COME BACK STRONGER

Tears For Fears, an A-grade solo from Steve Rothery and, erm, whalesong have all made their mark on the current release from Dave Foster Band. The guitarist and vocalist Dinet Poortman discuss their more relaxed approach to Maybe They’ll Come Back For Us, and Foster opens up about his recent departure from Big Big Train.

Grant Moon

Voluble, knowledgeable and infinitely positive, Dave Foster’s the kind of guy you’d happily spend a day in the pub with talking music, from its surface ephemera down to its deepest workings. We’re here to talk about The Dave Foster Band’s sterling fifth record, Maybe They’ll Come Back For Us, but the happy tangents come thick and fast, about his favourite musical scale (the Lydian mode, anyone?), David Bowie’s divisive Tin Machine outing (“misunderstood”) and even the anti-arthritis injection recently stuck into the thumb of his impressive left hand. It was, he assures us, “The worst eight seconds of my life!” We’re catching up with him right after the official announcement of another painful moment – his departure from Big Big Train (see sidebar). But that’s a lone cloud in an…

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