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 "Progress" - EP can be bought or down loaded from the following retailers now from 79p!:
 
Amazon - iTunes - emusic - Rhapsody - Napster
Visit:
gavinmart.blogspot.com/ to order your hard copy
The life and times of one Gavin Mart will not yet be repeated here...  Suffice it to say a musical biography will be suitable, easily.  Having studied music and drums throughout his teens and through college, Gavin one day found an old battered acoustic guitar in a church hall cupboard.  After much due repair, care and attention to the axe, and ten or so years self teaching and study Gavin would proudly call himself a singer-songwriter, first and foremost.  Nothing else for him will do, well some other stuff he does is pretty good fun too (try googling Gavin Mart) but without his song writing routines and stunningly passionate performances, Gavin's life would simply not be the same. 
 

It seems a lifetime ago that Gavin Mart was facing an endless apprenticeship on the European rock scene as a drummer. With a hidden desire to be a front man, and having appeared with and supported such varieties as Motorhead, Shirley Bassey, Asia, Matt Redman, Barclay James Harvest and Dare, to name some of his more random adventures, he learned quickly where he wanted to be and needed not to be.
 
The honest, earnest and engaging acoustic stage provides Gavin with a justification that belongs solely to those who choose to take it and his passion for song writing and music with integrity is retained. Forming a solo act based in Leeds - UK, and often backed by the Saturday Vandals, Gavin’s Debut EP – “Progress” is not to be missed.

 
Gavin mart's music is without doubt politically driven through its core, with a hint of dreamy wistfulness and idealism to set the scene, there's a wry sense of displacement and a longing for justice in most of his writing.  Dramatic yearnings such as ‘Patiently’ may one day find themselves re-inspiring a  generation to vote for change, whilst the gentle simplicities of ‘Spanish Eyes’ acoustically demonstrate a courageous confidence in the power of the honest love song.
 
Musically able and culturally aware, Gavin Mart and his team of cut throat muso’s, ‘The Saturday Vandals’, avidly gig regularly throughout the year.  The local haunts of the Leeds acoustic scene are amongst regular pit stops, whilst a flare for festival invitations and garden party appearances seems to have become quite the norm.  With a challenging stage presence and call to duty, Gavin Mart and The Saturday Vandals are quite a match for an unsuspecting audience and heavy hitting headliners alike.
 
His debut EP ‘Progress’ proves his capabilities and stands bravely for the communities he respectfully represents.  Songs of the inner city perils and poverty traps balance calmly with the education his extensive travels to developing worlds have gained him.  There’s a depth of character lying just under the surface, which comes only from a life of adventure and mischievous longing for equality... take a listen and jump on the ride!
 
 "Progress" - EP can be bought or down loaded from the following retailers now from 79p!:
 
Amazon - iTunes - emusic - Rhapsody - Napster
Visit:
gavinmart.blogspot.com/ to order your hard copy

It can't of escaped your notice but the wonderful West Leeds Festival (which we love) is well under way. With exhibitions on prison walls, space hopper excerise classes, a delicious picnic in Charlie Cake Park, we have all been enjoying ourselves a little too much!

With our summer holidays fast approaching we urge you to come and lighten your shelves of the books that have once entralled but now gather dust! Bring them along Sunday 19th July 12 -4pm and get a whole stack more! Yes another plug for our 'Strangers and Fiction' Book swap day

What's more the fantastic publishers Transworld have donated some pretty cool potboilers

I am doing my research and reading Platinum a raunchy summer read indeed! The first pages left me finding excuses to have 2 hour long soaks in the bath!

There are also 30 copies each of  City of the Sun, Caligula, and Echoes of the Dead

If you would like to get your mitts on these pristine books then get along early so not to be disappointed!