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Douglas Dare brings show to hometown venue
ultimately collaborated with label mates Nils Frahm and Broadchurch composer, Olafur Arnalds.
Douglas went on to release his debut album ‘Whelm’ in 2014 to critical acclaim. A regular on BBC Radio 6, Dare has been named ‘Album of the Day’ twice with both his second album ‘Aforger’ in 2017 and ‘Milkteeth’ in 2020.
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Following the success of his 44 date tour across the UK and Europe in 2022, former Colfox/Beaminster student Douglas Dare brings his solo show Milkteeth back to where it all began. His third album, a conceptual album on the theme of memories of childhood explores the experience of a his early years growing up on a Dorset farm; surrounded by land, animals and extended family, yet feeling a sense of otherness.
Douglas left Bridport in 2008 to study at the prestigious Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts which culminated in a one-to-one songwriting session with Sir Paul McCartney. Encouraged by his success in Liverpool, Dare quickly attracted the attention of London based record label ‘Erased Tapes’. It was here that Douglas met and
In 2017 he was asked to contribute a re-interpretation of Dance Me To The End Of Love to the Leonard Cohen exhibition A Crack In Everything at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montréal, which went on to show at The Jewish Museum in New York before opening at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco in September 2020. He was invited by Robert Smith to perform at his Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre in 2018, followed by the David Lynch-curated Manchester International Festival alongside Anna Calvi in 2019.
Unable to tour during the pandemic, Douglas turned his hand to composition with his music featured on both BBC and Netflix dramas and even lent his voice to Disney’s post-pandemic television advert singing Someday My Prince Will Come
Dare is now working on his fourth album not before a final Milkteeth performance in his hometown.
Douglas Dare ‘Milkteeth: A Homecoming Show’ Friday 3rd February 2023 7:30pm St. Peter’s Church, Eype Tickets: douglasdare.com/live
