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Lucas Dawson was born and raised in Western Australia. At age 15 he was bullied into buying a bass at the insistence of a guitar-playing friend who suggested that the two of them could put a band together.
Lucas played around Perth in various garage band combinations, even playing in a jazz poetry ensemble a short while, and spent a great deal of time writing short stories and film manuscripts. He got his heart broken at the age of 20 in a spectacular case of naiveté and fled to Europe shortly thereafter.
During four subsequent years in London – where he ended up running a cinema in Camden Town – he played very little music, instead spending increasingly more time writing prose and hanging out in dingy bars and nightclubs.
Following the call of a promising romance, and enchanted by the wild notion that he might be ready to write a novel, Lucas moved to Stockholm. He began playing bass again shortly after, and began singing – if extremely tentatively at first. He played in several outfits – ranging from noisy electro rock to straight pop to dinner jazz – for varying lengths of time, sometimes just standing in on bass on short tours or for single gigs. Several demos, and a full-length record (with instrumental agent-rockers Kalamare Beat Club), were released. Nothing happened. Lucas waited tables and swept floors.
The transition to a new country took its predictable toll. Engulfed by a foreign language, a small fish in a big new pond again, Lucas succumbed. His debut novel was abandoned half-way through. The once-promising romance hit unforeseen bad trouble and began a slow, inevitable implosion. Nobody’s fault, or everybody’s fault, or just one of those things. Ugly times.
Amidst the wreckage Lucas found burning inspiration. He would write and record a brutally honest break-up album, but quickly. No more waiting around for all of the usual endless rehearsal and slowboat demo-recording and begging for gigs and waiting for record contracts that never come. Just throw a band together and do it. Right Now. While the tears are still hot.
Lucas Dawson’s debut solo album Another Way To Say Goodbye is out on 7th Jan 2010.