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Dave Stark

A Week At The Cape

Biography: semi-finalist in the UK Songwriting
Contest for his songs “Calling out to
Dave Starke is a South African you” and “Burn after reading”.
singer-songwriter who strives to capture
human moments in musical form - to His music is lyric-driven, performed
sum up a whole host of thoughts and on guitar with occasional touches of
emotions using just his voice and a percussion and some very haunting
guitar. He describes a guitar as whistling. For Dave it’s all about telling
“nothing more than a wooden box with stories, so the voice is the most
strings, tensioned to near breaking important instrument and everything
point – it’s fundamental, honest and else is there to be a support structure for
often scary and it’s a good metaphor for the narrative.
the human experience…” His most recent album “Duende” was
released in January 2019.
Inspired by the creators and https://open.spotify.com/artist/2acM-
capturers that came before him that RhqNXbkhGJQj7gy7Cy
poured themselves into paper, canvas,
vinyl and clay, Dave uses enough words https://www.youtube.com/
to get you thinking, but no so many that watch?v=7ZQ9AMkYEoY
he tells you what to think. He sees song
writing as something of a survival https://www.facebook.com/dave-
strategy – a pressure release valve that starkemusic/
keeps him together. He is a two-time

St Georges Cathedral.

Verse two turns itself to thoughts about
the person being missed. Back home
where they are, imagining them safe
and happy and that bringing some
comfort to the “player without a play”.
There is a theatrical theme that runs
throughout the song, hence the
references to “Props”, waiting “in the
wings”, the “sword”, “armour” and
“curtains” as well as the the love interest
being addressed as “Prima Donna” – the
leading lady…

The song ends with a return to the
idea that it was an experience that was
encapsulated or frozen in time and that
to remain that way, it had to come to an
end – with the inevitable rising of the
sun…
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