David G Buckley

I’m an Irish singer-songwriter with an unhealthily obsessive passion for music, politics, comedy and sport. Musically, I wanted to be a songwriter from the first time I heard R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic for the People’ in the winter of 1992. It was the first CD to enter our home. I was only a little fella at the time but somehow this album, which was famous for its musings on mortality, had a big impact on my childhood self - what a miserable little shit I must have been. I was then unbelievably fortunate to witness a decade of outstanding guitar music that was actually in the charts! Whether it was Oasis’ ‘Morning Glory,’ or Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ or George Michael’s ‘Listen Without Prejudice,’ or Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ or Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ or Counting Crow’s ‘August and Everything After’ or U2’s ‘Achtung Baby’ or Blur’s ‘Parklife,’ etc.etc.etc. it was a mind-blowing era for guitar-music fans. Although to say I was solely inspired by all these great artists to start playing and writing, would be misleading. No, I was also sold the dream that playing guitar and writing songs would make me irresistible to women. Sadly, as events transpired, I gradually became aware that I had been cruelly misinformed and as it turned out, I was still highly resistible. Nonetheless, I battled on and gradually became addicted to this most lonely, painful, joyous, and exhilarating of pursuits.