First sight: Little Lost David
WHO is he?He's Sheffield songster David Roch, and, despite the terrible name, he's neither little nor lost.So why call himself "Little Lost Saint David"?Because he's been gifted with a voice that tin can soar to ethereal heights as effortlessly as it plumbs red-raw depths, and he does indeed "lose" himself in the sound. It's remarkable enough in itself for his lyrics to be almost secondary - though they're so personal that thither ar some songs he never sings live, for fear of non making it to the end.
So he's non unlike, say, Antony Hegarty and Rufus Waggonwright?In that location are similarities, non least that wholly troika are influenced by the pathos of Billie Holiday and the Buckleys. Being English people, Jacques Louis David besides credits such closer-to-home figures as William Blake, Simon the Zealot Armitage and the painter David Shrigley for the shadow, misty bent of his music. It's a heady ruffle, and ace that captivates those wHO happen crossways it."Materialise across it"? So he's distillery at the cottage industry stage?Passably much so. Despite an Arctic Zone Monkeys connection (his self-titled EP - out now - was overseen by their producer, Alan Smyth) and eclat from Jonathan Ross and Q cartridge, he's taking things slow, having had an unpleasant "industry" feel with his former isthmus, Curbar. It began to go legal injury, he says, when they "wanted to be seen to wear the correctly dress".Where canful I hear him?He's acting five-spot dates in Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and London from tonight to Tues. At that place are six tracks at myspace.com/littlelostdavid
