By DJ Monk
Tyketto singer Danny Vaughn will release what he describes as the solo album he’s always wanted to make, ‘Myths, Legends & Lies’, on 7 June, via his own Townsend Music imprint.
Speaking about his first solo album in 11 years, Vaughn says:
“It’s an album I’ve been talking about making for over 14 years, a bunch of songs I call my orphans: they’re a group of numbers, collected over decades, that I never found a proper home for.”
“This is the music I make when left to my own devices. When there is no schedule to satisfy and no target audience to audition for. ”
He describes ‘Myths, Legends & Lies’ as an album whose roots lie in his musical influences and passions, and in his love of storytelling:
“As songwriters and musicians grow older they are continually exposed to different forms of music, types of instruments, sounds and timbres. There is so much out there to excite and inspire us. ‘Myths, Legends & Lies’ is a result of that and also of having been brought up in a family with a strong storytelling tradition. As a child my parents read to me almost every night. Greek mythology, ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Stories of the Monkey King’ and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: all resound inside of me with the sound of my parents’ voices. They allowed me to paint my own mental pictures and that’s what I hope these songs will do for the listener.”
As previously reported on Über Rock, the recording of the album was not without its difficulties – in fact, it nearly didn’t happen at all:
“I became a victim of the PledgeMusic difficulties,” admits Danny. But he goes on to reflect:
“Looking back, perhaps the headache caused by PledgeMusic was actually a blessing. It gave me the push & impulse I probably needed to get the job done and it also made me realize, more than anything, that the fans are on my side and they are indispensable and significant. And if you have fans on your side, nothing is impossible.”
He will support the album release with a series of solo dates:
- Thursday 30 May – Grimsby, Yardbirds
- Friday 21 June – Sabinillas, O’Callaghan’s Bar
- Thursday 27 June – Cangas, La Buena Vida
- Friday 28 June – Cangas, La Buena Vida
- Saturday 29 June – Cangas, La Buena Vida
- Thursday 11 July – Edinburgh, Bannermans
- Friday 12 July – Blackpool, Waterloo Music Bar
- Saturday 13 July – Whitby, Sanders Yard Bistro (sold out)
- Friday 19 July – Nuneaton, Queen’s Hall
- Saturday 20 July – Buckley, Tivoli
- Friday 16 August – Bathgate, The Dreadnought
- Saturday 17 August – Ahoghill, The Diamond Rock Club
- Thursday 22 August – Camden, The Black Heart
- Friday 23 August – Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Cluny 2
- Thursday 29 August – Stoke-on-Trent, Eleven
- Friday 30 August – Birmingham, The Asylum
