David Ford

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.