Dave Rowntree - Radio Songs

Admit it, you didn’t see this one coming.

Before their uber-gigs at Wembley Stadium later in the year, it seems like the members of Blur are keen to remind us of their solo projects, or perhaps they are simply clearing their decks.

Within the next two months Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz release ‘their’ latest album, while Graham Coxon’s latest project (The Waeve) unleash their debut album in February. Indeed, the only idle member is Alex James but the state of the world is bad enough without adding new Fat Les music to the mix.

Which just leaves the band’s drummer Dave Rowntree, who is anything but idle. Most famously a former councillor for the Labour party, he also has strings of lawyer, composer (wonderfully, he composed the soundtrack 2018’s Bros documentary) and light aircraft instructor (among others) to his hefty bow, to which he can now add ‘singer’.

Singing drummers may be an acquired taste, but Rowntree has taken lessons in preparation and his weary sadness and exhaustion adds real emotion to these already-moving ten tracks.

https://www.live4ever.uk.com/2023/01/review-dave-rowntree-radio-songs/