Just a reminder that there are four songs from Hard Road Home available on Dave’s MySpace site.

There is a new web site for the covers band that Dave sings with - The Usual Suspects. The Suspects, along with long time friend Dan Alexander, are also currently rehearsing Dave’s new material to play live. They hope to launch Hard Road Home within the next two months.

The Usual Suspects play a mix of classic rock, contemporary gems, and those songs that you love but just don’t hear anymore. The site updates their original site with the Wordpress platform (the engine behind this website), an interactive and dynamic site where you can leave comments, hear tunes (eventually) and view photo galleries. The site can be found at www.theusualsuspects.com.au

Follow the links off the main page to see the brand new gallery we have put together of Dave. Some shots that go back nearly ten years…spooky

12/06/07

Dave Garner releases his third independent release - Hard Road Home.

“As you get older, you get to a point where you are far enough along the road to be able to look back and get some sense of yourself in the world. When I was young I couldn’t wait to get to this point, I looked forward to feeling more sure about myself, to be able to draw strength from all that had got me that far. ..[Hard Road Home] is an album about that point…”

And so Dave Garner delivers his most honest album yet. Musically a more potent, focused affair than perhaps even his last album, One Degree Of Separation, Hard Road Home fits in perfectly with where Dave finds himself standing. One Degree was an album for lovers, it chronicled the emotions, the arguments and the thrills on both sides of love and life. Musically warm and soft, layered with loops and textures, it was a red wine lights down late night affair.

Hard Road Home cuts a little closer to the bone. It contains stories of the beginning of affairs, the middles and the ends. From the hauntingly beautiful Forever Is Now to the desperation of Harry Hit The Road the writing gets into the skin. Above all, the songs get to you because you have been there. Garner’s strength is honing in on those parts of experience that we have all felt, or will feel. We have all felt the rush of danger when you are falling for someone you shouldn’t (My Lover and I). We have all felt that heaviness in the heart of driving towards somebody you know you have hurt badly (Halfway To Hannah). We have all wanted, at some time or another, to be found (Shine A Light).

“This is an album about people coming Home. For some of them it is an easy place to be, for some its unobtainable and for others it is a confusing place”. The most obvious example of someone coming home is the title track . Cinematically you are immediately seeing a guy walking into a town after being away for a long time
“They fixed the town hall clock and gave the tower a new coat of paint/And somebody sprayed the single word “justice” on the court house wall” and from there we get an account of the whirlwind this man has been in for the past “six years and eight nights”.
“I’ve been broke outta money and I been broke outta spirit
Got so damned sick I coulda been dead for a minute
I committed some sins but I’ve come back to atone
Ah yeah, its been a Hard Road Home”

So the album will be available in selected music stores, over the interent and directly from Audio2U. A new website will be launched in the next few weeks.

In other news, Dave is rehearsing a band to take out and play some of this stuff live.

Stay tuned….

13/06/07

Hard Road Home is now available online at www.davegarner.info and at Springwood Record Centre, Springwood, NSW, Australia.