2023-05-02 16:09
I’m delighted to announce that following the CD reissue last year of my eponymous debut album, Seelie Court Records have now released it on vinyl. It is widely available in stores and… Read More
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2023-04-14 15:10
Delighted to announce that my 1967 LP, Dave Keir, has finally been re-issued on vinyl courtesy of Seelie Court Records. I am promised some copies and I will make these available here. I will… Read More
2023-01-27 20:09
I’ve had the occasional enquiry about my songs and/or albums being available here as downloads – which they weren’t.
I’ve fixed that now.
They are available n… Read More
2023-01-23 18:40
First come, only served!
For your free download of my Interim Reports album please visit CD Baby’s Redeem Download Card page and enter the following code in the box provided:… Read More
2022-12-22 15:13
Yeah.. well.. An early version of this was intended to be a song back in the day. There were lyrics. I remember that during a holiday in Rome, Italy, some years ago wandering around the city… Read More
2022-12-20 10:03
Please see here.The post CDs Now Available as a Bundled Set! first appeared on Dave Keir Read More
2022-12-17 18:23
Well that sounds easy enough. Pick up the guitar and practice.. Well. what do you practice?
In my view there – and I admit I say this as a performer – are two types of guitar… Read More
2022-12-16 17:31
Back in 2007 I wrote about this subject. You can read that post here.
Since then there has been, what seems to me, an increasing willingness of people – I’m thinking here of f… Read More
2022-12-11 18:38
The following took place in the summer, but it has stuck in my mind.
One afternoon, I was laying back resting on my bed after some exercises or guitar practice (can’t remember which… Read More
2022-12-08 14:48
Have a listen here.
Would I call this contemplative? Or merely a musical musing around a couple of keys? C minor is a strange key for any fingerstyle guitar player to wander about in. But… Read More
2022-12-07 12:11
Just to let you know that the guitar scores of my Outros are being published and are available to buy from Sheet Music Plus and other online outlets. Whoopee! Click this link to browse.The p… Read More
2022-11-07 08:56
Here’s a jaunty little tune! Fun to play and, I hope, just as much fun to hear. Again, the piece is working together of a couple of things that I came across separately although, mor… Read More
2022-11-04 15:01
All right, I’ve got issues with both of these. Not crippling or stopping me playing but in need of care and sorting if possible. The thumb in question is my left – or fretting &n&hell…Read More
2022-10-18 15:05
This Outro is quite straightforward and is composed out of three simple tunes that are of various vintage. They conjure up for me impressions and mental images associated with the times when… Read More
2022-09-16 12:59
Despite my best efforts to follow my muse, this tune has seen fit to waltz off on its own. Indeed, there are parts you can just about sway along to. This is the risk off writing in 3/4 t… Read More
2022-09-01 21:56
As promised, I’ve published the first “Outro”.
Having written before that many of my Outros are unused embryonic song accompaniments I have to now publish this which I… Read More
2022-08-29 14:09
Seelie Court have told me that the CD run has sold out which is great news. It was distributed widely worldwide so I’m very pleased with this. Thank you to everybody who bought it… Read More
2022-08-19 15:49
Since the re-release of my first record (c.1976) as a CD earlier this year, we’re looking forward to “I Can See Dover” to follow. I’m expecting to hear from Seel… Read More
2022-08-19 11:15
“Outros” is a project I’ve been thinking about for some time. Outros are tunes that have gathered (dust) over the years. They may have developed into songs had I found the… Read More
2022-03-20 11:49
Pending solution to world-wide vinyl shortage, the CD version of this 1976 album has been issued on CD. The CD can be bought here, of course, and from many other fine outlets. Those interest… Read More
2022-01-05 16:13
I’m pleased and proud to announce the re-release of my 1976 LP “Dave Keir” courtesy of Seelie Court Records. It is available on pre-order from Rough Trade. This will be av… Read More
2020-10-17 16:54
I’m not so naive that I cannot know that any relationship that matters will have its hard times, misunderstandings, disappointments, and even moments of enmity. But I’ve always p… Read More
2020-09-12 09:22
My old friend, Chris Eccleshall, passed away on 20th August.
Chris built a guitar for me in 1988 and it remains one of my fondest possessions. You can see it and read about it here.
I… Read More
2020-02-17 11:31
I admit that I’ve left this place to gather dust and I apologise to you if you have tried to follow links that have progressively become broken or redundant over the past while. Anyway… Read More
2016-11-01 18:36
My website analytics service shows me that, by far, the most visits my site gets from Europe is from Bielefeld in Germany where in the 1970s I spent a lot of time playing and making friends… Read More
2016-10-04 19:26
Well, kind of. It’s absolutely clear to me that doing a day-job in Aberdeen and my residency there during the week is incompatible with performing in Edinburgh – even at open mic… Read More
2015-04-25 19:39
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Furrowed of brow and stooped of shoulder. Was once a proto-song but I couldn’t bring myself to be so overcast on record… Read More
2015-04-19 08:03
Fingerpickin’ house-of-horror style! Contains a piece of juvenilia from 1969/70. The rest started off as a piece of fingerstyle faux funk-jazz…
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Outro in… Read More
2015-03-20 10:55
Fantastic eclipse of the sun this morning around Edinburgh and the clouds provided a great filter to allow me to very, very carefully take some photos: Read More
2015-03-18 18:29
What is this? Do we recognise it? I’ve heard rumours of musicians having been thrown out of sessions in Irish pubs because what they played wasn’t Irish enough. And that the disp… Read More
2015-03-15 12:27
Play the song:
I made this tune up in 2005 in Naples, Florida on my my newly purchased Martin OM-18V (see right). It was when I was noodling on some simple chords back in the hotel room, whi… Read More
2015-03-06 15:04
This tune is very old (circa. 1979) and was made up when me and my partner were living with friends in Brackwede, Germany. I’m not sure what it is: a bit ragtime, perhaps? A bit of a s… Read More
2015-02-25 16:41
2015 is the Chinese Year of the Sheep. Of course, we all remember the Year of the Sheep in Scotland in 1792. And I even had one of my own in 2008.
Meh Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m doing the feature set of about 45 mins. at Out Of The Bedroom tonight in Edinburgh (see link for address). Show start around 8pm and I think I’ll be on about 9.30… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have been invited to do the featured act at The Listening Room hosted at The Blue Blazer in Edinburgh on Sunday 26th July at around 8pm. See you there! Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Play the song: Some say the past is another country… (Don’t forget – all new songs can be found here.) The Reunion So nice to see you back Here after all this time So good… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Play the song: What to say about this? Best to read the lyrics below to get a feeling about where this song is going. If I were to paint a picture for you it would be of an unsatisfied, anxi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
30th August 2013 – Mahler’s 9th Symphony. Part of the Edinburgh International Festival. Why am I so moved to post this here? Well, I’m a fan of both the composer, this part… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Edit! Please see change of date below. Sorry for inconvenience! Someone must have read my previous post because I can happily confirm a booking at Out Of The Bedroom on the 2n… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I wrote here and here - and even here - about reasons I couldn’t play and sing. Since the turn of the year I haven’t played or sung “in anger&rdquo&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Or should that be “Jobs and Part-time Musos”? Which gets in the way of what? What gets in the way of which? Assuming musicianship has primacy, here are a few of my thoughts: Day… Read More
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