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Paul McCartney’s ‘Amoeba Gig’ recorded live in LA in 2007 now available for the first time

Performed by: Paul McCartney • Dave Arch • Rusty Anderson • Abe Laboriel Jr. • Brian Ray Amoeba Gig is the first full length commercial release of Paul’s surprise free concert at Hollywood’s Amoeba Music on June 27, 2007. To date only four songs have seen wide release as the Amoeba’s Secret EP, two of which were nominated for Grammy Awards in 2008: ‘That Was Me’ for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance. From July 12, 2019, a full 21-song recording documenting possibly the most intimate L.A. show Paul has ever played was made available to the public for the first...

What it’s like to be the musical director of Strictly Come Dancing – Radio Times Interview

Despite being Strictly’s musical director for 12 years, Dave Arch admits it’s still a nerve-racking job. “I sometimes find it hard to sleep,” he says. “The buck stops with me! On a Sunday I find out what the songs are and spend my week arranging them. I write out every single part for the band. My ethos is to do each of the styles, whether it’s a big band number or a rock song, as authentically as we can...

Debut Concert of the Guildhall Studio Orchestra with Dave Arch – A students review

On 17 October 2017, MILLIE ASHTON, a student in the second year of the B.Mus. (Hons) Classical Violin programme at Guildhall School, had the distinction of being leader of the Guildhall Studio Orchestra at its first ever public concert at Milton Court. This is her recollection of the project - Dave Arch's Coming Home - and of the concert. Millie writes: I loved every second of the first Studio Orchestra concert at Guildhall with Dave Arch. It was the first of its kind in a conservatoire, and also the first time we classical musicians had collaborated with the Jazz Department. We walked in with completely open minds, excited to see what would happen...