I'm as happy as!!!!!
Just been confirmed that I will be doing three shows at this years Gympie Muster. August 27, 28 and 29. Times to be confirmed...
GREAT NEWS FOR ME! I've just been informed that I will be part of the Mildra Country Music Festival this year. It's on from the 23rd September -4th of October. I love this festival and I hope to see you there!
EAST COAST RUN
My little run through NSW was a lot of fun, catching up with a few mates along the way. It was great to work with Mike Carr at the Bateau Bay Sports club, Laroosa's Rest in Sydney, and then the Wyong RSL club. It was then off to the Lithgow and Katoomba RSL clubs form shows with Greg Hayes and Peter Dean. On the way home I stopped at Wagga Wagga and did a show at the RSL club. What a great laid back afternoon, and many thanks to the CM club for organising it.
Here's a photo at the Lithgow RSL.
March 2010
What a great Tamworth! I had a great time doing the support for Adam Harvey's 2 Tamworth shows, a great time doing the Bush Poet's breakfasts with Neal McArther at the Longyard, and a great time doing the Honky Tonk Bar at the Family with Bob Howie and Band.
On Sunday the 6th of March it was off to the Mt Gambier Festival where I caught up with Sandra Humphries and Henry, Graham Hugo and met Alan Webster. A fine time had by all, including a couple of reds.
This month my tour of NSW takes me to Picton, Sydney, Wagga Wagga, Bataeu Bay, Wyong, Lithgow and Katoomba. See gig guide for details.
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
September 15, 2009
Following on the heels of his first critically acclaimed foray into live comedy with his
somewhat self titled album ‘Big Fat Bastard’s Like Me’, Dave Prior is back to his observant comic best with his latest offering titled ‘The Soup’s Too Hot’.
The title tracked, spurned by a grumpy old man whose only conversation with his long suffering spouse at a non-too salubrious roadhouse in a non too exotic remote location was to complain the ‘Soup’s too Hot’ sparked the new album. Once again the big man draws on his own experience of life, his long search for a relationship and his relationship with the long arm of the law to deliver such arresting numbers as ‘The Slamming of the Door’, ‘The Uniformed Tax Collector and ‘Waiting for Lotto.
The live album, recorded with Stuie French at his side and co-written with Ian Heydon of ‘Kingswood Country’ and ‘How Green is my Cactus’ fame delivers 10 fresh, uniquely original and laugh out loud tracks.
And whilst Dave’s career continues to take him to destinations largely only ever heard of on Slim Dusty songs, he’s more recently been risking deep vein thrombosis and fending off bankruptcy with club and corporate performances interstate and overseas. In addition, the athletically challenged big guy has joined with big name cricketing legends Lennie Pascoe and Doug Walters for shows across the country. Dave and Doug have a lot in common, and strangely enough, it’s not cricket.
Further details, please contact – Dave Prior
0417 942 885
[08] 8843 9270
August 2008
It may have taken five connecting flights and a dodgy stopover in Port Moresby
to get him there but Dave Prior’s latest foray overseas to New Guinea’s gold mining island of Lihir left thousands of natives and expats with a country music fix they’ll long remember courtesy of a 5 show program and backing from a great band of Lihirian local muso’s.
It was a first for both Dave and the band, for Dave it was the first time he’d seen New Guinea and for the guys in the band it was the first time they’d seen much less ever used a guitar tuner. Given the success of and excitement generated by the said tuner, upon his return Dave promptly purchased one and sent it back to the boys in the band as a pressie.
But the Lihir learning curve wasn’t all one sided. Dave received a valuable lesson in
native music when having explained to the band’s drummer that the beat of a song had a ‘train feel’ about it, was promptly informed that not only had the drummer never heard a train,….he’d never seen one!
The overseas adventures just never seem to end for Dave, last year it was France, this year New Guinea,…next year who knows maybe a gig at an Icelandic Seal Rescue Foundation Dinner in Vladivostok. Who says country music can’t take you places.
July 2008
Singer songwriters and performers Dave Prior and Jon O’Dea don’t mind their audiences laughing at them, they encourage it.
The pair renowned for their string of popular albums and country music hits may seem unlikely on-stage bedfellows but the combination makes for what audiences and critics are acclaiming as one of the most entertaining evenings of one liners, tall tales and song on offer.
Dave, well known amongst country music fans and popular as the big man with the big voice interrupts proceeding s constantly to give your laugh lines a workout while John isn’t afraid of flogging the odd tear duct with some heartfelt tunes that have seen him shoot up the Australian Country Music Charts and walk away with a string of awards.
The pair attribute their prolific songwriting success to having had the perfect life from which to garnish material having both dealt with death, drinking, near death, tragic dog tales, drinking, constantly unrequited love and love which in hindsight would have been better had it gone unrequited.
A Recent great time had at the Horsham Country Music Festival nin April 2008. Here's a pic or two.
It was great to catch up with so many people at the Mildura Country Music festival recently.
I've been busy, including a gig in France. Check out the photo's in the photo section. Here's the press release:
A crowd of over 5000 flocked to Le Neubourg in September for the
annual DAM Country Music Festival in France. Heading the international
line-up was Australian artist Dave Prior who, backed by a sensational solid 3 piece band of French based session muso’s kept the crowd on its feet for over an hour.
The crowd stayed with the big Australian as he reeled off a string of well known crowd favourites including Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash in addition to his own original works. The crowd stayed on to snap up copies of his CD in droves after the concert. Dave recalls there for a brief moment he experienced what
It felt like to be Adam Harvey, loved, applauded, adored, and for those standing far enough back in the crowd, he could have even been mistaken for being handsome! But, c’est la vie things have settled down now he’s back on Aussie dirt with the crowds close enough to know the truth, and being mobbed by a frenzy of French Country music fans now a distant, but fond memory.
Tamworth is look fantastic for me this year. I have 12 shows over the week so check out my gig guide and make sure you come and say Hello!
