#18: David Gamage (Rydell, Come The Spring, Couch Potatoes, The Atlantic Union Project, Engineer Records)

I’ve known David for more than twenty years, when we co-released
the Tidal/Acabah Rot split 12" in 2002. Out of sight, out of
eyes, so it was about time to catch up on what’s been going on in
the meantime, and David, a great DIY idealist who has been doing
his thing for more than 30 years now, has a lot to talk about:


- getting bullied by Oasis’ management


- touring Europe and sharing a record with Hot Water Music with
his band Rydell


- Rydell’s bad luck having to cancel their US tour because it was
scheduled to start two days after 9/11 happened


- a strange encounter with Soprano-style mafiosi in Italy


- being blown away by a Fugazi show in a townhouse on the English
coast


- how he managed to stick around in the punk and hardcore world
for more than three decades


- coming up on 340 releases now on his label Engineer Records


- writing and publishing books for Earth Island Books, born from
his archival and collector ideas


www.engineerrecords.com


www.earthislandbooks.com


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