BLOKE'S BIO. DAVE OVENDEN

                       Blokes Bio…

Born in Newcastle Australia 31- 3- 47…Started playing the banjo Mandolin at 10 years old…Left school at 15 for a job as an apprentice fitter and turner…Started playing the Drums at 16…

Moved to Sydney in 1965…For the next 10 years, played the drums with many bands…Recording, touring, playing the Pubs, Clubs, Festivals and T V shows…Left Sydney in 1975 and moved to the Tweed…Residing at Bilambil caravan park…

 Formed the Bullamakanka Bush Grass Band in 1978 as lead vocalist, playing Mandolin, Harmonica and Largerphone…

Six Tamworth golden guitars, seven CD’s and thirty years later, the Bullas still make the odd and rare appearance…

Currently strumming strings, singing songs or banging some drums

With the Paspalum band, and the Bob Dylan song book band…

 Residing now at lower Bilambil Heights, on the Teranora lakes, writing songs, poems and short stories…A founding member of the Bilambil Blues Club, and regularly performing at Jamisons restaurant…Also, Wakes, Weddings, Gatherings, and occasionally at the many various Folk Festivals…

THE NOW WAS THEN…

When the now was then, I remember once again,

I ponder on them learning times gone by…

And I think about the good times, but that was yesteryear,

The moments fly, like clouds high in the sky…

I shed a tear for love, for love I shed a tear,

Though sometimes sadness comes, a knocking at my door..

These days I take it easy, at the office, nice and breezy,

Where waves roll in and wash the sandy shore…


And now there’s master Jettman, and little baby Belle,

As beautiful and charming, as anything could be…

While Bard is there in Dublin, and Asha’s on the hill,

The memory of the moment, is the only time I see…

From your album:
"PASPALUM"

From your album:
"bilambil"

ASHA OVENDEN AND PAT