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Dave Sharp
Following The Alarm’s 1989 U.S. Winter tour,
Manchester born Dave Sharp, co-founder, co-writer and lead
guitarist, headed for New York City’s Lower East Side to
record his first solo album, Hard Travelling with legendary
maverick record producer Bob Johnston and Grateful
Dead engineer Tom Fyle at the Hit Factory.
Following lead singers Mike Peters’ departure from The
Alarm in 1991, Dave Sharp made the seminal decision to
leave behind the UK pop scene and a successful 10 year career with
the band.
After arriving in the U.S., he began an intense period of growth
as a singer / songwriter touring with musicians he had long admired
like Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.
After more than a year on the road including appearances at
The Grand Ole Opry, Bob Johnston invited Sharp
to San Francisco where he began work on the album
Downtown America which was released in 1996.
The record features Chris Colberg (Santana), Larry
Crane and Dave Grissolm (The John Cougar Mellencamp
band) on guitars, Prairie Prince (The Tubes) on drums, Al
Cooper (The Bob Dylan Band) on keyboards, along with
performances from members of Jefferson Starship and the
legendary Charlie Daniels.
Following his return to Manchester in 2002, Sharp began
touring solo and acoustic in order to reintroduce himself to
British audiences, headlining venues up and down the country, such
as The Cavern Club (Liverpool), The Underworld
(London), King Tut’s (Glasgow).
In order to broaden his audience base, Dave took on opening
slots with artists such as Nick Harper, Sir Bob
Geldof, Jake Burns (3 Men & Black) and the late,
great Lonnie Donnegan.
Following great success with his band The Soul Company, Dave is
now re-establishing himself as a solo artiste with a new album to
be released later this year.
Having completed a successful tour of Wales recently, Dave is
now accepting return bookings for his next tour.
Watch & listen to Dave
Downtown
America
Downtown
America acoustic live Llandudno 2005
One
Step Closer To Home – Manchester Academy 2008
Audio
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