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April 10th 2026 News update
"It's absolutely wonderful. Amazing depth of harmony and melodies. Congratulations!!!!"
Simon Phillips on ''One the Edge', April 2026
"This album is simply a must-buy. It is simply pure enjoyment once again what Bainbridge presents on this excellent double album. So perhaps double the enjoyment this time! Sometimes it just doesn't get better than what you hear on On The Edge (Of What Could Be)!!!"
Henri Strik,
Background Magazine, Netherlands April 2026
Hi Everyone, Apologies for the delay in updating the website. It's been a very busy 8 months or so! Here are a few bullet points of the highlights of the past several months! *June/July 2025: Very successful 17 date Dave & Sally English tour, getting to a few new venues and including a wonderful reunion on the island of Lindisfarne with Iona co-founder David Fitzgerald and former Iona drummer Terl Bryant. *July 2025: 'On the Edge (of what could be)' double CD released *August 2025: Lifesign UK tour and Colin Blunstone Band performances on 'On the Blue Cruise' out of Boston USA *September 2025: Lifesigns perform at the prestigious Prog+2 Festival in Italy *September 2025: Download version of 'On the Edge is now available from our www.musicglue/iona store *September 2025: Complete work recording guitars and various other instruments on Downes Braide Association album number 6 (release date TBD). *October 2025: Dave & Sally play at ProgStock festival in New Jersey and complete a short USA tour with Mike Keneally's Beer for Dolphins (featuring Bryan Beller and Joey Travers), doing a support set and playing with the band for the last 30 minutes of their set. *December 2025 - January 2026: Dave co-produces, plays on and mixes Dave Brons 4th album 'The Fellowship' *February 2026: Lifesigns European tour (Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, England) *March 2026: Patreon Box version of 'On the Edge' is shipped! (see images). NB There currently are still 9 available of the limited edition of 100 copies. Sign up to any paid Patreon tier to be eligible to purchase one! *March 2026: Lifesigns play on Cruise to the Edge in the Caribbean *March/April 2026: Play with The Colin Blunstone Band on The Flower Power Cruise in the Caribbean *March/April 2026: Play Electric guitars/bouzouki and Hammond organ on Nigel Cameron's 'Manna Grove' album. *April 2026 Start work on writing the soundtrack for independent feature film 'The Thin Place'
"I finally has a proper listen to your Magnum Opus “On The Edge (of what could be)” from start to finish straight down, and I’m just blown away. It all sounds like YOU, and I got a taste of what that was while we were on tour. The grandiose Celtic-flavored classic prog thing is so well done in your hands. But it was the sense of a double album actually having the right peaks and valleys, and coming to a climax (which it feels like it does to me anyway!) in the solo section of “Fall Away” at 12:50 that really sealed it for me. Such a great work!
“Colour Of Time” (especially the end) has that classic active movement “wow factor” that we all fell in love with on the classic prog albums, so well done.
The title track was another one that really stuck with me, just the melodic sweep of it and the hanging climax.
The interludes - the acoustic guitar on “Whispering of The Landscape” and the orchestra on “Beyond The Plans Of Earth And Time” were really beautiful. The latter really hit me for some reason.
The opening of “Farther up And Farther In” got my prog nerd hairs all standing up. Simon sounds amazing on this!
And I’m assuming that’s Sally on “When All Will Be Bright”? Beautiful.
Thank you so much for sharing this with me!"
Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Mike Keneally)
On the Edge (of what could be)
Reviews
SEPTEMBER 30th 2025 Album News
Hi Everyone, the new double album 'On the Edge (of what could be)' is now out and getting some fantastic reviews, including this great video review from Andy Edwards! The download version will be available VERY soon! For my amazing Patreon patrons, the limited edition Patreon box version is coming along well and I hope to have this finished soon. Check out some of the other review links below and recent interviews.
JUNE 2ND 2025 Album & Tour News
Hi Everyone, I'm thrilled to say that my new double album 'On the Edge (of what could be)' is now mixed and being mastered this week by my good friend Nigel Palmer at Lowland Masters! The artwork is also well on the way to being completed for the CD version, so hopefully by the end of this week it will be sent to the CD pressing plant! We're hoping to have copies for at least some of the Dave and Sally UK tour. There will also be vinyl, download and streaming versions coming - so make sure you're on my mailing list to receive release and ordering info! I'm now working on the bonus disk for the limited edition Patreon version.
After an incredibly busy start to the year with tours with Colin Blunstone in the Caribbean (Rock Legends Cruise), USA (west coast), Germany and The Netherlands, and gigs with Lifesigns in the USA (east coast) and Canada (including at the Marillion Convention), I'll be back in the road in the UK in just over 3 weeks on the DAVE BAINBRIDGE & SALLY MINNEAR Summer tour (our longest to date!) and then with LIFESIGNS. I hope to see many of you at one of the gigs over the summer!
FEBRUARY 2025 ALBUM AND GIG NEWS
4th February 2024
Wow this year seems to be flying by and I can't believe we're already in February. There are loads of updates, especially on gigs, all of which are listed below in the Shows section (including more Lifesigns USA/Canada dates and the longest Dave & Sally UK tour to date). Really looking forward to seeing many of you on the road on both sides of The Atlantic in the coming months!
Thanks to those of you who voted for me in the Prog Magazine Reader's Poll Best Guitarist category. It was great to come in the top ten once again, despite no new solo or Lifesigns releases this past year. And one very satisfying statistic is that, for possibly the first time, Dave's beat Steve's 3-2 in the top ten! :)
NORTHERN ECHO LIST
I was very surprised and honoured to be included in a recent article in The Northern Echo, a major newspaper in my native town of Darlington and the North-East of England, on 'Seven of the famous Faces from and associated with Darlington'. It was great to be named alongside comic and artistic genius Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves), whom I knew a little when I was still in Darlington. You can read the article at the link here.
ON THE EDGE (of what could be)
I've been getting on well with the mixes for track on my forthcoming 5th solo album, but there's still quite a bit to do as I've also been busy booking gigs for the Dave and Sally Summer UK tour, as well as practicing for the upcoming Colin Blunstone tour dates. However I can now tell you that 'On the Edge' is going to be released as a double album - both on cd and vinyl! With around 80 minutes of music I was agonising over what to leave out, but after a great chat with Rob Ayling from Gonzo Multimedia, he thought it would be great to include all the music, so hence the double release. I've now got a running order which I think works well and have almost finished compiling all the sleeve notes (no mean task with lyrics in Scottish and Irish Gaelic as well as English), so progress is being made and I'll be letting you know the release date very soon.
COMING UP
Lots of interesting things are coming up, including working on Dave Brons' 4th studio album mixes and recording parts for a new Celtish album. There will be more album / collaboration news very soon and some potentially very exciting tour dates in the autumn - more on this in due course!
***BTW LET ME KNOW IF YOU'D LIKE TO HOST EITHER A DAVE SOLO OR DAVE AND SALLY GIG (either side of the Atlantic), either at a venue or a house concert and we'll see if we can make it happen!
PATREON
If you haven't already checked out my Patreon page, please have a look. It's the best way to keep informed of everything I'm involved with as well as being part of our great Patreon community. There are well over 600 posts on there including exclusive videos and interviews with very special guests such as Mike Keneally, Larry Fast, Ebony Buckle, John Young, Dave Brons, Derek Moore (Nektar), Mark Abrahams (Wishbone Ash), David Fitzgerald, Gregg Bendian and Sally Minnear.
