David’s Music – Down At The Front https://www.downatthefront.co.uk The place to be to experience new music Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:31:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 212659681 Joyeria at Davids Music https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/40628 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:31:36 +0000 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/?p=40628 Great in-store with Joyeria playing music and reading some of his poetry

]]> 40628 Tanita Tikaram https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/39120 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:25:12 +0000 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/?p=39120 I don’t really buy many LPs any more. I don’t have the room, so tend to limit my purchases to albums that come as part of an in-store performance. That sadly means, I rarely get to David’s Music (bookshop & cafe) in Letchworth. Which is a pity. It’s a great record shop. So I try and support their in-stores whenever I can. Their cafe has recently been refurbished and they have taken the opportunity to create a little performance space in the corner. Christening the ‘new venue’ was Tanita Tikaram, who performed as part of her album release tour. She was a perfect way to open this great new space and it was a pleasure to catch her performance. Hopefully, they will grow the use of this great new space.

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]]> 39120 Field Music https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/33590 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:24:43 +0000 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/?p=33590 It’s not very often I get to a lunchtime gig. Field Music are not a band I’ve really listened to. They were playing David’s Music a lunchtime album release show in Letchworth and it seemed perfect time to catch up with them.

]]> 33590 Emily Barker https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/28853 Wed, 29 May 2024 21:29:13 +0000 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/?p=28853 Another night with a Daylight alumni. Emily Barker returning to David’s Music in Letchworth, to celebrate the release of her new album, Fragile as Humans, a beautiful reflective and personal album.

]]> 28853 JW Francis https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/17252 Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:43:30 +0000 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/?p=17252 I debated whether to go to this in-store for the release of JW Francis’s ‘Dream House’, as I planned to go in St Albans and work beforehand and it would be difficult to do both. However, on woke up on the morning and decided to work from home and try my best to do both. 

The problem with in-stores in the Shires, they often don’t start on time. Artists are reliant on trains or battling traffic. Often having visited a London store earlier in the day. Tonight, the expectant crowd had to wait as JW got stuck in traffic and I might have spent most of my time staring at my phone trying to work out if I could still get to the Horn on time. Luckily, he wasn’t delayed too much. 

I am really pleased I made the effort. It was one of those evenings where the immediacy of an in-store benefitted the artist. James plays that kind of laid back DIY jangly guitar bedroom produced sound perfected by artists like Jeffrey Lewis. That kind of sound that never sounds fully produced, but always seems completely authentic. Like your friend is playing their songs in your living room. All helped by silly jokes and self-deprecating humour. 

I have to admit, I didn’t really get the album on first listen. Live, performed by genuinely engaging artist. The songs from the album really came alive and I thoroughly enjoyed tonight’s gig.

]]> 17252 Rozi Plain at David’s Music https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/17017 Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:59:12 +0000 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/?p=17017 First in-store of the year, Rozi Plain at David’s Music in Letchworth for the release of her great new album, Prize.

]]> 17017 Rachael Dadd https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/14841 Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:40:06 +0000 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/?p=14841 A return to Lecthworth’s David’s Music for Rachael Dadd, for the release of her new album, Kaleidoscope. It was a nice start to an afternoon with Rachael’s stripped back set of songs from her new album, 2019’s Flux and also some songs only available on the Dinked edition available from selected Record Stores, including David’s. A set of reflective songs mainly written during lockdown which probably explains why they worked well in an intimate settings without her band mates.

]]> 14841 Duckworth Lewis Method https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/934 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:29:46 +0000 http://gigs.pahudson.net/?p=934 Two gigs from my favourite cricket pop purveyors, the Duckworth Lewis Method. The first an in-store at David’s Music Letchworth, the second a few days later, at the home of cricket.

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Duckworth Lewis Method at David’s Music

Second Innings - The Duckworth Lewis Method at Lords
Duckworth Lewis Method at Lords

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