PHIL DAVIDSON

Phil Davidson

Edge of It All

The new album featuring the singles

I’ll Come Running and Life In The Old Dog

 

When Phil Davidson first played his new single, “I’ll Come Running” to his 14-year-old daughter Brianna, the reaction wasn’t quite what he was expecting.

 

“I was sitting there with the guitar in my lap, tears streaming down my face, and she turned to me and said, ‘Dad, if you EVER play that song in front of my friends, I’ll KILL you!’” he said.

 

Fortunately, Phil remembered what it was like to be 14 years old. So he took his life in his hands and performed the song in public — to an audience that included Brianna and her friends.

 

“They were all teary and emotional, and after it was over they told her that they wished their dads would write a song for them. Suddenly I was cool again!” he said.

 

“I’ll Come Running” is a classic example of what makes Phil Davidson’s music so special. The song was inspired by Phil’s feelings of helplessness as the father of a teenage girl going through what every teenage girl experiences.

 

“I had no idea what to do, so I put my feelings into a song, hoping that one day she’d listen to it and know how much I cared,” he said.

 

Putting his rawest and most personal feelings into his music is what Phil does best. The result is Edge of It All, a heartwarming and sensitive album that will resonate with everyone who hears it.

 

Edge of It All is a collection of intensely personal, yet at the same time universal, songs that reflect 45-year-old Phil’s experiences of life — as a parent, a partner, a son and a friend.

 

It’s an album that touches on the wisdom and possibilities of mid-life: the joys, the responsibilities and the rekindled hopes.

 

“At 45, I’ve lived a lot of life and experienced many things, and I’m finally able to express them in my music. The songs on this album contain a lot of raw emotion that I’ve never been able to really capture before. I think honesty is the key,” Phil said.

 

The album came about after a bet with friends led to Phil recording a five-track demo EP, which he sent to ABC Radio personality Richard Glover. Glover played one of the songs, “Belfast Boy” and was so overwhelmed with the response from listeners that he kept on playing it, over and over, all afternoon. Listeners continued to call and the song was included on the ABC Radio playlist.

 

Not surprisingly, ABC Music was equally captivated by Phil’s catchy, yet intensely moving songs, and the result was an album deal.

 

One of the tracks on Edge of It All, “Life in the Old Dog” — also featured on Phil’s new single — was inspired by those experiences.

 

“It’s a song about how opportunities can come when you least expect them, and about how you need to seize the moment and make the most of it.

 

“The song’s partly for Richard Glover, and partly about my own experience. It really sums up how things are for me now — and these days I’m old enough to appreciate it!” Phil said.

 

As well as “I’ll Come Running”, Edge of It All features an exquisite song written for Phil’s younger daughter, 11-year-old Georgia (who was born with Down Syndrome). It is titled “Georgia’s Smile” and its subject loves nothing more than singing along with her dad.

 

The album also includes “Belfast Boy”, an autobiographical song about Phil’s return to the city of his birth after almost two decades, and “Ballymena Agnes”, a gentle and poignant ballad written for his grandmother.

 

“Between the Concrete and the Sky” is a song about wanting to make your life count, and being relevant to the world, while the tongue-in-cheek “Lonely Guy.com” explores what Phil calls the “big lie” of modern-day dating.

 

Country star Felicity Urquhart makes an appearance on the exquisite duet “Our Love” — a combination that weaves its own delicate magic — while Play School presenter and actor Jay Lagaaia sings backing vocals on “Life in the Old Dog”.

 

Edge of It All is an album that brings tears to your eyes, a smile to your lips and a warm glow to your heart. It’s an album full of stories of ordinary life, told with perception, love and understanding, and captured in songs that delight the senses, both musically and lyrically.

 

 

Edge Of It All – Phil Davidson

Available from

ABC Music / Universal Music

Phil Davidson is available for interview

 
Media Enquiries:

Sara Walker, ABC Music

Ph: 02-8333 3951      

Email: walker.sara@abc.net.au