12 Facts About Dave Couse

Dave Couse was born on 1965 and is an Irish musician, producer, and radio presenter best known for being the lead singer and main songwriter with the band A House.

Dave Couse met some of his future bandmates while attending school in Templeogue College and formed the band Last Chance.

Dave Couse said later that he had not been fully ready to deal with his fresh grief while working on the album, so it is perhaps not surprising that the record's highlight for many is a powerful version of someone else's song about attachment and loss, John Cale's Close Watch.

In live performances at this time Dave Couse was usually accompanied by Simon Quigley on keyboards.

Genes did not sell very well and Dave Couse was dispirited, as his live gigging had not been particularly successful either.

Dave Couse had thought that as a solo artist he would pick up something of an instant audience from the body of A House fans, but this did not work out because of the apparently fallow period before 2003, although he had received a fillip through the 2002 releases of The Way We Were and Here Come the Good Times.

However, by 2005 Dave Couse was ready to meet the world again, and in October he released The World Should Know.

On 2 April 2010 Dave Couse released his album Alonewalk on Dublin label 1969 Records.

The Irish Times described the album as unlikely to appeal to a younger generation because Dave Couse is a "middle-aged maker of music the polar opposite of what passes for pop these days" but because of the lyrical sophistication and honesty of this singular and brave songwriter the record is "so affecting and so good".

Musically it is based in a palette of piano and cello, Dave Couse being again helped out by Bunbury and Soeller.

Dave Couse previously presented his own radio show "The Lighthouse" on Irish radio station Today FM every Sunday evening.

Dave Couse tried to approach his "little" show with the excitement of a music fan being allowed to play music to other music fans.