David Ford 'I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused' album

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Independiente/Columbia Records is set to release I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused, the debut album from the critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter David Ford, on Tuesday, May 2. David Ford will perform several US gigs in March - April including support spots for Gomez, Richard Ashcroft, and KT Tunstall (see itinerary following).

Originally released in the UK late last year, I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused was written, produced and performed in its entirety by David Ford, who recorded the album between October 2004 and February 2005 at home in Eastbourne and Lewes, Sussex, UK, using an Apple G4 computer. Ford, who plays virtually all the instruments on the album, is joined on select tracks by Frances Law (additional vocals), Franco Bidanco (tenor saxophone), and his local football club, Team Sundry (choral voices).

Ford's do-it-yourself approach to his music is captured both in his original artwork for the album and in his self-directed video for the album's first UK single, "State Of The Union." Working live in front of a single camera, Ford lays bare his creative process as he performs "State Of The Union" in his basement studio, generating a full-on version of the song loop-by-loop and layer-by-layer in a one-take extended tracking shot filming his impassioned vocals and razor-sharp studio prowess. The London Sunday Times (October 2005) praised "State Of The Union" as a "...furious, polemical...tour de force of snarling agitpop."

Ford's DIY second music video, "I Don't Care What You Call Me," deploys an even more emotionally audacious use of single-shot one-take camera work, creating a scathingly self-deprecating moral tableaux enacted in a subterranean car park.

Ford began his career as an incisively passionate and introspective solo artist in August 2004 following the dissolution of his indie rock band easyworld.

David Ford and I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused have garnered universal praise from the UK music press corps.

Q (November 2005) called the album, "Bewitching" in a four star review while The Sun (October 2005) said "...his music hooks you and keeps you coming back for more."

Uncut (November 2005) called David Ford "One to watch" while the Daily Express (Friday, November 18, 2005) maintained that the artist "...deserves to be huge."

The Derby Evening Telegraph (November 2005) wrote that Ford had achieved "A debut of astonishing quality, it paints passionate portraits of intimacy through an endlessly engaging plateau of atmospheric pop."

The Manchester Evening News (October 2005) observed that Ford's "...real passion and fiery talent...sets him aside from any of his contemporaries and even more seasoned performers....Instead, he goes right up there alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and early Tom Waits."

Biography

When Sony and BMG merged to form SonyBMG in 2004, David Ford discovered that the BMG A&R Manager who had desperately wanted to make an album with him no longer had a job and consequently he no longer had a deal on the table. So one afternoon, a little while later, the pair of them sat down in London's Green Park and over an ice cream decided to carry on as though nothing had changed, except the size of their budgets!

After recording his album I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused on a second hand Apple computer in his Lewes basement flat during the spring of 2005, David Ford was amazed to find that rather than putting it out, as planned, through the tiny label belonging to his ex A&R Manager, the power of his live shows and the jaw dropping nature of his, home made, one camera, one take video for the song "State of the Union," had got record companies from London to LA all chasing to sign him.

The help and money that a big record company can bring is very attractive in many ways, but more attractive to David Ford was keeping control over his career development and so he turned down some mind boggling offers, including ironically, one from SonyBMG, and instead made an agreement to license both this and his future albums to the Independiente Label, one of Britain's most respected independent music companies.

The album was given a deliberately 'soft release' (ie no big fanfare) in October 2005, but the buzz on David was such that he was able to sell out London's 300 capacity Bush Hall that very same month.

Since then David Ford has been gigging almost constantly. And whether it's playing to a handful of people in little bars like Huddersfield's Cornerhouse, or doing sold out shows to 500 people at big venues like London's Dingwalls, David Ford wins new fans every time he takes to the stage.

The quality British press have fallen for David in a big way with Q Magazine declaring him "bewitching," Word saying that David had "one foot in David Gray's camp and another in Kurt Cobain's," Mojo magazine observing that "he is so damn good at it" and Record of the Day making his song "I Don't Care What You Call Me" its track of the year.

2006 will see David Ford continue to gig non-stop in Europe, the USA as well in the UK and Ireland.

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