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Academic/Singer-Songwriter/ Scottish/Australian hybrid. He is originally from Glasgow in Scotland but now lives in Sydney, Australia. He juggles an academic career with his musical passions. The route to his first single Brighter Day and forthcoming album The Chimes of All My life is unconventional. Playing lead guitar in several garage bands, some with Norman Rodger and Ally Palmer who went on to form TV21, he also played lead guitar in the Bootlegs with pre-Waterboys Mike Scott. Under the name of DNV, they released a single in 1978 entitled Death in Venice which has now become a punk rarity. Despite pursuing a successful academic career, he has continued to follow his musical passions a form of retro-pop for the 21st century. Influences start with the Beatles, Byrds and chamber pop of the 1960s, through the anthems of Mott the Hoople and David Bowie in the early to mid 1970s, followed close on their heels by the re-energising forces of punk, particularly the Clash and Buzzocks, then detouring via the Smiths, Stone Roses and Blur, and inspired by contemporaries such as Richard Hawley, Sigur Ros, Teenage Fanclub, Mull Historical Society, the Hosts and Spiritiualized. His songs are never short of memorable hooks with an underlying independent sensibility. Follow him onTwitter: allanmcconnellmusic @_allanmcconnell