David will be playing six solo shows in Poland at the end of June:
Tuesday 23rd June - Poznan - Meskal (ul. Nowowiejskiego 17, róg Mlynskiej).
Wednesday 24th June - Ostrzeszów - Kawiarnia Baszta (ul. Zamkowa 6).
Thursday 25th June - Wolów - WOK (ul. Wladyslawa Sikorskiego 6).
Friday 26th June - Piotrków Trybunalski - Vojak Svejk (ul. Szewska 2).
Saturday 27th June - Tarnowskie Góry - Magazyn (Osada Jana, Aleja Kwiatów 25).
Sunday 28th June - Kraków - Klub Pod Jaszczurami (Rynek Glówny 8).
For further information regarding these shows please contact Bartek Borowka here.
A collection of instrumental recordings made by David during 1997-98 is to be released
as a ltd edition CD album by Trace Recordings later this year.
Titled Black Flowers (four track instrumental recordings 97-98), the ten track album finds dh on all instruments with the exception of one track. Artwork will be hand signed on recycled card.
More details on this release will follow in the near future.
David has recently contributed two tracks to a compilation album due to be released in September on Trace Recordings
The album, titled Ten features 10 different artists including Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks, Stephen Spera, The Resistance, and Sarah June.
David contributes the song What Was Left of You and the instrumental An Ending Has Begun. James O’Sullivan and Jane Wild contribute electric guitar and violin respectively.
David Hurn's latest album The Beautiful Trustful Future, is out now on Fire
Records.The album, written and produced by David, features musical contributions from James O'Sullivan, Chris Prosser, Amaryllis Rizou, Claire Brock, Yazz Ahmed, Tom Springbett and Niklas Tafra.
A single, The Man Who Stayed In Bed Forever, preceded the albums release and is available on 7" vinyl. Both the single and the album (as well as previous releases) are available to
buy at Burning Shed.
David performing Ballad For A Lost Cause live at London's Union Chapel last year. The clip is taken from a concert film made by Scott Derby Webb.
The long awaited James Joyce tribute album Chamber Music was released in June 2008. 36 different acts (including Sonic Youth, Jim
O’Rourke, Ed Harcourt, Peter Buck and many more) set original music to
Joyce’s Chamber Music poems. David contributed Hole In A Heart, featuring Abigail
Hopkins and James O’Sullivan.
David is currently recording a new album of songs, as well as working closely
alongside friend/collaborator James O'Sullivan on their improvisational
myth Four Seasons Television.
David's music can be heard on the discography page, and also at myspace.