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•–Born and still residing in the Vancouver area, thirty-five year old Dave has been a staple of the Canadian music scene since his first bar gigs in the mid-eighties.

Although probably best known for his six years spent with the Matthew Good Band between 1995 and 2001 when he played guitar, keyboards and co-wrote many of that artist’s best known songs, Dave has had a long and prolific musical career both before and after. His association with Canadian punk legend Art Bergmann garnered Dave his first of several Juno awards for Best Alternative Album in 1995 for Bergmann’s “What Fresh Hell is This?”, an album on which he performed co-writing and keyboard duties. As a founding member and guitarist for Vancouver hardcore veterans DSK in the early nineties Dave fostered relationships within the Vancouver music community that have led him to record and tour with artists as diverse as Strapping Young Lad, Grapes of Wrath, Pure, The Lowest of the Low, Bif Naked, Emm Gryner, Sweatshop Union and Theory of a Dead Man. 2002 saw him co-writing, recording and acting as musical director for Holly McNarland’s “Home is Where My Feet Are” album and subsequent tour. Dave is currently performing and recording with Canadian icons 54•40.

With several film score credits to his name, including the shorts “Second Date” and “The Dogwalker” written and directed by his brother James, as well as the National Geographic documentary “Yukona”, Dave is constantly developing and diversifying as an artist. His more recent forays into production have seen him work with West Coast up-and-comers Pepper Sands, The Dirtmitts, By a Thread, Lillix, Armchair Cynics, Honeysuckle Serontina and Mariana ’s Trench.