David Gillespie

So Toronto in the winter time seems filled with people wearing black complaining about the weather, as if it somehow came as a surprise that it was a) cold or b) snowing...

Obviously stoked to be playing tonight. I’d link to my artist page but their database seems to be down at the moment, replaced by error messages where results should be. Oh, here’s something that kinda gets the job done. Also back at The Drake on April 6th. Looking forward to it...

So it’s quite exciting, I have my first gig not on Australian soil coming up. I will be playing solo acoustic at Toronto venue The Drake Hotel. Poster below, it’s next Monday night (March 2nd), around midnight. You know you want to...

It’s extraordinary the space life expands to occupy, and equally contracts when it needs to. My life is just a series of boxes at the moment...

I seriously (srsly) love this. While it needs a bunch of people to really make it work, the idea behind it is brilliant. Everyone is an instrument somewhere in four bars that repeat, they get played once and you collaborate to produce music. Look for my next album to feature this heavilly...

So I had a guitar riff and the chorus running around my head, which I quickly put down into Garage Band so I didn’t forget the idea. Then, just sitting at my desk, started playing the chorus and the words…well…the words just came...

Lisa Breslow has an exhibition going in NYC at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts until December 20. I unfortunately make it to town 11 days later so will miss it. Those in town should check it out. Found via the ever brilliant bad banana blog...

I got a new set of clothes and a pretty red rose, and a woman I can call my friend - Bruce Springsteen, Better Days That is, quite possibly, my favourite line in any song, ever. I do of course request the right to change that point of view on account of the fact that, well, I’m me...

Sitting at home on a rainy Thursday with Don Henley’s New York Minute on repeat while being unable to access my company’s servers is tres-’ow-you-say, boooooreeng...

Then again, neither does he. P.S. Somebody please sign me so I can make ‘em like that again. Kthxbai.

Just watched a great video over at Andy Whitlock’s Now In Colour of a house-to-house tour that has been going for sometime, but Orange UK sponsored over last summer (I think). It goes for about 20 minutes, check it out, I love it...

Well he does. God knows how this started, but check out the site, the tag is everywhere. Something about it I find absolutely hysterical, can’t put my finger on it...

This is entirely nerve-wracking, but given my propensity for thinking things through, I’m usually only right when I’m really nervous. Besides, if you’re not nervous, then nothing is at stake, right? If nothing is at stake, then why do we bother in the first place...

This is a song where the lyric came quickly. I’m a big believer that all the songs have already been written, and every now and then somebody somewhere just allows you to have a little. On this day they gave me it all at once, which is rare...

I’m one of the last to know here, but Bon Iver. Man. If you haven’t heard front-man Justin Vernon yet, it’s such a pleasure to be the guy who introduces you to him. Did I say he makes me want to hang up my guitar? Change my mind; he makes me want to play more than ever...

I could have sworn I had an army of minions to do my bidding. *claps hands* Where are my minions?!?! Once the minions return I have some dmeos I’m going to start uploading. The minions have to come configure the music player on this blog. And bring me a pina colada...

I was saying to someone the other day I feel sorry for all the indie kids of the world - imagine having to wait for a bandwagon to come along before knowing which music it’s OK to like, it must be terrible. David Brooks has a great piece in The New York Times around this very thing...

Came across an interesting guy this week, Mark Mulligan who works for Jupiter Research in the UK. I say interesting, I mean interesting if you’re interested in the business of music. If you’re not, it will be the blog equivalent of War & Peace without any of the interesting bits...

Apparently I’m an expert on 20th century Russian literature Sometimes I amaze even myself. I also know a lot about Russian film. Bachelor of the year? Your words, not mine.

Came across this great photoset of Flickr, a guy who refers to himself as sogeneric. Check it out. **Update** Just saw this gem too, love it

I just got in from taking my band to see the Scorsese-directed epic, Shine A Light. It's hard to imagine anyone other than Scorsese being able to pull that off, to capture the energy of the Stones and...

Here we are again, another year down and none the wiser for it. I went back and re-read what I wrote last year on this day, and while it makes me smile, it’s also tinged with a dose of regret. A.

Lesson 1 - Just do it!!That might seem obvious, but it really isn't. As people we create incredible barriers for ourselves, different reasons why something can or cannot happen. For me in my writing i...

I'm dispensing with my usual penchant for waxing lyrical (too late I know). My album is now on iTunes, which on one hand is no huge thing as almost anyone can do it, but it is exciting for me. I just ...

I'm no fan of talking just for the sake of it, I've often thought one of my big failings is an inability to make small talk, I just do not have it in me. I cannot talk about the weather or equivalent,...

I spend a lot of time with my heart more on my sleeve than I'd really like, and I'm getting better at hiding that, though whether that is necessarily a good thing is up for debate. Invariably my favou...

I've just been on the phone to my health insurance company, trying to figure out how to claim some of the money the dentist mercilessly ripped from my person a couple weeks back. I hadn't been to the ...