DARE - UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
DARREN WHARTON, VINNY BURNS AND NIGEL CLUTTERBUCK
THREE NIGHTS OF ONE OF THE BEST LOVED ROCK BANDS IN UK
Three Titans of the Rock World unite to perform an intimate Up Close and Personal concert with classic Dare songs from the last four deacdes.
Dare was the Phoenix that rose from the ashes of Thin Lizzy when Phil Lynott dissolved the band back in 1980.s
Thin Lizzy reformed again back in the 1990's with Darren Wharton, Brian Downey, Scott Gorham, John Sykes and Marco Mendoza. Although Dare has constantly been on the secene since 1985.
Tonights show will also include songs that Darren wrote and co wrote for Thin Lizzy.
Along with songs from Vinny Burns career.
In 1979 Lynott decided to look for a permanent keyboard player. Wharton got the job, initially on a temporary basis. He was only 18 when he contributed keyboards to their 1980 album Chinatown. By the following year on the album Renegade Darren had become an official member of the band, co-writing the opening track "Angel of Death" with Lynott.
Wharton continued with the band on the follow-up Thunder And Lightning in 1983, having a greater share in the writing credits, including the band's final single "The Sun Goes Down", but that year Lynott announced the break-up of Thin Lizzy.
Wharton also worked with Lynott on the latter's 1982 solo recording The Philip Lynott Album where he played on most of the record's eleven tracks, and provided the piano solo on the single "Old Town". In the 1990s Darren reunited with Thin Lizzy touring Europe and the US documented on the 2000 live album One Night Only.
Wharton formed his own band, Dare in 1985 along with Vinny Burns, releasing the album Out of the Silence in 1988. This was followed in 1991 by Blood from Stone. Following a move to North Wales in 1992, the Dare sound reflected definite Celtic influences on the 1998 album release, Calm Before The Storm. Wharton then formed his own record label, Legend Records. The 2001 Dare album Belief was featured on BBC Radio 2 breakfast show when the single "White Horses" was played every week for three months. In 2004, now signed to Warners ADA Music, Dare released their Beneath the Shining Water album. The first single "Sea of Roses" was again playlisted BBC Radio Two. 2009 saw the release of Dare's sixth studio album Arc of the Dawn.
After John Sykes' departure from Thin Lizzy in 2009, Scott Gorham set to work on creating a new line-up of Thin Lizzy, announced in May 2010. Wharton re-joined Lizzy as did original drummer Brian Downey, and original post-Lynott bass guitarist Marco Mendoza.
Thin Lizzy toured extensively between 2010 and 2013 and began work on their first studio album since 1983, although it was ultimately decided not to release any new material as Thin Lizzy. Under the name of Black Star Riders, the album was released as All Hell Breaks Loose in May 2013, with Wharton co-writing the title track and the album closer "Blues Ain't So Bad".
The seventh Dare studio album Calm Before the Storm 2 was released on 1 October 2012. In March 2016, Wharton stated that mixing of the new Dare album, Sacred Ground, had begun. Sacred Ground was released in July 2016. The album went to number one in the Amazon Rock Charts in the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy, and received positive reviews., In May 2018 it was revealed on Dare's official Facebook page that a new Dare album, Out of the Silence II, would be released on 29 June 2018.
The latest Dare album, Road to Eden was announced by the band on 10 January 2022, with a release date by Legend Records of 1 April 2022. An initial track from the album (the lead track), Born in the Storm was announced at the same time.
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Vinny Burns and fellow founding member of Dare.
Apart from work with Dare Vinny has also been a member of Ten, Bob Catley Band, Asia, Ultravox, Hugo, FM, The Ladder, Phoenix Down, and on his own project with Sam Blue, Burns Blue. He is active as a producer and owns his one recording studio ("The Viper Room").
In 1985, he met Darren Wharton who had just left Thin Lizzy and was looking for a guitarist to form a band. Soon after, they started working on demos of songs that actually ended up in the band's first album. After gigging for almost a year, they started working on new songs and by 1987 they were signed by A&M Records. The band's first album Out of the Silence was released in late 1988 and proved to be a commercial success. Two years later, they released their second album Blood From Stone. In 1992 Burns joined the band Asia.
This performance will feature highlights from these three Gods of Rock.
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