Episode 28 - Dave Stewart - We Baked The Band A Cake !

When Ewan Dalton was my guest on Episode 16 he said "You HAVE to get Dave Stewart on to the show" and I'm really glad I took his advice.  Dave was the Librarian at Microsoft UK and that's where we first met, but in Dave's own words he enjoyed work, but it was never a priority. What is and always has been a priority and a passion, from an early age, is music : listening to it watching it live, reading about it, writing it, and playing it.   In December 2013 Dave went, with his brother, to see the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Despite what we think most gigs aren't life changing, but this one was. For Christmas Dave got a ukulele and never looked back. In 2017 he quit corporate life to focus fully on teaching and playing the ukulele and is now part of four different bands. During lock down Dave did manage to do some stuff with a couple of those bands but , having never played a solo show before,  he decided he would do that and stream it. By show three it had become a pretty sophisticated set up as we discuss in this episode and it really is one of the best, most fun, music things I have watched in lock down. You can watch it here:https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=259086572073700&ref=watch_permalink   Dave has an encyclopaedic knowledge of music and it was no surprise that his playlist is the biggest yet and whilst i have no measure of this I also think it’s the most eclectic and wide ranging. To give you one example of what I am talking about in this episode Dave introduced me to a band who only write songs about cricket (The Duckworth Lewis Method) and another that only write about Baseball (The Baseball Project) . The great thing is i have listened to both bands and they are both really good.as is this episode. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.   You can listen to Dave's playlist with 59 songs on it here (Please Cut & paste the link into your browser}   https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EtVDWLcBTAei3q4xs7Szk?si=tq9f10DhQZKWnlNyxXenZw