DAVE ARCARI ELECTRONIC PRESS KIT Page 2 – biog Page 3 – discography Page 4 – live photos Page 5 – press Page 6 – video & contact “Dave plays like he got his skin turned inside out and pretty soon my skin was inside out too listening and it was all good. That boy bleeds for you – he a real down deep player and a soul man...” SEASICK STEVE SLIDE guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues and have been showcased via ten internationally-acclaimed solo CD releases.
Arcari’s new album – Live at Memorial Hall – recorded at a venue close to his home on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond, Scotland, was released on 1 September 2017 on Buzz Records. The double 180g coloured vinyl/digipak CD/download/streaming release is the definitive collection of Arcari’s material to date.
The 2016 Hellbound Train EP entered the iTunes charts at number seven, filling a gap in releases since his previous (fifth) album – Whisky in my Blood – released on Finnish record label Blue North in March 2013. As well as showcasing Arcari’s trademark National steel guitars, the release features performances on banjo, regular guitar and and cigar box which help capture the full breadth of Arcari’s song-writing and performance.
2017 also sees Arcari focussing his live work on UK and Europe having been concentrating on building his audience in the USA over the last few years. His 2016 USA tour built on the foundations laid over successful US tours in 2013, 2014 and 2015 – including official showcases at SxSW inAustin, Texas. Arcari’s festival appearances include Glastonbury (UK), BluesAlive (Czech Republic & Poland shows), Moulin Blues (Netherlands), The Great British R&B Festival and Peer Festival (Belgium). He has also played industry showcases at the North by North East (NxNE) music festival in Toronto. With a busy live schedule in the UK plus regular shows in USA, Finland, Estonia, France, Germany, Belgium, Poland and Ireland Arcari is one of the hardest gigging live artists on the circuit. A series of shows with folks including Steve Earle, Alabama 3, Seasick Steve, Toby Keith and Jon Spencer along with his relentless UK and European tour schedule have established Arcari as a formidable international solo performer who is fast building a media reputation as a ‘hell-raising National guitar madman’.
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Live at Memorial Hall Hellbound Train Whisky in my Blood Nobody’s Fool Devil’s Left Hand (Buzz – album 2017) (Buzz – EP 2016) (Blue North/Buzz – album 2013) (Dixiefrog/Buzz – album 2012) (Buzz – album 2010)
Whisky in my Blood Come With Me Vol.2 ...something new Vol.1 Something old... Blue Country Steel (Blue North – album 2009) (Buzz – album 2007) (Buzz – EP 2006) (Buzz – EP 2006) (Buzz – EP 2004) DAVE ARCARI LIVE Credits clockwise form top left Michel Froment, Bill Gray, Margaret McDonald, Michel Froment, Bill Gray, Michel Froment, Buesmagazine.nl
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MUSIC DAVE ARCARI Forget the Mississippi Delta Girl power making or the clubs of Chicago – eight albums into his solo career, alt.blues maestro Dave Arcari is making a serious case for Scotland as the new home of the blues. a triumphant return Sure, no end of Brits have become accomplished in the genre – THEATRE but while many of them are technically fantastic,
GLASGOW GIRLS what we often miss is the raw passion that the ©Buzz Picture American contingent bring to the table: the OLLOWING a successful Skip Jameses, John Lee Hookers and Seasick showcase in London, Glasgow Steves of the world. Girls returns to its home at the So when an artist with a natural, raw talent as Citizens Theatre, where the prodigious as Seasick Steve speaks out in heart-rending tale of diversity, admiration of one of our own bluesmen, it’s quite determinationF and democracy was rst the compliment: ‘Dave plays like he got his skin told back in . turned inside out,’ he said of Arcari, ‘and pretty Through poignant music and powerful soon my skin was inside out too listening and it acting, the modern Scottish musical was all good… that boy bleeds for you – he a real depicts the journey of seven young down deep player and a soul man.’ women who embark on a campaign It might sound like an anatomically dubious against the inhumane treatment of compliment, but one we’re happy to heed. refused asylum seekers when their friend Sure enough, Arcari’s latest album, Whisky In is detained – a story that is made ever My Blood, does indeed nd the singer-guitarist more emotive by the true events from performing like a man possessed. which it was inspired. His slide guitar shares something in common In a group of teenage girls from with the aforementioned hill-country bluesman, Dumbarton High School began what while vocally his gru , rough tone is not a world soon became one of the most vocal and apart from Captain Bee eart. It’s a thrilling powerful pro-asylum seeker campaigns in combination, and one which certainly explains the country in honour of their friend, why each record has seen the Glaswegian go Agnesa Murselaj, who was detained after from strength to new strength. Rob Lavender her family ed from a war-torn Kosovo. The campaign gained cross-party Tonight, Broadcast, Glasgow. www.broadcastglasgow.com political support, an avalanche of media coverage and a myriad of awards, yet its
biggest win came in when the Day ©Robert Picture: policy of detaining children for Uplifting: The talented cast of Glasgow Girls are back on the stage at Citizens Theatre immigration purposes was ended by the UK government. folk-rock – an eclectic mix which blends incredibly tting and timely to remount Award-winning director Cora Bissett’s smoothly to create a compelling this show which celebrates the diversity retelling of the young women’s production, topped o by a high-energy of people, and the brave and passionate achievements, co-produced by the performance from a cast including Callum community spirit which characterises National Theatre Of Scotland and the Cuthbertson and Myra McFadyen. Glasgow in the st century.’ Citizens Theatre, among others, has Written by David Greig, perhaps best Glasgow Girls truly is a testament to the too received widespread acclaim, known for his work on Charlie And The warm heart and soul of Glasgow, an asset having been recently nominated for Best Chocolate Factory in London’s West End, which has been particularly present in the Musical Production in the Theatrical Glasgow Girls is lled with laughter, tears city in recent months, and as such the Management Association UK and plenty of good old Glasgow banter. moving musical is bound to evoke a Theatre Awards. Bissett has stated she is thrilled to be strong sense of pride. Catriona McGale The musical boasts a fully original and bringing the show back to Glasgow, greatly diverse score, varying from especially as the city gears up for the Until March 8, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. electronic grime and dub reggae to Commonwealth Games, saying: ‘It feels www.citz.co.uk
THEATRE THIS WIDE NIGHT You may have heard of the Bechdel Test. together after their release. It was invented, almost accidentally, by Commissioned in by Clean Break, a lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel in , theatre company that runs training and it asks: does a work of ction programmes to help female prisoners contain more than one woman? Do they back into education and employment, it have a conversation? Is it about might, in other hands have been a something other than a man? forgettable ‘single issue’ drama. No-one is surprised when a That this didn’t happen is entirely down testosterone-driven Hollywood movie the haunting beauty of Chloe Moss’s falls foul of this basic measure of female writing, and the economy with which under-representation. she portrays a pair of lives so shattered But, shockingly, a large amount of that having a mum who works at Gregg’s contemporary theatre does too. appears to them to be an upbringing of ©JamHot-Joe Connolly Picture: One play, however, that passes with unattainable privilege. The crimes that surviving on the outside by herself, but ying colours is Chloe Moss’s This Wide took them into the judicial system are only just. The drama consists in watching Night. Inspired by a series of writing mentioned hardly at all. the pair adjust their relationship to the workshops that the playwright In this production, Elaine C Smith plays realities of freedom. Liz Ryan undertook with the inmates of HMP Lorraine, an older woman just freed from Cookham Wood, it tells the story of two a -year-sentence, and Jayd Johnson is Until March 15, Tron Theatre, Glasgow. former cell-mates who share a at Marie, her ambivalent younger friend – www.tron.co.uk
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