's not another gem from the great american songbook, or a song of love and loss, or even a romantic ballad.
Another new single! - March 2024
New single - March 2024
For some time I've been performing and recording songs of love and loss by the great 20th century composers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Arlen et al. This is my own contribution to the genre.
New video - February 2024
GYPSY ROSE
Another track from the January 2024 release of the 'Shadows Loom and Voices Mutter' album of demos. Made on a Tascam 144 portastudio around 1990, it's a rather rustic and primitive recording, but hopefully you get the idea.
Shamus Dark - vocal, acoustic guitar & keyboard
Andy Dewar - drum programming
Dusting off the cobwebs Part 3 - February 2024
Here's another song I wrote back in the 1980's and played live many times with my band. We made this recording in 1989 and got some radio plays on the BBC at the time. When dusting off the cobwebs from my archive I thought that despite its age, the production is pretty good and so here it is, expertly remastered by Pete Maher and now issued as a
Here's another song I wrote back in the 1980's and played live many times with my band. We made this recording in 1989 and got some radio plays on the BBC at the time. When dusting off the cobwebs from my archive I thought that despite its age, the production is pretty good and so here it is, expertly remastered by Pete Maher and now issued as a single in the digital domain, available for downloading here or streaming more or less everywhere.
Shamus Dark - vocal & acoustic guitar Byron Johnson - keyboards Peter Robey - violin David Whitney - bass guitar Anthony Nevill - drums Andy Dewar - percussion
Recorded in 1989 at Silent Music Studio, Rotherhithe, London and at Workshop 16 Studio, London