Dave Garner was born in Sydney and grew up in an area not far from the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney.

At aged sixteen he picked up a guitar, mainly inspired by hearing Bruce Springsteen’s The River. A gifted poet and writer from an early age Dave wanted to combine his love for writing with his almost obsessive love of music. Growing up in the eighties he fell in love with the music of Heartland America and Australia. Mellencamp, Springsteen, Seger, Inxs, Midnight Oil all formed as much a part of his education as his schooling. In the late eighties, with close friend (still to this day) Scott Timbs, Dave created the popular and influential local radio program The Musical Hole on radio 2VTR.

An avid performer in school musicals, Dave’s first band was an outfit terribly titled The Silver Armadillo’s. The Armadillo’s played school dances and Blue Light Disco’s (disco’s run by the Police Boys Clubs) and covered legendary artists from Blues Brothers and James Brown through to Huey Lewis, Crowded House (when they were new too) and Bob Seger.

It was during this time that Dave met Daniel Alexander. A musical and personal friendship ensued and remains tight to this day. Sharing a love of guitar driven rock and pop Dave and Daniel, along with singer friend Dave Watts occassionally collaborated and recorded song son various four track recorders. However it wasn’t with these guys that Dave would form a band with. At this time Dave started to sing and also seriously write songs. Meeting guitarist Rick Wiezel in 1990 would see a collaboration that would span almost 10 years through two main bands. Blue Mayday, while short lived and hardly notable, cemented the working ethic between Dave and Rick. Often loudly disagreeing the two would form the backbone of what would become the band that was recruited to record Daves first full band album.

The mid nineties saw arguably the biggest turning point in Dave’s music career thus far. On a rainy night, at the front of th Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Dave, there to see Springsteen on his legendary Ghost Of Tom Joad Tour, wopuld spark a conversation with a guy that would have a resounding effect on the way he would later approach music. that guy was Bruce Springsteen. Then a freeelance radio audio engineer. Dave and Bruce would eventually (six months later) connect and form a partnership and a friendship that would become the most productive in Daves career.

By 1998 Dave and Bruce had recorded an enormous back catalogue of songs and decided to release two independent albums. Acoustic Demo’s I & II were essentially made for friends. Limited numbers still exist. The songs were the recordings that Dave and Bruce had made of the songs in order to simply have a record of them.

2000 would the reunion of Rick and Dave and the formation of Dave Garner and the Stand. Together the four piece (with long time friends Darren Haar on drums and James MCCamey on bass) would record and release Dave’s first full band album Nothin’ In The Rearview, as well as play edgy, raw and dynamic live shows in venues all across Sydney.

2004 saw the release of Dave’s second album One Degree Of Separation. A more measured album and one not involving a band per se, it is a quieter affair. Layered with loops and samples, many created by Bruce, the album is more reflective than the first, less rocky. A favourite worldwide among the podcasting community Dave’s reputation as a solid singer-songwriter started to spread.

And so in 2007 the release of Hard Road Home brings yet another step in the journey for Dave Garner.