Dave Gils

This is a history of my life throughout highschool, university, and after. I wrote music when I should have been studying or working or sleeping, but you know how it is. I've got my B.Eng from Ryerson University for aerospace. I've been playing music my whole life, I've played guitar for about 10 years now, and piano for 20. I've traveled some in my life, snowboarding in the rockies, holidays in Florida, and some good times in australia, when I wasn't sick to my stomach from a kidney infection. All my songs are about my walk and relationship with God. Just the raw story and frustrations and joys. Music is my form of expression and keeps me going through whatever I'm going though. It can make hell into heaven and calm my soul.

The summer of 2003 has changed my life, and my approach to music. In losing close family to death, I had to deal with some issues that I have never had to deal with before and that can be seen in a few of the songs, I felt angry and lost and just sad. But I knew that in the end, I could find God and He would pull me through it all. I'm just trying to figure out what the 'better' way of things is. From the story of Mary and Martha in the Bible, when you sit and listen to Jesus, you are doing the better, which is what I'm trying to pursue, in music and life. Everything I write about comes from coming clean with myself and complete transparency with who I am. There was a season in the beginning of 2005 that I journeyed through finding feelings and getting hurt. But it has helped shape who I am and there are many songs about that deal. There has been many random meetings between people in my life, its these things in life that teach us about people and about ourselves. I just write what happens and its how I express these things. After all those mishaps I started working with my brother on a business venture. Didn't work the way we had hoped in business dealings we soon found out how vial and ruthless people can be. Its been jading on humanity, but at the same time made me realize what I need to hold close in life, and how important it is to be a difference in the world. We need to add as much joy and healing as possible, because you better believe that the lies of the devil are adding destruction and pain.

Don't really play live. I play at my church The Meeting House in Oakville.

My influences are probably Jars of Clay, U2, Thousand Foot Krutch, Dashboard Confessionals, John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, Coldplay, Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, Lifehouse and music to that gender.

Alvarez Guitar, Tascam mixer