Alex Dew

Musically the songs I write are somewhere between Ryan Adams and Arcade Fire. Stories of broken dreams and human pain. Lyrically I try to say it how it is, and like the aforementioned artists, the music spears through the haze of melancholy searching for that light at the end of the tunnel, and although we all find life can be weary we keep picking ourselves up. I am a solo musician and record most of the instrumentation, but have a full back up band who including myself make up a powerful 4 piece. We will be gigging February onwards. Q; why should you be interested in my music? A; The songs are painfully honest and the energy and release will connect with people who listen to them. Q; why are you solo? A; The process of the music I create is so insular and personal I find it best to lock myself away in my own home studio, this maintains the isolated feel. Listen to Neil Young, Ryan Adams, David Bowie, Tori Amos, Beck ...to name a few, there is something really personal yet intimate in the sound, a spiritual aspect really, a glorious loneliness that seems to say “One person against their inner demons..”, yet shared almost therapeutically with the listener. On the flip side my band is a great vehicle to air these exorcisms!! Nothing precious live just a raw rock show! It is early days but if jagged alternative rock sooths your troubled self let’s keep in touch...Bless you all. www.myspace.com/alexdewofficial