The Manchester music circuit should be forgiven for believing that The Victorian Dad Band sprang onto the scene fully-formed as though birthed by some great groaning muse.

It has been a long time coming, however, and David Rybka, the leader of "Wigan's Super Group", is no stranger to hard work. He has perfected his compositional style and live act over the course of thousands of performances (beginning when he was just fifteen years old) and this experience is obvious - so much so that within a year of his arrival in Manchester he was offered a recording deal by Elbow's Guy Garvey to release a record on his label Skinny Dog.

Dave will be releasing a solo album through Debt Records later this year.

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