Name: SEARCHING FOR MY BABY by UNGRATEFUL DAVE
Duration: 4 min 50 s
Description: THIS SONG IS ABOUT SOME CHAP WHO'S LOST HIS GIRLFRIEND!

Crossing over
Just as easy as Calais to Dover
Just as choppy too
If what they say is true
All that's holding you back

Is you

What's the worst that could happen
They say that worse things have happened oooh

What's the worst that could happen
They say that worse things have happened ahhh

At sea
What's the worst that could happen to you
They say that worse things happen at sea
What's the worse that can happen to you
To you

Lean With the Breeze, track released February 13, 2021
Music and lyrics written and recorded by Simon Gledhill
Mastered at Super Audio Mastering (SAM)

Crossing Over

Give you an inch you take a mile
Soft as a kitten
Quiet as a mouse
You say nobody's gonna get out of this house alive

And all with a smile

You don't need to be forward
You just imply
Just read me my fortune and I will comply

Ooooooo
And all with a smile

Oh life can change in a minute
Blink and you'll miss it
Drop your guard and you kiss it away
Kiss it away

What do you say?

Oh life can change in a minute
Blink and you'll miss it
Oh life can change in a minute
Drop your guard and you kiss it

Oh life can change in a minute
Blink and you'll miss it
Oh I'll be there in a minute
Drop your guard and we'll kiss it goodbye

Kiss it good bye

And all with a smile

Lean With the Breeze, track released March 19, 2021
Music and lyrics by Simon Gledhill
Mastered at Super Audio Mastering (SAM)

All with a Smile

An  attempt to capture the complexity of illiteracy (reading, writing & emotional)as displayed by Hanna in the film called 'The Reader'

Thanks to Peter Allan (Gold Rush Studios)for a great vocal, arrangement, and production.

NOW YOU'RE GONE (THE READER)

Acoustic home recording of The Bearpit. Recorded on 20/06/2022.

Written for Jasmine 18.05.2017

In the morning light she's angelic
She's the reason for my eyes to surface again
And when the setting sun is nigh
We strip down and feel the freezing Avon on our bones

Coz in my lucid dreams I'm on fire
I cross the bearpit to where she lies

And in the morning light, silver lining
It frames her skin and gifts it with a glow
And when the moon is in the sky
I try to picture how I lived without the apple of my eye

Coz in my lucid dreams I'm on fire
I cross the bearpit to where she lies
Among the silhouettes of spider plants
She crossed the bearpit to where I lie
She crossed the bearpit and so shall I
She crossed the bearplit and so shall I

The Bear Pit - Simon Home Studio Version Final

Bought a brand new bicycle
Painted evergreen and gold
From the pedals to the spokes
That thing was beautiful
But the best thing to come out
Of it was without a doubt
I could be with you within about a half an hour

So I’m cycling long the road
Where to think you already know
No tunes pumping a stereo
Just me whistling as I go

The traffic sits
While I’ve been ducking in and out 
Thinking ‘bout how you’ve been 

How many days
How many hours
Wear through the chain 
I’ll burn through the tyres
I can’t wait till we’re alone
I’m getting out of here

On my brand new bike
Riding
Over
On my brand new bike
Riding 
Over
On my brand new bike

I don’t need no chemicals
But I’d fail doping controls
Not the way that Lance would though
Endorphin overload
Cos I’m only half a mile
From your pretty face so I’m
Burning calories like roman candles in November skies

How many days
How many hours
Wear through the chain 
I’ll burn through the tyres
I can’t wait till we’re alone
I’m getting out of here

On my brand new bike
Riding
Over
On my brand new bike
Riding 
Over
On my brand new bike

Sat behind a bus for a tow
Hit 30 mph ’til it slows
On the way from my house to you
Working basis you need to know been dreaming about you

Cos all I see
Is someone who’s the spitting image of you when I sleep

How many days
How many hours
Wear through the chain 
I’ll burn through the tyres
I can’t wait till we’re alone
I’m getting out of here

On my brand new bike
Riding
Over
On my brand new bike
Riding 
Over
On my brand new bike

Credits:
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Programming, Percussion, Whistling - Harry Quinn
Bass Guitar - Andy Shillito

Engineer, Producer, Mixed by, Mastered by - Harry Quinn

Website - https://www.harryquinnmusic.com
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/47yxjPmACvdhRFAZvqmoEB
Bandcamp - https://harryquinn.bandcamp.com
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/parallels/id1217957691
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/harryquinnmusic
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/harryquinnmusic/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/harryquinnmusic

CODE WORDS

Brand New Bike - Harry Quinn

Released September 29, 2023

Music and lyrics by Simon Gledhill
Double bass and backing vocals: Joe Woodham
Drums and backing vocals: Fred Hills

Recorded and produced by Alex at The Yard Studio in Hove
Mastered by Simon at Super Audio Mastering

Cognito Sunshine

Going Places is a dreamy, pensive song about feeling stuck in a rut and day dreaming about escaping and being elsewhere. The track builds to a crescendo and ends with a chorus that represents breaking free and going wherever it is your heart longs to be.

Going Places

Rise Again (Radio Edit)

Rise Again

A bit of end of set boogie' foolery' from NO SPRING CHICKEN TRIO live from The Eastcote Arms
Gary Aflalo/vocals,harmonica    Dave King/guitar,bvs   Chris Prof Holmes,piano

RED HOT MAMA

THIS SONG IS ABOUT SOME CHAP WHO'S LOST HIS GIRLFRIEND!

SEARCHING FOR MY BABY

DAVID AUSTIN 
 - BIBLIOGRAPHY -


David Austin started his life in a tiny village called Waterlooville in Hampshire in 1949.  He comes from a very musical family.  His father George Austin, was a very good Jazz guitarist in the 1950’s – 1960’s, playing with Dudley Moore on the eponymous Jazz 625 programme which was shown in the early days of BBC2 around 1964.  George Austin’s playing career spanned 50 years.  David has 2 brothers who are both outstanding musicians, Robert (7 years David’s junior) is another guitarist and John the eldest by 1 year is a bass player who lives near Lymington.

David started playing the guitar in the early 1970’s, and slowly his playing started to evolve more as a songwriter.  In 2011 Polydor contacted him to confirm that they had sent Rocking & a Rolling (re-recorded by SCAMP STUDIO) to the management of Nicole Schurgziner at Interscope.  In 2014 he has had two different community radio states play his music.  WA12RADIO.CO.UK and BROOKLANDS RADIO.  

His song “Crazy when he’s Not Calling” reached the ‘Finals’ of the 2008 UK Songwriting Contest which his niece ‘Rachel Austin’ sang whilst just 16.  His writing style is made up of an eclectic mix of Jazzy / Latin, easy listening Country/Blues, folky type songs.  Cosmic Force has 18 easy listening Jazzy / Latin songs which could be used as musical ideas for either a film or TV.  The other CD ‘Gentle Blues’ is made up of 18 easy listening country / bluesy / folk type songs.  He is currently developing a third catalogue of laid back songs which hark back to the innocence of the 1960’s, yet with a modern feel.  He has written around 95 songs, 4 albums; 18 Jazzy/Latin songs on an album called “COSMIC FORCE”, 18 country/folky/blues rock songs on another album called “GENTLE BLUES”.  In addition to 10 satirical observational tracks called “DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!”.  Finally, he has been building up a dance track CD full of songs that have been re-recorded & re-arranged in to dance tracks by SCAMP STUDIO.   He had an article printed in the Brighton Argos on the 12 June 2012 about an incident caused by a car driver whilst he was cycling.  The song link that the Brighton Argos printed in their paper was called “On the Mobile” The story to the background to the song, is that it is a lampoon against selfish drivers who think it is absolutely fine to hammer down the road with the mobile clamped to their ears yacking away, oblivious to the mangled mayhem they have caused behind them!  The humour of the song is quite perverse.  Being aware that is precisely what young people tend to like.  

In January 2017, he commissioned Jason Miles to re-arrange & re-record "CRAZY WHEN HE'S NOT CALLING".  Jason has worked with Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Michael Jackson.  The song has been sent to PLAY MPE in Vancouver to be promoted in the USA, Canada and the BBC.  He is talking to music marketing companies in Japan to promote the song in Japan.  In addition, Jason has agreed to re-work this song in to a Brazilian re-mix by flipping the rhythm.  A video is going to be created with a young couple as well as animation.

David is also working on a book called “SUPER FISCAL” which is a geo-political legal forensic thriller, about money laundering and drugs.  He has finished the first draft in October 2013.  In December 2016 he has been working with a firm of literary consultants to analyse the plot, character and story line.    Once work on the dialogue has been completed by September 2017 he is looking to get signed to a Literary Agent sometime in 2018.

SEARCHING FOR MY BABY

UNGRATEFUL DAVE

Related tracks