David Palfreyman
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David Palfreyman (born 26 September 1966) is an English songwriter, musician, actor and poet.
Music
David Palfreyman is best known for the 2017 double album Decades, a collaboration with Nicholas Pegg, for which Palfreyman wrote the music and lyrics, singing lead vocal on several tracks.{{Cite web|url=http://spillmagazine.com/spill-album-review-david-palfreyman-nicholas-pegg-decades/|title=SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: DAVID PALFREYMAN AND NICHOLAS PEGG - DECADES|date=14 July 2017|website=The Spill Magazine|access-date=18 July 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/art-rock-album-reviews-round-up|title=Art rock album reviews round-up|author=Chris Roberts|date=6 September 2017|website=Loudersound.com|access-date=18 July 2020}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.progradar.org/index.php/2017/09/10/review-nicholas-pegg-david-palfryman-decades-by-james-r-turner/|title=Review – Nicholas Pegg & David Palfreyman – Decades – by James R. Turner|website=Progradar.org|date=10 September 2017|access-date=18 July 2020}} Alongside Palfreyman and Pegg, the album features a cast of notable actors, singers and musicians, including David Warner, Richard Coyle, Jacqueline Pearce, Jan Ravens, Simon Greenall, Edward Holtom, Sarah Jane Morris, Cassidy Janson, Mitch Benn, Jessica Lee Morgan, Ian Shaw, Gary Barnacle, Greg Hart, Terry Edwards and Martyn Barker. Decades is David Palfreyman's second album, following his 2010 debut RadioMagnetofon, which was released under his nickname Malf.{{Cite web|url=http://gubic.co.uk/wp/blog/2013/08/02/malf-eclectic-music-from-london/|title=MALF – eclectic music from London – GUBIC Blog|website=Gubic.co.uk|access-date=18 July 2020}}
Starting out as a trombone player in his early teens, Palfreyman performed at the Royal Albert Hall and other venues around the UK with The William Rhodes School Band and Rhodian Brass, leading to his first experience of studio recording playing trombone on the 1980 LP The Sound Of Rhodian Brass.{{Cite web|url=https://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2013/10/09/made-in-shoreditch-music-factory-malf/|title=Made in Shoreditch: Music Factory- Malf|first=Jordan|last=Stewart|website=Madeinshoreditch.co.uk|date=9 October 2013|access-date=18 July 2020}} Switching from trombone to guitar, Palfreyman played and sang with a number of bands during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before forming his first group, The Custard Garage, in 1995. Having turned solo, he released the first Malf EP in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sugarbuzzmagazine.com/bands/malf/malf.html|title=Malf|website=Sugarbuzzmagazine.com|access-date=18 July 2020}} Palfreyman has toured extensively in the UK, America and Europe.{{Cite web|url=https://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2014/01/05/music-in-shoreditch-interview-with-malf/|title=Music in Shoreditch: Interview With MALF|first=Jordan|last=Stewart|website=Madeinshoreditch.co.uk|date=5 January 2014|access-date=18 July 2020}} In 2018, he performed with Jessica Lee Morgan on the Vintage TV show The Vintage TV Sessions, playing songs from the Decades album.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwnCbZ9cNQ|title=The Vintage TV Sessions Episode 37|publisher=YouTube|access-date=18 July 2020}}
Acting and writing
Palfreyman trained as an actor at Richmond Drama School (part of Richmond Adult Community College), graduating in 2000.{{Cite web|url=http://www.richmonddramaschool.com/alumni|title=Alumni | Richmond Drama School|date=19 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019015416/http://www.richmonddramaschool.com/alumni|access-date=13 February 2021|archive-date=2013-10-19}} His acting work includes productions for the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, the Canal Cafe Theatre in London, and the Horla Theatre Company. TV credits include appearances in EastEnders and Peak Practice, voice-overs for the BBC's Newsnight and Sky Sports' Modern Pentathlon World Cup coverage, and roles in the films Oi Queer, Baseline and Brassed Off. He appears as himself in Cheques, Lies and Videotape, a documentary about pirate videos which appears on the DVD release of the Doctor Who serial Revenge of the Cybermen.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3131781/|title=David Palfreyman|website=IMDb.com|access-date=18 July 2020}}
His poems have been published in the Arrival Press anthology Poems of the Midlands ({{ISBN|1857861582}}) and the Anchor Books anthology Forward Press Poets 2008: South and East England ({{ISBN|9781844184798}}).
David Palfreyman's other vocations have included baker, fork lift truck driver, journalist, window cleaner and taxi driver. He is distantly related to the 19th-century novelist and poet George Eliot.
References
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External links
- [http://www.davidpalfreyman.co.uk David Palfreyman home page]
- {{IMDb name|3131781}}
- [http://www.malf.co.uk/ Official Malf Website]
- [http://spillmagazine.com/spill-feature-decades-conversation-nicholas-pegg-david-palfreyman/ Spill Feature: Decades - A conversation with Nicholas Pegg and David Palfreyman]
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Category:English male singer-songwriters
Category:English singer-songwriters
Category:English male television actors
Category:English male voice actors