🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I'll be at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference in March - come and say hello! 🇦🇺 I'll be talking with the mighty Samantha Muir about our collaborative work, creating new music for ukulele and large ensemble (as well as the problems that come with it!). igrc.site/conf26/?fbcl...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 It's rainy and cold (in the UK at least!). So go and have a nice warming listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Qr...

When did Muse Score suddenly become such a dodgy app? I'm seeing so many people get caught out with its payment systems. Such a shame - it's a great app and they're wrecking it.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Check out my compositions Always Meant and The Only Marriage on Gerard Cousins's Simple Truths! Still on BBC Sounds! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Learning to Write and Arrange Music for Orchestra - a new module for Aberystwyth University's Centre for Lifelong Learning. Hurray! Wahoo! 🔥 Check out course details and sign up here: tinyurl.com/47ryf9me www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VsJ...

🍾 Make sure you check out this episode of BBC Music Introducing with Adam Walton! I've got a new, Midwest emo / math rock(ish) track on there! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 You can hear my Always Meant on BBC Music Introducing tonight - complete with a lovely interview with Gerard Cousins. Go and listen! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Seeing a lot of Classical:NEXT stuff. It's really interesting to see that they are charging €280-€490 (€100 minimum for students) per ticket - and this is before travel, food, and accommodation. I wonder if this will be mentioned in their "Expanding Access to Deepen Excellence" talk?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerard Cousins's Simple Truths is out today, containing my works The Only Marriage and Always Meant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfa1...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Always meant is out today! Check it out on Spotify's New Classical playlist right now - next to some bloke called Max Richter (never heard of him). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGr...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 2 new recordings out this Friday - get ready! Woo! 🪄 ...but before then, check out this lovely brand new score video featuring a recording of one of my guitar duos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-S...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I've a new score video up in advance of the release Gerard Cousins's new album this Friday (he's playing my pieces The Only Marriage and Always Meant, hurray!). ❤️‍🔥 Grab yourself a copy here: payhip.com/b/gbZUA www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERqY...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 In advance of the release of Gerard Cousins' album Simple Truths later this week - which contains my new work Always Meant and my club classic The Only Marriage (woo!) - I've released a stack of new editions of my music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERqY...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Excited for the release of Gerard Cousins' new album this week - his last release featured my For Alex, hitting over 325,000 streams!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 My new piece for trombone quartet and metal band - Leap of Unity, Leap of Faith - is premiering tonight in the US. Woo! 🔥 Huge thanks to the amazing (and patient) Beltline Bones and MCI Composers. 🎉 TICKETS available at: metronomebrewery.com www.youtube.com/shorts/cwzan...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Lovely to see Uproar Wales New Music Ensemble mentioned in theartsdesk.com's Best of 2025, hurray! Very grateful that my commission - Harm Reduction - was part of this run of concerts! theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 It's been a really lovely year, a great time with loads of fabulous performances. Come on 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Qr...

🔥 Check out my end of year roundup! www.instagram.com/p/DSpbGI-iWvx/

This is becoming a timeless whinge, but stop putting deadlines on January 01 - it happens every year, it's a Fun Police move, just move it a day later.

🎄 It is the penultimate Dave of Christmas! Hurray! Are you prepared and excited for the ⚔️ special video ⚔️ I have going up tomorrow? You should be! You must be! It's going to be great... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMMs...

🎄 It's the 22nd Dave of Christmas, who knows where this ends?! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Thinking back on this commission for Nantwen and the Dementia Trust. Beautiful playing in a beautiful place - and absolutely one of my favourite videos of any project I've worked on. A really moving time. vimeo.com/1116909859

🎄 It's the 21st Dave of Christmas, and I've got a brand new score video online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW7e...

🎄 It's the 20th Dave of Christmas, rejoice! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ...and while you're there, check out this new recording of my solo electric guitar piece Eternal Branching! Woo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Qr...

🎄 It's the 19th Dave of Christmas. I've kept the steak going. It's nearly there. Hurray! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obn-...

🎄 Cor! It's only the 18th Dave of Christmas! Getting near to the big day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Check out this brand new score video for my Sentimental Espionage Music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJu...

🎄 It's the 17th Dave of Christmas! Hurray! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The Stafford Orchestra are - awesomely - performing my piece King Christmas this evening! Woo! Written especially for them, this is a big, fun, christmassy composition! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLiC...

🎄 It's the 16th Davie of Christmas - when does it end? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 If you enjoy my music and my work, then consider supporting me through Music Patron. ! musicpatron.com/my-city-my-m...

🎄 It is now the 15th Dave of Christmas. I'm doing it. I don't think I can live up to the hype. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-PY...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Summer, Christmas, whatever! 💎 Check out my new video, it's my piece Summer Classic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpAV...

🎄 It's the 14th Dave of Christmas - he's still going! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Check out this score following for my piece SUMMER CLASSIC. A fun, riffy chamber piece for 6 players - brand new and going up at 7PM tonight. 🔥 This is the second of 5 new score videos before Christmas, woo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpAV...

🎄 It's the 13th Dave of Christmas - here's my absurdly difficult arrangement (for ukulele) of O Holy Night! Woo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSHw...

🎄 It's the 12th Dave of Christmas - I'm still going, I'm still here! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Check out the commission from ukulele virtuoso (and professor!) Giovanni Albini - it's taken from my epic piece, I LOVE UKULELE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDh3...

🎄 It's the 11th Dave of Christmas. I am persisting with this, I'm in too far. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Check out this performance of my Vale of Glamorgan Festival of Music Commission, Waves of Love. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

If we’re talking about working-class art, then working-class artists need to be in the room. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thaw...

🎄 It's the 10th Dave of Christmas. Food is scarce, crowds are dwindling, the winter is closing in... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Why not check out this commission I completed for Dyson and the Orion Orchestra (8 years ago, yeesh!). Love the Sibelius 5 ending and the riffs just beforehand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRCE...

☃️ It's the 9th Dave of Christmas - I am still going! It's festive! Get with it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=52qZ...

🎄 It's the 8th Dave of Christmas (I'm still going), and I give to you... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This gorgeous performance by Christopher Davis-Shannon. You can grab a copy of this piece on my site too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJ_...

🎄 On the 7th Dave of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a collection of riffs and ostinati from the the rock and metal I grew up playing. Wow, it's what I always wanted! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0S-...

🎄 It's the sixth Dave of Christmas (I am going all the way to the 24th - no stopping), and my true love gave to me... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A reasonably difficult, double tracked ukulele piece based around a really cool riff. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaIZ...

🎄 It's the fifth Dave of Christmas... and it's not five golden rings (because that should be happening on December 29th), it's 320,000+ streams! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerard Cousins's album Stay By My Side, featuring my piece For Alex, has just reached 10 million streams. Hurray! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLz_...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 On the fourth Dave of Christmas, my true Dave gave to me. A Soundcloud recording of a recent work for electric guitar - Merry Christmas! on.soundcloud.com/BfJWYPgFUiYE...

☃️ It's the third Dave (Day) of Christmas, so check out some of my Christmas arrangements for ukulele! 🎄 You can grab some of the music here: payhip.com/b/aGl8F www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGWu...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Eternal Branching, for solo electric guitar, is being premiered at Cardiff University School of Music tomorrow - come and check it out! 🪄 ...in the meantime, check out my performance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Qr...

🎅 Oh wow, it's sort of almost Christmas! I'll be uploading something new every day from now until the big day! Hurray! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Qr...

🎺 Check out HEARTBREAK - gorgeous trumpet and piano playing. youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&v=mferYrx7a5Y&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidjohnroche.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidjohnroche.com&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A fun interview from Cardiff University's 30(ish) Awards, where I was a winner in the Wales to the World category. Check it out! Woo! www.facebook.com/reel/2930863...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Lovely (surprise!) BBC Radio 3 broadcast of my composition The Only Marriage on Niall Breslin's Classical Wind Down. The awesome Gerard Cousins on the guitar, with the recording taken from his album Simple Truths. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Guildhall's new conference about working-class musicians is £125 a ticket 😂 It's almost as if they're not speaking to people from those backgrounds! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGFk...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Squirrelled away working on some new commissions! 💡 Go and check out this awesome recording by Gerard Cousins - over 300,000 streams and still going. Phew! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ave...

Currently putting together a talk that includes a segment on finding your musical voice. Any composers want to offer their 2 cents?