Victor Stranges & DC Cardwell at the launch of this cozy & cool (yet historic) new venue in the Docklands heartland of Melbourne…

DC’s cover of the famous, and very moving Christmas carol, “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day” which he just finished yesterday. Actually, Samuel did half of the work – he plays bass and drums and also the amazing guitar solo. The aim was to make it sound like The Byrds and whether or not that was successful overall, Samuel’s solo is a dead ringer for Roger McGuinn!

I’m very excited because I’ve been chosen by Noisetrade as one of their “New & Notable”artists for the next week, AND I have a new, epic, song for you!

Marjorie and I came to the band late, not long before Together Alone came out, when I picked up Woodface somewhere on CD and we instantly realised that tracks such as It’s Only Natural and Fall At Your Feet were a kind of music we’d been yearning for but had never really managed to find…

Just Give Me Something Worth Voting For! Non-partisan election song with video, lyrics and chords. You know it makes sense!

“Gut Music For All People!”

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese” wrote G.K. Chesterton…

The story behind “I Am Still The Same” and an introduction to the remarkable Kate Allatt, Locked-in Syndrome survivor!

“I Am Still the Same”, the remarkable video for DC Cardwell’s award-winning song, has been selected for the 2012 SoCal Independent Film Festival!

DC Cardwell covers Nick Lowe’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?”

DC Cardwell Newsletter 3 July 2012

Youtube has shut down all three of my channels, so all of my videos disappeared overnight!

When I heard the sad news today that Robin Gibb had passed away…

By public demand (one person) here’s a 12-song live album of my gig last week with Victor Stranges & Samuel Cardwell at The Chandelier Room. You can preview it and download it for FREE – just click on the album cover which will take you to my Bandcamp site.             [...]

When I was young it was considered pretty naff to do cover versions…

A lot of us (ahem) “artists” have trouble describing our own music. We just make it. We like to think we don’t sound like anyone else. But everyone tells us we need an “Elevator Pitch” – in other words, if we bump into a top music executive, or even a normal human being, in an [...]