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Dave Rowntree

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Blur drummer Dave Rowntree’s debut album. Radio Songs,” produced by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Ghostpoet, Wild Beasts), is released.Blur drummer Dave Rowntree will release his debut album, Radio Songs, on January 20, 2023, on Cooking Vinyl. Growing up in Colchester, Essex, in the southeast of England, Dave Rowntree used to sit at the kitchen table with his father and build radio kits. They would then set up an antenna in the garden to receive stations from around the world, listening to exotic languages and music, and imagining life in faraway lands. The radio was a constant for me. It was one of the stabilizing factors in my life,” Rowntree recalls. Radio Songs is an electronically based album with an orchestral fringe, filled with great songs with Rowntree’s solid, expressive vocals that will surprise many. He has sung backing vocals on many of Blur’s albums and live shows over the years, but