A Brief History of Dave's Times...

For anyone interested I am the same Dave Robinson who played Fender Jazz bass in local Sheffield and Bristol groups from 1958–2000. I played with New Orleans Barrelhouse vocalist and piano player Champion Jack Dupree, I formed Essential Bop in 1978, and supported and headlined countless name bands.

I played from 1961–1995 but not a great deal towards the end as I was diagnosed with M.E. and had to give up my job and most other things for quite a long time.

Circa 1968 ‘Bob Davis Mood’. I am far left. Sheffield (my oil painting).

‘Westering Home’.
103 pages A5 - @ £6 + p&p

However in time I was able to paint and write, and chaired two writing groups, first of all ‘Cloister Writers’ which later became ‘Claptrap’ in Bristol, and ‘Writers Meet’, a local group.

In this period of time I published five books, two of which are for sale :- ‘Westering Home’ which contains 103 of my poems, and ‘Butterflies & Diamonds’ a collection of short stories and poems from the group which I belong to now, here in Clevedon.

‘Butterflies & Diamonds’.
225 pages A5 - @ £8.50 + p&p.

Exhibition Poster 1999

I have had quite a bit of success with poetry in recent years, with quite high placings (1-4) in national competitions with ‘Spring Display’, (‘Ottakars/Faber & Faber’) ‘The Failand Tractor Racer’ (‘Torbay Poetry Festival/Arts Council’) ’Equal Writes’(Northern Lights’ – Aural Images). Etc.

I have turned some poems into songs aka ‘The Failand Tractor Racer’, ‘Farming’s Such A Funny Game These Days’, ‘The Windmills of Delabole’, ‘Candlepower’, ‘Uncle Sam’s Allotment’ and ‘Real Ale for Snails’. I am still trying to get an acceptable mix for these and at the moment am playing bass/baritone ukulele/vocals, with Wendy my wife on vocals and recorder and Peter Cook from Gloucester on fiddle. I am hoping to add G banjo shortly and am still looking for a pedal steel player to record on ‘Windmills’. – Watch this space!