Hi, I'm Dave Long and I was born in Dublin, Ireland. Growing up in my household there was always music around me and it seemed that music flowed through our veins.  So it's no surprise that my brothers and sister along with myself  have all ended up involved in music on a professional level. At twelve I was handed a piano accordion and sent off to get lessons.  I was doing well at it, but as I got into my teens it just wasn't what I was looking for. There were no rock bands featuring piano accordions at the time and so it found it's way back into the closet never to be spoken of again. At sixteen I got my hands on an acoustic guitar and writing songs just came naturally. Before long I was meeting up with other musicians and forming various bands. A year later I got myself an electric guitar and the style of writing and band changed to more of a rock and blues feel which went down well in the many Dublin pubs and venues in which we performed.

Early twenties I moved away from the loud rock bands and took to my acoustic guitar again.  I started  experimenting with different styles of music and performed solo as well as with smaller ensembles. I concentrated more on my singing and songwriting which led to gaining singing session work at Dick Keating's recording studios. I entered music competitions and won  a trophy for one of my original songs, I also received radio play for some of my recordings.  A renowned music publisher who liked my music suggested that I should team up with a sax player, however not knowing one at the time I thought no further about it. Then I heard one of my friend's demo tapes which surprise surprise included a sax player. I became a real fan of the sax playing and wore out the demo tape listening to the solos and  wanted to meet the sax player  who was Tricia Gogan.

I decided to organise a music session with different musicians including Trish with the view to forming a new band. It was one of those memorable sessions everyone enjoyed  but unfortunately Trish had other music committments at the time and couldn't be a member of the line up.  This was just as well as my 'day job' as an electrician took me off around regional Ireland and of course my guitar came with me. I met up with many a musician and played the pubs at night. It also gave me a chance to do a lot of solo performing which I really enjoyed and this brought on a sudden burst of songwriting.

When I got back to Dublin and was wiring an old bank building in College Green opposite the famous Trinity College I was amazed to bump into Trish again. This time we were both free of any other music committments and we ended up performing at some social events which led on to gigs being arranged for us which led on to giving up the day jobs and performing at places such as the American Embassy on the same bill as Brendan Grace and Red Hurley. Other Dublin venues included the Baggot Inn, the Dame Tavern, Parliament Inn, Slatterys, Trinity College as well  as  sharing the stage with the likes of Errol Walsh, Freddie White, Declan Sinnott, Kieran Halpin and Linda Martin.

I discovered early on that Trish had also been writing songs and we found that our styles of writing complimented eact other and so we released a single 'Vision of Glory'  our first songwriting collaboration which got played on RTE radio as well as other stations. We  performed another song we wrote together called 'Running Out' live on the Davis at Large show on RTE TV and from this were asked to appear in an episode of the RTE mini series 'Inside' showing tremendous  skill acting as a couple of musicians!!

We're in the mid eighties and like most Irish  musicians we headed to the UK to seek fame and fortune. We had a couple of shows booked which went really well but due to the looming economic recession that was taking a grip of the UK  we realised that it was bad timing and we headed back across the sea to Dublin. This is when Trish and myself decided to get married and since Ireland had also plunged headlong into the recession, we got on a  plane to Australia like lots of other migrants at the time. We have been extremely fortunate to have had success with our music and performances since landing here and through the advance of the internet and social network sites we've been able to bring our music to an even wider audience on a global level.