Debut release from writer, vocalist, musician, actor David Crellin

David's father was born of a non-conformist chapel family, living in the back to backs of Sheffield, Yorkshire, and his mother of a mining family from Siddick on the West Coast of Cumbria, UK

Very early musical influences: as a child David's parents had a radiogram and five LPs by the following artists - Johnny Cash, Miki & Griff, Richard Tauber and two by Jim Reeves. The first music David ever bought was a budget cover album of Simon & Garfunkel songs, his disappointment was intense and only compounded by his second purchase - one of the now kitsch classic 'Top Of The Pops' albums - again made up of sound-a-like covers

David started writing in his teens after hearing his elder sister's Joan Baez albums, and has been fettling songs and poems ever since

David became an actor in his early twenties and has numerous television, radio, film & theatre credits. In the theatre, his work has ranged from small scale community tours to the National Theatre. In television, David is best known for playing regular character roles in the gritty BBC2 drama 'The Cops' and the popular British soaps 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale'

David's Album Notes:

If your main care
Is what you wear
You prove your head
Is full of air

We need to take responsibility, too often in conversation I hear "I can't do anything about it" or even more vexing "you can't change anything". Maybe I can't - as individuals we can't stop public execution, wife beating, bride burning or child abuse but that doesn't mean we should stand back and say nothing.

How loath to be an old man and discover you spent your life in pursuit of vain glories.

The great tragedy of the West is that we live a charmed existence but don't realize it.

To have lived in paradise and not know it.

I'm an innocent bystander,
I've kept my nose and conscience clean.
Never raised a fist in anger,
Not since I was in my teens.
I'm an innocent bystander:
Innocent as I perceive.