About

Hello, my name is Daniel Carroll and I write songs. I get Dan or DC, I'm not keen on Danny though. I reside on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where I also work a day job and raise two great kids with my wife.

I was introduced to the magic of music as a teenager. I largely have my Dad to thank for that. It was he who took me to gigs, many in pubs, from the age of fifteen. He also delivered me to a 45-minute guitar lesson every Friday after school.

I idolised guitarists such Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Joe Satriani and Clapton. I was quickly consumed by music, day in day out. I was the kid at school in the Hendrix shirt. As I developed I began song writing and soon my world expanded, opened up to the power of words and music. Twenty-five years later and nothing much has changed.

I’ve played in bands since I was sixteen and written hundreds of songs. I’ve recorded in excess of 60 of those. I’ve independently released music since 2001, on tape, CD, vinyl and digitally.

I’m fortunate to be surrounded by great friends and players who equally share my love for music, songwriting and creating. Since 2012 my songs have been released via City Over Sand, a band I share with Brad Hosking, Jules Keshan and Stevie Whittington, before that it was the Dan Carroll Band and Fluid.

The experience of performing live in a band is like nothing else in this world, it’s difficult to convey with words. So to, the challenge, process, teamwork and trust required to document, record and realise a song in the studio is equally euphoric.

Minus the trappings of music industry success I continue to write songs, as a challenge, as therapy. Through song I’m connected to a modest audience and other creatives who equally choose to create, to travel the path that can at times offer hope, recognition and fulfilment and equally feel like failure, like a burden. Like many others I cannot help but to write and create. You take the good, manage the bad and be thankful for the space it offers.

New EP Half Full is out now and is available on all streaming platforms.

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