SCREAMING JETS frontman, Dave Gleeson, will tour as support to Lee Kernaghan on part of Lee's 2003 Electric Rodeo Tour.   With a new album under his belt  "Wanted Man",  Dave will perform with Lee from May 30 to June 8. 

Screaming Jets Frontman

WANTED MAN, the debut solo album from Dave Gleeson, is a collection of heartfelt and very personal songs; songs both autobiographical and analytical of life and relationships.

 “ Everyone has a multi faceted personality”, Gleeson says, “these songs weren’t written and recorded to change anybody’s world, more to give me a chance to explore some of the other facets of my own”.

Recorded during the first weeks of 2002, the album has been a long time in the making for the sometimes outspoken Screaming Jets frontman.

“I’ve been writing and collecting songs over the last few years, songs that never really suited the Jets, so I just left them on the backburner until I had the time and resources to record them exactly as I wanted”.  Best described as ‘rootsy with country overtones’, the album contains songs written  by Gleeson, as well as by other artists, two by Melbourne singer/songwriter Brent Parlane (who also collaborated with Gleeson on other tracks) and one by Kris Kristofferson. The songs range from moody ballads of loves and lives lost, to songs for good ol’ boys in smoky bars and meant for singing in loud beer soaked voices. 

“My influences are many and varied, and I think albums should be able to display a diversity, so as not to show the artist as one dimensional or some kind of a one trick pony”.

 Gleeson enlisted the talents of his good friend and one time Screaming Jets guitarist,   Jimi Hocking, to help him with the project.  “ It was great to work with Jimi again, we have been best of friends since we first toured together, and he has always encouraged me to do some solo stuff. I wrote the songs and he just kind of glued the band and everything together around that”.

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