David is a musician and author. He’s played in bands since his teens, including Couch Potatoes, Joeyfat, Rydell, Come The Spring and The Atlantic Union Project, and is an active part of the alternative music scene, having promoted gigs, edited a fanzine and run a record label. 

He established his current label, Engineer Records, back in 1999 and continues releasing great records to this day, with well over 400 releases and counting.

His first two books were, ‘Punk Faction’, a collection of BHP fanzine excerpts that cover a range of subjects important to the youth of the ‘90s and still relevant to the alternative scene of today, and ‘A Hardcore Heart’, a semi-autobiographical account of the UKHC scene in the ‘90s focusing on the artists, promoters, venues, and labels involved. He is working on his third book now, a follow up to Hardcore Heart, about the post-punk scene from the millennium onwards, entitled ‘The Fire Still Burns’.

David lives with his wife and two sons in East Sussex, and when he’s not playing with his family and their four cats, or writing, he enjoys travelling, strangling his guitar and introducing others to obscure rock bands.