David Fisher: The Web Site

Friday May 11th - THIS GIG HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO REASONS BEYOND MY CONTROL AND KNOWLEDGE - VERY SORRY - HOPE NO-ONE COMES. We will now NOT be playing at sally@stmarys cafe at St Mary's Church, Putney Bridge, SW15 1SN.

Saturday July 7th at the Colour House Theatre, Merton Abbey Mills

New Album Progressing Slowly

I 'm at work on another 12 songs for my new album titled THINGS THAT BELONG TO THE EMPEROR. Half the songs are ready for vocals and half have been demoed recently in Switzerland.

Videos

I 'm re-editing a 2D version of the video for JUBILEE at the moment. I have also recently shot loads of footage for videos for WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? and DREAMCATCHER in Switzerland. The 3D version of JUBILEE and various other of my vids can be accessed through the NME site here.

Radio Play

I am currently receiving quite a bit of radio play for my song VALENTINE as the result of brilliant plugging work done by Deuce Management and Promotions.

You can download VALENTINE for free by clicking on the song title and going to my page at Soundcloud. And you can see the VALENTINE VIDEO on YouTube.

I was delighted to receive quite a bit of airplay for my song CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE last autumn care of Deuce.

New album HONEYTRAP now available. There's a whole NEW SECTION HERE

You can hear some songs off the album on Soundcloud here:

THE WORLD'S SMALLEST VIOLIN

I am delighted to announce the release of my new album "Honeytrap". It is currently available on itunes here - 18 songs for £7.99 and it was released on CD, in the spring of 2011, available from all major stockists. You can buy it online from amazon.co.uk, HMV.com or Play.com.

Tim Bradshaw (David Gray / John Mayer bands) has done some producing as usual which meant flying to Boston in the States for preliminary sessions which was fun. I played guitars, drums, bits of piano and organ and an occasional bass. Extra singing and instrumentation was provided by the amazing Spygenius, inspired backing vocals by Vicki Workman, lots of bass from Mr Tiv, tambourine by the wonderful Martin Gregory, guitar from Chris Watts, keys from Neil McCarthy and Simon Woodham. Special guests Chris Whitten on drums (Paul McCartney, Dire Straits) and the legendary Big Jim Sullivan on guitar (who performed on 2000 chart hits from the 60's and 70's). Oh and it has been mixed by Jez Larder who has done a terrific job at Skyline Studios in Epsom, Surrey.

The wonderful "Look-In" style cover was painted by graphic artist Nick Spender. I'm standing next to my dream car which, not being a millionaire, I shall never own - the Mercedes C111.

South Norwood Arts Festival

My new band consisting of Alan Cannings, Alex Pym (guitar), Alan Cannings (drums/vox), Isobel Doran (keys/vox) and Tiv (bass/vox) played it's first gig at the South Norwood Arts Festival 19th June 2011. Here's a few pics.

Topsy Turvy Xmas Remastered and Re-Released

A few years ago I made a cheesy pastiche 70's Xmas single and asked the "punk poet" John Cooper Clarke if he would voice the Fairy on the Tree for me. He very kindly agreed and can be heard introducing the recording as the somewhat sinister fairy. I just had it remastered by Pink Floyd's twice Grammy nominated sound engineer Andy Jackson and have put it on iTunes for your listening pleasure. Merry Xmas!

click here to download xmas single from itunes

Facebook Page

I have set up a Facebook page. Feel free to contact me here.

New 3D Video now on muzu.tv

Check out the new video for the song "Jubilee" from "Honeytrap". It is in 3D so you will need red/blue glasses to appreciate it. The song is a special video remix and is currently viewable on www.muzu.tv here.

The video had a public premier on Saturday March 20th 2010 on a 20 foot screen in 3D at Ealing Town Hall at the BFCC (British Film Collectors' Club) meeting in the presence of their Patron, the wonderful comic actor Brian Murphy ("George" from "George and Mildred".)

Hear me singing in Hollywood movie "State of Play"

A last minute panic to find a singer for a track to be used in the soundtrack of the Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren movie "State of Play" led to me singing a disco "classic" "Born to be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez. The song is not my cup of tea by any means but it was a thrill to hear it blasting out of a huge cinema system. The movie is terrific incidentally - a good old-fashioned thriller directed by multiple Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald and tastefully scored by my pal Alex Heffes (which is how I got the gig.) This particular song was produced by star producer Flood (U2, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, etc.).

Old News

MySpace Site

Well, everyone is at it and I have just succumbed to the Myspace thing and got my own site - www.myspace.com/davidfisheruk Check it out for videos and music tracks and links.

"Firehorse" album is up on iTunes

You can now download my Firehorse album from iTunes, Napster, MSN, HMV Online and many other reputable internet download services.

Publishing Deal

I am very pleased to announce that on the12th May I signed a publishing contract with World Domination Music. They are going to try to place more of my material into film and TV. I'm hoping to arrange a celebratory gig at a London venue in the near future.

Stan the Man Repeat Broadcast

Stan the Man was repeated over Xmas 2004 on ITV 3.

Destination Vegas Promo Video Download

"Destination Vegas", is a track off my album "Firehorse". The video features lots of glitzy action involving Las Vegas-style showgirls and an 85 year old DJ scratching on wind-up decks! You can see it by clicking here. There are loads of production stills here

TV Theme Song - 6.5 million viewers for episode 2!!! (Photo courtesy of Granada TV)

ITV has now broadcast the 6-part Granada series "Stan The Man". It stars John Thomson ("Cold Feet" and "The Fast Show") and Joe Absolom ("Eastenders") and best of all Eric Sykes in one episode! Why am I telling you this? Because I've co-written the theme song with that very talented fellow Alex Heffes. You can hear me singing and plucking guitar "Coming Home" over the opening credits at the start of each episode. Ratings for episode 2 were published in The Times newspaper - 6.5 million viewers, beating BBC1's opposition, "The Project" hands down - it only rated 1.9 million. However, we understand that there was a big dip in ratings for episode 4, so under pressure from the advertisers, it was pulled from its prime time slot. Episode 5 will apparently now be broadcast on December 23rd, and Episode 6 on December 30th at 10.30. Anything can change with commerical television of course...

I am overjoyed to say that I've recently finished a session for the long version of this song, "Coming Home" with highly respected guitarist Big Jim Sullivan. Jim has played on over 1000 chart entries since his early days in the Eddie Cochran band. The list of credits in unbelievable - you can check it out on his interesting website here.

Just to drop a few people and projects he's been involved with - David Bowie "Space Oddity", George Harrison "Wonderwall" soundtrack album, Frank Zappa "200 Motels", Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin "Je T'Aime", Nancy Sinatra "You Only Live Twice", Tom Jones "Thunderball", Marty Wilde "Teenager in Love", Ella Fitzgerald "Can't Buy Me Love", Marianne Faithful "As Tears Go By", Rolf Harris "Sun Arise", The Kinks "You Really Got Me", Gerry and The Pacemakers "Ferry Cross the Mersey", Donovan "Catch the Wind", The Scaffold "Thankyou Very Much", Ken Dodd "Happiness", Thunderclap Newman "Something in the Air", Carly Simon "You're So Vain, Alvin Stardust "My Coo-Ca-Choo"... Its goes on and on - check his site for more details.

And on top of the fact that he has played on such an awesome number of important pop hits he is the most generous and gracious man I have met in music for many a year. It was a pleasure working with him and I would be thrilled to do so again. The fact that he's happy to play on a track by a herbert like me just blows me away! Thanks Jim! And thanks to Jim Earl for getting us in touch!

And to make matters even better we managed to get Chris Whitten to play the drums. Chris has toured the world in Paul McCartney's band twice, drummed for Dire Straits for one tour and used to play for Julian Cope and The Waterboys among many others. I've always admired his playing and was delighted to get him on this project.

Updated Galleries (6 April 2003)

There's a new expanded Gallery for the "Destination Vegas" Video Shoot

Updated Demos Page (18 August 2002)

You will find demos & out-take audio files here. I have now added acoustic demo versions of Dreamcatcher and Kissing the Mirror. There'll be more tracks as time goes on.Upcoming Live Dates posted on Gig Guide

Some venues offer money-off flyers to fans - if there is one it will be available on the Gig Guide page as a downloadable Jpeg which you can print off and bring to the gig. Not only does this save you cash, but it tells the venue that someone loves the band so we might get asked to play there again... Print as many as you need.Firehorse Re-release

The album has been completely remastered, two new tracks have been added and the artwork has been enhanced and expanded.

If you want to hear some of it, "Steal a Flame", a track from the album, is available as a special free Web single from my website here.

Diamond Gods

There is a compilation CD of David Bowie covers called "Diamond Gods - Interpretations of Bowie" and I've got a track on it! The song is "Memory of a Free Festival" from the "Space Oddity" album - a favourite of mine since I was about 14. Hippy twaddle about spaceships, etc, but it has a very pretty tune and loads of charm.

Recorded in record time (two evenings) to make the production deadline, I had to engineer it single-handedly and play all the instruments myself. Despite having to wrestle with a recalcitrant Mac with a mystery MIDI synch problem, I reckon it came out rather well.

I'm most excited to be in such excellent company - Blondie with Robert Fripp, Nico, Hazel O'Connor, Buster Bloodvessel, and Icehouse - all childhood heroes. You may be able to buy a copy from www.amazon.co.uk if you're lucky but I think it has now been deleted.. It's on the invisible hands music label catalogue number IHCD 16.