Music News Monthly Magazine May 2024 - Magazine - Page 15
PRIVATE DICKS FRONTMAN GAV KING
ANNOUNCES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM 8SKELETONS9
MARCH 29TH 2024 VIA HEARTBEAT RECORDS
Blending seething vocals with sweeping,
majestic arrangements, Skeletons is a
dark, mature record littered with the
infectious choruses that made Private
Dicks the band they were back in the day.
It9s fair to say making a solo album was
not something Gavin saw himself doing,
even as he was making it, but life has a
funny way of putting you where you9re
meant to be.
After stepping back from the music
business in the mid-nineties, he crossed
paths with a band called River Street who
happened to be looking for a singer and
once again Gavin found himself dragged
back to the stage. Fast forward a few
years, and a few solo dabblings never
meant for public display, and Gavin finds
that Private Dicks are having something of
a resurgence - in Japan; which lead to four
old friends meeting up again for a drink or
two.