Singer songwriter, Tyneside-raised, living in Northumberland.
Soundcloud artist since 2014.
Bandcamp since 2022.
Live in North East solo, as duo: Burke & Homer; trio Northern Men; quartet: Scalpay

just a world class dancer w/a shattered leg.
Worked my way from #temporarySecretary (not my favorite song,) to @ioc director.
@NBCSports who gave me a job with an “end date” & left me home to “water the plants.”
Then realized they needed a team player in NYC.
I applied for the position of “music coordinator,” not a musician myself but friends with the guy in the corner office @BlackRock & co-founder of #DieselOnly I coulda helped them out. They declined.

So when I was terminated I became a “tape librarian @abc & was then free to share with @abc how badly @nbcsports outsourcing f’ed up. Oopsie.
At the time ‘BuglersDream,’ written by that guy with whom some of us are family #JohnWilliams was the sole property of @abc.

@NBCSports out-sourcing forgot to license the promos … among other things.

And as they declined to continue me as an employee & @ABC was happy to have me, I made a b-line for the ABC tape library & introduced myself. Louise was happy to meet me, at last. 🤣

Then the attorney in charge of @abc music licensing invited me into his office, apx six meters away. He thought my name was funny & it kept showing up on contracts I’d negotiated.

“Do you realize that most people named Sherman are Jewish & most people named Gretchen are German?”  I politely explained, “yes & I am neither & guess who forgot to license the music for the promos?”

DUNES are:
John Davies – Guitar/Vocals
Ade Huggins – Bass/Vocals
Nikky Watson – Drums

DUNES were invented in the warmer periods of 2016 by several earth dwellers poorly masquerading as human beings in the city of Newcastle. They play dessert-riff-blues-tinted-disco-tinged-rock, which draws on influences such as Queens of the Stone Age, Torche, Death From Above 1979 and Clutch.
DUNES second EP is due for release 23rd of February 2018 and was recorded during November 2017 at The Sand Castle in Newcastle with Graham Thompson, who has previously worked with Frankie and the Heartstrings, Jimmy Floyd Hasslebaind, Kubicheck and Jinn. They have received airplay on numerous radio stations around the UK and have featured on BBC Introducing Newcastle.

Since the band started playing live in late 2016 racking up a fair number of gigs in their native Newcastle and further afield. During 2017 DUNES shared the stage with many bands, most notably: Red Fang, Mutation, Idles, Monster Magnet, Estrons, Lionize and Holy Fuck. 


Favourable quotes about the band from other people:


‘Imagine if Kyuss were produced by 2manyDJs and you’d have an approximation of what DUNES sound like’
Narc Magazine (Newcastle)

‘Intense vocal delivery met with furious drumming and a don’t-take-it-too-seriously attitude produce a set that makes rock sound like it has no other point than to make you want to go out and find trouble.’
The Crack Magazine (Newcastle)

‘DUNES! HYPE! DUNES! Aye, they’re canny good like.’
Blank Slate Creative

‘DUNES are the best local band I’ve seen in ages. Geordie Desert Rock.’
Think Tank

Hi, my name is Gem. I write Alt. Country / folk music. 
Drop me a line on: mail@gemandrews.co.uk to get in touch.

"One of the strangest, most gloriously original bands I’ve heard for a long time… like Jake Thackray writing lyrics for Crosby, Stills and Nash."
Bob Fischer, BBC Radio Tees, Evening Show 
 
"The Winter Hill Transmission bring a more stripped back, acoustic, indie folk sound to the table akin to Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear. The warm, dreamy sound gives a sense of escapism and the drums and keys are used to great effect to create a slow burning intensity as the luscious melodies glide over the perfect arrangements."
BBC 6 Music / Tom Robinson blog
 
"Melodies are softly layered with acoustic strings, hinted-at keyboards and vocal harmonies that recall Odessa-era Bee Gees. Lovely, lovely, lovely."
Narc Magazine 'Demo of the Month'


Bandcamp: https://misapprehension.bandcamp.com
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Introduction to Misapprehension:

Having drawn together numerous talented people over nearly 3 decades, Misapprehension has been created to represent achievements in varying fields, including music, film making, video game production and writing. We are therefore setting up as a record label, film and games studio.

Our first example of this is the launching of the debut album by Daryl Quincy. Daryl began production on this in 2004 using songs written since 1992. He took time out, moving house and jobs and so on and added enough songs to create an album from 2008. Now 12 years further on, after several health difficulties and practical obstacles (housing, hard drive crashes, day jobs, university work etc) the album is launching in 2020. Daryl is our example of never giving up, of fulfilling a dream - however unlikely or unprofitable - to create, to deliver, to experiment living with some regrets and not allowing other regrets, finding out what happens if you reach for the stars keeping your feet on the ground. Ignoring calls of "Don't bother", "Its too much work", "It'll never pay" in order to see projects through that may be a gamble, but in several ways are better done than not done.

Daryl Quincy's debut album, for example, brings together several musicians who's paths coincidentally crossed in the 1980s and he combines them in performance across decades into one song, "Out Of My Head". He fuses Indian, folk, jazz, country, blues, classical and funk music into an album of short catchy 'pop' songs. These have been a long time in production, yet are not 'overproduced' - maintaining some rough edges and real/natural artifacts from basement and attic recordings, with some piano and sax parts even recorded on cassette in the 1990s. His hope is that he has created a natural, 'organic' and genuine anthology, a 'human' album with textures, atmosphere, vulnerability and strength. 

Such a debut album perhaps fittingly encapsulates the ethos of Misapprehension - warmth, humanity, vulnerability, hope and resolve. We hope we deliver this in the creative projects to come. Thank you.

Sounds of Psychedelia, Krautrock, Neo- Folk, Dance and Garage Rock 'n' Roll...

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