Have You Heard: Davey Craddock

How did you get started? I started playing when I was 12 – playing along to mum’s Elvis records. My band formed when Todd Pickett (Kill Devil Hills) saw me play in Fremantle and insisted I needed a drummer.

Sum up your musical sound in four words? Americana sounds, Australian themes.

If you could support any band in the world – past or present – who would it be? The Band. It’d be a kick to sweep the stage let alone play before them. Definitely my band’s biggest influence.

You’re being sent into space, no iPod, you can bring one album – what would it be? What Rhymes with Cars & Girls – Tim Rogers. I’d hide Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town in the same album cover – screw you, NASA.

Greatest rock’n’roll moment of your career to date? My band’s decidedly un-rock‘n’roll but when we played Blues N Roots we took a golf buggy 30m from our car to the stage for gags – my ‘rig’ consisted of a Coles bag, a lead and a tuner.

Why should people come and see your band? We just won best group at the WA Country Awards. Come hear sounds from the other side of the island!

When and where for your next gig? 26 Feb, The Drunken Poet (solo); 4 Mar, Wesley Anne (solo); 5 Mar, Some Velvet Morning (solo).

Website link for more info? daveycraddock.com