Dave Couse
| Dave Couse | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 (age 51–52) Tallaght, Ireland |
| Genres | Alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician and radio presenter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Solo: Beep-Beep, 1969 Records With A House: Blanco y Negro Records, Setanta Records |
| Associated acts | Last Chance A House Lokomotiv Couse and the Impossible |
Dave Couse (born 1965) is an Irish musician, producer, and radio presenter best known for being the lead singer and main songwriter with the band A House.
Couse has also released three albums as a solo artist.
Couse was born in Perrystown in 1965. He met some of his future bandmates while attending school in Templeogue College and formed the band Last Chance.
The disintegration of Last Chance gave birth to A House which consisted of Couse on vocals and guitar, Martin Healy on bass, Dermot Wylie on drums, and Fergal Bunbury on guitar. A House's earliest appearance on record appears on Live at the Underground (UK, 1986) alongside other up and coming bands such as Something Happens and The Stars of Heaven, while their first single release was "Kick Me Again Jesus" in 1987. The band would endure for over a decade, during all of which time Couse, Healy, and Bunbury remained as core members. Bunbury still frequently collaborates with Couse.
A House released 5 albums, as well as singles and EPs. After their second album, I Want Too Much, released in 1990, the band were dropped by their label, Blanco y Negro Records, and picked up by Setanta Records. As well as enabling A House to continue, this signing led to Couse developing a strong collaborative and personal bond with Edwyn Collins, and to an enduring relationship also with The Frank and Walters, all of whom were with Setanta at that time. A House never experienced more than sporadic commercial success and eventually decided to call it quits in 1997, bowing out with a farewell concert at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin in February.
After the break-up of A House an apparent hiatus followed for Couse. In fact, he was working on several collaborative projects. The detailed A House and Dave Couse discography at ZOP states that Couse and Bunbury worked on a project together in 2000, under the name Lokomotiv, recording an unreleased album titled the eighteenth Sunday in ordinary time, and that Couse also produced an album's worth of material with Briana Corrigan, formerly of the Beautiful South. However, almost none of Couse's work from this period has ever seen the light of day. The exception is one single by Lokomotiv, "Next Time Round" (UK, 2000) which featured Corrigan on backing vocals on the A-Side, and Úna O Boyle of ambient-trance-dance band Hyper[borea] on lead vocals on the B-Side, "Intercourse with the World".
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