David Hurn (musician)

Originally from Cornwall, Hurn came to London in the 1990s to write and play music. He worked with a variety of groups and projects including the art-rock band Ever-Opening Flower.

David Hurn is a British singer-songwriter.

Hurn's musical interest began drifting away from rock towards acoustic playing, and in 1998 he decided to go solo. His debut solo release was Sick Of Hate, a 7" single on Day Release Records in 1999. Hurn promoted the release with a number of live shows in the UK, and two performances at the Koch and Kiesler gallery in Berlin.

Hurn released two vocal albums on Fire Records - He Was A Woman (2002) and The Beautiful Trustful Future (2008). Also released were the following singles and EPs: No Love (2002); "I'm Spending Christmas With Jesus This Year" (2005 - described by the Western Mail newspaper as "probably the most tragic Christmas song ever produced"); How I Came To Hate My Saviour (2006) and The Man Who Stayed In Bed Forever (2007).

Although not a lover of live performance, Hurn was personally invited to open shows for, among others, Mark Eitzel and British Sea Power. He has also contributed music to Chamber Music (Fire Records' 2008 James Joyce tribute album), featuring 36 different artists including Sonic Youth, Ed Harcourt, and Peter Buck.

In February 2010 Trace Recordings released Black Flowers, a collection of Hurn's instrumental works from 1997 to 1998.

In October 2010 Hurn travelled to New England to record songs written with poet and singer Ingrid Chavez.

Hurn recorded and produced one album with guitarist James O'Sullivan under the guise of Four Seasons Television. The project attempted to explore the relationship between improvisation and composition, combining various experimental musicians with song forms, and the resulting album Skip All was released in 2013.

In July 2013 a new instrumental EP titled The Glaze was made available as a digital download via Bandcamp, and in 2014 Hurn released a CD-only EP titled Museum of You.

In November 2014 Hurn performed at the Opole Songwriters festival in Poland.

At the beginning of 2017, Hurn, together with actress and singer Abigail Hopkins, contributed to the Waywords and Meansigns project, an audio / musical version of James Joyce's classic Finnegans Wake.

A new vocal album, Private Ruins (Vol 1), was released on 5 June 2017.

In October 2017 Hurn spent a month in New York and New England, during which wrote and recorded Into the Dawn with DJ and musician Marco Valentin. The song was released as a single via Bandcamp in December 2017.

In April 2019 Hurn contributed to Ingrid Chavez' 'Memories of Flying' album (co writing/producing the song 'Driving to the End of a Dream')

In June 2019 Hurn performed with Ingrid Chavez as guitarist at Londons Pizza Express venue in support of Chavez' recently released album 'Memories of Flying'

In 2020 Hurn wrote and recorded music for 'Don't Look Back', an Ariel and Theatre production that ran for four nights at Londons Waterloo venue The Vaults.