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About Me

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I am a musician, a husband, a father and a dog-owner.

I am passionate about music yet, thirty years on, I'm only just beginning to explore all that I am capable of. I am hungry and will be learning, discovering and creating till the day I die…

I am in love with words, a would-be poet even, but am often at a loss for what to say. I speak best through my guitar.

I love my friends and find energy and inspiration in people more often than in solitude. I am a thinker, always questioning, always wrestling, and always trying to find a better way.

I live in the moment, for the today, for the now. Everything I hope for or fear is a present reality; I strive never to wish my life away.

My journey as a professional musician began in my bedroom, studying Queen songs before heading off to learn at London's Guitar Institute. In 1987 the Stuart David band was formed, lighting up the London club scene before becoming ‘The Treasure Park’.

Through those years I played guitar for the likes of Ben Okafor and Kevin Prosch before, via my work as a session musician, I met Martin Smith and Tim Jupp, two young musicians from the South Coast of England with a dream and a project.

The past 17 years working and playing as a part of Delirious has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride. I am proud of what we achieved: the songs we wrote and recorded, and the shows we played to millions.

But while 2009 marked the end of this chapter of my life, we're still a long way from the end of the story.

The new “now” is one of collaboration and engagement, of meeting, creating and performing with people who share my hopes and heart. With a new manager and a new publishing deal I'm ready to start this next chapter in the Stu G story. I hope that you'll join me.

Stu G.

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Pure Joy…

I felt like the 11th hour worker. For a while Jon t has been telling me that The Low Anthem were one of his favorite bands of ‘09 he had bought 4 tickets for their concert in Nashville last night, in the end only i could make it, and as i hadn’t heard much of their stuff i thought i’d stay for 3 or 4 songs then get home for an early night… how wrong i was! i was stuck to my chair…

Not since seeing The Welcome Wagon have i experienced such unadulterated organic brilliance…a genius mixture of american folk/blues/country using simple instrumentation…harmonium, fiddle, clarinet, guitars, upright bass, squeeze box, xylophone played with a bow!! they all took turns on the drum kit. The vocal harmonies sent chills, and Ben’s voice rose and fell with each song perfectly…

There was an amazing moment where they got the audience to call each other on speaker phone…”this is important wait til after verse 2…” telecom feedback ensued and filled the theater with some kind of moving digital birdsong…it kinda made me cry…but then again nothing new there!!

I’m off to buy Oh My God Charlie Darwin…laters…

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