Dogman is influenced by the music of Buffalo Springfield and Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash, James Taylor and Cat Stevens. He has been playing the burgeoning Open-Mic nights in Lancashire and many charity gigs at local pubs. He played the EMI album launch party for Starsailor’s second album. The tag ‘Dogman’ came from his friendship with the band, as Ben Byrne, would always shout down the telephone to lead-singer, James Walsh,“Hey, it’s Dogman Dave’!” In 2010 Dogman went into the studio at Nelson in East Lancashire record a new song Galileo. He was able to capture the ‘Dogman acoustic style and music’. Early demos of new songs were put onto MySpace and older songs from his early CDs were relegated (http://www.myspace.com/dogmandavesands). Popular songs included live studio recording of ‘Home Fire’ ,‘Galileo’ and ‘Small acts of kindness’ and ‘Earth plc’ (a rocky REM-like tune about subscribing to saving the planet). These new songs soon attracted plenty of attention from fellow musicians with some pointing out his obvious Neil Young-ish style. Once enough songs had been recorded, ‘The Whisperer’ a demo album on CD Baby was released as a download album in May 2010. The download album included tracks from the two early albums. Online distribution made David’s music available as downloads through I-Tunes, Amazon and on Spotify. After gigs some enthusiastic members of audiences asked about obtaining a CD and this interest encouraged the production of a limited-edition digipak of ‘The Whisperer’ in June 2010. This edition included a remix of ‘Home Fire’ which included a talented musician David known as Mikans based in Japan. This marked the start of a tremendous musical co-operation and Dogman’s songs became remixes as a result of this friendship. The CD included demos of two songs recorded at Audiofile that were not available when the download album was launched. The ‘Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter’, a song-poem sketch written five years before and ‘Do my dance’, written a decade ago for his Liverpool-based musician son, Jonathan, to explain why Dogman had left it too late to make it in the music business. Mikans turned live studio recordings into almost complete songs. The BBC6 digital radio program ‘Unsigned on the net’ with Tom Robinson played ‘Home Fire’ in July 2010. The head of Expat Records A&R, Paul Shulver, former Virgin V Festival and Media head, heard and loved this Dogman + Mikans version and he began tracking his tunes put onto MySpace. In the first week of October 2010, Dogman’s new song, ‘Spitfire’, an allegorical story about the exciting relationship with his wife, was the most played tune after 'Home Fire’. The next song to be played on BBC radio was 'It's a love thing' and this is the most played Dogman tune on Soundcloud to date (2013). ‘The Cat that solved the String Theory’ is Dogman’s first album with Expat Records (in May 2011) and has now been handed back to him for re-release..