David Mumford

David’s earliest 6-Chord Songbook dates back to July 1994, with an inscription on the inside cover that simply reads ‘Happy Birthday darling, much love, Daddy’.

Being cool has never been David’s number one priority. 

From that point on, hurriedly purchased Squier Strat in hand, he quickly mutated into some kind of ravenous, listening thing. Age 12, he found himself gorging on every record in the house, from the Beatles to Bob Dylan to Paul Simon, and pausing momentarily to wipe his fetid brow, (usually during the Garfunkel songs), he decided to press on further into the perilous waters of folk and blues.

Alas, for many years he sailed, out in the dark, lost from view. 

Fast-forward to 2003, and David is emerging from a university toilet, ashen pale and shaking like a popcorn pan. The Squier has been replaced with a Tanglewood acoustic, and he plays a nervous set in front of a sell-out crowd of 12. 

In the following years, the quivering hands steadied, the whimpering vocals stabilized, and David set his sights firmly on songwriting. Drawing on both his early influences, as well as later maestros such as John Martyn, Martin Simpson, Richie Havens and the like, his music will calm your nerves and whisk you away.

He has pedalled his songs all over the country, from Glasgow to Oxfordshire back to the South East, where he is now recording an album, due for release at Gocstock V, Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells, June 2010.