Dave Wakeling is crunched in the back seat of TVD’s rambler, rattling down DC’s Constitution Avenue, singing the vocal part from a new track still in the works for a forthcoming release. He’s joined in song by his iPhone sputtering out the groove-infused ripper—and here’s its debut for our ears. (It’s the track after the opening credits in the vid below.) That voice, I’m thinking…one of those that can sing the phone book and a party begins.
Dave is animated, literate, political, irreverent—critiquing DC’s architecture, global politics, World Cup, Thatcherites, and swearing like a sailor throughout. He’s full of stories from time spent in the US Capitol as well—from his days with Greenpeace on U Street to a collab with Theivery Corporation.
And then there’s the music—new music in the form of a full length, For Crying Out Loud which is presently in production and arrives in tandem with a Pledge Music Drive to fund the record. Your pledge comes with a bevvy of opportunities to spend time with Dave in much the same manner as we find ourselves at present. In fact, his phone is pinged with every new pledge to the then recently launched campaign, and the pings follow us throughout the afternoon amidst a trip to DC’s Som Records.
You can join in and be richly rewarded for your pledge to fund the English Beat’s new LP—from which 10% of the proceeds will be donated to the globally impactful, Doctors Without Borders. For now however, let’s go record shopping, shall we?
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