There Will Be Light (2014)

100 Days (2014)

Better Alone

Download/Purchase at: https://daveycraddockandthespectacles.bandcamp.com/track/girls-light-fires
By Davey Craddock & The Spectacles
Vocals + Rhythm Guitar: Davey Craddock
Lead Guitar: Luke Dux
Keys: Mo Wilson
Bass: Pete Stone
Drums: Todd Pickett

Girls Light Fires

Peaceful Bay is from the forthcoming debut album City West released February 5

"Peaceful Bay is a song I wrote while hiking the Bibbulmun track (a 1003 km track from Perth to Albany). Peaceful Bay is one of the only towns on the track where you camp in a settlement and not in the bush and it’s inspired by a girl a friend and I met in the townsite. She said she’d just moved down there from Perth, was pregnant and had morning sickness. We were knackered and didn’t have time to talk and properly meet her but I thougth it was a really brave and unusual move to come from the city to this tiny, isolated fishing town. So by torchlight in a hot tent I filled in the blanks and made up what I thought her story may have been and that formed the basis for the song." 

"In the studio we were going for quite a grand Augie March, Triffidsy kind of vibe. We were trying to evoke isolation and heaps of space but also the wild coastline that’s just around the corner from there. The creeky lap steel at the start reminds me of the boat ropes creeking and rubbing at night.” Davey Craddock on the writing and recording of Peaceful Bay. 

Recorded live to tape at Perth’s RADA Studios with his band The Spectacles, new single Peaceful Bay comes hot on the heels of a big 2015 for Davey which saw Better Alone, the first single from debut City West (Released Feb 5) added to rotation on Double J, extensive national radio play and touring, a WA Music Award nomination and critical acclaim from the indie folk and alt-country community -“his name has been plastered all over the blogosphere and everyone seems to be singing his praises”, said the Timber & Steel blog. 
